Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
*PLEASE*, do it. I was raised Catholic, in the WWJD era. I split with the Church many years ago, but I still long for the days when stuff like “care for the poor” was unambiguously part of the Christian mission. WWJD? Certainly not support ICE, I can tell you that much.
Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right
Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians have also had significant victories in this year’s primaries—and they could prove more influential in the midterm ele...
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Support your fellow workers AND your local coffee shops
Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 5d ago🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
Another in a recent string of motivated reasoning verging on incoherence from @gruber.foo: obviously the issue is not uber suspending “dishonest drivers,” but doing so with no human review prior to the suspension, and with no prior notice to the drivers www.reuters.com/world/dutch-...
EXCLUSIVE: Dutch regulator fines Uber $966 million for automating driver suspensions
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 ...
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Corporations are intentionally squeezing us, and the government is doing nothing (obviously). Our only option is coordinated refusal.
When the Shortage is the Strategy — No One's Happy
Companies discovered during the pandemic that they could raise prices far beyond costs and never lower them. Now the formula is being applied deliberately.
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Because today went so well and the rooms didn't get overcrowded, we're going to offer HOPE tickets at the door tomorrow for $160 for the weekend. Come early - we reserve the right to limit mobs.
Never heard of this guy (lucky me I guess), but he sounds execrable.
You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
> The mode gets shown more, so it gets picked more, so the model grows more confident the mode is what people want, and the tails starve. AKA why even in NYC, a lot of neighborhoods feel samier and samier
Matthew@mplanchard.com · 3w agoThis is the source material, read this one if nothing else! laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...
This is the source material, read this one if nothing else! laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
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Matthew@mplanchard.com · 3w agoThis kind of thing is the source of my niche opinion that recommendation algorithms should be banned, except those based solely on your own or your friends’ history
This kind of thing is the source of my niche opinion that recommendation algorithms should be banned, except those based solely on your own or your friends’ history
Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 3w agoPeople just don't realize how smart AOC is. She came in second at the national Intel Science and Engineering Fair. An *incredibly* competitive field. That's roughly equivalent to being the second best forward in high school basketball in the United States.
Damn socialist congestion pricing paying for our socialist subway stations to be renovated
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoAs Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said yesterday, “the original J/Z isn’t doing so well.” That’s why we’re working with Governor Kathy Hochul — using congestion pricing funds to renovate Chambers Street and partnering with the MTA to tackle extreme heat in our subway stations.
i am a tech company in the year 2026. i am called nazgul after the evil soulless ghouls from the lord of the rings that go around killing people. my ceo is a crazy drug addict who keeps talking about war and jesus christ on tv. give me a trillion of your tax dollars
This week I sat down with Bernie Wagenblast, the voice of the NYC subway system - a sound that any New Yorker can recognize almost instantly. We discussed how she got the job, her experience as a trans woman in New York City, and so much more. Watch the full stream below: youtu.be/XuAqiaCvxT8?...
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HOPE 26 TICKET SALES CLOSE TO SELLING OUT | 2600
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Things my taxes subsidize that I may never use (complimentary): - medicaid - unemployment - SNAP that I may never use (derogatory): - fossil fuel subsidies - free healthcare for congress - Oklahoma I think I’m okay with the groceries, pal.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
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TICKETS TO HOPE 26 (Student Scholarship)
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discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I’m always here for a good tirade
On the non-use of AI in my writing process - Charlie's Diary
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I don’t know how accurate this article is, but it puts me in mind of all our modern diet fads, all couched in their shaky interpretations of “the science”
Fish Bad, Sugar Good… And Other Medieval Ideas About Food
Although medieval ideas about food were very different to our own, its importance was widely recognized. According to Galen, food “is probably the most important of all medical subjects,” and it do…
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