The other thing about the AI consciousness conversation is that the lion's share of the people arguing that it can be a thing either struggle to see, or are allied with people who struggle to see a large portion of living, breathing society as human.
So we dismiss it right there.
This is how it was— it's a return.
Despite all they sacrificed, Fannie Lou Hammer's Freedom Party, the first integrated Dem delegation, was denied seats at the DNC.
When they were offered two seats, which they refused on principle, the entire all white Mississippi delegation walked out anyway.
They’re still lying to us.
www.startribune.com/close-to-650...
"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."
How the hell did we get to betting on death and wars via Polymarket or Kalshi? @jasonkoebler.bsky.social breaks it all down, from Bitcoin to the AI gold rush.
Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHM...
“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
What if instead of the state giving $200M to this they give it to HCMC.
Government (our) money going to sport arenas makes me so angry.
Iranian missiles could be seen over the skies of the Gaza Strip on Feb. 28 & March 1. A majority of the missiles were intercepted by the U.S. and Israel. An Israeli military vessel could be seen on fire off the coast & interceptions and flares were seen over Ashkelon.
Studies have found that adopting permanent standard time could prevent up to 5,000 suicides annually by reducing seasonal depression"
Studies show early morning light is important for mental health
www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
Horrifying and also as predicted. This is genocidal shit. The only hospital in Tennessee that offered this kind of care. www.them.us/story/vander...
A doctor whose career ended after getting the virus says long Covid patients are being forgotten
6 years on there are "hundreds of thousands of people" in the UK with significant long Covid who could not work and were "not acknowledged," she says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’m sorry for your loss this is one of my biggest fears
we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later.
we will do nothing with this information as a society
Oh I've imagined it, no doubt about that. Every day now for ~6 years because our current response to the ongoing pandemic is grim
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has entered the chat
Let's also see if the U.S. population will be able to 'vote out' fascism. If this doesn't happen, should other countries assume that the entire country is therefore "pro-fascism?" And if this is the determination, why shouldn't they attempt regime change through bombing the heck out of the U.S.?
"It’s 2026, & culture has frozen into nostalgia—
...creators like Abby Mahler have spoken about the ways COVID has kept us stuck...refusing to grieve, or even acknowledge, the lost life, ability, time, opportunities, & freedoms we had before the ongoing pandemic made the world more hostile."
Why? I can’t presume someone else’s heart and mind, but I have two theories. One, this argument is coming from people who used to be cautious but aren’t anymore and feel guilty and defensive about it. So making the people who haven’t quit seem nuts and extreme quells that feeling.
One of the misinformation talking points from centrists on Covid is that Covid activists and anti-vaxxers are the same.
I want you to think of any other rights movement where the centrist position has been “ugh, these people on the far ends are both so noisy, they’re the same.”
Is it all of them?
Pausing the project demonstrates respect for community input by ensuring their vision can actually be implemented, not compromised away in federal negotiations.
Ask MnDOT to pause the project now 👇
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2026/02/12/p...
Minnesota seclusion rooms are under scrutiny after new photos reveal concrete isolation spaces still used in schools.
Keep reading: buff.ly/xn82k2r
#SeclusionRooms #MinnesotaSchools #DisabilityRights #EducationEquity #StudentSafety
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
For example, here's an overview just on some cardiac impacts from COVID:
www.cardiosmart.org/topics/coron...
COVID is airborne. Yes, vax as often as you can (due to waning) to reduce (NOT eliminate) risk of impacts. Don't inhale it to avoid infection - ventilation, filtration (inc HEPAs & masks!)
I understand that vax 'n' relax is an attractive narrative, but it is false if you actually want to prevent damage from multiple COVID infections in your (now shortened) lifetime.
Until it vanishes, this is a good resource (also, see Google Scholar): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
Im a historian of vaccination with a MS in public health
this is most certainly not "explicitly anti-vaxx" and its actually insulting to people still worried about long COVID to frame them as equivalent to the real anti-vaccination people in power/charge now.
Criticise her message without this.
With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
So OpenAI's big, world- changing AI gadget is...a speaker. With a camera. That you talk to.
Really breaking new ground there Sam.
Unfortunately no one else has thrown their hat in the ring. DFL is notorious for beating progressives into submission
She hasn't. Nobody actually wants this. It's the DFL machine.
she has done nothing, only her campaign flacks would even dare to say otherwise.
