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@thegoddamn.icu
treaty six by geography, chilean-canadian by birth, anarchist by choice. (any/all).
mastodon: @notyoursweetbab@tech.lgbt
mastodon: @notyoursweetbab@tech.lgbt
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"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
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The trouble with the UCP's dual practice model?
Think about a double double.
If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.
Think about a double double.
If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.
Back in school, I wrote an essay about how two-tier healthcare would improve access for everyone.
It makes intuitive sense: create a second line and the original one gets shorter, right?
A better look at the evidence and arguments like Picard's changed my mind. 🧵
It makes intuitive sense: create a second line and the original one gets shorter, right?
A better look at the evidence and arguments like Picard's changed my mind. 🧵
Picard’s point on AB’s new “dual practice” plan: evidence shows letting surgeons bill public & private won’t fix wait times, it likely lengthens them, drains staff from public hospitals, adds red tape, and undermines access.
A solution in search of a problem. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/70a7e73...
A solution in search of a problem. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/70a7e73...
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The trouble with the UCP's dual practice model?
Think about a double double.
If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.
Think about a double double.
If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.
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If you're constantly immersing yourself in the worst parts of humanity without any kind of respite or pleasant experiences or any sort of break, and everything in your life revolves around terribleness, it fucks you up. It fucks you up hard, it fucks you up bad, and it fucks you up in lasting ways.
May 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
If you're constantly immersing yourself in the worst parts of humanity without any kind of respite or pleasant experiences or any sort of break, and everything in your life revolves around terribleness, it fucks you up. It fucks you up hard, it fucks you up bad, and it fucks you up in lasting ways.
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It’s always viewed as a sort of unearned gift from the state but what’s the alternative – unemployed people steal food? Do crimes for money? Get sick?
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It’s always viewed as a sort of unearned gift from the state but what’s the alternative – unemployed people steal food? Do crimes for money? Get sick?
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
people posting themselves on dating apps like they are used cars. bro. have you trued just making friends. especially if you’re looking for a long term romantic partner, presumably this person is going to be your friend, too. you sure you want to post like you’re a craiglist car, dillion?
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
people posting themselves on dating apps like they are used cars. bro. have you trued just making friends. especially if you’re looking for a long term romantic partner, presumably this person is going to be your friend, too. you sure you want to post like you’re a craiglist car, dillion?
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if renewable energy buildout isn't your only political issue it's likely it will be very soon
Two countries have to abandon their megacity capitals because they have too much (Jakarta) or too little (Tehran) water.
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
It feels like we've been fighting nature for some time - and we're starting to lose
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
if renewable energy buildout isn't your only political issue it's likely it will be very soon
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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it's worth remembering: pain is one of the things that is trying to keep you alive
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
it's worth remembering: pain is one of the things that is trying to keep you alive
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Steve Babynuts
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Steve Babynuts
United States, Census, 1940
United States, Census, 1940
the “everything is the politic of aesthetic” theory seemed stupid to me in 2015 but it seems to be the only explanation for the trump-change groups’ behaviour
No no, see, now Trump's saying that his and Mamdani's ideas are the same, which of course is based.
i was told the palestiners and the far-left would turn on him? what is even going on
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the “everything is the politic of aesthetic” theory seemed stupid to me in 2015 but it seems to be the only explanation for the trump-change groups’ behaviour
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November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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i was human, once. these particles, once, formed a skeleton and organs and flesh, undulating and pulsing with purpose and vigor.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
i was human, once. these particles, once, formed a skeleton and organs and flesh, undulating and pulsing with purpose and vigor.
John Carpenter’s Escape from Samsara
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
John Carpenter’s Escape from Samsara
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Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Folks will talk about universal basic income, free public transit, and unrestricted public welfare systems like "just because it worked in a tiny town doesn't mean it can work in big cities" as if we don't have decades of studies showing that it actually works there too. There too. Yup, and there. 🙄
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I think the heart of what Kate strikes at here is that a reevaluation of what a transgender woman *can* actually do in Congress is in order. Making the president female doesn’t fix the office. Making the representative transgender doesn’t fix the federal government. These systems are busted
For my newsletter today, I wrote about why I've changed my mind about Sarah McBride. (I still find plenty to disagree with) www.burnsnotice.com/revaluating-...
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I think the heart of what Kate strikes at here is that a reevaluation of what a transgender woman *can* actually do in Congress is in order. Making the president female doesn’t fix the office. Making the representative transgender doesn’t fix the federal government. These systems are busted
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fortnite skatebpass
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
fortnite skatebpass
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"Gross domestic product (GDP) was never designed to be a measure of societal well-being. It tracks only market transactions, conflates costs and benefits, and ignores the distribution of income, household labor, and social and environmental costs and benefits."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now
The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Gross domestic product (GDP) was never designed to be a measure of societal well-being. It tracks only market transactions, conflates costs and benefits, and ignores the distribution of income, household labor, and social and environmental costs and benefits."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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also, the whole idea of revealed preferences is nonsense in a context of scarce land in which land use choices must be made. there's no neutral point of reference!
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
also, the whole idea of revealed preferences is nonsense in a context of scarce land in which land use choices must be made. there's no neutral point of reference!
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so basically, nvidia is selling more chips that ever to ai companies for “computing power” (ie plagiarism+weird porn), and these companies pay for this by selling shares of their company to nvidia, and this is the only thing keeping the economy afloat?
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
so basically, nvidia is selling more chips that ever to ai companies for “computing power” (ie plagiarism+weird porn), and these companies pay for this by selling shares of their company to nvidia, and this is the only thing keeping the economy afloat?
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Puss Hathcock
Mother In Law
North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979
Mother In Law
North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Puss Hathcock
Mother In Law
North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979
Mother In Law
North Carolina, Marriages, 1759-1979
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Oh yay, a new problem caused by LLMs.
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 2:28 PM
Oh yay, a new problem caused by LLMs.