cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
This is insane.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
They did not send their best or brightest to the focus group. Nor to Pixar’s C-suite.
This is the energy of a teenage gamer boy in his oversized gamer chair backlit by colored LED lights
Super sweaty
It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.
why can’t presidents just 1v1? why do the rest of us innocent people have to get involved like????
So news comes out that the DoJ tried to hide 60 pages of the Epstein files which detail Trump’s assault on a 13yo girl. To distract from that, he bombed a girl’s school and murdered 90+ school girls.
All I know is that this GOP-driven clown car full of shit, that’s been driving us off the cliff for more than a year, needs to stop.
Regular Americans are holding the horror of understanding our whole system is beyond out of control while the gop & their ilk have erased our bandwidth for anything beyond bare min survival.
I don’t have answers beyond a primal scream into the void.
And now they start a gd war that began with murdering a school full of children in the name “American prosperity.”
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
They’re telling us to eat liver (literally), killing people in the streets for dissent (literally), torturing and murdering Americans & people who immigrated here (literally), and telling us we are the problem…
Because they really are taxing ‘the people’ out of our minds. We’re financially f’d, our health system is f’d, our education system is f’d: people can’t afford meds, groceries, tuition, life…
I assume more mass protests but hot damn I wish there was any confidence whatsoever someone with actual proximity to power was working bts to stop this.
Spotted in Nashville, today…
I'm trying to avoid commenting on the news for my own mental health but I still feel the need to comment on that "a state just legally codified the literal dehumanization of an entire class of people" feels like it should be blasting the headlines, and yet... nothing
"transgenderism" is not a thing. We are not an ideology. Gender dysphoria is not a mental illness- those claiming otherwise have no understanding of it and should not be allowed to speak on the matter.
But here we are. Because bigoted Americans so hated those who are simply different than them
The Sierra Nevadas of California. Pushing past a smooth grooved tree trunk in the foreground, a bright blue lane gives rise to trees and ultimately snow capped mountains. This is 10k feet.
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat. - Cicely Tyson
Pic of the day
#photography
What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN?
*Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election
*Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models
What else?
In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
Wrote this in July and for whatever reason people rediscovered it and are sharing it.
Yup. I stand by it.
Lolz
This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.
Monckton, Rosa: Former CEO of Tiffany
& Co. in the U.K. Name found in Epstein's black
book. Epstein's "close friend since the early 1980s," according to the 2003 profile of Epstein written by Vicky
Ward in Vanity Fair
#EPSTEINCASE
So he’s punishing *US* because he got dissed by the constitution. My dude is as fragile as a tissue paper butterfly who somehow was given nuke codes.
Anyone else wonder what happened to Michael Cohen? He was all over the news before the Epstein stuff hit. Surely, as his former fixer, he knows things.
It is very troubling that the insane elderly person babbling on my TV right now is in charge of this country.
