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· Jan 20
your smugness will not protect you
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
In her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which comes out nearly twenty years after her Booker Prize–winning The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai considers loneliness in all its states of...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#article
Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
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Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
The #ExecutiveFunctionTheft of having to opt out.
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.
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I love how some of the responses to the calling churches for baby formula TikTok lady is people saying with a straight face, 'well, you have to be careful because grifters'.
You think grifters ask for a single small can of baby formula?
You think Jesus would ask for proof of poverty?
You think grifters ask for a single small can of baby formula?
You think Jesus would ask for proof of poverty?
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I love how some of the responses to the calling churches for baby formula TikTok lady is people saying with a straight face, 'well, you have to be careful because grifters'.
You think grifters ask for a single small can of baby formula?
You think Jesus would ask for proof of poverty?
You think grifters ask for a single small can of baby formula?
You think Jesus would ask for proof of poverty?
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Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it.
Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.
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Schumer shot himself in the dick twice, the second time by giving every single person involved in the dem victories on tuesday a very clear idea of what their next organizing goal should be.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Schumer shot himself in the dick twice, the second time by giving every single person involved in the dem victories on tuesday a very clear idea of what their next organizing goal should be.
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
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I recently re watched Treme and it was kind of wild to re live all of the aftermath in hindsight with everything that is currently happening with climate change and elections and policing
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Treme Theme Song/Intro Song
YouTube video by Rass24
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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I recently re watched Treme and it was kind of wild to re live all of the aftermath in hindsight with everything that is currently happening with climate change and elections and policing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1I...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1I...
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
I just signed to support the workers who make Detroit’s art museum world-class. Stand with #DIAWorkersUnited and add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/di...
Stand With Detroit’s Museum Workers: Support DIA Workers United!
I just signed the community petition supporting the dedicated workers at the Detroit Institute of Arts. These are the people who make the museum a place of creativity, learning, and connection. Join m...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I just signed to support the workers who make Detroit’s art museum world-class. Stand with #DIAWorkersUnited and add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/di...
#podcast
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall: Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship
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The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall: Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship
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"Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship" | EPISODE 3 | The Devil You Know
YouTube video by CBC True Crime
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November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
#podcast
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall: Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRx...
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall: Moral (Panic) Entrepreneurship
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pRx...
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus TRAILER
YouTube video by evasophia
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November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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The lesson federal immigration officials are teaching the public is not to trust any part of government.
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Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.
Unannounced Child "Wellness Checks" by Armed Federal Agents Raise Concerns - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis %
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November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The lesson federal immigration officials are teaching the public is not to trust any part of government.
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The Hamlet of our times.
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Hamlet of our times.
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The person who runs this site also runs CBS News.
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The person who runs this site also runs CBS News.
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Unpopular opinion : that I’m not even sure is safe to say
Until we are able to have real discussions about how using Ai is always an attempt at control and domination
And that using it without consent is just a violation ?
We won’t get anywhere
Until we are able to have real discussions about how using Ai is always an attempt at control and domination
And that using it without consent is just a violation ?
We won’t get anywhere
“Ansari’s Micro1 also does something called human data capture. It pays people to wear smart glasses that capture everyday actions. It is doing this in Brazil, Argentina, India, and the United States.”
Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.
tech.yahoo.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Unpopular opinion : that I’m not even sure is safe to say
Until we are able to have real discussions about how using Ai is always an attempt at control and domination
And that using it without consent is just a violation ?
We won’t get anywhere
Until we are able to have real discussions about how using Ai is always an attempt at control and domination
And that using it without consent is just a violation ?
We won’t get anywhere
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.