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I just finished For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn and it's a 5 star for me. What seems like a silly idea based off her long running (600+ episode) tiktok series, has been turning into an absolutely lovely and funny novel that takes place in the afterlife.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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How the Andrea Gibson Doc ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Changed Its Crew “Forever”
https://www.them.us/story/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-ryan-white-andrea-gibson-apple-tv-documentary
https://www.them.us/story/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-ryan-white-andrea-gibson-apple-tv-documentary
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How the Andrea Gibson Doc ‘Come See Me in the Good Light’ Changed Its Crew “Forever”
https://www.them.us/story/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-ryan-white-andrea-gibson-apple-tv-documentary
https://www.them.us/story/come-see-me-in-the-good-light-ryan-white-andrea-gibson-apple-tv-documentary
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Genuinely obscene that after encouraging multiple suicides, OpenAI is allowed to have any influence at all on education.
End your partnership with OpenAI now, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org.
End your partnership with OpenAI now, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org.
Just reading through this new OpenAI "teen literacy blueprint document." A few things jumped out. 1) document mentions multiple times that rigorous instruction must be protected but also seems to be suggesting/1
cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...
cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...
cdn.openai.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Genuinely obscene that after encouraging multiple suicides, OpenAI is allowed to have any influence at all on education.
End your partnership with OpenAI now, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org.
End your partnership with OpenAI now, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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lol they would rather go bankrupt than admit they made a mistake screwing over Black and LGBTQ+ folks
Target cuts profit outlook as shoppers look for deals, make fewer store trips
Target is gearing up for the holidays and trying to snap an approximately four-year sales slump.
www.cnbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
lol they would rather go bankrupt than admit they made a mistake screwing over Black and LGBTQ+ folks
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
And as we all know, you can totally trust computer parts to last just as long as they say they will.
"Using loans backed by their GPUs to purchase other GPUs."
We're in so much trouble.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
We're in so much trouble.
prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
And as we all know, you can totally trust computer parts to last just as long as they say they will.
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Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
This is fine.
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is fine.
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CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.” [arstechnica.com]
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status
Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.” [arstechnica.com]
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Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
Twelfth Night ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
The Shakespearean comedy of mistaken identity starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Junior Nyong'o and more.
www.pbs.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Tonight at 9pm ET, 8pm CT, the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and directed by Saheem Ali will be on PBS Great Performances.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
You can stream at pbs.org/gperf or on the PBS app.
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in a functioning society microsoft would be facing fines for advertising services it clearly cannot deliver on. regardless if this is its big bet on the future the company is fucking cooked
I first saw Microsoft's TV ad about "The computer you can talk to" during an NFL game. So I spent a week talking to the Copilot AI in Windows 11. Surely, it must be easy to replicate the specific tasks Microsoft wants millions of people to see...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
in a functioning society microsoft would be facing fines for advertising services it clearly cannot deliver on. regardless if this is its big bet on the future the company is fucking cooked
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Make the boards and executives of AI companies personally liable for the harms they cause
‘A world-saving mission’: Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis
When Allan Brooks asked A.I. chatbot, ChatGPT a simple math question for his son, he didn’t expect it to turn into a more than a three-week conversation that would send him down a mental spiral and ma...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Make the boards and executives of AI companies personally liable for the harms they cause
I'm sure it's totally fine to feed LLM based tax software all your financial information and will be totally safe and secure. And of course the government will be so forgiving of any taxes filed with incorrect information based on bad AI datasets or algorithms.
I'm sure the IRS will be super forgiving if you file your tax return with a bunch of lies on it because the LLM hallucinated you having a ton of writeoffs and dependents and are actually owed a $3 million refund.
Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million a year for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax
Intuit has struck a $100 million-plus annual deal with OpenAI to bring AI into its financial products like TurboTax and QuickBooks.
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm sure it's totally fine to feed LLM based tax software all your financial information and will be totally safe and secure. And of course the government will be so forgiving of any taxes filed with incorrect information based on bad AI datasets or algorithms.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Give ChatGPT your social security number and all your financial information and in return it'll tell you cat toys are deductible and you don't need to report any money people give you on a Thursday.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Give ChatGPT your social security number and all your financial information and in return it'll tell you cat toys are deductible and you don't need to report any money people give you on a Thursday.
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Hey. Fuck nuance. Doesn't exist in any current state AI platform use.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey. Fuck nuance. Doesn't exist in any current state AI platform use.
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Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
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All things equal it is pretty funny that he campaigned on the one thing that could bring him down because he thought he could bully his party and his base into dropping it at the snap of a finger. Like this wasn’t foisted upon him, he CAMPAIGNED on it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
All things equal it is pretty funny that he campaigned on the one thing that could bring him down because he thought he could bully his party and his base into dropping it at the snap of a finger. Like this wasn’t foisted upon him, he CAMPAIGNED on it.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS