Casey Johnston

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I swear I don't get any kick backs for reposting this but the underlying issue is the media has a bias against protest especially liberal protest. It's called the protest paradigm and its been documented for more than 40 years at this point. Link in next skeet.

Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years

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If you want to do something constructive, these are the 6 state legislative candidates who could use your donations the most right now and when you donate through Oath they don't send out your email or phone number to everyone! app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

OATHapp.oath.vote Your one-stop-shop for political giving

biden can stay if he uses the new ruling to throw out those six supreme court justices and sentences thomas's wife to ten years hard labor

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I think about this line a lot these days.

i know we're living the dystopia but like, come on www.404media.co/car-rental-s...

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The classic text on this by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is still jaw-dropping to read 20 years later archive.is/V3sbx

swing voters and undecided voters basically by definition think about and engage with politics differently than anyone on this site, anyone who writes for the ny times, and the vast majority of the times’ subscribers. otherwise they wouldn’t be undecided/swing voters.

A documentary about Brazilian butt lifts called Nothing Ass Forever

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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I like the conspiracy theories about how chatGPT has "gotten dumber" because while it's possible they've railroaded it etc it's also just very obvious that the dazzle of the trick wears off fairly quick when you start needing consistent answers

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"Who can reply" is now on every thread you create. If a thread ever gets frustrating, click that button and lock the thread. No more replies.

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WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.

Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifying

Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifyingwww.engadget.com Toys 'R' Us uses OpenAI's Sora to make a brand film about its origin story and it’s horrifyingThis article originally appeared on Engadget at…

counterpoint, the bear was never good, it was a self serious show that hoped everyone would mistake people yelling over each other for real plot stakes and many fell for it. but literally no one is ready for that conversation slate.com/culture/2024...

The Bear Is Not a Good Showslate.com When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

BRIAN LAM IS BACK BABY www.paklan.org/my-craft-ori...

My craft origins (Part 1)www.paklan.org How 20 dollars in flea market tools lead to half a decade of obsession; my first teachers, tools and joints My introduction to craft was mostly accidental. You could blame Karl. Myself and a team of...

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

noticed a number of water and power buildings in LA (maybe all of california?) are pink, anyone know what's up with that

center fire station, h street, bakersfield, california, 2003

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Ted Cruz just massive screwed up lol www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-266...

Ted Cruz's secret playbook found in Senate refectory — and posted onlinewww.rawstory.com A playbook belonging to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz — which appears to show how he aims to raise cash to get him reelected for another term in office — was found in the Senate refectory and scooped up by...

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Elon is doing his usual Nazi shit and just covered for Ted Cruz and the GOP (probably because he and all his buddies are on this list). Also locked out Jim Swift for posting the same thing. Has anyone reached out to @pabloreports.bsky.social to let him know he could post these over here?

huh; research finds that chatGPT is bullshit. can't argue with scientific facts i guess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

hot enough out there for ya????????????????????? www.shesabeast.co/everything-t...

Everything there is to know about working out in the heatwww.shesabeast.co The first rule of "working out when it's irredeemably hot" is "don't." Plus: the runners are multiplying; the "60 second total" PR; doing nothing has never been more important. This is Link Letter 136...

what do you want to bet the opt-out procedure is a guy pulling you to the side and then mashing your face with his hands as if he's trying to sculpt you like clay

By the way, I've flown a couple times recently and the TSA is rolling out some weird facial recognition thing at some airports which you can opt out of. I would encourage everybody to opt out of it because I do not like the idea of normalizing that technology, especially in those hands.

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me: are you dead Chomsky: Now of course this is something we see going back decades, and we must bear in mind the prerogatives (so-called) of elites in the United States, as well as its proxies, and so on and so forth. me: are you dead Chomsky: East Timor, for one example of many

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I read the sentence "child care has become a market-based system captured, to an increasing degree, by private-equity firms, which now own eight of the 11 largest chains" and -- knowing how private equity firms operate -- the hair on the back of my neck stood up. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

American Women Are at a Breaking Pointwww.theatlantic.com In the U.S., government support for families seems transgressive. It shouldn’t be.

been thinking a lot lately about how this guy was so specifically and categorically on the wrong side of history

Controversial film opinion: that guy from The Graduate was right, it would be cool to work in plastics

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wapo: don’t answer your phone also wapo: we’ve spent millions of dollars on phone polls and that’s bad for biden

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

i feel like we could knock out about 90% of recycling confusion in one step by no longer putting the recycle sign on non-recyclable or barely recyclable materials. literally only 1s and 2s are recyclable, 3-7 aren't. stop putting recycling signs on 3-7s www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/c...

Recycling Is Broken. Should I Even Bother?www.nytimes.com Every little bit helps. But doing it wrong can actually make matters worse.

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This is very good and also a reminder of why Democrats are so bullish on Whitmer going forward - she's a female candidate who seems truly comfortable in her own skin, which is hard for all the many reasons that Traister has written about before nymag.com/intelligence...

Are Republican Women Okay?nymag.com The baffling, contradictory demands of being female in the party of Donald Trump.