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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · Aug 15

Build fireproof housing

Invest in new materials & methods

Focus on resilient innovation not BS

Plan ahead for rapid acceleration of storms & heat waves

Build home/greenhouses
Grow your own food if you can

Join cooperatives & share locally

Do not let skeptidude ignorance destroy YOUR futures

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 15

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s

Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 4h

It's ok to double down on the lost arts of gratitude and hand-written notes mean a lot to people now, perhaps now more than ever it feels like a real bond vs. an automated response

20 years ago I prototyped a nonprofit giving app to send back a photo of impact created with a message. Went nowhere.

Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 4h

My idea of an interesting map, problem is I like 'em all

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 1d

There’s a lot going on, so here is a map of the world’s forests, divided by categories of wood.

Map labeled "Geographic Distribution of the World's Forests, Differentiated by Categories of Wood"

Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 4h

DAMN babe

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 5h

"Snipers with guns loaded with pepper balls, paintballs, and rubber bullets are stationed on the roof of the Broadview ICE facility with their weapons trained on the press and civilians. Federal agents have tackled and slammed people to the ground..."

#Pinks
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Today I am imagining a kinder and more loving world.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I have access to Sora, and I am extremely thankful to the very lovely person who gave it to me and I’ll be honest - I don’t think any product I’ve ever used has more immediately skeeved me out as quickly or as deeply.

Perhaps I’ll get over it, but first impressions - deeply queasy feeling.

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 4d

Haven't cancelled Paramount+ yet? What are you waiting for?

This is atrocious @cbsnews.com you have no soul left in that shell of a former TV network

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 5d

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 5d

Only took 25+ years to prove to the boardroom that pumpkin spice capitalism doesn't = real profit or community value here

The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 5d

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

As pumpkin spice season arrives, Starbucks culls Bay Area cafes

A running list of restaurants that have recently closed in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

oaklandside.org

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

Feds cancelling a whole raft of manufacturing & innovation projects in Washington state, because WA is blue & the federal government has declared open war on half the country.

Energy Department Announces Termination of 223 Projects, Saving Over $7.5 Billion

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the termination of 321 financial awards supporting 223 projects, resulting in a savings of approximately $7.56 billion dollars for American taxpayers.

www.energy.gov

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6d

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE.

Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.

Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 6d

This is the same Flock whose nation-wide data ICE keeps finding ways to access.

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 6d

Ads reveal that Flock, makers of automated license plate readers and other surveillance technology, are promising to introduce "Distress detection" into their gunshot detection devices which will alert police when it hears human voices in distress, including screaming.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

An add that says "Safety you can see and now hear: Detect sounds of human distress and cover the blind stops that cameras miss with Distress Detection" with an alert that says "screaming" and an address.

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 6d

Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed a government shutdown on Democrats.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 6d

My 20+ years of military service grandfather used to say the Commissary and PX were the only reasons to serve in the military; he shopped at these stores until he died as they had the best deals in the US.

Removing them removes a key reason to stay in the service.
Privatizing them is a sham grift

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 6d

If this is going to blow up I should link the actual story

Pentagon wants out of the grocery business, asks industry for proposals

The move to privatize the military’s commissaries could lead to changes at 178 stores in the U.S., including 3 in San Antonio and 10 other Texas sites.

www.expressnews.com

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6d

I can't emphasize enough that the BX/PX/Commissary are massive selling points for military service (Things are cheaper than civie stores AND no tax), and Trump seems determined to have the military he needs for his fascist nonsense also hate him with the intensity of a thousand suns lol.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 6d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

Lies are never the truth.

Stupidity is never common sense.

Worse is never great.

Treachery is never patriotism.

War is never peace.

Death is never life.

No matter how much they want you to think they are.

#TakingWordsBack

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Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 7d

yep, the difference between normal people who wear fun hats on birthdays at restaurants & overt racist edgelord deepfake BS that's designed to ragebait, full of shitty signals like "let's make fun of people who wear sombreros and elected officials at the same time" to demean everyone associated

Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 7d

Creating negative jobs is now what America is known for = the lack of value or anything useful? The vacuum of leadership?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

Dept of evo ⚗️🔭🔮🪬🧿 @evo.ist · 7d

Narrative dominance is about trying to shift the narrative until no one understands a thing, so fake authorities can pretend they KNOW what they're talking about with some sense of false "authority" in their voice to manipulate masses

He knows what racism is; he plays dumb to pander to racists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

JD Vance: "On the sombrero thing, Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist. And I don't even honestly know what that means. Like, is he a Mexican-American that is offended?"