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A problem I have about the pervasiveness of GenAI outside of the basic ethical nonstarters is that I…
I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me.
I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming.
I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me.
I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming.
September 21, 2026 at 1:42 PM
A problem I have about the pervasiveness of GenAI outside of the basic ethical nonstarters is that I…
I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me.
I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming.
I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me.
I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming.
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September 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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September 4, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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The SAVE Act Trump keeps pushing would be devastating for Native voters. The bill that would force rural and reservation-based Native voters to travel long distances just to register to vote. nativenewsonline.net/currents/tru...
Trump Renews Push for SAVE Act, Drawing Criticism from Native Voting Advocates
Overview: President Donald Trump used a primetime address to renew his call for Congress to pass the SAVE Act, making it a top election priority. The SAVE Act would require documentary proof of U.S.…
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July 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The SAVE Act Trump keeps pushing would be devastating for Native voters. The bill that would force rural and reservation-based Native voters to travel long distances just to register to vote. nativenewsonline.net/currents/tru...
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when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people
*LETTUCE GROWER TAYLOR FARMS TO RECALL PRODUCTS TIED TO OUTBREAK
July 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people
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Intimate partner violence and sexual assault usually co-occur.
In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence.
The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.
In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence.
The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.
July 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Intimate partner violence and sexual assault usually co-occur.
In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence.
The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.
In fact, men who hurt their significant others are among the most likely to commit *all* kinds of violence.
The idea that men can mistreat women in private and be trusted in public is absurd.
I loved Rocky & Bullwinkle as a kid. Then I re-watched it as an adult and realized it was even funnier because now I understood more of the jokes.
Jay Ward Productions was a never-ending source of not just funny stuff, but *incisive* and perceptive political humor (which largely flew under the radar because they were making, haha, who cares, "cartoons").Their storyfolk were perceptive writers. *Surprisingly* little of their stuff dates poorly.
Millennial/GenZ animation fans (and animators!); by now you're sick to death of being told you've "GOT to watch!" this or that ancient Boomer cartoon - but take this example: Jay Ward's 'ROCKY & BULLWINKLE' *was* the real thing and applies NOW:
They had no money, so the script+designs HAD to be good
They had no money, so the script+designs HAD to be good
June 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I loved Rocky & Bullwinkle as a kid. Then I re-watched it as an adult and realized it was even funnier because now I understood more of the jokes.
Bizarre to reduce a greatest gymnast of all time to simply "NFL wife". I guess the author assumed people could figure it out because we've heard of Simone Biles, but have no clue about her "gymnast husband".
Best wishes to her for a quick and easy recovery.
Best wishes to her for a quick and easy recovery.
Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh.
Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.
Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.
June 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Bizarre to reduce a greatest gymnast of all time to simply "NFL wife". I guess the author assumed people could figure it out because we've heard of Simone Biles, but have no clue about her "gymnast husband".
Best wishes to her for a quick and easy recovery.
Best wishes to her for a quick and easy recovery.
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Hey folks, many of us are organizing to stop an ICE detention facility from being built in Gilroy.
Me? I like garlic, not gulags. Let's shut it down!
Me? I like garlic, not gulags. Let's shut it down!
ICE Out of Gilroy Petition - Bay Resistance
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May 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Hey folks, many of us are organizing to stop an ICE detention facility from being built in Gilroy.
Me? I like garlic, not gulags. Let's shut it down!
Me? I like garlic, not gulags. Let's shut it down!
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One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.
May 13, 2026 at 7:33 AM
One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.
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what I'm hearing
April 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
what I'm hearing
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*Taps the skeet.*
Pay attention. My father had to sign for my first credit card.
It is within the lifetime of we immortals, and we keep warning you that there are people under the delusion that it was a better time. They want to re-create it.
It wasn't a better time.
Pay attention. My father had to sign for my first credit card.
It is within the lifetime of we immortals, and we keep warning you that there are people under the delusion that it was a better time. They want to re-create it.
