Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
If UBI was a coup for billionaires and corporations, we'd have gotten it decades ago. They don't want us to have the power UBI provides. They want us to have no choice but to work for them, for as little as they can legally get away with.
UBI = POWER TO THE PEOPLE
widerquist.com/basic-income...
Another update: She has updated her goal to $2400 (up from $1800) due to additional bills, if anyone can spare. But the $1800 donated thus far will go a huge way towards solving the immediate problem! Many thanks to everyone who has donated.
I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?
There’s a genuine gaslighting element to forcing faculty to debate whether to teach with AI. If someone broke into my house & stole from me, my employer wouldn’t ask me to work with them. But that’s what AI did. So, no.
“But what about the need to teach students to be literate in AI?” In 33 yrs of journalism & 15 of teaching, I’ve learned that there are any number of lawyers, doctors, politicians, generals, & CEOs—& yes “elite” students—who are only semiliterate in their native tongue. Let’s worry about that.
America is praying for Austin.
But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem we're not willing to solve ourselves.
God moves and works through us. God has no other hands but our hands.
We must act.
After a few years of "code rest", I updated my #dotnet Utilities #NuGet package. I split off two packages, one for mail utils, and one for Google Maps, as I don't think these features are needed by most users. And I removed deprecated encryption stuff. #FOSS www.nuget.org/packages/Dev...
They also tased and tackled him for no reason. He said "Sorry" and couldn't speak English. He was holding 2 shower curtain rods as walking sticks.
He spent 15 months in jail only to be released to die alone in the cold.
You should be livid after reading this.
They killed him bc they could.
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
I am thinking tonight of the trans people in Kansas who will wake up tomorrow morning with no valid ID. I am thinking of the thousands and thousands of trans people fleeing their homes in red states. I am thinking about how the government is making trans people refugees in their own country.
It’s time to make Citizens United history. Montana — and now California — can lead the way. Here's how.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens
JD Vance: "Our social safety net will disappear unless we take fraud more seriously. So what I'm most worried about is that unless we preserve these programs for the next generation, they will disappear."
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
Hi friends. I'm more active on Mastodon these days. I can be found here: hachyderm.io/@devlord
UPDATE: My #trans friend who was fired under circumstances that look suspiciously like transphobia has her fundraiser STALLED around $100 (currently $120). She is at risk of homelessness. If you can donate, please do! If not, please reskeet.
gogetfunding.com/urgent-need-...
bsky.app/profile/moxi...
"Data show over and over again that when one provides people with basic income or guaranteed income, they spend it on food, rent, child care, medical bills and car payments… Participants shared that this was breathing space — immediately, so much less stress.”
FFS, can we please just start UBI now?
Al Green, American hero
What is math
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:
Because it doesn't actually matter? Because that's how I screencapped it? Because the point is that he probably shouldn't be boosting Hanania? Idk, man, I've thrown up several times today and have been in bed.
This is horrible.
ah, can't believe the governor who likes caste discrimination also likes amplifying the white supremacist
@summerlee.bsky.social at @meidastouch.com x @moveon.org People's State of the Union:
Earlier today I announced I'll be introducing articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi
This was so good. #PeoplesSOTU
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Academy Award nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab is now streaming.
A powerful and deeply moving film that brings truth, memory, and humanity to the forefront, honoring a story that cannot and should not be forgotten.
Available to watch now on: Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home.
Today (21 February) marks the birthday of Elliot Page. Known for acclaimed roles in films such as Juno and Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, Page has also become one of the most prominent transgender figures in Hollywood.
