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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
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How do VC's make money from failed bullshit? Fee structure. Say you're a VC with a 20% carry if the venture succeeds.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How do VC's make money from failed bullshit? Fee structure. Say you're a VC with a 20% carry if the venture succeeds.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
You ALSO have a guaranteed management fee of 2% of AUM per year. So you create a $1B "Deep Tech" fund, that's $20M a year. These sci-fi projects take 10 years to fail. That's $200M.
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Last years Eurovision winner Nemo sending back his trophy in protest of Israel’s continued inclusion in the contest
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Last years Eurovision winner Nemo sending back his trophy in protest of Israel’s continued inclusion in the contest
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“Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm. I keep asking how we became such monsters, [i]ncapable of stopping this nightmare,” said Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel Leaving Palestinians in Gaza to Freeze in Winter Storm, UN Expert Says
Winter Storm Byron slammed Gaza on Thursday, causing widespread flooding. An eight-month-old has died.
buff.ly
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Palestinians in Gaza are literally left ALONE, FREEZING and STARVING in the winter storm. I keep asking how we became such monsters, [i]ncapable of stopping this nightmare,” said Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories.
Sounds like the same kind of separation between church and state that I experienced at my public middle school in GA, where teachers and fellow students would actively recruit me to join the ranks of Jesus’ holy army on the regular in the late 90s/early 00s…
🚨Yesterday the Labor Department became the second known agency to host a 'prayer service' for employees at HQ & during work hours.
It was organized by the DOL's new Faith Center, established by a Trump EO earlier this year.
New from me for @ms.now 👇
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
It was organized by the DOL's new Faith Center, established by a Trump EO earlier this year.
New from me for @ms.now 👇
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
The Labor Department just held a prayer service for employees
The event went ahead despite warnings that it would violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which separates church and state. The agency said it was voluntary.
www.ms.now
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sounds like the same kind of separation between church and state that I experienced at my public middle school in GA, where teachers and fellow students would actively recruit me to join the ranks of Jesus’ holy army on the regular in the late 90s/early 00s…
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On the same theme: WTF is the energy consumption going to look like when someone browsing Disney+ gets customised auto-generated auto-play sequences for everything they scroll past????
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On the same theme: WTF is the energy consumption going to look like when someone browsing Disney+ gets customised auto-generated auto-play sequences for everything they scroll past????
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
www.404media.co/disney-inves...
Guys, you could have just, like, hired people who wouldn’t even produce hallucinated footage to begin with…
![Following the outcry, The Sweetshop — the production company hired by TBWA\Neboko to create the ad — released an incredibly defensive statement justifying their work.
“For seven weeks, we hardly slept, with up to 10 of our in-house AI and post specialists at The Gardening Club [our in-house AI engine] working in lockstep with the directors,” Sweetshop’s CEO wrote.
Sweetshop even went so far as to argue that the amount of labor hours wasted cleaning up AI hallucinations justified the horrible end product.
“We generated what felt like dailies — thousands of takes — then shaped them in the edit just as we would on any high-craft production,” they said. “This wasn’t an AI trick. It was a film.”
“I don’t see this spot as a novelty or a cute seasonal experiment,” the CEO continued. “To me, it’s evidence of something much bigger: that when craft and technology meet with intention, they can create work that feels genuinely cinematic. So no – AI didn’t make this film. We did.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiek3ishbspwwfwhkdooghiwpav7ulr5nbdehabdvesqlmltgbptty@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Guys, you could have just, like, hired people who wouldn’t even produce hallucinated footage to begin with…
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This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a since-deleted LinkedIn post from the marketing agency that created the since-deleted AI-generated McDonalds Christmas ad, and all I can think of is how the energy consumption must've been about on par with a small suburb or heavy industrial load to produce 30 seconds of slop everyone hated
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Worth AGAIN noting that this is not the first time ChatGPT has allegedly urged users to die by suicide.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Worth AGAIN noting that this is not the first time ChatGPT has allegedly urged users to die by suicide.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
Every single school and university system that has allowed this infection in, that is encouraging students to use ChatGPT should be asked to account for their choices.
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Please listen...I know a lot about this, I have friends who have been or are civilly committed
THERE IS NO END DATE or incentive for anyone to be LET OUT EVER
They often use barely qualified staff and call them "treatment specialists" and those people have NO INCENTIVE TO EVER LET ANYONE OUT
THERE IS NO END DATE or incentive for anyone to be LET OUT EVER
They often use barely qualified staff and call them "treatment specialists" and those people have NO INCENTIVE TO EVER LET ANYONE OUT
Law enforcement who respond to an overdose and would be directed to take the survivor into custody and transport them directly to a screening for treatment. But the bill also goes further.
NJ May Expand Civil Commitment to Anyone Accused of Recent Overdose - Filter
New Jersey legislators are considering a proposal to require involuntary commitment for any overdose survivors revived by law enforcement. It ...
filtermag.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Please listen...I know a lot about this, I have friends who have been or are civilly committed
THERE IS NO END DATE or incentive for anyone to be LET OUT EVER
They often use barely qualified staff and call them "treatment specialists" and those people have NO INCENTIVE TO EVER LET ANYONE OUT
THERE IS NO END DATE or incentive for anyone to be LET OUT EVER
They often use barely qualified staff and call them "treatment specialists" and those people have NO INCENTIVE TO EVER LET ANYONE OUT
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NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...
