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Not a day goes by where I don’t think: If it weren’t for those raccoons playing in the Hadron Collider…
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"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics
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AI Regulation is Not Enough. We Need AI Morals
"The challenge of our time is to keep moral intelligence in step with machine intelligence."
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics
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If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
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Brb, using a terrible fusion of magic, technology and sacred geometry to unmake the universe.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Brb, using a terrible fusion of magic, technology and sacred geometry to unmake the universe.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Had to share this from twitter just because
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Had to share this from twitter just because
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TLDR: the late Devah Pager finds that stores that engage in discrimination were more likely to close in six years than those who didn't.
Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿♀️
Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿♀️
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
TLDR: the late Devah Pager finds that stores that engage in discrimination were more likely to close in six years than those who didn't.
Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿♀️
Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿♀️
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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*presses earpiece*
DIRECT TO CAMERA: I'm being told—one moment—yes. Yes, okay. In coalition with mercury, asbestos, and lead paint, Iraq War burn pit fumes have now endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
DIRECT TO CAMERA: I'm being told—one moment—yes. Yes, okay. In coalition with mercury, asbestos, and lead paint, Iraq War burn pit fumes have now endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
November 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
*presses earpiece*
DIRECT TO CAMERA: I'm being told—one moment—yes. Yes, okay. In coalition with mercury, asbestos, and lead paint, Iraq War burn pit fumes have now endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
DIRECT TO CAMERA: I'm being told—one moment—yes. Yes, okay. In coalition with mercury, asbestos, and lead paint, Iraq War burn pit fumes have now endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
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“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Finally. Some good news. 😌
Researchers found that regular cheese eaters were 24 per cent less likely to develop the condition over three years compared with non-cheese eaters.
Eating cheese once a week may lower dementia risk, study suggests
Researchers found that regular cheese eaters were 24 per cent less likely to develop the condition over three years compared with non-cheese eaters.
l.euronews.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Finally. Some good news. 😌
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You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
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Minnesota looks good on this map of Obamacare price hikes post-subsidy expiration … until you realize “good” means a $12,000-$17,999 annual increase, not a $28,000-$49,000. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Minnesota looks good on this map of Obamacare price hikes post-subsidy expiration … until you realize “good” means a $12,000-$17,999 annual increase, not a $28,000-$49,000. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
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Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽
This was a great reminder that now is a perfect time to donate to your local food banks to help offset our community members losing SNAP.
Let’s look after each other.
Let’s look after each other.
Im BEGGING y’all: please just give money to yhe foodbanks.
Foodbanks are one charity where money goes a LONG ASS WAY because they get subsidized prices for the food they purchase.
I only raised $3K by myself and it was enough for almost 11,000 full MEALS they told me.
Donate MONEY.
Foodbanks are one charity where money goes a LONG ASS WAY because they get subsidized prices for the food they purchase.
I only raised $3K by myself and it was enough for almost 11,000 full MEALS they told me.
Donate MONEY.
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This was a great reminder that now is a perfect time to donate to your local food banks to help offset our community members losing SNAP.
Let’s look after each other.
Let’s look after each other.
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This is probably the most comprehensive shutdown assistance map I have seen soo far:
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Shutdown Assistance Map - Resources for Furloughed/Excepted Federal Workers - MyFEDBenefits
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October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is probably the most comprehensive shutdown assistance map I have seen soo far:
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Neurobiology echoing @prisonculture.bsky.social’s wise words: “Hope is a discipline.”
“Why are traumatized people so MISERABLE?”
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
“Too much disappointment teaches the system that ‘wanting leads to pain,’ and so it stops responding to potential rewards. … Biologically, it’s an adaptive silencing of the very circuits that make us feel alive.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/an-i...
How Chronic Disappointment Rewires the Brain
Chronic disappointment can train the brain to expect pain instead of reward. Restoring hope means reawakening dopamine through small actions, enriched environments, and new desire.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Neurobiology echoing @prisonculture.bsky.social’s wise words: “Hope is a discipline.”
My grandma is in the ICU at the end stages of organ failure. On a FaceTime call, I told her stories of a few of my favorite memories I have of us together. The things she’s done that have inspired me. Her paintings…
Instead of good bye, she said “I love you, and I hope you have a nice life.” 💔
Instead of good bye, she said “I love you, and I hope you have a nice life.” 💔
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My grandma is in the ICU at the end stages of organ failure. On a FaceTime call, I told her stories of a few of my favorite memories I have of us together. The things she’s done that have inspired me. Her paintings…
Instead of good bye, she said “I love you, and I hope you have a nice life.” 💔
Instead of good bye, she said “I love you, and I hope you have a nice life.” 💔
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ResistBot always reminds me that if my letters are too mean, they won’t be read and counted.
But that first draft? That’s just for me 😌
But that first draft? That’s just for me 😌
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
ResistBot always reminds me that if my letters are too mean, they won’t be read and counted.
But that first draft? That’s just for me 😌
But that first draft? That’s just for me 😌
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we need to normalize telling people “you don’t get to play with me like that.”
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
we need to normalize telling people “you don’t get to play with me like that.”
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Every single day I feel like Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta.
Going about my daily routine while white people scream slurs and threaten to murder everybody they dont like on the airwaves
Going about my daily routine while white people scream slurs and threaten to murder everybody they dont like on the airwaves
October 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Every single day I feel like Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta.
Going about my daily routine while white people scream slurs and threaten to murder everybody they dont like on the airwaves
Going about my daily routine while white people scream slurs and threaten to murder everybody they dont like on the airwaves
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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The fact that you feel bad is not the same as repairing harm.
It’s based in the belief that your feelings matter more than your impact
It’s based in the belief that your feelings matter more than your impact
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The fact that you feel bad is not the same as repairing harm.
It’s based in the belief that your feelings matter more than your impact
It’s based in the belief that your feelings matter more than your impact