Oh. My. Goodness. Can they put this on billboards ALL OVER TEXAS? Because they should know, before casting their votes, that Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott spent the past decade letting China buy up 162,000 acres of Texas soil. Seems important.🚨
nsgrant
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Yet another side effect of AI we arent doing anything about. healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/when-ai-ta...
When AI Takes Americans’ Jobs, It Will Also Take Their Health Insurance
If artificial intelligence eliminates the jobs that provide Americans health insurance coverage, what happens to the health of the United States?
healthcareuncovered.substack.com
Why isn't this a bigger story? Well once upon a time there was this orange monster and his billionaire buddies... substack.com
Lazlo (@lazlo12345)
substack.com
Great news! Thanks to the state legislature, all Californians can now access a simple free and fast way to protect their privacy and personal information and reduce spam and scams. Get started today: privacy.ca.gov/drop.
Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP)
Protect your personal information. Data brokers collect, share, and sell your personal information. You can stop that from happening.
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I had never heard Dolly’s performance of Peace Train with this fantastic group! 💖 Thank you to the BlueSky poster who shared this with us. May we hear the Peace Train getting closer as the rumble of resistance to this regime grows. ☮️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cj5...
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula: Dolly Parton (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD
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“Industrial fresh-cut processors like Taylor Farms have a very different production model compared to that of a small-scale farmer—and this difference is worth considering when you buy greens,” writes Judith Redmond, co-founder of Full Belly Farm, in an op-ed.
Op-ed: Worried About an Outbreak? Try a Shorter Food Supply Chain.
As food-borne illnesses like cyclospora spread through the US, lettuce from your local farmer is less likely to get you sick.
civileats.com
Well, there goes literacy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
futurism.com
112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.
These 2 vile ICE agents, after dragging the corpse of a man they murdered in front of his 3 year old child out of his car, handcuffing the corpse on the ground. This is the essence of the fascist regime, the RAPIST-in-chief and his repulsive mercenary helpers.
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard's Hawaiian Cult Guru Dictated Orders To The Intelligence Community open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard's Hawaiian Cult Guru Dictated Orders To The Intelligence Community
America handed the keys to 18 intelligence agencies to a woman who was reportedly being scripted by a reclusive cult leader with ties to China and Russia who doesn’t use a computer. Sleep tight.
open.substack.com
I remember the days of getting "Obama Care" passed where the GOP kept talking about Death Panels. Well, they got them. Blue Cross just told a former fireman. Go ahead and die. We decided caring for you is too expensive.
Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims
The retired San Francisco firefighter at the center of a bitter insurance fight has lost his battle against stage 4 lung cancer, after pleading with Blue Shield to reverse their decision to deny treat...
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This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
404media.co
Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
Revenge of The Business Idiot
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Young voters: California needs you! More than half of voters so far are over 65. Return your ballot by June 2 - don’t miss out!
According to this recent story the decline, "coincided with two events: an easing of federal school accountability under No Child Left Behind, which was replaced in 2015, and the rise of smartphones, social media and personalized school laptops."
Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’
nytimes.com
Follow along at home with this handy dashboard. We are so not ready for this. It would be one thing if we had a robust social safety net, public jobs programs, social housing, public healthcare, and universal basic services. But we have none of that.
The AI Job Loss Dashboard | Tracking every AI-driven job loss
A live dashboard tracking AI-linked job losses since January 2025. Curated by The Alliance for Secure AI. Updated daily with verified reports.
jobloss.ai
NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.
Some have become accidental activists (again for many) because it’s impossible to stay silent in the face of injustice, oppression, senseless violence & destructive racism - all by a reckless evil administration we don’t condone. Our beloved country … we hardly recognize you.
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.