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Plants 🌱, personal pablum, less politics than before. Plural, ADDled, #bipolar... In a strange relationship with Madness. #DisabledInBusiness #ShameSlayer #WorthWhisperer
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He/they (we)
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
MLK Jr.
Loving does not mean ignoring abuse, bigotry and violence, but if hate grows within us, we are defeated.
Love is the difficult way through these brutal times.
Good night.
MLK Jr.
Loving does not mean ignoring abuse, bigotry and violence, but if hate grows within us, we are defeated.
Love is the difficult way through these brutal times.
Good night.
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There is a measure of laziness and unwillingness in philanthropy that I’m still trying to articulate.
This man built the most efficient commerce and delivery network in the history of the world.
Do you really think if he wanted to solve homelessness donating $11m would be his move?
This man built the most efficient commerce and delivery network in the history of the world.
Do you really think if he wanted to solve homelessness donating $11m would be his move?
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos have donated $11.25 million to fight homelessness in the Washington, DC, area through their Bezos Day 1 Fund.
Bezos Donates $11.25 Million to Fight Homelessness in DC Area - Washingtonian
Can the donation make a dent in the region’s housing crisis?
washingtonian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
There is a measure of laziness and unwillingness in philanthropy that I’m still trying to articulate.
This man built the most efficient commerce and delivery network in the history of the world.
Do you really think if he wanted to solve homelessness donating $11m would be his move?
This man built the most efficient commerce and delivery network in the history of the world.
Do you really think if he wanted to solve homelessness donating $11m would be his move?
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The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
Is this really what NDP renewal looks like?
The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec
www.lukewsavage.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The NDP's first official leadership debate did a disservice to the party, its members, to francophones, and to Quebec. After April's result, there needs to be real & substantive debate about what happened and what should happen next. This wasn't it.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
www.lukewsavage.com/p/is-this-re...
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"I think all of our voyages drive us there; for I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time."
Remembering James Baldwin, who returned his borrowed stardust to the universe on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on how to live through your darkest hour:
James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of th…
www.themarginalian.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"I think all of our voyages drive us there; for I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time."
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There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." - Charles Bukowski
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice." - Charles Bukowski
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
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"Interpassivity is so dominant today that doing and making are referred to as obstacles to the pleasures of not participating."
This is what gets me.
Anecdotally, the people that love AI in my world are people that want to opt out of a ton of shit that I think is necessary and it *grinds* me.
This is what gets me.
Anecdotally, the people that love AI in my world are people that want to opt out of a ton of shit that I think is necessary and it *grinds* me.
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant today that doing and making are referred to as obstacles to the pleasures of not participating."
This is what gets me.
Anecdotally, the people that love AI in my world are people that want to opt out of a ton of shit that I think is necessary and it *grinds* me.
This is what gets me.
Anecdotally, the people that love AI in my world are people that want to opt out of a ton of shit that I think is necessary and it *grinds* me.
Until it's single digits this number just confirms for me that the USA is not OK.
Donald Trump’s approval rating continues to decline!
A new Gallup poll taken November 3–25. shows Trump at a 36% approval rating, down from 41% in October. That’s close to his lowest-ever of 34% in 2021 after the January 6. Capitol riot.
A new Gallup poll taken November 3–25. shows Trump at a 36% approval rating, down from 41% in October. That’s close to his lowest-ever of 34% in 2021 after the January 6. Capitol riot.
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Until it's single digits this number just confirms for me that the USA is not OK.
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The fact that lawyers aren't being disbarred for this shit tells you everything you need to know about how professional organizations refuse to properly police themselves.
California prosecutors’ office used AI to file inaccurate motion in criminal case
Filing contained errors known as ‘hallucinations’, with attorneys arguing prosecutors’ office used AI in other cases
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The fact that lawyers aren't being disbarred for this shit tells you everything you need to know about how professional organizations refuse to properly police themselves.
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(1/3) There's this fascinating divide between White and Black culture I sometimes see around how we discuss terrible things and people. Black folks often discuss the most pedestrian, hohum topics adjacent to something terrible and understand the rationale is: You know it's bad and I know it's bad so
November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
(1/3) There's this fascinating divide between White and Black culture I sometimes see around how we discuss terrible things and people. Black folks often discuss the most pedestrian, hohum topics adjacent to something terrible and understand the rationale is: You know it's bad and I know it's bad so
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November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This is beyond being merely scandalous: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/tuber...
