Bix F.

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That dog is hit again That slow.dog is hit again With his see-through skin The kind of skin you can see through He’s shot again

A Democratic Congress must make crystal clear: No bailouts for AI. We need to learn from the lessons of past bubbles, including the Great Financial Crisis when Wall Street execs made off like bandits while working people were left holding the bag. We can’t let that happen again.

House Progressives Throw Down a Marker: No AI Bailouts - The American Prospect

A new resolution demands that Congress withhold support for AI companies that bankrupt themselves and instead respond to any future recession by supporting ordinary people.

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Wowwwwww. This is such a big impact with such minor effort 🤩 (Also a solid reminder how sometimes we don’t consider the easier, more obvious wins on the to-do list because the Big Stuff takes all the focus. But a win is a win, yeah?)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4h ago

New Yorkers deserve sunlight on their sidewalks, visibility on their storefronts, and a walk to work that doesn’t include ducking.   Since January, we’ve had over 1,400 construction sheds removed — 17% of the city’s total, and twice as many as 2025.

I have long had zero patience with Americans who furiously post about how cool and fun a bloody leftist revolution would be, because that is the stupid shit you say when you don’t know very much about how those revolutions tend to go for people who aren’t rich and powerful

I can't believe I found out about this on instagram and not bsky "The database also allows users to search for court documents, complaints, and FOIA requests associated with DHS employees on Document Cloud, an open-source software. The database also includes the manager of each employee"

Hackers Expose Personal Information of Over 40,000 DHS Employees ~ L.A. TACO

”Rather than an indiscriminate directory of every DHS employee, [the database] identifies many of the architects and drivers of DHS policy and operations,” said journalist and DDoSecrets cofounder Emm...

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Defector out there linking to AI images on Mine Furor’s account on Truth Social, which you can’t see without logging in, so is @defector.com telling its readers to join Truth Social?

Last nite I did a round of last minute donations to candidates in tight midterm races This morning all those candidates sent me extra spam emails saying "PLEASE DONATE TO US PLEASE" It's like.... I just did?!? And like, you shouldn't punish people for donating to you.

NEW WRITING! I had just a few things to get off my chest about physicists and others collaborating with technofascists … “Why am I so convinced that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are a danger to us? Because, to paraphrase a David Cross joke, that’s what they fucking said.” 🧪⚛️🔭

Would you invite a see-through Trojan horse into your home?

I wouldn't! And that's why I don't use technofascist AI.

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A fun romp through what it is like to be a peatland scientist, my passion for the art and creativity in scientific discovery, and how I fell in love with bogs. Are there any other bog witches, bog superfans, or bog champs out there? www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

Celebrating the ‘not land, not water’ contradictions of bogs

In her new book Bogland, CU Boulder ecologist Merritt Turetsky explores the hidden worlds of one of Earth’s most extraordinary—and often

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