This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
This is why billionaire funded tech companies and media empires promote non stop fear mongering about immigrants taking jobs and housing and trans people destroying society. So no one goes after the people actually doing it
Excuse me?
£9.95 a week, that’s how much people in hotels are paid in lieu of working rights. Pathetic posturing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
maybe it was bad to allow the claremont institute to train sheriffs who will now receive bounties from the government for snatching people off the street.
The wonderful people of D.C. deserve so much better than this.
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"Rapist felon forces university to shutter women's center."
One thing that's really reassuring about SCOTUS is how their actual, real, serious, genuine position on ethics is "we are not bound by any mortal law nor any code or creed, this is our world, you merely live in it."
Additionally, I must note that, to my knowledge, the police aren’t being ordered to do this by anyone with the authority to do so. They are deciding of their own volition that part of their job as police is to sweep up anyone who says something they can interpret as a “threat” to Trump.
I think the disconnect between the far left and centrists right now is that the far right's least popular dreams swiftly became the dominant political reality so "you're outside the mainstream and no one agrees with you" isn't the deterrent it might have been.
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
“[M]any of the people now calling for viewpoint diversity are actually just pushing a conservative political agenda.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
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FEMA is giving $110 million to faith-based organizations and schools for safety upgrades. Public schools get thoughts and prayers.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
Rich White Men Only Need Apply. Well, at least they are finally being honest with us. They like the racist patriarchy just fine, but with a few nods to social goods and less institution destruction.
My latest: “Emergency-Gate: Focusing on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
what the fuck do they mean "there's never going to be a COVID reckoning"? Everyone in power has spent years sobbing and apologizing for saving lives and swearing they'll never do it again. We have an anti vaxxer as the secretary of HHS. The reckoning happened and these people won.
When nation-states stop publishing statistical tables.
WOW! Prof. W. Schabas, a leading authority on genocide whose family survived the Holocaust, believes the case against Israel is “arguably the strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" and that the US & Germany risk legal liability. www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
I think he’s right.
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Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Yesterday on WGN they were discussing data centers being built around the Great Lakes. We are building AI centers that will harm the natural world to build the virtual one. ⏰‼️🚨
“The people in this book are brave,” said Toad. “They fight dragons and giants, and they are never afraid.” “I wonder if we are brave,” said Frog.
This whining is similar to students who assert they spent hours on a paper & should be graded on effort & time spent rather than missing the mark completely.
another aggrieved screed by a Dem, highlighting the business-as-usual, status quo Dem actions -- as if these were normal times & these pathetically quietist-to-the-point-of-complicity acts were EVER adequate to the 40-year juggernaut of far right extremists - who followed a 40-year PUBLIC plan.
This thread is a Blue Maga circle jerk. no analysis, no vision, no strategy, just more blame the left from those who ushered in fascism through status quo conservatism & studied ineptitude.
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Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Oligarchs prefer their presidents to be occasionally ambulatory & preponderantly mentally incompetent.
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
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HISTORY IS BEING MADE TODAY Today, the largest civilian flotilla ever assembled has set sail from Spain, carrying hope and humanitarian aid to Gaza. People from 44 nations, united on dozens of boats, are defying the blockade with solidarity and courage. (From #GlobalSumudFlotilla on IG & Twitter)
Orrrr we could all forget about him if he still needs to learn human dignity at 57 years of age and focus on candidates that support basic human rights out of the gate. Newsom is a dirtbag, so we should throw him the same landfill he gleefully and callously threw homeless peoples' property.
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These brief intellectual & imaginative talks re-orient my present thinking, establish a constellation of future possibilities & ground my daily thought & action in ways that other public intellectuals' work cannot approach bc of Lee's spiritual-intellectual-psychoanalytic combinatory method.
This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs
Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission
Between Election and Inauguration, all we heard, literally, was pleas for money. One email from "Kamala Harris" entitled "You deserve an explanation" explained nothing, didn't try, except to excuse asking for money. Clickbait. Literally. Full text in alt text of first image
The conditions necessary to create a NASA, no longer exist. The US spent the last *half century* deliberately destroying every single thing you need to build a NASA
Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates. Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire. You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.
The things you'd need to do to actually rebuild NASA look more like Nuremberg trials and universal basic income and merciless destruction of billionaires, not compromise with the guys who keep setting fire to everything.
This is my latest in @truthout.org on the groups committed to saving salmon from extinction in the Pacific Northwest, even as the Trump administration undermines efforts.
