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Lis M
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A woman in progress. Chicagoan. Reader. Sometimes writer. Thinker (Overthinker? Anxiety is 🙃).
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands

And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.

It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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People are not ready for a bad faith fascist government that is willing to and already using faked images and documents to justify their actions and agenda let alone one that is willing to lie about everything including day to day things.

The level of danger we are facing is massive here.
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.

Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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96% chance of 6+ inches of ❄️ in Chicago this weekend …
A significant winter storm is likely to impact portions of the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes beginning Friday through this weekend, which will impact post-Thanksgiving travel.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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from their website. embarrassing
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Jesus Christ he’s gonna put in Bellagio fountains.
Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Immigration is always about destroying Native sovereignty

It’s about rejecting the need for public transparency around who belongs on taken land by enslaved hands
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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"A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused." gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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It’s not the “Griffin Museum of Science & Industry” and it never will be AFAIC
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.

Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.

This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.

Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.

Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Some 60,000 families, many of them climate refugees, live in the area spread over 65 hectares.
Thousands left homeless by fire in Bangladesh shantytown in Dhaka
Some 60,000 families, many of them climate refugees, live in the area spread over 65 hectares.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Also death. You risk death.

See AI canning recipes.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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The suspect in the DC shooting of two National Guard members reportedly “served in the Afghan army for 10 years, alongside U.S. Special Forces.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Suspect is Afghan man who served alongside U.S. forces, relative says
A close relative said the suspect served alongside U.S. Special Forces troops in Afghanistan before he came to the United States.
www.nbcnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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We have experienced another setback and are facing a crisis situation.

If my efforts have ever been helpful to you, we could use your support.

All reposts and donations are very deeply appreciated.

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November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM