Elon Musk says DOGE works 120 hrs/week.

"This schedule is neither sustainable nor advisable for human health over the long term." -- ChatGPT

It's embarrassing, frankly, to feel the need to call this Bullshit. Anyway, ChatGPT is good at summarizing obvious stuff:
chatgpt.com/share/67d854...

Asked Has Fascism come to the United States? They reply:

"It is not hyperbolic. I make a distinction between a fascist state, fascist trends that are operating within a society, and fascist passions which can be stoked or amplified by autocratic powers..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0f...

Today I think I leveled up in A.I.-literacy. Check out my chat with mr. GPT (chatgpt.com/share/67c1d0...). As background (and relevance-filter) you'll want first to watch the Owen Jones video that prompted it: (youtu.be/wMNj2DDMGgc?...)

The US casually declared that Israel was defeated in Gaza.

The whole rationale for mass murder - defeating Hamas - is declared void.

So all that's left is mass murder for its own sake.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-def...

Gabor Maté is one of the most impactful voices on my sense of what it is means to be a moral human. Chris Hedges is a seriously out of fucks reporter and interviewer. A great listen and if you are unfamiliar and intro to these totally based folx.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvK...

Expanding my mind...
youtu.be/L_-t3i6ipz4?...

The United States is not going to conquer Canada; that’s just this week’s fancy from an attention-craving narcissist whose cognition is on the fritz.

For cis, white men queerness is a lifeline to our humanity. To be clear, lifelines still require you to take hold.

Film journal entry: Challengers (2024):
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I appreciated the break from some of the more cliché aspects of the sexy, sporty rom com and will be replaying the beefy sausage fest scenes for some time, not much of the story or the characters in it will really stick with me.

Down with *UnitedWealthCare* Up with Universal Health Care. 💙

Greenland has universal healthcare, gender equality, and clean energy.

Can they take over the USA instead?

American credulity of the retread lies justifying Israeli belligerence is nothing new. Israel is an undemocratic terrorist ethno-nationalist state that has been committing atrocities and violating international law for many decades. The US is responsible and could and should begin to reverse it now.

Sight and Sound list of the best video essays of 2024!! I've got a couple picks in here, but the real value of this list is highlighting dozens of creators outside the YouTube circle (did you know incredible things are happening on Vimeo? You should!)

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I side with Ireland. 🇮🇪 I side with all humans consumed by all ethnic nationalism in Palestine/Israel. Thinking humans who empathize with historical and present day Anti-Semitism have got to be repulsed by the duckspeak of Israel's brutal leaders.
youtu.be/g-okYeYnjvk

Love the "This Fucking Guy" series. Enjoyed this one on this supreme asshole and "welfare queen". youtu.be/IDFM7j-44Tg?...

if i thought this site was going to moderate properly i'd subscribe to it happily & talk about the benefits of doing so to my million+ followers across youtube, twitter & twitch. as things are i'll be saying it isn't worth it. hearing similar things from my pals with big online followings

My favorite goal, from my favorite Sounder: "Ruidiaz... and still Ruidiaz.. that's a teriffic goal, that's a classic of its type... a piece of perfection from the Peruvian!"

youtu.be/Npsedhlvf-Y?...

My cup runneth over today with more gift economy juice... just discovered that one of my favorites, Willi Carlisle, just released his second album this year... which side are you on, indeed! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

A great day ahead: reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's much anticipated book, the Serviceberry followed by getting to see and hear the brilliant author live at Seattle Arts and Lectures. Okay world, don't screw it up!