natalie harp when they wouldn’t let her in the presidents motorcade

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊@groguspeak.bsky.social · 8h ago

Nah, keep mocking the shit out of her

When my book comes out, it’ll be up against Captain underpants and every manga. Preordering my book helps me make the best seller list. I’m in it for the glory

It’s great to follow your favorite artists, writers, and other creators on social media. It’s also great to preorder their books and artwork and such.

beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · 3d ago

When my book comes out, it’ll be up against Captain underpants and every manga. Preordering my book helps me make the best seller list. I’m in it for the glory

And now I'm reading this! #booksky

BREAKING Two activists who organised annual vigils in Hong Kong marking China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown in 1989 are found guilty of "incitement to subversion"

In 6 states–Washington, Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma & Texas–AI is deciding whether people enrolled in Medicare can receive certain treatments. "It’s a complete black box,” says Professor Jeff Marr. “I think there is very little that is able to be understood by researchers or the public.”

AI is now deciding who gets healthcare in 6 US states – and it's already harming patients | BBC Science Focus Magazine

An AI pilot programme is attempting to cut down on ‘wasteful' medical procedures, and patients are paying the price

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“On that basis, Milei outlined his government's plan to create a new category of corporate entity in legislation: the “non-human corporation,” entities operated entirely by AI agents or robots.” www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti...

Milei promises tech firms new laws and ‘unregulated’ AI in Argentina

President makes bold pitch in 'Financial Times' op-ed, promising to keep AI free from regulation in Argentina; Op-ed is latest in series of moves promoting Argentina as nation friendly to Artificial I...

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Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.

This is what a hero looks like

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just cancelled Mongolian publication deal for something of mine because the translation would have been done by AI.

Like the last five presidents... maybe two are spreadsheet people at most? Isn't this why your country is in trouble?

Trump is already planning for the 20*30* Census. This time, not only does he want to stop counting noncitizens, he wants to stop counting race and ethnicity. Can't have an unconstituional racial gerrymander if you pretend not to know where Black people live. My latest in @thenation.com

The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books

From adding a citizenship question to not tracking race and ethnicity, the administration wants to minimize Black and brown political power.

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It's like Valentine's Day in August!

The Press covered the story with the headline "Shunter sets crawling record", a reference to Wayne's job at NZ Railways. Press, 14 May 1979, Page 6 (via PapersPast) paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/p...

+ disturbing surveillance + "Flock Safety says it “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone" www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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The records are so good on this (you really gotta hand it to the Mormons for being so meticulous when it comes to family trees) you can see the exact generation where the Cherokee nation moved from the Carolinas to Oklahoma, and yes it was the Trail of Tears.

To be clear: the Lieutenant Gov is threatening to dock the accountability ratings of districts if they don’t remove The House in Mango Street, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Native Son, and Flannery O’Connor.

Texas Freedom to Read Project@txfreedomread.bsky.social · 2d ago

Did you know Texas’s TEA accountability ratings are so ripe for manipulation by the state, that the Lieutenant Governor is threatening to pass a law knocking districts down an entire letter grade if they refuse to remove 2000+ library books being targeted by book-banning activists and politicians?

if your parents are still reasonably healthy, start looking up filial responsibility laws and what exists in terms of long-term care options sooner rather than later because it is an EXTREMELY unpleasant surprise

Bette Davis was the only white performer who agreed to be part of Hattie McDaniel's performing troupe to entertain Black servicemen during WWII. www.tumblr.com/themidcentur...

The fraud’s name is Josh Autenrieth, in case you needed the short version of who to never hire for anything.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d ago

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Hit dog hollers

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4d ago

A reporter asked the president to respond to an accusation from a Democratic senator. Totally fair question. In response, the White House calls the journalist a "scumbag,” “callous and vindictive,” and says her minor children will be embarrassed of her one day. What??

"You're a cyberpunk, right? How long have you been writing bizarre sci-fi about the dystopian troubles of Russians" "Well, since 1985 at least" "Are you getting any better at doing it" "No, because THEY are not getting any better." www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2016/01...

For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.

Banks aren't selling bad debts despite liquidity problems. Huge red flag.

Fascinating brain candy thread

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d ago

still might screw around and proselytize the insane, unprovable, but borderline plausible theory that Chicxulub was an iridium interstellar projectile

The free market, completely deregulated and guided by rational self-interest

Chron.com@chron.com · 5d ago

Concerns are high over an infection spread.

you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea, however wild, might not be altogether unwarranted

Marion, Kansas has a population of 1,900. That means the police chief cost every single resident $447. He cost a family of four $1,789.

CNN@cnn.com · 6d ago

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom. https://cnn.it/4wXrOIx

Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten”

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last wk.

This season on #Reacher…

Now there’s some drama between crochet designers on Instagram. I don’t have time to figure out what happened because I’m busy on Tumblr following the drama in a celebrity fandom over whether an actress just faked a pregnancy.

Baby Yoda Silently Watches Drama Unfold

Alt: Baby Yoda Silently Watches Drama Unfold

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