Anduril Partners With UAE Bomb Maker Accused of Arming Sudan’s Genocide
Anduril calls itself an “arsenal of democracy.” So why is it partnering with the United Arab Emirates, an authoritarian monarchy to build drones?
theintercept.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...
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Protesters gathered outside Stockholm City Hall, where the traditional Nobel Prize dinner was held, chanting “Stop the genocide in Gaza” and “No to war in Venezuela", expressing anger towards the US and EU for supporting Israel.
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Protesters gathered outside Stockholm City Hall, where the traditional Nobel Prize dinner was held, chanting “Stop the genocide in Gaza” and “No to war in Venezuela", expressing anger towards the US and EU for supporting Israel.
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Hi, I have a bunch of resources here that might be helpful! There are videos, articles, podcasts and books, so lots of options for whichever piques your interest 😊
Anti-Capitalist Resources
These are people and projects that have been essential for my own journey of unlearning capitalism.
hilaryagro.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hi, I have a bunch of resources here that might be helpful! There are videos, articles, podcasts and books, so lots of options for whichever piques your interest 😊
The monoculture thrives: www.pmc.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The monoculture thrives: www.pmc.com
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If you've protested against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and been met by phalanxes of bike cops, you have been directly impacted by the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 and the police tactics that were exported across the country in its aftermath.
New film on 1999 Seattle WTO protests offers lessons on resistance & police violence, writes @glentalk.bsky.social. “WTO/99” takes viewers back to one of the largest protests in the city’s history, which faced a brutal police response echoed two decades later during the Black Lives Matter protests.
“WTO/99” protests offers lessons on resistance and police violence
“WTO/99” takes viewers to the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, which faced a brutal police response echoed in the Black Lives Matter protests
prismreports.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you've protested against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and been met by phalanxes of bike cops, you have been directly impacted by the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 and the police tactics that were exported across the country in its aftermath.
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Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
How We’ve Resisted ICE: Street Lessons From Chicago
“I cannot imagine doing anything else in this moment,” says community defense organizer Gabe Gonzalez.
truthout.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:
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It’s an anti consent machine. I would really love to see what would happen if we had a discussion with someone who did clinical psych and futurists
It’s boundary testing . They have enough of a power gap that they can test multiple ways to try and avoid boundaries
It’s boundary testing . They have enough of a power gap that they can test multiple ways to try and avoid boundaries
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s an anti consent machine. I would really love to see what would happen if we had a discussion with someone who did clinical psych and futurists
It’s boundary testing . They have enough of a power gap that they can test multiple ways to try and avoid boundaries
It’s boundary testing . They have enough of a power gap that they can test multiple ways to try and avoid boundaries
100% would watch 👀
A buddy comedy with Engels trying to hold it together while Marx procrastinates the Communist Manifesto could be pretty funny they've got a real Bert & Ernie vibe, a very workable Larry/Balki situation
December 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
100% would watch 👀
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Israel debates a death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners, but as Abdel Nasser Ferwana shows, executions have been routine for decades. The bill would simply formalize what already exists: an old policy of killing prisoners outside any legal framework
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Israel debates a death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners, but as Abdel Nasser Ferwana shows, executions have been routine for decades. The bill would simply formalize what already exists: an old policy of killing prisoners outside any legal framework
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
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We here at Strangers advocate for doing necromancy the old-fashioned way: with unholy rituals involving human remains, blood sacrifice, descent into demonic madness, and the creeping realization that parts of your soul you can never regain are being lost forever in the process. Also candles.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We here at Strangers advocate for doing necromancy the old-fashioned way: with unholy rituals involving human remains, blood sacrifice, descent into demonic madness, and the creeping realization that parts of your soul you can never regain are being lost forever in the process. Also candles.
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“Israel just repeats, ‘We provide people in Gaza with their needs.’ But, I am here, and the NGOs, the UN associations, the local foundations, all of them have mentioned that what is entering Gaza right now is not enough, is not sufficient.”
@AsemAlnabeh (X), journalist for Al Araby TV in Gaza City.
@AsemAlnabeh (X), journalist for Al Araby TV in Gaza City.
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“Israel just repeats, ‘We provide people in Gaza with their needs.’ But, I am here, and the NGOs, the UN associations, the local foundations, all of them have mentioned that what is entering Gaza right now is not enough, is not sufficient.”
@AsemAlnabeh (X), journalist for Al Araby TV in Gaza City.
@AsemAlnabeh (X), journalist for Al Araby TV in Gaza City.
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Israel has blocked 4000 pallets of shelter materials since the ceasefire, allowing only a trickle of tents and tarpaulins, which helped only 88,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who desperately need cover from a brutal winter storm.
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Israel has blocked 4000 pallets of shelter materials since the ceasefire, allowing only a trickle of tents and tarpaulins, which helped only 88,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians in Gaza who desperately need cover from a brutal winter storm.
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
Video: Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده via X (@RamAbdu)
From 2017: electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-n...
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
From 2017: electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-n...