bsmall2May 29
> ... if you use AI tools for writing, the cognitive load of being creative – a large part of which is to have a “writing voice”, which you have had to hone for years before even having one – will be shifted to your AI tool. Your brain will stop being creative, because it doesn’t have to.
> And it’s worse than that: your readers are now very much attuned to AI, and will spot AI-inspired writing immediately. And the cognitive offload there, is to just ignore what it has to say.
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bsmall2Jun 25, 2025

> The situation in the USA is not favorable to this Iberian route to fascism as the US has a history a non-political military under civilian control. US troops used so far by Trump are not happy about being used as political play things. Nonetheless, you can see Trump trying to lay the groundwork for a move to fascism from the state itself, thru firing of bureaucrats and military officers who might get in his way, and replacing them with sycophants.
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Their key mistake in this article is in supposing that violent control of the streets by fascist paramilitaries is an essential feature of European fascism. Altho this was a feature of German and...

bsmall2Jun 14, 2025
> It is unfathomable, outrageous, and disgusting that ICE would target these locations and the people who were attempting to follow the law and work through a process that is expensive and time consuming to remain in the U.S. legally and to become citizens. The situation in Los Angeles was engineered specifically to target people at a particularly vulnerable location. It did not have to happen and should not have happened. "
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> ... Trump’s deportation push is wildly unpopular. Seeing the National Guard beating and tear-gassing people in order to kidnap the workers and families who are the foundation of our cities will likely drive more people, not fewer, to revolt..
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To Kick ICE Out Requires Action, To Keep Them Out Requires Organization

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bs2Dec 27, 2024

> Transgender workers tend to have much lower income than the general population and are twice as likely to be living in poverty.
> Transgender rights are therefore a working-class issue and “the fight for trans equality must be recognized as class struggle.”

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