Erika
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When they ask me what radicalized me
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
When they ask me what radicalized me
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In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
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Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.
Quick question. Why does literally everything require you to have an account.
Everything.
Everything.
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.
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"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win
“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
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Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.
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The US is deporting a journalist today
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The US is deporting a journalist today
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities
They grabbed him
Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family
The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally
They’re attacking the free press
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I hope you keep writing and researching and publishing, even if it’s about distant and abstruse topics. It’s not stupid, it’s beautiful, because it’s a testament to the curiosity and care they’re trying to eradicate.
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I hope you keep writing and researching and publishing, even if it’s about distant and abstruse topics. It’s not stupid, it’s beautiful, because it’s a testament to the curiosity and care they’re trying to eradicate.
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The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
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It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.
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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
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I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Dems Are Struggling to Register Voters and Raise Money
The Democratic Party is struggling to register voters and raise money ahead of the 2026 midterms, when the party hopes to win back the House.
www.rollingstone.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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One of the reasons the AI bubble has taken Silicon Valley by storm is that it feeds into this myth that all an engineer bro needs to solve a problem is some surface-level knowledge of it.
These people can ask ChatGPT to give them an error-ridden primer and claim to have done their due diligence 🧵
These people can ask ChatGPT to give them an error-ridden primer and claim to have done their due diligence 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This is the future this liberal wants.
August 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is the future this liberal wants.
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It's depressing how critical gender & race theories have far better predictive and explanatory power over contemporary politics than anything else. We as a society should be better than this, we should be in a place where we at least have competing rational political ideologies, but we're not.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It's depressing how critical gender & race theories have far better predictive and explanatory power over contemporary politics than anything else. We as a society should be better than this, we should be in a place where we at least have competing rational political ideologies, but we're not.
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Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism.
Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.
Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
thedispatch.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism.
Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.
Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.
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The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
What amuses me is that Gavin Newsome could have probably ridden this shit all the way to the White House if he’d kept his yap close about trans girls in sports. Now no matter what he does in response to this Trump manufactured crisis, all I’ll ever think is “you raised a kid who likes Charlie Kirk.”
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five.
In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President.
You're being manipulated. Please stop.
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Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College
Columbia University, Trump administration reach deal over funding, Washington Post reports reut.rs/3GPRClh
Columbia University, Trump administration reach deal over funding, Washington Post reports
Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump adminsitration over federal funding, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
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July 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College
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What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse."
It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery
It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery
if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom
too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives
you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse
too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives
you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse
July 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse."
It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery
It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery