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Nobody is immune to propaganda, and that's why I left that place in Nov 2022. There's no "winning" or "fighting the good fight" against an algorithm that is designed to warp reality
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Nobody is immune to propaganda, and that's why I left that place in Nov 2022. There's no "winning" or "fighting the good fight" against an algorithm that is designed to warp reality
Overhearing my dad's phone conversation with my grandma
Dad: just because he was anti-trump doesn't mean he was a good person!
Dad: he was still a very bad guy!
Dad: he shot his friend!
Dad: he thought his friend looked like a bird!
And that's how I found out Dick Cheney died
Dad: just because he was anti-trump doesn't mean he was a good person!
Dad: he was still a very bad guy!
Dad: he shot his friend!
Dad: he thought his friend looked like a bird!
And that's how I found out Dick Cheney died
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Overhearing my dad's phone conversation with my grandma
Dad: just because he was anti-trump doesn't mean he was a good person!
Dad: he was still a very bad guy!
Dad: he shot his friend!
Dad: he thought his friend looked like a bird!
And that's how I found out Dick Cheney died
Dad: just because he was anti-trump doesn't mean he was a good person!
Dad: he was still a very bad guy!
Dad: he shot his friend!
Dad: he thought his friend looked like a bird!
And that's how I found out Dick Cheney died
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
Rosa Roisinblit, Who Championed the Missing in Argentina, Dies at 106
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
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Good god, this. This is so important, has been used to hurt so many trans kids, and dealing with this exact thing--where people skim scholarly articles and wildly misunderstand what they say--is a big reason why I do science articles on Stained Glass Woman.
i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25
www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...
www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...
‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Whether you are young or old, your brain is always changing.
www.sciencefocus.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Good god, this. This is so important, has been used to hurt so many trans kids, and dealing with this exact thing--where people skim scholarly articles and wildly misunderstand what they say--is a big reason why I do science articles on Stained Glass Woman.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
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All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.
Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.
Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
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"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
Monday’s mass shooting may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. “He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about,” said Cuomo w/ @emmagf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...
Mayoral Candidates Navigate a Mass Shooting That Has Rattled New York
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
This book is so good and important!!!
As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.
July 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This book is so good and important!!!
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As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.
July 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.
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I've been thinking a lot about Albert Memmi and Judeopessimism lately
I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas
You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves
Anyway, I wrote this a while back:
I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas
You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves
Anyway, I wrote this a while back:
The Jewish Pessimist — Josephine Riesman // Writer
josie.zone
July 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I've been thinking a lot about Albert Memmi and Judeopessimism lately
I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas
You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves
Anyway, I wrote this a while back:
I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas
You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves
Anyway, I wrote this a while back:
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an anonymous source that goes by the neutral name "jeffersondavisfan" has leaked that, as a child, Zohran Mamdani drew this hate-filled symbol in over eight notebooks and on two different desks
July 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
an anonymous source that goes by the neutral name "jeffersondavisfan" has leaked that, as a child, Zohran Mamdani drew this hate-filled symbol in over eight notebooks and on two different desks
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American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people.
Shande shande shande on all of you
Shande shande shande on all of you
July 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people.
Shande shande shande on all of you
Shande shande shande on all of you
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I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
to Jews, on the Gaza famine
an open letter: we have been commanded
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I just sent this out.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.
It is a choice not to heed them.
Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.
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This project needs your support — Please consider donating and sharing this project.
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.
Pardon Tracker
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons charges related ...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This project needs your support — Please consider donating and sharing this project.
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.
Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.
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Ugh.
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
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My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone,
I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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July 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ugh.
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/
Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – the liberal who hates leftists
In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/
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OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
July 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
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On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.
Donations to PBS and NPR surged after Congress eliminated $550 million a year in federal funding for public broadcasters across the U.S. last week.
Donations to NPR and PBS Stations Surge After Funding Cuts
Donors are turning out to support local stations, but those contributions so far fall well short of the annual $550 million that Congress cut.
trib.al
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.
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I’ve been talking to Mohammed for almost a year- it’s horrible watching people just deteriorate before your eyes
July 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’ve been talking to Mohammed for almost a year- it’s horrible watching people just deteriorate before your eyes
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The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
The president just issued an executive order to curb "Crime and Disorder on America's Streets"
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
share.google
July 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people
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tw hockey canada, sexual assault
with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.
with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
tw hockey canada, sexual assault
with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.
with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.
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Deeply sorry for every non-white-supremacist educator and student at Columbia.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
July 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Deeply sorry for every non-white-supremacist educator and student at Columbia.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."
"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless."
Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials
Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was questioned for hours at a Houston airport as he returned from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband.
m.sevendaysvt.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."