I was today years old when I discovered an AI was answering my emails for me. Gotta figure out how to turn this off.
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Still waiting for the Sankofa emoji. 🐦🔥
“Card Declined” by Charlie XCX is immediately the song the of summer
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Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and filmmaker, has quietly become a key player behind many of President Trump’s plans to transform Washington and its cultural legacy, as our reporter Zachary Small...
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America should be building homes NOT data centers
currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.
I chided a younger friend for being fascinated by numerology, and he shot back: “yeah, ChatGPT has warned me about it too.”
RIP to a brilliant and socially committed artist. He made beautiful music; African Magic is one of my all time favorite albums youtu.be/sHYAsY6p7zE?...
Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) - African Magic - Part 1
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 2mo agoAbdullah Ibrahim, Eminent South African Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 His song “Mannenberg” became the unofficial anthem of the country’s fight against apartheid, with Nelson Mandela calling him “our Mozart.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...
The ultimate writing constraint: do not use artificial intelligence.
I talk to a lot of folks in real life about data centers. I have never run into even one who supports them, aside from the folks sent to our towns to sell them to us. Dems should lean into this. The Rs are generally in favor of letting corporations steal our water and power and quality of life.
Unfortunately still just as true today as when Oscar Wilde wrote it in 1890.
Asking Bari Weiss to run CBS News is like asking me to pilot a 747 - Scott Pelley has a way of getting his point across!
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoIn an exclusive interview, Scott Pelley spoke about being fired from “60 Minutes,” and why he thinks Bari Weiss should leave her job as the CBS News editor in chief. He also responded to President Trump’s comments. Watch, read or listen to “The Interview.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
In the paper today, sky-high oil prices caused by illegal war is discussed by profiteers as “demand destruction.” Not human or lifeworld destruction; demand.
And then Carrie began to wonder … was everyone using AI except her?
Profiles in courage
Susan Marquis@slmwrite.bsky.social · 2mo agoRead this. Want to know why "Alligator Alcatraz" may be shutting down? These people, showing up each week, are why. Thanks @workerscircle.bsky.social for your vision. Determined and driven: The people who show up each Sunday to demand closure of 'Alligator Alcatraz' www.wlrn.org/government-p...
No lies detected : “Artificial Intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death.”
Pope Leo XIV Drops Anti-AI Encyclical — New York Magazine
If you haven’t read your Bible in a while, a new Tower of Babel would be bad.
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The Pride section T-shirts at the mall store here in Providence are saucy as 🔥!
ChatGPT, tell me what else the US could have done with $25 billion to invest in people instead of death and destruction.
Many things could be done to improve the world and the repeal of Citizen’s United is one of them.
‘Scientification,’ a new jargon term to wrestle with. On the one hand — the appeal to authority can purloin matters from the public sphere. On the other, it’s not as if scientific truth claims are spurious …