Maria C-M
@mariac-m.bsky.social
Artist, entrepreneur, mother, and trying to live conscientiously. Follow my art @expedart.bsky.social
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“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.”
Put the responsibility where it belongs.
Via @jalopnik.bsky.social
Put the responsibility where it belongs.
Via @jalopnik.bsky.social
No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik
It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.
www.jalopnik.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.”
Put the responsibility where it belongs.
Via @jalopnik.bsky.social
Put the responsibility where it belongs.
Via @jalopnik.bsky.social
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To Grow, We Must Forget… but Now AI Remembers Everything. “What if human forgetting is not a bug, but a feature? And what happens when we build machines that don’t forget, but are now helping shape the human minds that do?” [doc.cc]
To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything
AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it.
www.doc.cc
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
To Grow, We Must Forget… but Now AI Remembers Everything. “What if human forgetting is not a bug, but a feature? And what happens when we build machines that don’t forget, but are now helping shape the human minds that do?” [doc.cc]
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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New Seattle nickname just dropped.
shrödinger's city
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
New Seattle nickname just dropped.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
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It's been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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WELKER: Part of your tactic is to imitate some of what we see from online from President Trump. Do you risk normalizing that behavior?
NEWSOM: Quite the contrary. The whole expression was to not allow it to be normalized. He's dressing up as the Pope! It's madness. And so I put a mirror up to it.
NEWSOM: Quite the contrary. The whole expression was to not allow it to be normalized. He's dressing up as the Pope! It's madness. And so I put a mirror up to it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
WELKER: Part of your tactic is to imitate some of what we see from online from President Trump. Do you risk normalizing that behavior?
NEWSOM: Quite the contrary. The whole expression was to not allow it to be normalized. He's dressing up as the Pope! It's madness. And so I put a mirror up to it.
NEWSOM: Quite the contrary. The whole expression was to not allow it to be normalized. He's dressing up as the Pope! It's madness. And so I put a mirror up to it.
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It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
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Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...
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People, don’t forget to randomly hug your loved ones. Positive human touch is vital right now.
We might lose our humanity the way things are going. So hang on in every way. Don’t forget to love each other to balance out the hate you’re feeling towards this damn world.
Pets help.
We might lose our humanity the way things are going. So hang on in every way. Don’t forget to love each other to balance out the hate you’re feeling towards this damn world.
Pets help.
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
People, don’t forget to randomly hug your loved ones. Positive human touch is vital right now.
We might lose our humanity the way things are going. So hang on in every way. Don’t forget to love each other to balance out the hate you’re feeling towards this damn world.
Pets help.
We might lose our humanity the way things are going. So hang on in every way. Don’t forget to love each other to balance out the hate you’re feeling towards this damn world.
Pets help.
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Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
This is happening now and in our country. Record and share crimes being committed.
Only one single person — the hero filming — took any sort of action. Everybody else just keeps walking, pretending not to see a screaming woman being dragged away. This is so incredibly Nazi Germany.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is happening now and in our country. Record and share crimes being committed.
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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
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Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Zoning rules? Tradition, change aversion, + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
Parking requirements? Egregiously bad science + vibes
Traffic engineering? Morally abhorrent value judgments about the level of injury and death we’ll accept in exchange for motorist speed and convenience (vibes)
Building codes? Tradition + vibes
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...
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True for anywhere you live:
Save this for 🧊 Watch!! Even if you don’t feel that you are trained or prepared, you can stand back and do this and then report it. It is crucial that we are recording what is happening!
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
True for anywhere you live:
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“An attack on anyone’s fundamental rights is an attack on all of us.”
We have more power than they do, if we choose to exercise it.
Stop shopping as much as possible.
Call big box stores and tell them why.
Write your reps, no matter their party.
@rbreich.bsky.social
We have more power than they do, if we choose to exercise it.
Stop shopping as much as possible.
Call big box stores and tell them why.
Write your reps, no matter their party.
@rbreich.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
“An attack on anyone’s fundamental rights is an attack on all of us.”
We have more power than they do, if we choose to exercise it.
Stop shopping as much as possible.
Call big box stores and tell them why.
Write your reps, no matter their party.
@rbreich.bsky.social
We have more power than they do, if we choose to exercise it.
Stop shopping as much as possible.
Call big box stores and tell them why.
Write your reps, no matter their party.
@rbreich.bsky.social
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NEW: Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is questioning donors to Trump White House ballroom project … including Apple, Amazon, Caterpillar
“… who solicited your donation..”
www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
“… who solicited your donation..”
www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
www.hsgac.senate.gov
October 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
NEW: Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is questioning donors to Trump White House ballroom project … including Apple, Amazon, Caterpillar
“… who solicited your donation..”
www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
“… who solicited your donation..”
www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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Yep, it’s the food stamps.
October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yep, it’s the food stamps.
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When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 😍😂
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦 😍😂
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At age 93, Pablo Casals – the greatest cellist of all time, and Yo-Yo Ma's hero – reflects on creative vitality and how working with love prolongs your life www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/03/p...
Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life
“The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
At age 93, Pablo Casals – the greatest cellist of all time, and Yo-Yo Ma's hero – reflects on creative vitality and how working with love prolongs your life www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/03/p...
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Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.