darlin’
@darlinspice.bsky.social
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@darlinspice.bsky.social
· Feb 16
So glad I got this shot and even more glad there’s no photographic evidence of me getting stuck on my way down.
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I'ma need y'all to fully grasp this:
COMPUTERS
ARE
NOT
SENTIENT!
ANYTHING that requires complex & rational thought, emotion, or critical thinking, a computer CANNOT do.
It can only regurgitate what it is SCRIPTED to do!
It's why this AI "revolution" is BULLSHIT, and y'all are falling for it!
COMPUTERS
ARE
NOT
SENTIENT!
ANYTHING that requires complex & rational thought, emotion, or critical thinking, a computer CANNOT do.
It can only regurgitate what it is SCRIPTED to do!
It's why this AI "revolution" is BULLSHIT, and y'all are falling for it!
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I'ma need y'all to fully grasp this:
COMPUTERS
ARE
NOT
SENTIENT!
ANYTHING that requires complex & rational thought, emotion, or critical thinking, a computer CANNOT do.
It can only regurgitate what it is SCRIPTED to do!
It's why this AI "revolution" is BULLSHIT, and y'all are falling for it!
COMPUTERS
ARE
NOT
SENTIENT!
ANYTHING that requires complex & rational thought, emotion, or critical thinking, a computer CANNOT do.
It can only regurgitate what it is SCRIPTED to do!
It's why this AI "revolution" is BULLSHIT, and y'all are falling for it!
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Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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A popular white man got killed by another white man while speaking on an overwhelming white campus in an overwhelmingly white state and this is the result. Racism doesn’t need a reason, only an excuse.
Two Virginia HBCUs receive threat; VSU on lockdown and Hampton classes canceled
One university in Virginia is on lockdown, and another has said classes are canceled as it urges students to stay inside, after threats were made to both Thursday morning. Both schools, Virginia State...
www.nbcwashington.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A popular white man got killed by another white man while speaking on an overwhelming white campus in an overwhelmingly white state and this is the result. Racism doesn’t need a reason, only an excuse.
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This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers 🤷♂️🤦♂️😡
It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.
It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.
President Trump said Tuesday that he had struck a trade agreement with Indonesia, calling it a "great deal for everybody" on social media. Under the deal, U.S. exports to Indonesia would face no tariffs, while Indonesian goods would be charged a tariff of 19% when shipped to the U.S.
Trump Announces ‘Great Deal’ on Trade With Indonesia
Details are still scarce on the agreement, which the president said will partly walk back some of the steep tariffs he threatened on the country last week.
trib.al
July 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers 🤷♂️🤦♂️😡
It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.
It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.
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We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight.
“school administrators gathered everyone in the locker room and shared the news. There was a deep silence. Some players cried. One of them threw up.”
And then they organized to get their friend freed.
Moving piece by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And then they organized to get their friend freed.
Moving piece by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How ICE’s arrest of a high school student activated a Massachusetts town
“We’re trying to find ways the community can defend itself.”
www.motherjones.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight.
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I have worried for a while that algorithms on major social media sites will ensure Democrats are blamed for the destruction of Medicaid. It doesn’t matter that Republicans are at fault when you can engineer reality for tens of millions of people.
People who think there is going to inevitably be a big pro-Dem backlash against Medicaid cuts should read this article.
You have to remember there is an entire proganda apparatus that will blame the Dems for the effects of these Republican cuts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
You have to remember there is an entire proganda apparatus that will blame the Dems for the effects of these Republican cuts.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior
Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...
link.springer.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I have worried for a while that algorithms on major social media sites will ensure Democrats are blamed for the destruction of Medicaid. It doesn’t matter that Republicans are at fault when you can engineer reality for tens of millions of people.
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The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
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Voting is the bare fucking minimum. Not just the presidential ones every 4 years either then disengage.
It’s not vote and do nothing.
It’s vote AND join a tenants union, volunteer, support mutual aid orgs, TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. Get to know your community. They’re the ones going to help most.
It’s not vote and do nothing.
It’s vote AND join a tenants union, volunteer, support mutual aid orgs, TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. Get to know your community. They’re the ones going to help most.
