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Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
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ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
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The problem with betting markets is that the rich can manipulate them for personal reasons and it looks like public consensus.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The problem with betting markets is that the rich can manipulate them for personal reasons and it looks like public consensus.
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“An instructor's freedom to teach includes the right to assess student academic performance. We are gravely concerned that a climate of escalating authoritarian assaults on academic freedom is normalizing politicized interference in classroom teaching & learning.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Oklahoma college student’s failing grade on gender essay dropped amid outcry
A University of Oklahoma student alleged religious discrimination after receiving a zero on an essay that rejected the concept of multiple genders.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“An instructor's freedom to teach includes the right to assess student academic performance. We are gravely concerned that a climate of escalating authoritarian assaults on academic freedom is normalizing politicized interference in classroom teaching & learning.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
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Farm workers stand in solidarity with striking Starbucks workers.
Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.
#NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.
#NoContractNoCoffee
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Farm workers stand in solidarity with striking Starbucks workers.
Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.
#NoContractNoCoffee
Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a fair union contract for close to 4 years. Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy union busting employers.
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Just finished going through interview transcripts for this project, and I was struck by a participant's recollection of how their oxygen tank was repossessed when they lost their job and lost their employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Lung cancer, post-op.
Inhumane.
Inhumane.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Just finished going through interview transcripts for this project, and I was struck by a participant's recollection of how their oxygen tank was repossessed when they lost their job and lost their employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Lung cancer, post-op.
Inhumane.
Inhumane.
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Normalize treating this like the psychopathic behavior that it is
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Normalize treating this like the psychopathic behavior that it is
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Literally just gambling. Everything is gambling now.
Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw
Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Literally just gambling. Everything is gambling now.
Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw
Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw
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Folks i do not believe the government is going to side with you on the ai debate, they serve only the owning class.
That said, go ahead on donate and show up for this. If im right, you lose nothing by having tried it this way. Just know in your hearts the only way to win will be organized labor.
That said, go ahead on donate and show up for this. If im right, you lose nothing by having tried it this way. Just know in your hearts the only way to win will be organized labor.
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Folks i do not believe the government is going to side with you on the ai debate, they serve only the owning class.
That said, go ahead on donate and show up for this. If im right, you lose nothing by having tried it this way. Just know in your hearts the only way to win will be organized labor.
That said, go ahead on donate and show up for this. If im right, you lose nothing by having tried it this way. Just know in your hearts the only way to win will be organized labor.
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Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:
“That was the day that it hit: UCLA has changed forever. It marked a turning point in the militarization of campus.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:
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I lived through this buzzing from hell as well, and let me tell you, it's PTSD that I can't recover from, even after almost 10 years out of the region. Fireworks, car engine popping, airplanes flying low, all these sounds break something in me and reminds me how much Israel screwed us up.
In Lebanon. Can hear the Israeli drone constantly now. I’ve only been back for a day but folks here deal with it 24/7, for months. It’s psychological torture. You can even see it, just flying around. The Israelis want to let everyone know that they can kill whoever they want whenever they want.
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I lived through this buzzing from hell as well, and let me tell you, it's PTSD that I can't recover from, even after almost 10 years out of the region. Fireworks, car engine popping, airplanes flying low, all these sounds break something in me and reminds me how much Israel screwed us up.
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This is a pseudo-problem.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is a pseudo-problem.
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Very honored to see Make Your Own Job recommended on the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2025" list www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Very honored to see Make Your Own Job recommended on the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2025" list www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
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"Before ~1800, almost every parent lost a child; now it’s such an uncommon experience that people have forgotten and want to ban vaccines."
An Astonishing Graph
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.
kottke.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"Before ~1800, almost every parent lost a child; now it’s such an uncommon experience that people have forgotten and want to ban vaccines."
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Democratic leadership handpicked him to fill this exact role, and he's doing it well!
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Democratic leadership handpicked him to fill this exact role, and he's doing it well!
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Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook
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I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns and issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families.
Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
‘I can’t get a single present’: millions in US barely scraping by amid holidays
As of November, 15.6 million workers in the US are still affected by the pandemic’s economic downturn
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns and issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families.
Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
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Show some love to our striking baristas in Columbia, Missouri!
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Show some love to our striking baristas in Columbia, Missouri!
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
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The past is a different place but humans throughout time and space have been fundamentally really similar, and anyone who tries to convince you that there are incompatible differences in how people around the world experience daily life is an enemy who's not going to win
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The past is a different place but humans throughout time and space have been fundamentally really similar, and anyone who tries to convince you that there are incompatible differences in how people around the world experience daily life is an enemy who's not going to win
Every one of these open racists should be run out of public life and forced into exile.
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Every one of these open racists should be run out of public life and forced into exile.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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After 20 years in South Florida, Farah Larriex could lose her work permit & deportation protection—and in just a matter of months. Trump's move to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti puts hundreds of thousands of families at risk. “For many of us, it’s a death sentence." https://seiu.co/4iyRCo5
South Florida Haitians express outrage, fear as Trump administration moves to end TPS protections
South Florida's Haitian community is reacting with anger and fear after the Trump administration moved to end TPS protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants.
seiu.co
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
After 20 years in South Florida, Farah Larriex could lose her work permit & deportation protection—and in just a matter of months. Trump's move to end Temporary Protected Status for Haiti puts hundreds of thousands of families at risk. “For many of us, it’s a death sentence." https://seiu.co/4iyRCo5
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BREAKING: 500 workers for the Environmental Defense Fund are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social @newsguild.org @wbng.org.
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: 500 workers for the Environmental Defense Fund are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social @newsguild.org @wbng.org.
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2025 was one for the books. Specifically the Necronomicon.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
2025 was one for the books. Specifically the Necronomicon.