How does one dig into stats that do not exist? Tho’ there may be someone doing this work, it’s not being publicized for reasons good or ill. I would appreciate the acknowledgment of that likelihood/possibility, for sure.
Anti-capitalist; pro-Houyhnhnm. Career HS humanities teacher; servant to other people's horses. Yes, that is hay in my hair. Love my n95 & libraries. Flogging AI, crypto? Expect a 🚫. #deleteZuck #boycottbillionaires
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How does one dig into stats that do not exist? Tho’ there may be someone doing this work, it’s not being publicized for reasons good or ill. I would appreciate the acknowledgment of that likelihood/possibility, for sure.
We have policies/laws/regulations to ensure that our food and water are clean and safe. Why not for air, too? Typical amounts taken in per day: food = 4 lb water = 3 lb air = 30 lb
Three, please.
Jarring to see MTG in this group, tho’.
It’s amazing to me that people have forgotten that rabies is 100 percent fatal if untreated. And even the very good treatment works best if only you can get to a hospital within 24 hours of exposure. Once you show symptoms, it’s usually over.
Did you know they define AGI as "AI system that can generate up to $100 billion in profit?"
Cannot both things be true? Overt COVID deaths, i.e. occurring in the hospitalized still get measured. Yes. How often are cardiovascular deaths, especially strokes & MIs investigated for repeated infection? We know COVID affects CV morbidity. Few people test anymore w/ so-called mild cases.
Only if you go to the hospital. Here in the US, that gets trickier every day.
Wait, please. Because I suspect that few/no one studies or considers the repeated COVID infection of every person who dies of cardiovascular disease in the US today, I’m a soft anti-vaxxer? The vax 100% saved/s lives. *And* repeated infection has too likely consequences that I’d prefer to avoid.
Third generation public school teacher says, yes.
Especially since the 1990s were not exactly riven with wealth/asset equity, at least not on the ground. Also, I suspect those lines separate farther with more spikes post 2020.
They know Patriarchy is under pressure, yet still entrenched. Hierarchy and dominion are the only lens they have, and they cannot imagine any number of the rulers choosing to belong to the lower orders.
Yeah, sure Elmo. The US celebrates women and trans women all day every day. Every teen wishes to be one. What an idiot mitten. And yes, many USAmericans mistake wealth for intelligence. This confusion is a national trait. It’s both wrongheaded and thick on the ground.
the thing with elon musk is he is fucking dumb
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My friends are saying that the President looks sickly he seems aged and exhausted he doesn’t look so good, and that may be and that may well be, but I worry, my friends, that many of us look sickly we seem aged and exhausted yes, I worry, that we don’t look so good either.
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I can't read the piece because David Brooks finally pushed me over the NYT cliff after three decades. Apparently, Bobby Jr. replaced DK with a daughter-in-law after some kerfuffle. I'll suggest that Kucinich's draft position remains decent, despite his lame attempt at star-fucking.
Fuck. No. Okay. That would make me Queen Wrong of the land of the wrong people.
Unironically the content you should be showing kids if you’re being told to bring AI into schools
Harlan County, USA, 1976 documentary. #LaborDay2025 #BlackLung #UnionStrong youtube.com/clip/UgkxjSC...
This is a thing of beauty. Thank you a million.
maybe this? openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
Kind of love @anthonymoser.com's I Am An AI Hater... anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
More of this, please.
Externalising cost and risk and responsibility like this is such *chef’s kiss* end-stage capitalism.
#Manufacturing purchasing managers are severely depressed: ❗️"Tariffs wreak havoc" ❗️"Too much uncertainty" ❗️"Unstable" policy ❗️"Worse than Great Recession" ❗️"Layoffs" 15% ❗️"It's survival" ❗️"Made in USA more difficult due to #tariffs"
Evergreen, yo
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Sickening. Schools’ overall function, families’ information, children’s understanding and teachers’ time are still the least important elements of those flogging cyber-hard-sell products. This has been going on since 2003 in some schools. School boards often have no idea what they’re approving.