Paying money to pay more money feels like the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of in my life lol
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Sooknanan: Every one of these 10 children who are named plaintiffs speak about being afraid of going back to Guatemala. She reads a series of quotes in which the children express being afraid of return because they experienced neglect or abuse from one or both of their parents.
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
This whole scenario feels like it's straight outta the government's Alien Enemies Act/J.G.G. playbook. In J.G.G., Boasberg entered TRO barring removal of named plaintiffs and set weekend emergency hearing on certification of class. But DHS started removing people just before/during hearing...
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
Zack Synder using it in army of the dead threw me off so hard, I was like “does this motherfucker think the song is literally about zombies??? HAS HE LISTENED TO THE LYRICS AT ALL???”
It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
Can't afford to care for your kids; can't afford to care for your parents; can't afford to care for yourself—America makes it hard to care for each other, yet we have unlimited opportunity to be selfish or cruel. Demand a system with less friction and bullshit—it's "unrealistic" or "impractical."
I know the term is overused, but it really does feel like gaslighting. We have courts and politicians of all stripes acting like trans people are some new thing that challenges the very foundations of our legal system. Like we have to invent a bunch of new ways of doing things with no warning.
Listening to the hourly news report in Ireland is so different from Melbourne. Literally just the naming of who is doing the murdering in Gaza: Israel. Israel. Israel. The news in Australia always obscured agency or implicitly blamed Palestinians.
whether deliberate or unintentional, the people who want you to treat AI systems as human-like fully autonomous "agents" are simply laundering responsibility and accountability away from those who choose to monetize these systems onto the artifacts that can’t know responsibility or accountability
In Los Angeles, this should be done everywhere. The pics of Americans snatched by ICE Gestapo is being projected on the side of a detention center in Los Angeles. #iceout #losangeles #california
So, to be clear The people who grow the food are underpaid or UNPAID The people who transport the food are underpaid The people who display and ring up the food are underpaid EVERYONE is paying more for food Nothing will ever be enough for the line go up forever cancerous billionaire class
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Labor Day reminder: Trump thinks workers have too much time off.
What does it say about the state of the Democratic Party and their willingness or ability to resist permanent dictatorship that everyone on here had their first glimmer of hope in a year and it came not from the elected representatives whose salaries they pay but from possible divine intervention.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
future historians are going to have a tough job combing through the Posting Archives to figure out the politics of our era
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NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate. www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
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colleagues in an email Friday that he was submitting what he called an “involuntary resignation.” He explained that ever since his whistleblower complaint became public, the agency’s actions against him amounted to retaliation that ultimately drove him out of his position.
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This is not 2015 anymore and we don't need a guy who can out-snarl 2015 Trump nor do we need a white guy who went to Obama voice camp
Chicago peeps
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
Audio-mixing friends in DC! Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is hiring an audio engineer, applications due Sept 16
This was only just reported by AP with the headline “Israeli airstrike kills Houthi prime minister in Yemen, rebels say”
Palantir just took over the CDC. The head of the UK branch of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of renowned British fascist Oswald Mosley. Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions; the NHS, Ministry of Defence, the police force, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC.
Here's something I think a lot of folks don't yet understand, but 16 states' worth of CVSes refusing to give out Covid shots *is* actually preventing people from accessing them. They are the biggest pharmacy chain in the country and they own Aetna insurance, often forcing those clients to use CVS.
Just noticed this on the checkout notification I get from the Chicago Public Library. I think it’s new and I love it!
This is the first time the U.S. — or any other U.N. member — has refused to participate.
US Trump regime is unofficially conducting clandestine influence operations across multiple allied countries including in the EU in particular the UK & France, however, Canada and Mexico face the highest threat level right now. The Trump regime ops are seemingly running in parallel with Russian ops.
This is a big one.
Saw this circulating and wanted to thank @mattkennard.bsky.social for the accuracy of the reply.
Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.
This is a masterclass in bad faith. The UCP forecasted a $5B deficit to justify cuts. Then, they magically found an $8B surplus. Now, on the day of teacher negotiations, they're back to a $6.5B "deficit." Their numbers are a political tool, not a fiscal plan.
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I suspect he used the word, "elected," because it has religious connotations.
The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
"yes, hello. I am a small business owner and I think trans people should be executed" "yes sir. we'll get on that right away" and then they do. and you get to watch it on the news
claims that trans ppl are especially susceptible to Nazi propaganda & that we're prone to becoming mass shooters are making same mistake. there is zero evidence for either. but when "rare" ppl engage in "rare" behaviors, we incorrectly presume there must be a connection bsky.app/profile/juli...