Tuberculosis outbreak hits Labrador weeks after Inuit group decried funding loss
ST. JOHN'S - Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have declared an outbreak of tuberculosis within the Inuit region of Labrador, just weeks after a national Inuit group had warned
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is beyond being merely scandalous: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/tuber...
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
I don't know why but I feel much better after spending half an hour browsing Reddit than I do after spending the same time on Instagram.
(Also only now getting that "read it" is why the name Reddit.)
(Also only now getting that "read it" is why the name Reddit.)
If this is AI video they get a prize for prompting…
[Video shows a house encased in strings of multicoloured holiday lights hanging vertically from the surrounding trees. from a distance it looks like a mountain of light. Upon approach the house and surrounding lawn decorations are revealed.]
[Video shows a house encased in strings of multicoloured holiday lights hanging vertically from the surrounding trees. from a distance it looks like a mountain of light. Upon approach the house and surrounding lawn decorations are revealed.]
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I don't know why but I feel much better after spending half an hour browsing Reddit than I do after spending the same time on Instagram.
(Also only now getting that "read it" is why the name Reddit.)
(Also only now getting that "read it" is why the name Reddit.)
I feel like I have done worse but cover it up with funny l3tters.
@davidmordecai.com has swears! They've used 117 profanities in their last 4,210 posts.
🥇 "damn" (24 times)
🥈 "hell" (14 times)
🥉 "ass" (9 times)
🥇 "damn" (24 times)
🥈 "hell" (14 times)
🥉 "ass" (9 times)
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel like I have done worse but cover it up with funny l3tters.
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I did it and slept for four hours straight. That doesn’t usually happen.
I think I will go back to sleep for a bit (yup, I caved and got up and retrieved my iPad).
I think I will go back to sleep for a bit (yup, I caved and got up and retrieved my iPad).
I was so close to leaving my phone in the other room tonight and now I'm in bed and too tired to get up. Maybe if I could find that chocolate bar that I bought at the supermarket, which is another form of bedtime corruption, I'd be motivated to get up. No more posts = success.
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I did it and slept for four hours straight. That doesn’t usually happen.
I think I will go back to sleep for a bit (yup, I caved and got up and retrieved my iPad).
I think I will go back to sleep for a bit (yup, I caved and got up and retrieved my iPad).
I was so close to leaving my phone in the other room tonight and now I'm in bed and too tired to get up. Maybe if I could find that chocolate bar that I bought at the supermarket, which is another form of bedtime corruption, I'd be motivated to get up. No more posts = success.
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I was so close to leaving my phone in the other room tonight and now I'm in bed and too tired to get up. Maybe if I could find that chocolate bar that I bought at the supermarket, which is another form of bedtime corruption, I'd be motivated to get up. No more posts = success.
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Oof. Just learned today about Brand Army. It's like an Only Fans. But only allows kids 13 to 17 to post. But paying members have to be over 18 to join and watch. Parents are signing their kids up and managing the accounts because.... $. It's not the stranger in the wild exploiting kids y'all.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Oof. Just learned today about Brand Army. It's like an Only Fans. But only allows kids 13 to 17 to post. But paying members have to be over 18 to join and watch. Parents are signing their kids up and managing the accounts because.... $. It's not the stranger in the wild exploiting kids y'all.
I guess?
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I guess?
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So they’re shooting boats out of the water because of the scourge of drugs but pardoning leaders connected to drug cartels? Okay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So they’re shooting boats out of the water because of the scourge of drugs but pardoning leaders connected to drug cartels? Okay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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The FBI accessed and spied on a Signal group chat that was organizing immigrant “court watch” efforts in NYC.
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The FBI accessed and spied on a Signal group chat that was organizing immigrant “court watch” efforts in NYC.
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
I feel like this should be bigger news.
You aren’t supposed to be able to spy on Signal chats.
Were they invited? How did they get access? Was there a warrant?
Just came across this pic while looking for another from high school.
Damn, those were the days...
Damn, those were the days...
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Just came across this pic while looking for another from high school.
Damn, those were the days...
Damn, those were the days...