Elizabeth Mitchell 🌈🦄♋️😮‍💨🌊

Damn.

When American workers have to dip into their 401(k)s just to cover emergencies, that’s a ringing alarm bell about the state of our economy. Americans simply can’t afford Donald Trump’s harmful policies.

"To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.”

I really need someone to do a deep dive into parents/caregivers having to leave the work force to take care of family members with disabilities…the short term and long term impacts and what it all looks like at a macro level.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Which means in California it would be like $8.25

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

This entire piece is magic from tip to tail and I wish we had something similar for DC.

Homeward Bound A curious thing happened earlier this week: the City of Alexandria testified against pro-housing legislation in Richmond. The bills in question (HB 816 and SB 454, the latter of which is no longer adv...

Good morning, Alexandria! It's finally Friday and we have underpants gnomes, slutty Ben Franklin, poop-splosions, and one very unnecessary ballad in today's issue of ALXtra with @oconnell.bsky.social

The politicians schools invited to suites in 2025 We thought you should know these names.

In this week's FOIAball, we've got all the members of Congress who watched games from university presidents' luxury boxes.

At a time when they are openly debating the sports' future, we thought it was only right to name names.

www.foiaball.com/p/congress-c...

Trump lost jobs to distract us from the higher prices

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month and unemployment edges up to 4.4% with labor market under pressure.

Really love having to navigate unending phone trees while trying to get imaging results for cancer screening...especially when none of the options are what you need.
Sibley Hospital I'm looking at you.

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

Moore, Peña-Melnyk make rare committee appearances to testify for 'dynamic pricing' bills - Maryland Matters Legislative leaders and the governor don't think retailers should be able to charge different prices for the same product based on a customer's personal data -- but if they do, the customer should at ...

Legislative leaders and the governor don't think retailers should be able to charge different prices for the same product based on a customer's personal data -- but if they do, the customer should at least be warned about it.
marylandmatters.org/2026/03/03/m...

an example: it's probably possible right now/soon, to create an AI tool that searches the web for people whose online presence betrays feelings of loneliness/latent mental health issues, finds them, then creates multiple virtual friends or even entire communities, & pushes them to violence

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt appears to have just lied when she claimed that Spain was cooperating with the U.S. Military after Trump’s threats.

Spanish Foreign Minister Albares just now:

“Spanish Government's Position on the War in the Middle East and the use of our bases has not changed”.

Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)

Good morning! Yes, this is he

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Campbell’s Soups: The Facts About Our Chicken - The Campbell's Company We’re proud of the food we make and the high-quality ingredients we use. Campbell’s soups are made with real chicken. Period.  Key insights:  Sourcing high quality chicken  The chicken meat used in Ca...

Better be careful, if that white man finds the wrong podcast they're gonna be hastily adding some explainer sections to the website like the soup people had to do...
www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/new...

you know who does promote from within?

COSTCO

It’s very hard to pick a single passage to give you a sense of just how fucked up this is.

Screenshot of an Indeed job listing for a part-time Personal Effects Specialist at Dover Air Force Base

Same Indeed ad, job description "Joint Technology Solution, Inc. (JTS), a veteran owned government contracting company, is currently hiring staff to process Personal Effects at Dover Air Force Base. We are currently seeking PART-TIME ON CALL Personal Effects Specialists to support, receive, safeguard, inventory, store, process, and make final disposition of personal effects of military and civilian casualties from overseas. Tasks Include: Perform all tasks related to the receipt, safeguarding, inventory, storage, process, and shipping of personal effects · Clean and launder personal items as appropriate and in preparation for shipping · Provide digital photography for documentation of personal effects · Receive and ship personal effects to the family members/next-of-kin of all military service members and others who are killed or severely injured worldwide

Friend just sent me an Indeed jobs posting for part-time Personal Effects Specialists to recover military dead at Dover AFB

I think the Trump admin is lying (shocker, I know) about the number of troops Iran has killed in this hyper-illegal war

www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5...

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

This Tech Company Turned Into a Resistance Icon Overnight. The Reality Is Much Darker. The A.I. firm behind Claude is far from an ethical company.

“…those who’ve chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider their choice of mascot…”

you know I want more for the young men of America then on-line gambling addiction and Ponzi schemes, I believe in a party that'll help them go to college, get degree or certification, help buying their first home and health care coverage, not just idk unlimited on-line betting on when wars start?