The sky from my parents' house

Well pass the whiskey and let’s pause in awe.

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

I feel some kind of way about seeing this right after a post about it being the anniversary of Patti Smith's Horses. Obviously not the same genre, but why would anyone choose to listen to computer garbage when amazing human art exists.

Yes. Except my heart wants teetering stacks of books everywhere and no cleaning obligations ever.

Saw Patti Smith perform the album Horses in Seattle tonight on the 50th anniversary of its release! 🔥

007 is an agent number that can be assigned to anyone, as can the field alias Bond. I will give them that brilliant plot twist for free even.

Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day

007 is an agent number that can be assigned to anyone, as can the field alias Bond. I will give them that brilliant plot twist for free even.

Same in the DC suburbs, groups that have been active on local and state issues since 2015 and 2020 are pivoting. It's actually reviving some groups that for a long time were just a few people advocating for bike lanes or affordable housing etc.

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

Lovely ❄️❄️❄️

also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

economy so bad you might as well follow your dreams and see what happens

White poppies are worn every year by thousands of people across the UK and beyond. First produced in 1933 after the First World War, by members of the Co-operative Women's Guild. Women who had lost family and friends and wanted to hold on to the key message of Remembrance Day, 'never again’.

So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.

Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.

Culture warriors – and their anti-LGBTQ+ politics – lost school board races all around Ohio.

While off-year elections are quirky, some see ebbing political strength in anti-LGBTQ+ politics.

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Socially acceptable to me, I took one look and decided it wasn't going to be for me.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

My teen pulled out the enormous wool cardigan they have claimed as a house coat for breakfast this morning.

We were told they couldn’t fight or even talk about anything else because health care was the winning hand.