July 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Voting is the bare fucking minimum. Not just the presidential ones every 4 years either then disengage.
It’s not vote and do nothing.
It’s vote AND join a tenants union, volunteer, support mutual aid orgs, TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. Get to know your community. They’re the ones going to help most.
It’s not vote and do nothing.
It’s vote AND join a tenants union, volunteer, support mutual aid orgs, TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. Get to know your community. They’re the ones going to help most.
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3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
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The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
July 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
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This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.
Read this, please.
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.
Read this, please.
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You know that thing happening, where, since ICE wear plain clothes & masks & no identifying badges, ICE impersonators are out doing crime?
What if that’s a feature, not a flaw intended to provide the cover of plausible deniability when ICE are caught criming
“Wasn’t us & you can’t prove it!”
What if that’s a feature, not a flaw intended to provide the cover of plausible deniability when ICE are caught criming
“Wasn’t us & you can’t prove it!”
I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property."
DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...
DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...
California pastor says apparent immigration agents waved a weapon at her in church parking lot
(RNS) — The Rev. Tanya Lopez says a masked man pointed a weapon at her while she was filming a group of unidentified men detaining a man in her church's parking lot.
religionnews.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You know that thing happening, where, since ICE wear plain clothes & masks & no identifying badges, ICE impersonators are out doing crime?
What if that’s a feature, not a flaw intended to provide the cover of plausible deniability when ICE are caught criming
“Wasn’t us & you can’t prove it!”
What if that’s a feature, not a flaw intended to provide the cover of plausible deniability when ICE are caught criming
“Wasn’t us & you can’t prove it!”
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It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
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being serious for a second, this shit won't change until Fox News is exorcised and banished back to hell
it's the American equivalent of that Rwandan radio station that whipped up and directed the genocide
it's the American equivalent of that Rwandan radio station that whipped up and directed the genocide
June 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
being serious for a second, this shit won't change until Fox News is exorcised and banished back to hell
it's the American equivalent of that Rwandan radio station that whipped up and directed the genocide
it's the American equivalent of that Rwandan radio station that whipped up and directed the genocide
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like of course conservatives think they should be allowed to murder people they went from “our values are at risk” to “our way of life is at risk” to “they are trying to replace us” in the span of one adult person’s lifetime
June 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
like of course conservatives think they should be allowed to murder people they went from “our values are at risk” to “our way of life is at risk” to “they are trying to replace us” in the span of one adult person’s lifetime
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This woman is the most fierce person who ever lived
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman's forces freed more than 700 slaves in a raid of South Carolina plantations .
mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...
mississippitoday.org/2025/06/02/o...
mississippitoday.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This woman is the most fierce person who ever lived
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In her thoughtful Medium article, Dr. Alison Wiltz poses this question”What would happen if America embraced a "never again" attitude in terms of the racism and mistreatment of Black people?”
May 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In her thoughtful Medium article, Dr. Alison Wiltz poses this question”What would happen if America embraced a "never again" attitude in terms of the racism and mistreatment of Black people?”
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Restrictive abortion bans are bad enough, but many States have a pregnancy clause that “invalidates the advance directive of a pregnant woman, negating autonomy”
The moment you become pregnant you effectively cease to be a person. Your autonomy vanishes. You can’t even decide your fate in death
The moment you become pregnant you effectively cease to be a person. Your autonomy vanishes. You can’t even decide your fate in death
Pregnancy Clauses
| Voices in Bioethics
journals.library.columbia.edu
May 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Restrictive abortion bans are bad enough, but many States have a pregnancy clause that “invalidates the advance directive of a pregnant woman, negating autonomy”
The moment you become pregnant you effectively cease to be a person. Your autonomy vanishes. You can’t even decide your fate in death
The moment you become pregnant you effectively cease to be a person. Your autonomy vanishes. You can’t even decide your fate in death
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“being alive” should count as being high-risk.
The FDA on Friday quietly approved the Novavax Covid vaccine, but only for older adults and for others over age 12 who have at least one medical condition that puts them at high risk from Covid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...
F.D.A. Approves Novavax Covid Vaccine With Stricter New Conditions
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“being alive” should count as being high-risk.