ScholarlyCowboy

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Alex Press is easily one of the best labor writers in North America today and this is the most touching obit to Jane McAlevey I've read.

We’re in a Class War. Jane McAlevey Actually Acted Like It.jacobin.com No one believed in and embodied the labor movement’s transformative power more than organizer, strategist, and writer Jane McAlevey.

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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this absolutely blew my mind it's the coolest thing i've read in a minute www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidd...

Fascinating site they’re excavating in Egypt on the Red Sea.

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

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first print comic collection will be available at MGSCON and online sales in august!!! 🥳

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Well this is grim

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“So alpha males are good. Beta males are good too just in a different way. Some guys are omega males—also good. There are um, some other kinds of guy, like, uh, kappa males and lambda males and delta males I guess. They’re good, too,” my brother in Christ what you are trying to say is “dudes rock”

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the story of why "things made for the developing world" made by westerners rarely work out. like how a designer made a "play pump" that pump water with a merry-go-round, turned into child sweatshops, and adults "playing" youtu.be/CGRtyxEpoGg

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR

Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children”www.hollywoodreporter.com The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions

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But without those data centres how will I learn the wrong answers to my questions??

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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The entirety of the Americas was full of people before Europeans, whole and rich civilizations with cities and artwork and histories that settlers almost or in some cases completely succeeded in destroying. It’s too great a tragedy to put into words.

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-40,000+ killed -15,000+ children killed -20,000 children missing -70% of Gaza's buildings destroyed -60% of Gaza's farms destroyed -2,200,000 displaced

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America throwing Foucault’s boomerang: Haha fuck yeah!! Yes!! America when Foucault’s boomerang returns: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Excellent, and expected. The Mario Bros. games in particular are so painstakingly hand-crafted. You can’t get anywhere close to that with “AI” and its compulsory crowdsourcing

i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...

Nintendo won't use generative AI in its first-party gameswww.tweaktown.com Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has revealed that the company currently has no plans to use generative AI in its games due to IP rights concerns.

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I think it was Lenin who said, “there are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where holy shit what the fuck”

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Also, now that it's Disability Pride month I'd love to remind and/or inform people! marriage equality includes marriage equality for people with disabilities. The government can and will suddenly cut-off people's disability payments if they get married. 👍🎇🏳️‍🌈

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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“I will not use my office to the fullest extent allowable but my opponent will” is a really bad takeaway actually. Just pack the court man.

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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great

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Wow, you must have hit your head pretty hard. Donald Trump? Joe Biden? Stop talking nonsense. President Jeb is about to wrap up his second term by making World Turtle Day a paid holiday!

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This is good.

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If you murder a string of Supreme Court justices and then appeal your conviction back up to the Supreme Court, all the remaining judges must recuse themselves with conflicts of interest. You are automatically freed; the perfect crime. No law school is brave enough to admit this.

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an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.

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The Democratic Party won’t stand up and proactively protect people from fascism. Instead they’ll line up the constituencies they claim to represent and kick them into the flaming maw of Christian Nationalism one by one. And for good measure we’ll get blamed each time.

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Thanks for having our back, Joe!

This was not what Evan wanted to write. He wanted it to be a misunderstanding, a mistake, the fault of the New York Times, anything other than this. But, in the end, he concluded the Biden Administration has shifted policy and no longer supports access to a full range of care for trans youth.

Biden Admin Now Opposes Access to Surgery for Trans Youth — Assignedwww.assignedmedia.org The shift came after misleading coverage by the New York Times implied Biden's Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachel Levine, had pushed for more surgeries for trans youth.

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