ren
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person who likes bike and trains and sunsets and sometimes data
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The conclusion of Vol. 2 of the Hater's Guide is important to me, and summarizes my frustration with what I see as a failure by media and analysts to realistically explain what LLMs actually do. Retail investors - regular people - will end up hurt as a result.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The conclusion of Vol. 2 of the Hater's Guide is important to me, and summarizes my frustration with what I see as a failure by media and analysts to realistically explain what LLMs actually do. Retail investors - regular people - will end up hurt as a result.
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I get furious when I hear people say they didn't know he would do this stuff. Black people knew. Indigenous people knew. LGBTQ+ people knew. Latinos knew. Environmentalists knew. You didn't know because you didn't want to know and didn't want to listen to the ones who did know.
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I get furious when I hear people say they didn't know he would do this stuff. Black people knew. Indigenous people knew. LGBTQ+ people knew. Latinos knew. Environmentalists knew. You didn't know because you didn't want to know and didn't want to listen to the ones who did know.
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ICE has repeatedly lied about not detaining people in office buildings and other places like this across the country. 👇 Push your local municipalities to go after unlicensed ICE detention facilities. City & state govts have more resources than nonprofits do, they need to be doing the work too.
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ICE has repeatedly lied about not detaining people in office buildings and other places like this across the country. 👇 Push your local municipalities to go after unlicensed ICE detention facilities. City & state govts have more resources than nonprofits do, they need to be doing the work too.
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I'd be curious to see a poll of the public asking them when they thought internal combustion engine vehicle sales will start to decline.
I expect most have no idea it happened years ago. I expect this would be different if our media wasn't doing the work of preserving the status quo.
I expect most have no idea it happened years ago. I expect this would be different if our media wasn't doing the work of preserving the status quo.
🌍 Internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle sales are in freefall—down nearly 30% since peaking at 86M in 2017, with just 59M sold in 2022 (BloombergNEF).
Meanwhile, EVs hit 20% of new car sales in Q4 2023. China’s at 50% EV market share as of July 2024! ⚡
Meanwhile, EVs hit 20% of new car sales in Q4 2023. China’s at 50% EV market share as of July 2024! ⚡
June 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'd be curious to see a poll of the public asking them when they thought internal combustion engine vehicle sales will start to decline.
I expect most have no idea it happened years ago. I expect this would be different if our media wasn't doing the work of preserving the status quo.
I expect most have no idea it happened years ago. I expect this would be different if our media wasn't doing the work of preserving the status quo.
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New in PN: "On Los Angeles Street where it meets the 101 freeway, I didn’t see anyone attacking police, nor did I hear orders to disperse. Like all riots, the matter of who started it remains, at best, an open question. But the police at the very least escalated things." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
Los Angeles unrest signals difficult choices ahead for cops
An eyewitness account of a Trumpian powder keg.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New in PN: "On Los Angeles Street where it meets the 101 freeway, I didn’t see anyone attacking police, nor did I hear orders to disperse. Like all riots, the matter of who started it remains, at best, an open question. But the police at the very least escalated things." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
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🚨 VEHICULAR ASSAULT in San Francisco 🚨
Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"
Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"
June 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🚨 VEHICULAR ASSAULT in San Francisco 🚨
Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"
Just received a report from someone OTG: "Tesla asshole hit an old man. MD and EMT appeared outta nowhere and helped out. Paramedics arrived after 5 minutes. They caught the Tesla. Plenty of abrasions and bleeding and possibly broken leg (per EMT)"
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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If the @washingtonpost.com wanted to set its credibility on fire, this is what it would do.
ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
April 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If the @washingtonpost.com wanted to set its credibility on fire, this is what it would do.
ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
ChatGPT cannibalized an actual reporter’s good work, turned it into a steaming pile of misinformation and then had the fucking nerve to slap the reporter’s name back on its bullshit.
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There are many other tactics that are more appropriate right now.
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
February 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
There are many other tactics that are more appropriate right now.
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
On the less risky side, intentional incompetence in every day life to grind the gears of oppression to a halt buys us time.
On the more risky side, I'm inspired by the Citizen's Commision to Investigate the FBI. 😉
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I woke up yesterday to learn that PBS had scrubbed my work, the PBS Independent Lens Map of Gender Diverse Cultures, from their website, without warning.
These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it.
badlylickedbear.substack.com/p/when-the-n...
These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it.
badlylickedbear.substack.com/p/when-the-n...
When The Nothing Came for Me
Having one's work erased in a time of genocide
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February 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I woke up yesterday to learn that PBS had scrubbed my work, the PBS Independent Lens Map of Gender Diverse Cultures, from their website, without warning.
These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it.
badlylickedbear.substack.com/p/when-the-n...
These folks are throwing us under the bus so fast, they're gonna throw out their backs doing it.
badlylickedbear.substack.com/p/when-the-n...
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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
February 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
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More than 1 in 3 people were first arrested before their 16th birthday – does this look like a society that cares about uplifting youth, or imprisoning them?
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
More than 1 in 3 people were first arrested before their 16th birthday – does this look like a society that cares about uplifting youth, or imprisoning them?
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Good to see spines
February 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Good to see spines
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Do not believe the media when they say tRump got over on Columbia... He didn't.
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January 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Do not believe the media when they say tRump got over on Columbia... He didn't.
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Labor Notes National Call Tonight (Monday, 1/27):
Join rank-and-file union members tonight to strategize on fighting the billionaires in 2025.
7.30 p.m. ET, online via Zoom.
Sign up now:
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Join rank-and-file union members tonight to strategize on fighting the billionaires in 2025.
7.30 p.m. ET, online via Zoom.
Sign up now:
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Labor Notes National Call: Beating the Billionaires in 2025
Photo by Matt Leichenger, member of Teamsters Local 804 Following the presidential election, CEOs are eager to use 2025 to bust our unions and divide working people like we've never seen. From public ...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Labor Notes National Call Tonight (Monday, 1/27):
Join rank-and-file union members tonight to strategize on fighting the billionaires in 2025.
7.30 p.m. ET, online via Zoom.
Sign up now:
labornotes.org/events/2024/...
Join rank-and-file union members tonight to strategize on fighting the billionaires in 2025.
7.30 p.m. ET, online via Zoom.
Sign up now:
labornotes.org/events/2024/...
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Really interesting deep dive on the tech oligarch right, and the fight against them:
"2025 may be marked less by clashes with Proud Boys marching through the streets, and more by local communities banding together to stop AI infrastructure projects."
itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...
"2025 may be marked less by clashes with Proud Boys marching through the streets, and more by local communities banding together to stop AI infrastructure projects."
itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...
Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism
On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Fa...
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January 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Really interesting deep dive on the tech oligarch right, and the fight against them:
"2025 may be marked less by clashes with Proud Boys marching through the streets, and more by local communities banding together to stop AI infrastructure projects."
itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...
"2025 may be marked less by clashes with Proud Boys marching through the streets, and more by local communities banding together to stop AI infrastructure projects."
itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...
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HEY GUYS. I THINK IF THEY MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-FASCIST, THEN WE MIGHT BE IN FASCISM. JUST A THOUGHT.
January 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
HEY GUYS. I THINK IF THEY MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO BE ANTI-FASCIST, THEN WE MIGHT BE IN FASCISM. JUST A THOUGHT.