It wasn't a better time.
One of my mom's first jobs was working in a bank.
Her father had to open an account for her, she could not open her own account. At the bank she worked at, which was paying her.
Her father had to open an account for her, she could not open her own account. At the bank she worked at, which was paying her.
I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII
April 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
*Taps the skeet.*
Pay attention. My father had to sign for my first credit card.
It is within the lifetime of we immortals, and we keep warning you that there are people under the delusion that it was a better time. They want to re-create it.
It wasn't a better time.
Pay attention. My father had to sign for my first credit card.
It is within the lifetime of we immortals, and we keep warning you that there are people under the delusion that it was a better time. They want to re-create it.
It wasn't a better time.
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the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
March 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Catbus!
![[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur.
Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:txddszqio2wctnyyxbbbaflj/bafkreidhzodfrcwjn6fpvyw6brx6y5us5pxfj6r2ctmt2naojydy7nqov4)
March 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Catbus!
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Hinamatsuri, brought to you by the Fukui Dinosaur Museum.
March 3, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Hinamatsuri, brought to you by the Fukui Dinosaur Museum.
This is awesome. Literally the foundation of modern gaming.
I want to take a moment to honor the late Jerry Lawson, the Electronic Engineer who led the design of the 'Fairchild Channel F' console and also designed the FIRST interchangeable game (ROM) cartridges.
The game industry wouldn't be what it is today without Jerry's brilliance. (cont..)
The game industry wouldn't be what it is today without Jerry's brilliance. (cont..)
February 20, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This is awesome. Literally the foundation of modern gaming.
This is horrific, and unacceptable.
There must be accountability for this behavior, and changes must be made to stop this level of violence from law enforcement
There must be accountability for this behavior, and changes must be made to stop this level of violence from law enforcement
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
This is horrific, and unacceptable.
There must be accountability for this behavior, and changes must be made to stop this level of violence from law enforcement
There must be accountability for this behavior, and changes must be made to stop this level of violence from law enforcement
Agreed. There has been so much tolerance of sexual misconduct from men in figure skating that it's disappointing to see the way the news media is spinning the story around Fournier Beaudry / Cizeron.
If you can bring yourself to root for the French ice dancing pair of Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry, you are a very different person than me! www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Woman who accuses Sørensen of sexual assault says comments by French ice dancer ‘create dangerous environment' | CBC Sports
The woman who accused Canadian-Danish figure skater Nikolaj Sørensen of sexual assault says public comments by French
ice dance team Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron create a "dangerous...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Agreed. There has been so much tolerance of sexual misconduct from men in figure skating that it's disappointing to see the way the news media is spinning the story around Fournier Beaudry / Cizeron.
Good. Everyone needs to hear about what's been happening in Minneapolis.
You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
February 4, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Good. Everyone needs to hear about what's been happening in Minneapolis.
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This is a great basic explanation of the ongoing vulnerabilities in AI agents and why you might not want to use them: youtu.be/TdHg9ee56Iw
Don't Use Any AI Agents or Browsers Until You Watch This
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
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February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is a great basic explanation of the ongoing vulnerabilities in AI agents and why you might not want to use them: youtu.be/TdHg9ee56Iw
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A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
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We are now 40 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 PM
We are now 40 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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This is the predictable, tragic outcome of allowing a violent, unaccountable secret police force to operate in our communities and then continuing to fund it.
We need our leaders to stand up to this lawlessness and violence, and Congress has the chance to do that this week.
We need our leaders to stand up to this lawlessness and violence, and Congress has the chance to do that this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM
This is the predictable, tragic outcome of allowing a violent, unaccountable secret police force to operate in our communities and then continuing to fund it.
We need our leaders to stand up to this lawlessness and violence, and Congress has the chance to do that this week.
We need our leaders to stand up to this lawlessness and violence, and Congress has the chance to do that this week.
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once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM
once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street