Thomas Larson
@thomaslarson.bsky.social
Mentally ill, depression, anxiety, disability. Lover of rain. If you are are SWERF or TERF you aren’t welcome.
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I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
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I'm old enough to remember when the tech world lost its shit because Pentium chips would produce an error in the ninth significant digit for an handful of calculations.
But now we're expected to just accept software with the math skills of King Arthur in "The Holy Grail"
But now we're expected to just accept software with the math skills of King Arthur in "The Holy Grail"
August 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the tech world lost its shit because Pentium chips would produce an error in the ninth significant digit for an handful of calculations.
But now we're expected to just accept software with the math skills of King Arthur in "The Holy Grail"
But now we're expected to just accept software with the math skills of King Arthur in "The Holy Grail"
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
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You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes
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if your theory of change involves depending on cops to rein in cops, i have awful news for you. just ... the worst you can imagine.
Ppl this is not going to happen. State police are not going to arrest federal police. The most that can even be optimistically expected of them is that they will not assist federal police, and even that is a heavy lift, even if they are totally within their constitutional rights to do just that.
August 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
if your theory of change involves depending on cops to rein in cops, i have awful news for you. just ... the worst you can imagine.
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Ppl this is not going to happen. State police are not going to arrest federal police. The most that can even be optimistically expected of them is that they will not assist federal police, and even that is a heavy lift, even if they are totally within their constitutional rights to do just that.
August 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ppl this is not going to happen. State police are not going to arrest federal police. The most that can even be optimistically expected of them is that they will not assist federal police, and even that is a heavy lift, even if they are totally within their constitutional rights to do just that.
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.
www.publicnotice.co
August 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
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As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.
June 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.
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So, J.K. Rowling's psychotic ass is going after Imane Khelif again. I'm not going to ask what the fuck is wrong with her. We already know. The whole trans panic thing has clearly driven her insane.
May 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So, J.K. Rowling's psychotic ass is going after Imane Khelif again. I'm not going to ask what the fuck is wrong with her. We already know. The whole trans panic thing has clearly driven her insane.
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a proper way to deal with Nazis at the punk show, from Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas this weekend
May 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
a proper way to deal with Nazis at the punk show, from Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas this weekend
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It really is all men
May 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It really is all men
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Narrator: they were not considering the offer
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Narrator: they were not considering the offer
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Hope anyone in need or homeless sees this
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hope anyone in need or homeless sees this
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In America, this would be a felony
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In America, this would be a felony
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People are shocked by this attitude, but it was inevitable
We live in a world where the wealthy have relied on nonconsensual labor for years, everything from chattel slavery to indentured servitude to prison labor
Of course they assumed they could just steal artists' work without being questioned
We live in a world where the wealthy have relied on nonconsensual labor for years, everything from chattel slavery to indentured servitude to prison labor
Of course they assumed they could just steal artists' work without being questioned
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
People are shocked by this attitude, but it was inevitable
We live in a world where the wealthy have relied on nonconsensual labor for years, everything from chattel slavery to indentured servitude to prison labor
Of course they assumed they could just steal artists' work without being questioned
We live in a world where the wealthy have relied on nonconsensual labor for years, everything from chattel slavery to indentured servitude to prison labor
Of course they assumed they could just steal artists' work without being questioned
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I saved you a click. Here's the only paragraph that matters
Women like eyelashes and alpha males dont and pretend that bullying other men into feeling insecure is real masculinity. Be your own man. That's the lesson.
Women like eyelashes and alpha males dont and pretend that bullying other men into feeling insecure is real masculinity. Be your own man. That's the lesson.
May 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I saved you a click. Here's the only paragraph that matters
Women like eyelashes and alpha males dont and pretend that bullying other men into feeling insecure is real masculinity. Be your own man. That's the lesson.
Women like eyelashes and alpha males dont and pretend that bullying other men into feeling insecure is real masculinity. Be your own man. That's the lesson.
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How interesting to see Ruhama claim the brothel-keeping law does not prohibit sex workers sharing premises for safety, when Ruhama have openly opposed making it legal for sex workers to share premises for safety www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Removal of brothel-keeping law would ‘expand market’ for sex, O’Callaghan says
Opponents say law endangers women working together for safety, but Minister for Justice believes fears are ‘unfounded’
www.irishtimes.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
How interesting to see Ruhama claim the brothel-keeping law does not prohibit sex workers sharing premises for safety, when Ruhama have openly opposed making it legal for sex workers to share premises for safety www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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And so many people tried to convince me this man was a genius 😂
During a debate titled "One Christian vs. Twenty Atheists," Jordan Peterson loses by forgetting what side he’s on
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
And so many people tried to convince me this man was a genius 😂
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And this is what Happens when you insist we have to be civil and just hear everyone out
Anti-vax is now the mainstream GOP position.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
Senate GOP Ramps Up Attacks On COVID Vaccines Amid FDA Push
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Wednesday hearing on myocarditis was an anti-vax spectacle.
www.importantcontext.news
May 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
And this is what Happens when you insist we have to be civil and just hear everyone out