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at the risk of being corny, I was thinking a lot about this line from A Christmas Carol: “Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it”. it’s a clever merging of his solitude and his spendthriftiness, but it’s also applicable metaphorically: it’s easy to be grim, takes work to create light.
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
at the risk of being corny, I was thinking a lot about this line from A Christmas Carol: “Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it”. it’s a clever merging of his solitude and his spendthriftiness, but it’s also applicable metaphorically: it’s easy to be grim, takes work to create light.
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None of the things they claim are "AI" are intelligence, artificial or otherwise. They're all programmed actions, algorithms, aggregation of real information, theft, etc. Things like LLM's are not "intelligent". There's no independent thought or thought.
December 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
None of the things they claim are "AI" are intelligence, artificial or otherwise. They're all programmed actions, algorithms, aggregation of real information, theft, etc. Things like LLM's are not "intelligent". There's no independent thought or thought.
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YALL! LOOK!
1. We are $114 away from hitting our goal this year! WE SO CLOSE!
2. We are dropping off 1,940 organic menstrual products to EBR Parish Prison this afternoon!
That puts our national total of donations at 349,687 to incarcerated women! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
1. We are $114 away from hitting our goal this year! WE SO CLOSE!
2. We are dropping off 1,940 organic menstrual products to EBR Parish Prison this afternoon!
That puts our national total of donations at 349,687 to incarcerated women! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
YALL! LOOK!
1. We are $114 away from hitting our goal this year! WE SO CLOSE!
2. We are dropping off 1,940 organic menstrual products to EBR Parish Prison this afternoon!
That puts our national total of donations at 349,687 to incarcerated women! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
1. We are $114 away from hitting our goal this year! WE SO CLOSE!
2. We are dropping off 1,940 organic menstrual products to EBR Parish Prison this afternoon!
That puts our national total of donations at 349,687 to incarcerated women! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
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I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
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Immigrants make up about a quarter of all the country's doctors, and the U.S. health care system depends heavily on them.
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
akpub.io
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Immigrants make up about a quarter of all the country's doctors, and the U.S. health care system depends heavily on them.
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🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
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And so now here are the things that aren't getting investigated while Trump & Miller chase their racist fantasies. Child predators, terrorists and human traffickers can't believe their good fortune.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
And so now here are the things that aren't getting investigated while Trump & Miller chase their racist fantasies. Child predators, terrorists and human traffickers can't believe their good fortune.
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“When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. She still hasn’t. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. She still hasn’t. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?
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Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights!
Images: When We All Vote
Images: When We All Vote
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today is #ElectionDay in 39 states across the country. Know your voting rights!
Images: When We All Vote
Images: When We All Vote
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it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
November 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:
cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.
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The judge ordered distribution of funds “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration has said that distribution could take weeks.
Weeks people. This is not over. Not even a bit over. #SNAP
Weeks people. This is not over. Not even a bit over. #SNAP
As thousands of Alaskans face the prospect of losing federal food aid this weekend amid the government shutdown, food pantries say there’s no way they can cover the gap if benefits run out.
More than 66,000 Alaskans stare down a November without federal food benefits
Food pantries gearing up to distribute more aid say there’s no way they can cover the gap if SNAP benefits run out.
www.adn.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The judge ordered distribution of funds “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration has said that distribution could take weeks.
Weeks people. This is not over. Not even a bit over. #SNAP
Weeks people. This is not over. Not even a bit over. #SNAP
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You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
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those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"
October 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ICYMI: We've updated our list of ways to help those affected by the devastating storm that hit Western Alaska on Oct. 12.
https://akpub.io/479rSJO
https://akpub.io/479rSJO
Here's how you can help survivors of the Western Alaska storm
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have killed one person, left two missing, displaced hundreds and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.
akpub.io
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
ICYMI: We've updated our list of ways to help those affected by the devastating storm that hit Western Alaska on Oct. 12.
https://akpub.io/479rSJO
https://akpub.io/479rSJO
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As a reminder, just like in TX and Missouri, North Carolina's Trump congressional gerrymander isn't targeting a *Democratic member of Congress* -- it's targeting *the people and communities who live in that district*
NEW: North Carolina is now the third state to pass a new congressional map this year at Trump’s demand, after TX and Missouri. The map is designed to create an additional GOP seat in Congress, at the expense of Black voters.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
North Carolina Passes Trump Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters, With Legal Challenge Likely
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As a reminder, just like in TX and Missouri, North Carolina's Trump congressional gerrymander isn't targeting a *Democratic member of Congress* -- it's targeting *the people and communities who live in that district*
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People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.
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‘this is how we talk in our own spaces’ okay well maybe that’s why there’s a male loneliness epidemic lol
this insistence that the lil Hitler Youth Group Chat is how "we" "all" talk reminds me of a tweet I saw once where a dude was like "you know how bellybuttons all smell like ten thousand raw buttholes?"
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
‘this is how we talk in our own spaces’ okay well maybe that’s why there’s a male loneliness epidemic lol
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The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.
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Alright y’all. Accountant says we have 2.5 months left to raise the remaining $20,000. We just got 3 grant rejection emails and we are $500 away from $30,000
PLEASE consider us and the women we serve for your giving this fall! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
PLEASE consider us and the women we serve for your giving this fall! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Alright y’all. Accountant says we have 2.5 months left to raise the remaining $20,000. We just got 3 grant rejection emails and we are $500 away from $30,000
PLEASE consider us and the women we serve for your giving this fall! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
PLEASE consider us and the women we serve for your giving this fall! tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org