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does it bring you joy?
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
must be nice
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I believe in the holy trinity. 🙏🏻
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.

Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.

Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In a society where the elite have continually pressed the concept of liberty as an economic ideology of freedom to exploit for profit, every facet of life is associated with cost, and those costs are padded to profit the capitalist class.
Families with two children now spend an average of $2,252 per month on child care.
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Nobody knows who the hell Frank Nelson is because everybody who watched Jack Benny is dead but you gotta admit his line delivery is fucked up good. youtu.be/nqKG2VtxN_o?...
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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HOOK IT UP TO MY VEINS.
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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"Only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved..."

It's the same 30% that is driving the rest of the Trump agenda that the other 70% of Americans have to live with.

MSN link: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Wondering around San Francisco aimlessly and anxiously while awful things happen around me completely outside of my control
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Today is an awful, awful day
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Zohran Mamdani Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. What Does That Mean?
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The average income of the top 5% is $526,000. Trump cut their taxes by 2.5%. Their current tax rate is 23%. Trump killed 600,000 people and gutted our government in order to save people making $526,000 an extra tax burden of $13,000.
November 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Batshit insane. Get a load of this asshole
All drug use outside palliative care should be criminalized and possession of dealer quantities should be punishable by death without appeal.
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The blue aura around Mamdani means he could’ve activated his special attack at any moment during that speech, but he didn’t even have to.
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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We did it for you Dick Cheney
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Someone who had been threatening to kill Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) was arrested today after trying to enter the Capitol complex after telling Garcia's office he was coming to kill him.
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM