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🧵 — as Elon + others share A.I. slop videos of Venezuelans, polls show a split between Venezuelans at home (mostly AGAINST Trump’s attack and kidnapping of Maduro) and Venezuelans abroad (more are FOR it) —> x.com/dropsitenews...
A.I. = weapon of mass manufacturing consent
A.I. = weapon of mass manufacturing consent
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
🧵 — as Elon + others share A.I. slop videos of Venezuelans, polls show a split between Venezuelans at home (mostly AGAINST Trump’s attack and kidnapping of Maduro) and Venezuelans abroad (more are FOR it) —> x.com/dropsitenews...
A.I. = weapon of mass manufacturing consent
A.I. = weapon of mass manufacturing consent
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Venture Capitalists have figured out One Weird Trick to make takeout more expensive and terrible and it's Wonder.
going to get rid of "Wonder," the food thing, in 2026
January 3, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Venture Capitalists have figured out One Weird Trick to make takeout more expensive and terrible and it's Wonder.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
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BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
BREAKING: While baristas continue the largest ULP strike in Starbucks history, 19 more stores filed for a union election today - one of the biggest filing days since our union began.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
330+ workers across 15 states hope to join the 250+ baristas who have unionized since mid-November alone.
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no chatgpt for me, thanks. i will be asking Zoltar
December 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
no chatgpt for me, thanks. i will be asking Zoltar
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A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
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Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
This sucks. As a kid I read a lot of mass market paperbacks. My public library had so many. I could read mysteries and scifi forever and never run out. Now everything is curated, and I don’t think kids experience stumbling onto a cheap book with a fun cover and words they have to look up.
RIP Mass market paperbacks. Always my preferred format.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This sucks. As a kid I read a lot of mass market paperbacks. My public library had so many. I could read mysteries and scifi forever and never run out. Now everything is curated, and I don’t think kids experience stumbling onto a cheap book with a fun cover and words they have to look up.
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It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
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went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting
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Critics “worry that the drones could create a citywide surveillance network with few legal guardrails, that the footage they collect will be used to train private companies’ AI algorithms or that police will misuse emerging AI capabilities, like facial recognition.”
Here’s how Denver police fly drones to 911 calls, triggering fears about privacy and surveillance
The people on the street didn’t look up. They didn’t seem to know a police drone was hovering above, recording them as officers a mile away watched.
www.denverpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Critics “worry that the drones could create a citywide surveillance network with few legal guardrails, that the footage they collect will be used to train private companies’ AI algorithms or that police will misuse emerging AI capabilities, like facial recognition.”
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
@metrorailinfo.bsky.social doors on 3000 and 3065 aren’t opening all the way
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@metrorailinfo.bsky.social doors on 3000 and 3065 aren’t opening all the way
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
Too many online services require an app, login, or subscription, all to capture your info and send you constant ads. The grocery store offers you the privacy of your preferences (until you have to enter a loyalty card number, which is a whole other problem).
Cheap delivery is not an adequate replacement for a physical store.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
Grocery stores provide a range of services, not just food. And that’s assuming online delivery provides sufficient access to food. And there is no reason that poor consumers should be captured by an online-only service.
What if I told you Walmart is not the only store trying to move into low-cost delivery? And this is about Atlanta because this is about Atlanta opening a city-subsidized grocery store.
And lastly, cheap delivery is a more than adequate replacement for a physical store. This is about physical stuff!
And lastly, cheap delivery is a more than adequate replacement for a physical store. This is about physical stuff!
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Too many online services require an app, login, or subscription, all to capture your info and send you constant ads. The grocery store offers you the privacy of your preferences (until you have to enter a loyalty card number, which is a whole other problem).
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I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
If you are concerned about people swiping books from your little free library and reselling those books, I ask you to go to your local used bookstore and sell a book
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
Okay?
Understand?
Alright, next question
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I once taught a whole lesson on the narratives of deservedness in the very strange concept of “stealing” books from something conspicuously branded as a “free” little library. The students struggled with it. A lot of internalized beliefs about poverty and worth. But I think it was a good lesson.
The way men talked about Britney Spears *shudder*
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
I feel like maybe it’s a function of everyone online being born in 2002 but I don’t think most people realize how openly and explicitly pedophilic american culture was until like… maybe 10 years ago
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The way men talked about Britney Spears *shudder*
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Absolute legend, I turned to her work and experience often during my grad school studies and found so much clarity in her work where others (mostly our government) chose obfuscation
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Absolute legend, I turned to her work and experience often during my grad school studies and found so much clarity in her work where others (mostly our government) chose obfuscation
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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awful lot of "is you takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?" happening today
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
awful lot of "is you takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?" happening today
@metrorailinfo.bsky.social FYA the middle door on 3092 is broken, only one side opens
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@metrorailinfo.bsky.social FYA the middle door on 3092 is broken, only one side opens