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· Jan 15
They say the IDF is the most moral army in the world, but I think it’s those British horses who only bite jerks.
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Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games journalist about AI and labor.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Some rare good news: Journalists at the PEN Guild won their arbitration case against Politico, which deployed two separate faulty AI products (a "report builder" and a headline and summary generator on the homepage) without their knowledge or input.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
That violated their contract, the arbiter found.
There are only 3 good shows on Apple TV: Severance, Pluribus, and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There are only 3 good shows on Apple TV: Severance, Pluribus, and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
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A rainstorm was expected, which meant farm workers in Bakersfield CA were rushing to pick up grapes set out to dry and become raisins earlier in the season. #WeFeedYou
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A rainstorm was expected, which meant farm workers in Bakersfield CA were rushing to pick up grapes set out to dry and become raisins earlier in the season. #WeFeedYou
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I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
Have you ever used the term “Bernie bro” unironically? Time for you to make amends by joining the DSA. Use my personal referral link so that I can win at socialism. act.dsausa.org/s/4331.7BjNJt
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Have you ever used the term “Bernie bro” unironically? Time for you to make amends by joining the DSA. Use my personal referral link so that I can win at socialism. act.dsausa.org/s/4331.7BjNJt
Everyone: Can we have healthcare and stop funding genocide?
Democrat fundraising texts: Hi my initials are PKL and I am left handed. Can you help me break down these walls to be the first person with the initials PKL who is left handed to represent Ohio’s 12th district in Congress?
Democrat fundraising texts: Hi my initials are PKL and I am left handed. Can you help me break down these walls to be the first person with the initials PKL who is left handed to represent Ohio’s 12th district in Congress?
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Everyone: Can we have healthcare and stop funding genocide?
Democrat fundraising texts: Hi my initials are PKL and I am left handed. Can you help me break down these walls to be the first person with the initials PKL who is left handed to represent Ohio’s 12th district in Congress?
Democrat fundraising texts: Hi my initials are PKL and I am left handed. Can you help me break down these walls to be the first person with the initials PKL who is left handed to represent Ohio’s 12th district in Congress?
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Politicians are not bystanders to the affordability crisis. We can lower the cost of living and make life easier for New Yorkers in real and meaningful ways.
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Politicians are not bystanders to the affordability crisis. We can lower the cost of living and make life easier for New Yorkers in real and meaningful ways.
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We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
Mike Love is the AI of The Beach Boys.
2003 beach boys present a hip-hop flavoured introduction to why do fools fall in love
YouTube video by Elora
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October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mike Love is the AI of The Beach Boys.
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Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.
Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.
I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.
I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
October 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.
Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.
I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.
I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.
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BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.
The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.
The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵
#UnionsForAll
Some friends and I will be participating in this 5k fundraiser to provide mental health treatment to children in Gaza. It would be awesome to have your support, even if it’s just $5 or $10. getinvolved.unrwausa.org/team/774895
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Some friends and I will be participating in this 5k fundraiser to provide mental health treatment to children in Gaza. It would be awesome to have your support, even if it’s just $5 or $10. getinvolved.unrwausa.org/team/774895
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That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE.
If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.
If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.
Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work
September 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE.
If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.
If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.
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I’m so incredibly proud to call @katmabu.bsky.social a friend.
She’s putting her money where her mouth is, putting her body on the line for communities at risk. Truly a great example of leadership.
She’s putting her money where her mouth is, putting her body on the line for communities at risk. Truly a great example of leadership.
ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
September 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I’m so incredibly proud to call @katmabu.bsky.social a friend.
She’s putting her money where her mouth is, putting her body on the line for communities at risk. Truly a great example of leadership.
She’s putting her money where her mouth is, putting her body on the line for communities at risk. Truly a great example of leadership.
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Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel.
Now she's a member of HTC.
Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
Now she's a member of HTC.
Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel.
Now she's a member of HTC.
Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
Now she's a member of HTC.
Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
“The genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been escalating for 22 month [. . .] dozens of boats and coordinated mobilizations from 44 countries around the world. This will be the largest international solidarity effort in 18 years, and we need your support.”
chuffed.org/project/1388...
chuffed.org/project/1388...
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global
As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...
chuffed.org
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“The genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been escalating for 22 month [. . .] dozens of boats and coordinated mobilizations from 44 countries around the world. This will be the largest international solidarity effort in 18 years, and we need your support.”
chuffed.org/project/1388...
chuffed.org/project/1388...
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Peggy is a healthcare worker and @1199seiu.org member at a dialysis center in Brooklyn.
She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
August 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Peggy is a healthcare worker and @1199seiu.org member at a dialysis center in Brooklyn.
She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
She knows what Trump’s cuts to Medicaid will mean for her patients — and why we need a Mayor who will fight for New Yorkers, not conspire with a President who kicks them off their insurance.
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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We’ll get fewer new languages, frameworks, and libraries now; which is probably music to some people’s ears. Flip side is devs are investing less energy in readability and complexity management.
People would rather use LLM black boxes to unpredictably unreliably spew boilerplate than design cleanly expressive programming languages which do not require such boilerplate.
August 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We’ll get fewer new languages, frameworks, and libraries now; which is probably music to some people’s ears. Flip side is devs are investing less energy in readability and complexity management.
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I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...
August 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...
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Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute
July 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Zohran Mamdani has already heavily ratio-ed Andrew Cuomo’s announcement ad with a donation link and it’s going up by thousands every minute
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Furthermore, you cannot see dead children, say “you got what you voted for,” and expect those people to trust that you have their best interest at heart.
When I hear “you got what you voted for,” I don’t just hear anger, I hear joyful anger.
Maybe that’s the disconnect here.
I hear people more excited at the prospect of being right.
I hear “I hate you for the way you voted and I’m happy it’s hurting you”
I don’t revel in pain. No one should.
Maybe that’s the disconnect here.
I hear people more excited at the prospect of being right.
I hear “I hate you for the way you voted and I’m happy it’s hurting you”
I don’t revel in pain. No one should.
Stop blaming liberals for being angry people died because Texas, which has a multi-billion dollar surplus, wouldn’t fund a million dollar warning system. This is 25 years of GOP policies in action.
July 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Furthermore, you cannot see dead children, say “you got what you voted for,” and expect those people to trust that you have their best interest at heart.
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just going to note that Josh Barro’s daddy got him into the university at which he taught and Mamdani’s daddy didn’t.
I guess Mamdani didn’t know to check that box
I guess Mamdani didn’t know to check that box
July 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
just going to note that Josh Barro’s daddy got him into the university at which he taught and Mamdani’s daddy didn’t.
I guess Mamdani didn’t know to check that box
I guess Mamdani didn’t know to check that box
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Ross told me he enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 because he loves his country and to help his parents get a path to citizenship. protesting directly in front of Marines deployed by President Trump he told me "it makes me feel sad... a lot of Marines, they’re all Hispanic."
June 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ross told me he enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 because he loves his country and to help his parents get a path to citizenship. protesting directly in front of Marines deployed by President Trump he told me "it makes me feel sad... a lot of Marines, they’re all Hispanic."