Yvonne Stone
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Anyone else old enough to remember the Microsoft paper clip? That's exactly how annoying AI bots and in-app suggestions feel now
No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Anyone else old enough to remember the Microsoft paper clip? That's exactly how annoying AI bots and in-app suggestions feel now
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They can read the room. They're just hoping the room doesn't notice their complicity.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
They can read the room. They're just hoping the room doesn't notice their complicity.
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Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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Extremely important for those of us in PA - Vote 'Yes' to retain the democratic PA Supreme Court justices:
The MAGA campaign to capture our courts is here so let’s go: A vote to retain the 3 justices of PA’s Supreme Court means free and fair elections in 26 and 28, and no gerrymandering. It means women keep the right to choose. It means freedom of speech and religion. Pass it on.
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Extremely important for those of us in PA - Vote 'Yes' to retain the democratic PA Supreme Court justices:
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Brutal but perfect tweet
America is the Tesla Cybertruck of countries
August 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Brutal but perfect tweet
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
August 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.
July 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.
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The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.
it really is both insanely inaccurate and also wildly offensive to assume that scientists and reporters can be readily replaced with passive sensors
This is what popped into my head immediately upon reading that, like, okay, so all those field scientists... we can just replace them with Waymos, got it, can't wait to see how a Waymo creeps through a bush for 7 weeks just to take a photograph of a bird that nobody has ever photographed before
July 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.
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People should start plastering missing persons posters all over LA of the people who have been abducted by ICE. All over any city from which people have been abducted.
July 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
People should start plastering missing persons posters all over LA of the people who have been abducted by ICE. All over any city from which people have been abducted.
Wow, this is exceptionally clear. What agentic AI needs to perform tasks results in giving bots full surveillance and control
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wow, this is exceptionally clear. What agentic AI needs to perform tasks results in giving bots full surveillance and control
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No one has been more consistently wrong about the state and trajectory of American politics than the stable of self-anointed Very Serious People whose primary concern throughout the Trump era has been to scold people for being “alarmist,” for “overreacting,” for being “irrational” or “unserious.”
June 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
No one has been more consistently wrong about the state and trajectory of American politics than the stable of self-anointed Very Serious People whose primary concern throughout the Trump era has been to scold people for being “alarmist,” for “overreacting,” for being “irrational” or “unserious.”
This 100% - "Voting wasn't something you owed Kamala Harris. It was something you owed all of the people Trump was going to hut".
“KAMALA HASN’T EARNED MY VOTE.”
How about all those trans kids who are about to lose decades of hard-won rights? Did they also fail to “earn your vote”?
Voting wasn’t something you owed Kamala Harris. It was something you owed all the people Trump was going to hurt. You fucking dilettante.
How about all those trans kids who are about to lose decades of hard-won rights? Did they also fail to “earn your vote”?
Voting wasn’t something you owed Kamala Harris. It was something you owed all the people Trump was going to hurt. You fucking dilettante.
June 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This 100% - "Voting wasn't something you owed Kamala Harris. It was something you owed all of the people Trump was going to hut".
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One of my many fears is that the next Democratic president will spend too much time talking about "the importance of not dwelling on the past" instead of prosecuting every single one of the people responsible for this nightmare.
June 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of my many fears is that the next Democratic president will spend too much time talking about "the importance of not dwelling on the past" instead of prosecuting every single one of the people responsible for this nightmare.
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The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.
Right fucking now.
Right fucking now.
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem.
Right fucking now.
Right fucking now.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.
They are in charge.
They are in charge.
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Please also note:
The Orders Project will help connect military personnel with experienced attorneys and can be reached via email at ordersproject@nimj.org
The Orders Project will help connect military personnel with experienced attorneys and can be reached via email at ordersproject@nimj.org
If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline.
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487
June 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Please also note:
The Orders Project will help connect military personnel with experienced attorneys and can be reached via email at ordersproject@nimj.org
The Orders Project will help connect military personnel with experienced attorneys and can be reached via email at ordersproject@nimj.org
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Don't forget it
June 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Don't forget it