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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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calltoactivism.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.
May 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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usps.bsky.social
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
hansilowang.bsky.social Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · May 9
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
bld8562.bsky.social
Why does a webpage need “open hours”?
US Social Security website now has limited hours.
April 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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edwardarowe1.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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atrupar.com
New in PN: Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift

"It’s a kind of farm subsidy, but for billionaires making digital magic beans instead of food."
Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift
Corruption doesn’t get much more blatant than this.
www.publicnotice.co
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
bld8562.bsky.social
I need help. I want to find a way to make a tight slogan out of, “Why are we spending so much money on Mars when we need to fix our roads.” Help me wordsmiths, you’re my only hope.
March 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
bld8562.bsky.social
Just so we’re all on the same page regarding Trump’s tax “cuts”.

itep.org/a-distributi...
A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan
Former President Donald Trump has proposed a wide variety of tax policy changes. Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax i...
itep.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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strandjunker.com
Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.
February 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
slate.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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banditelli.org
Elon Musk vs Macklemore. The fight the oligarchy doesn't know they weren't ready for.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 12
WATCH AND CIRCULATE:

Macklemore’s a real one for this video doing what the Democrats and their surrogates refuse to do

youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...
MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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thefarce.org
This from @gilduran.com needs to be seen by every American before it's too late
🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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altfws.altgov.info
Super Bowl or not?

The removal of “End Racism” is wrong.There is nothing in this statement that should be controversial.

If you don’t think you are racist, why would it bother you?

Give me advice here. Emphasis on people who like football and this is a hard choice.

#EndRacism
#Resist
#SuperBowl
February 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Holy shit this cartoon.
February 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
bld8562.bsky.social
Here it comes. Trump The Musical.

www.broadwayworld.com/article/Trum...
Trump Dismisses Members of Kennedy Center Board and Reveals Plan to Make Himself Chairman
The President just announced plans to dismiss multiple members of the Kennedy Center board. According to the Atlantic, they include Democrats Mike Donilon, Karine Jean-Pierre, and Chris Korge. He also...
www.broadwayworld.com
February 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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jaywalk3r.bsky.social
Yes! Highly recommend giving this short episode a listen, and sharing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Don't Believe Him
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m
podcasts.apple.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
nymag.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Rice’s whale.

Made in collaboration with Tommy Tucker, www.instagram.com/tommy_in_the....
A whale swimming in a beautiful blue ocean with shafts of light. Text: This is one of the rarest whales in the world. It's American, but most Americans have never heard of it. A whale swimming to the surface. Text: Rice's Whales live only in the Gulf of Mexico. They were identified as a species in 2021. Arrows point to the pointy fin, three ridges on the head, and a length that's a little longer than a school bus. A whale making calls that look like swirly lines and little frogs. Text: They make unique sounds, including a frog-like grunt and a sweeping, descending moan. These calls have echoed through the gulf for millions of years. An image of 50 whale tails, and a whale resting at the surface. Text: Today, there are fewer than 100 Rice's whales left - maybe only 50. Oil spills, noise from industry, and shipping traffic make things tough, especially since these whales sleep close to the surface at night. A whale swimming through a sunset-purple sea, with two other whales farther away
September 25, 2024 at 1:41 PM