From the Notebooks
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Indie ttrpg and worldbuilding hobby person, Queer, Leftist (working on details), 20, University undergrad
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Unironically, tell your friends.
Re: militant liberalism. We have to foster a general understanding among liberals, progressives, even centrists (gonna need @thebulwark.com here) that we are at this point, *between* constitutional regimes.
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Unironically, tell your friends.
Yup. I'm glad I generally do not care about being seen as masculine, that shit is poison. I don't think its easy to get out either. We definitely do need better models of masculinity but more but more so we need the strength of character to endure challenges to masculinity without caving.
look, the PC police don't want you to say this, but it's a culture problem. men just have bad values. they don't care about education, they want things handed to them instead of prioritizing hard work
Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Yup. I'm glad I generally do not care about being seen as masculine, that shit is poison. I don't think its easy to get out either. We definitely do need better models of masculinity but more but more so we need the strength of character to endure challenges to masculinity without caving.
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150,000. Fucking Hell.
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
150,000. Fucking Hell.
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My basic understanding is that Labour is what the Online Left think the Democratic Party is.
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My basic understanding is that Labour is what the Online Left think the Democratic Party is.
Like Bruegel commenting on the horrors of war against his people in his day, the stories of the bible can be used for commentary in ours
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Like Bruegel commenting on the horrors of war against his people in his day, the stories of the bible can be used for commentary in ours
reblogging this despite actually liking the show a good bit. Not really the Garfield part but Guiteau was amazing
Netflix released a new movie about President Garfield. Just a reminder that Garfield was virulently against labor unions, believed them to be unpatriotic & even supported using federal troops to break up strikes. He was against the 8 hr workday and was not a good guy. Let’s make a movie about that?
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
reblogging this despite actually liking the show a good bit. Not really the Garfield part but Guiteau was amazing
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
Just want to note that this is wow mao, best known for his other hits of animating the racial animus of Greeks and Turks against each other and competitively guessing ethnicities while 8 drinks deep.
I think you are taking these jokes a bit too seriously
I think you are taking these jokes a bit too seriously
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just want to note that this is wow mao, best known for his other hits of animating the racial animus of Greeks and Turks against each other and competitively guessing ethnicities while 8 drinks deep.
I think you are taking these jokes a bit too seriously
I think you are taking these jokes a bit too seriously
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Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
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It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that truth is self-enforcing which is the foundation of liberal thought. But fascism shows that truth relies on people taking for granted that expertise, particularly in the form of credentials, is self-justifying, and people can simply reject that
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that truth is self-enforcing which is the foundation of liberal thought. But fascism shows that truth relies on people taking for granted that expertise, particularly in the form of credentials, is self-justifying, and people can simply reject that
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
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Along the same lines, and also done by @reason.com this piece is evergreen and so important:
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Along the same lines, and also done by @reason.com this piece is evergreen and so important:
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Sharing a few collages to say: I am open to taking collage comms from people! I am open to doing Individual or Commercial licensing, 8.5x11 or 17x11 (or other sizes)
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sharing a few collages to say: I am open to taking collage comms from people! I am open to doing Individual or Commercial licensing, 8.5x11 or 17x11 (or other sizes)
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
DM or email me at [email protected] for more info!
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Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Russia link suspected as Bulgarians jailed for vandalising Paris Jewish memorial
Four men given prison terms for desecration that was possibly ‘orchestrated by Russian intelligence services’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
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Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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'The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and - most important - it has proved to be bad for millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.'
Opinion | ‘I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That Gambling Is Going On in Here’
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
'The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and - most important - it has proved to be bad for millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and move directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.'