Mami is sitting where she can see me, but thanks to the angle, she is invisible behind a pillar. (I know because her shadow is right there for anyone with eyes)
Jack's Countless Lack of Cool
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Getting very tired of the same damp thing
not ch1cMy parents just sent me an article about a craftsperson in my very small town and asked if I knew them. There is no such person. The entire thing, cartoonish images and blathering text, was AI generated. And clicking through on the convenient buy-now link I discover this machine-crafted person exists in a whole universe of imaginary friends hawking shitty tchotchkes. Grateful they were being scammed for tote bags and bee houses and not their life savings. How will we protect the elders?!?
⁂ L. RhodesThe principle of "free speech" was articulated in part as a remedy to the authoritarian concentration of power that an uninformed public made possible. Now "free speech absolutism" is being deployed as justification for tools and systems that concentrate money and political power in authoritarian hands by rendering the public less capable of distinguishing reliable information from unreliable.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116828428295960355
I note that these allegedly law enforcement agents have not enforced a law in this campaign to discourage American citizens from speaking their minds. This doesn't even arguably relate to enforcing any law.
It does, however, resemble a different type of campaign: mob extortion. You don't have to send leg-breakers to set a store on fire if you quietly drop off a note at the owner's doggy daycare when they go out of town for a week.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
Sean CastenA good reminder that “originalism” means believing that America was better when only white male property holding Christians could vote and even they couldn’t be trusted to vote for Presidents and Senators. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/06/scott-perry-joins-push-to-revoke-17th-amendment-strip-voters-of-electing-senators.html
swachterApparently my ongoing evolution into full crone includes dropping bangers like "it's reprehensible that a bunch of men stole everything we ever wrote and want to sell it back to you" and "aren't you scared that the most unethical people who ever lived know so much about you" and "we eat three billionaires and the rest fall into line" on unsuspecting grad students who are trying to tell me that AI can be used for good
LightfighterYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.
James A. Baldwin
Project GutenbergEthel Moustacchi (1933-2016)
Ethel Moustacchi is one of the 72 women whose names will be inscribed on the Eiffel Tower in 2027, alongside the 72 male scientists that Eiffel had chosen in 1889. But who was Ethel Moustacchi? Did you know that this biologist spent nearly her entire career at the Radium Institute and later at the Curie Institute?
https://musee.curie.fr/blog/ethel-moustacchi-1933-2016
More information about Ethel Noustachi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Moustacchi
RE: https://meow.social/@netkitty/116826842274066717
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