going to try coining a new term

there's a genre of LLM usage side-effect where someone will start being ever so slightly more impatient, less curious, less able to think critically (by which I mean examine problems from multiple perspectives, use empathy, use doubt as an interrogative tool), more reliant upon LLMs for basic tasks. it's subtle but I think it's pretty clear in a lot of cases. but calling this "AI psychosis" is hyperbolic and probably pretty inaccurate.

may I propose: "vibesick"

If politicians gave a shit about children, the schools would feature:

- HVAC systems that cleaned viruses out of the air
- at least two child psychologists on staff
- age-appropriate lessons to help children identify abuse
- funding for well-paid staff in numbers sufficient for a buddy system to reduce the chances of abuse
- arts education and after-school clubs to provide third spaces for kids
- massive, safe playgrounds
- protected biking and walking infrastructure from the school to residential neighborhoods

Instead we get “parents’ rights”, funding cuts, book bans, and car-centric infrastructure that kills pedestrians and bikers.

If social media is bad for kids, THEY NEED ALTERNATIVES.

Good. Good!

The former CEO of Twitter/X TERRIFIED at a marginal tax increase on wealthy people.

SCREAM: https://boat.horse/clock/index.html

Obviously this clock can only be improved by the addition of a language setting. And maybe timezones.

The top 100 oil and gas companies are making more than 30 MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR in unearned “war profits” from the war on Iran.

No one should be allowed to cash in on war like this.

https://notinourname.org.uk/petition/not-in-our-name-women-in-support-of-the-trans-community/

It's the one-year anniversary of the anti-trans supreme court ruling today. If you're a cisgender woman, please read this open letter and sign. They have 200 sigs to go to get to their goal of 100,000 on the anniversary.

If you can't sign, like me, please share if you can 💜

#trans #petition

"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!"

~ Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
#quote #USPol

This is what we mean when we say crime is a social construct

One undocumented immigrant killed Laken Riley & MAGAS (& some Dems) passed Laken Riley Act denying due process to all immigrants while demonizing them

The US & Israel killed 168 Iranian school girls in a coordinated war crime and both have moved on as if nothing happened

A brown person killing a white woman is a national outrage but two nuclear powered militaries led by white men killing 168 brown girls is a non story😐

'What do you mean, empty?' Cartoon published in Belgian newspaper De Morgen this week: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/

#resources #nature #environment #NoPlanetB