100% this. Every time someone says 'AI is here to stay," we need to ask why. Why? This is not some all-powerful deity we are unable to resist. It's a damned technology product that doesn't work well, and we can choose to refuse to use it.
This resignation is an abrogation of their responsibilities as educators.
As i said to a bunch of colleagues last week after our district's "AI" roll out, time to practice the politics of refusal. Nah. Nope. No. No. No.
Bloomberg has published one of the most righteous economists for years. You’ll probably like @kedseconomist.com too.
there’s gotta be a MAGA lurker on here who wants to leak me something
While I have no idea whether I’m a simpleton sap, a groovy empath or something in between, this killed me a little. In any case, I want access to Rumpole of the Bailey in perpetuity, come what may.
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
At best they want public schools to be a daycare so parents are able to go toil at the workplace, but not a place where children might get big ideas about civics or basic science. But also, fuck those kids. Send them to the mines? I don't care, that's your problem. Get to work.
Mostly the revisionists want us to forget how well giving people money, tax credits, child care, and health care worked for many families.
🧊😲✈️ EMIRATES AF 🪖🇦🇪⁉️ 👉 Spotted landing at the ICE hub in Alexandria LA: this UAE Air Force Airbus 332 (tail: 1302) apparently visits this non-military airfield every few weeks. Why does UAE come to *this* place, though? 👀
So, signs point to LLM generated, yes?
…success of the economic & social policies, like free child care and financial support for families. Meantime, we’ve missed a million opportunities to make schools less prone to spread disease. #MaskUp
The high school where I taught for nearly half my career had Everyone Stay Home Days™️ in the 1990s & early 2000s during big influenza outbreaks. Our school nurse was wicked smart & she called them. Today, school nurses are thin on the ground. The outrage is manufactured to make us forget the…1/2
An attempt to make their Dear Leader not stand out, or as a sign of obeisance. 🤷🏻♀️ Nothing makes any of this normal. I feel like I’m in a short story about the Soviet Union.
Not so far in this thread anyway.
Dumb question: how do we know one way or the other? The Mirror World™️ makes me queasy lately.
Have hated creator uniformly for decades. I’m so old I’m not a huge fan of the widespread use of “artist” to describe people who write/perform music. #getoffmylawn
Except for nearly two centuries of state-approved slavery and/or apartheid (Jim Crow) with zero accountability or anything resembling Truth & Reconciliation™️. Germany rewrote their Constitution making human rights front & center. The US’s mostly outlines how to elect/protect rich white dudes.
That 99 percent of US k-12 teachers have either been give no LLM guidance or have been targeted & marketed to use this crap makes me 😡. 23 years of unregulated use of the web in schools continues to have downsides, hence recent phone bans. Slop is way, way worse for both children and teachers.
Up until today Mamdani has seemed pretty interesting. Suddenly, I love him. #IHateBillMaher
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Just a reminder that former Rochester police officer Shawn Jordan, convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl, was only sentenced to 10 weekends in jail He is free today Over 40% of law enforcement officers are domestic abusers This is how patriarchy serves men
True. Yes. Absolutely. This is my lane, though.
The Russians gave us Turgenev, Pushkin, Chekov, Gogol, and the vast majority were terrorized by their own oligarchy. Putin's Russia, what with the defenestrations and poisonings, seems more like the KGB's Soviet scene, to me.
Damn, I simply expect Ensign to call class members humans, as you did, using "who," instead of his implication that they are no more than a whole lot of objects, i.e. "that[s]." He should have learned this in freaking ninth grade English. 😡
Yet another bid for himpathy.
A federal judge in D.C. now says DOJ has missed its deadline -- by an hour-and-a-half -- for confirming that it has removed unaccompanied children it planned to deport from the aircraft that were to carry them to Guatemala. The judge also ordered DOJ to explain why it missed the deadline.
Shit. Paging jet watchers. Are they still even on the ground?
