Alice in Absurdistan
@aliceinabsurdistan.bsky.social
Stranger in an even stranger land these days.
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New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time.
The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four.
Corporate greed is out of control.
The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four.
Corporate greed is out of control.
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds - Consumer Reports
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
www.consumerreports.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time.
The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four.
Corporate greed is out of control.
The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four.
Corporate greed is out of control.
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Americans: high speed rail would revolutionize how we live in this country
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Americans: high speed rail would revolutionize how we live in this country
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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There's a second front in the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to privatizing health care, Trump is now taking aim at veterans’ disability benefits, which serves 7 million Americans. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon report.
prospect.org/2025/12/08/t...
prospect.org/2025/12/08/t...
Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits - The American Prospect
The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is fal...
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
There's a second front in the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to privatizing health care, Trump is now taking aim at veterans’ disability benefits, which serves 7 million Americans. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon report.
prospect.org/2025/12/08/t...
prospect.org/2025/12/08/t...
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What in the actual hell
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What in the actual hell
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The President promised prices would go back down. In a healthy economy, they almost never do. The normal pattern is: prices jump, then over time your paycheck catches up. The pain comes when wages don't follow—then it's not “inflation” so much as an affordability crisis.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card!
Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).
apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop...
🎬📽️ #FilmSky
Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).
apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop...
🎬📽️ #FilmSky
Kanopy App - App Store
Download Kanopy by Kanopy on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Kanopy.
apps.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I learned about Kanopy, and more people should know this: a whole ad-free streaming app you can access with your library card!
Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).
apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop...
🎬📽️ #FilmSky
Check to see if your library is a member (mine is, and has a great catalog).
apps.apple.com/us/app/kanop...
🎬📽️ #FilmSky
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Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
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This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.
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Due to some very sad circumstances, this lovely pup Luna is now in need of a home. If you're in the Atlanta area and you're looking to bring a dog into your world, Luna would be a fantastic addition to your family. If not, please just share this for a signal boost. lifelineanimal.org/pet-details/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Due to some very sad circumstances, this lovely pup Luna is now in need of a home. If you're in the Atlanta area and you're looking to bring a dog into your world, Luna would be a fantastic addition to your family. If not, please just share this for a signal boost. lifelineanimal.org/pet-details/...
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Maybe it’s time to conclude that Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Maybe it’s time to conclude that Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/vlad...
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This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
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There’s now less than two weeks left before the deadline to enroll for coverage starting January 1 in most states. You still have til mid-January to enroll for coverage (except Idaho)
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waitin...
Read the latest The Waiting Room from @charlesgaba.com for Lincoln Square
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waitin...
Read the latest The Waiting Room from @charlesgaba.com for Lincoln Square
The Waiting Room | Trump's Health Care Plan Gets Aborted after GOP Backlash
Greetings, Lincoln Square readers!
www.lincolnsquare.media
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There’s now less than two weeks left before the deadline to enroll for coverage starting January 1 in most states. You still have til mid-January to enroll for coverage (except Idaho)
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waitin...
Read the latest The Waiting Room from @charlesgaba.com for Lincoln Square
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-waitin...
Read the latest The Waiting Room from @charlesgaba.com for Lincoln Square
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A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
U.S. Department of Defense's Inspector General's report on the Signalgate saga is now online
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
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NEW: Wildlife authorities in Louisiana are now detaining people for ICE—part of this year's nearly 700% expansion of the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local authorities to conduct immigration enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/story/...
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
NEW: Wildlife authorities in Louisiana are now detaining people for ICE—part of this year's nearly 700% expansion of the 287(g) program that deputizes state and local authorities to conduct immigration enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/story/...
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The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.
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It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
@reuters.com
Here's why. 🧵
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
the competition is strong but it's a real contender