Game theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, the civil rights movement, and more all agree on this: unite for independence or lose.
Great piece by Henry Farrell

OpenAI and Anthropic “have traditional business insurance coverage in place, but insurance professionals said AI model providers will struggle to secure protection for the full scale of damages they may need to pay out in the future.”

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

(read the article, friends)

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

“Sometimes, Dolores, an accident is a woman’s best friend.”

"All we ask is for this relentless nightmare of genocide to end, for the land to become a land again, and for us to once again embrace life, not death."

this is a great coat

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

The gut punch listening to this was fully recognizing how entrenched sadomasochism is within white settler communities. The "I suffered, therefore you must suffer even worse" while simultaneously being conditioned to see ourselves as victims of outsiders.. whew. So much to unpack.

Not mentioned in this excellent piece, the role of white American feminists in this propaganda. More about that here: criticalzionismstudies.org/white-femini...

"The Commission was unable to meet 'any survivors of sexual violence committed on October 7, despite its attempts to do so' (para 19)."

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This is the conversation we should be having:

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

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I think lots of folks would benefit from reading the history of the civil rights movement, which targeted America’s home-grown fascist movement. Resistance was constant, even amidst the terroristic threat of lynching. People push back against oppression in big and small ways.

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

We need to turn to lessons from the 60s & 70s with COINTELPRO destroying Black movements from the inside including with assassinations, & the MOVE bombing of the 80s. The same struggles repeat & there are elders with wisdom. And this is why we will not get through without centering Black struggle.

Every single thing Kristi Noem says or does, every word out of her mouth and every order she issues, reminds the world that this is a person who shot her dog because it was inconvenient. She won’t let anyone forget that this is the kind of person she is.

A powerful message from Jessie Fuentes, an alderperson, who was detained today in a Chicago hospital for questioning ICE as they were trying to arrest a man who was being treated for a broken leg

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.