These are the same comms people, presumably, who sent him to a landscaping business for no good reason, right? Also, intimate partner violence generally maintains pretty good wraps around identification. Of course, this usually works in the perpetrator's favor.
Unless the cops released her abuser, as they do, and he jumped in his truck and chased Giuliani down, running him off the road. Even if this is not Rudy's story, I wish this exact situation were less common.
Once again I ask, what’s it going to take?
The adrenalin rush I felt all the way down her in Cville was -- heartstopping. Following @annabower.bsky.social is better than any thrill ride you'll ever take IRL
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
Bot-generated questions for teachers who will use bots for curriculum development. Great. #teachersky #edusky #FuckAI
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Another method from my mother is so ingrained that for years I thought putting a folded dish towel under the hot packed jars had something to do with the seal’s success. IOW, no towel = less likely to get a vacuum seal and *pop*.
⬆️⬆️⬆️ This, right here is simply unnecessary. Not snarky, not a hot take. Pro-tip: please use your short time on Earth to aim questions at those who have done the thing you accuse them of. The use of “you” implies that anyone here has ever voted for Collins, a statistical improbability. /rant
Listening to the 2018 Scene on Radio pod series “Men.” While their reporting & analysis of the unique US version of patriarchy & racism, i.e. we never ended the Civil War, anti-feminism, homophobia, etc., is spot on, it seems almost quaint seven years later. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Susan Collins voted for the VA Administrator. #mepolitics
You repeat the error two thirds of the way down. 😕
Dear @newrepublic.com You have a bad typo in the second paragraph. The town is Searsport, not “Seaport,” though it is a seaport. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😊
If #MeMedia had any balls they would ask Susan Collins about this
Lol.
A few questions: Do you vote in Maine? What is your experience with aquaculture? Who called him a populist? You?
Party! Your own tomatoes make winter way better.
Re-upping this excellent profile of a man who is unaffiliated with Mothership's grift (unlike his Dem competition) who appears to have Susan Collins' number. 🤞🍀🤞🍀🌲 newrepublic.com/article/1996...
If Meta's glasses used AI to blur images of every human form until that human gives them a "I consent to being filmed" signal, I guarantee sales would plummet. They're perv glasses, made by pervs, for pervs.
we don't need to investigate Trump on his loan forms, he already was convicted for lying about what he put down.
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
As I’m sure you know one is volume & the other is mass so some might quibble. I think there’s an imperial/US pound caveat, too. For kitchen-related purposes, esp canning & old recipes, it’s a useful rule. She was mnemonic and aphorism machine.
You’ll know when you get them wrangled into jars. As my mother used to say: A pint’s a pound the world around.
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
That sounds super fun. How many jars do you have? Quarts? Marinara, too, or straight canning? I used to end up with too many juicy heirlooms, so by the time I skinned them and squeezed the seeds out, I canned about 60-75 percent of the original weight. Guessing all Romas shake out better?
Also, #FuckthePatriarchy
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...and somehow I'm a snowflake. NG volunteers are tougher than your average bear. Every National Guard member I know is cringing right now. The last thing they need is Bondi shielding them from USAmericans.
I ♥️ Reuters.
Anyone need a haunted (free) microwave? 🤪 😬 #haunted
Tomayto; tomahto.
Early-ish. It started with rampant COVID19 disinfo. Talked with a wealthy, ostensibly smart woman today who uses ivermectin as a prophylactic.
“RFK Jr. was never qualified to be secretary of HHS, and he never should have been allowed to set foot in the building. The longer we wait, the more lives we risk” - Rep Rosa DeLauro ctmirror.org/2025/08/28/r...
Exactly. She's the David Brooks of Bill Mahers. TBF, she's smarter than both of them put together. Her rant about the memory holing of the US's wildly successful economic policies at the beginning of the pandemic that we can never, ever have because of the Broligarchy is terrific.
...and people actually go to the hospital when seriously ill as opposed to staying home to save money and dying.
Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. "But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C
