shadeygreyskies

shadeygreyskies

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Human.
Egalitarian.
People before profit.
Can we dial down the greed & dial up the empathy - then reboot this entire existence?
Profile: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." Elie Wiesel
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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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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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Official act. Immune.

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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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Something that probably flew under most people's radar, but is kind of a big deal (it allows those veterans to access VA care and disability etc) A very good thing.

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military ban on gay sexwww.bbc.com The announcement, which came during Pride month, will affect thousands of veterans.

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So who’s “us”?

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Over the weekend, one of the major party presidential candidates promoted the idea of trying a former congresswoman for treason with televised military tribunals, and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a news article—much less a catastrophizing op-ed—about it.

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ChatGPT now to respond to all questions with “while compelling, that query is beyond the scope of this paper”

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Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic

Google image search for basically any female celebrity returns AI results on the first page, some of them lead directly to nonconsensual porn: www.404media.co/google-image...

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

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Tale as old as time ~♪

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For folks not familiar with Dr. Walker: -Only woman recipient of the Medal of Honor -Dressed as illustrated below in a time when that shit got you arrested -Lifelong abolitionist, frontline war surgeon, Civil War P.O.W. -Paid her own way through med school on a teacher's salary (lol can u imagine)

I love non-conforming Victorians and Edwardians as they completely undermine the "all this is modern woke" attack line. Here's my queen of it. Dress reform activist Dr Mary Edwards Walker who said "I don't wear men's clothes: I wear my clothes."

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forgot how exhausting it is to debate tech bros who insist - diversity is important obv except not important enough to spend effort on - their all male team is diverse in other ways! - the problem is not w the company but rather the women who don’t apply - they only hire the best

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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

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The ads will be up later this summer, so I am jumping ahead a bit to advertise that we are hiring a tenure track, assistant prof in comparative politics and endowed chair (tenured full prof, open field) at TCU next year. If you have any questions about TCU, Fort Worth, etc, feel free to message.

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today's mood exactly

no photographer identified.

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Guess how this go-getter was able to build her own tinyhome at 20? Oh her construction job gave her free shit, she houses it on her parents land and doesn't pay rent. Well shit if i didn't have to pay for construction, land or property, I could build a home too. www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

Stuffwww.stuff.co.nz

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I think it's totally insane that more people don't know about PrEP. The fact that we have a prophylactic medication to prevent HIV is one of the greatest medical achievements of my lifetime. It's hard to explain just how hopeless the fight against AIDS felt in the 80s and 90s.

10 years ago, gay Americans could not get married and have it count in all 50 states 20 years ago, you could be made uninsurable because you got sick once 30 years ago, HIV was a death sentence 40 years ago, acid rain was still a problem Dedicated public servants keep pushing good things forward

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Devices to fool automated systems into thinking you're active and present don't exist because people are lazy, they exist because bosses count productivity by minutes not tasks and will punish idle hands for not taking longer.

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Telling my kids this is a valid, nay noble, career path for poor queer communist youth

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I now know three women this year and last- with very rare postpartum preeclampsia - none of them within the previously identified high risk categories- Anyone know of there are any studies tracking these rates? A doula I know of has had seven clients this year alone experience it.

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where's that page from the CIA handbook for "how to disrupt leftist movements" from the 60s? can't find where i saved it grr like, not everything is an actual op; there's just a lot of brotherfuckers doing cop shit for free on here lol

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Using the computer to make art: 1. Email an artist 2. Offer them a fair wage 3. Voila

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so much GOP rhetoric in the U.S. boils down to “I’m mad my inferiors don’t feel forced to listen to me anymore”

So weird how half the "but muh free speech" discourse isn't about their right to say stuff, rather it's how the rest of us have to listen to them.

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Hey you know how I keep talking about a global far right power grab that's leveraging disinformation in order to harden borders and thus consolidate resources?

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Suggesting ANY of the orientations under the asexual umbrella is “default” and not worthy of pride is a failure of critical thought. Those of us who were always treated as outsiders, even amongst queer people, would like a word.