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sarahphym
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product designer • she/they
co-founder of @spacefruitpress.com
bassist for Odd Man Out
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OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 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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“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
moved my flight back home up a day just in case of FAA shenanigans, plus i’ll get a bonus day off back home since i took monday off.

boy am i gonna need it. this trip has been good but also very emotional.
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
4 — basically all the cassette ones. def had a boombox but can’t claim i ever hoisted it on my shoulder.
(i got a zero lolz)

THE FABULOUS WEIRD CHECKLIST
Give yourself I point for each thing you've NEVER done.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I swear there’s an amendment about this…don’t tell me, it’s on the tip of my tongue…
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'

e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Ok this is my favorite so far
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.

I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
dear god don’t let me die in a tesla
no atheists in the backseat of a Tesla Lyft
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
no atheists in the backseat of a Tesla Lyft
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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God, a thousand times this.

That's the thing with dopamine being tied to task initiation - there's a set of gears that won't - CAN'T - engage in my brain, but none of my problems are with analysis.

I can be fully aware of all the necessary steps, and stressing about starting, and just... not.
10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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we need to shoot the computer dawg
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee.

I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Babe, wake up, they reinvented phrenology. Yes, again
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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photoshopping a sub into scenes from famous movies in honor of sandwich guy
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
tales of a celiac
The sandwich chucker beat the wrap!
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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not an isolated incident btw, gates is just generally an annoying guy who pretends to know math

reminds me of how elon musk fakes knowing linear algebra and openly tells people who disagree with him that they're just scripted NPCs. billionaires are probably all like this to some degree
May 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM