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Karl T.
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Just this once, let’s try not to be assholes to those less fortunate than ourselves.
"Hi my name is Aaron Bushnell, I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided, will be normal".
On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.
Democracy Matters 
God dammit! Just leave trans people alone! They’ve got enough to contend with, for fuck’s sake.
I wrote a lot of anguished political journal entries, and one real jeremaiad, after W was elected in 2004.
If I had known then that what was coming was so, so much worse, I'm not sure I would have made it through long enough to start at the Internet Archive.
This really has been going on, and getting steadily worse, for our whole damn lives.
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦*whispering* (To all the librarians I know and don't know: I love you, you wizards!)
Sam LevineThe "tragedy of the war with Iran" isn't the straight of Hormuz being closed or the price of gas, it's stuff like the bombing of a school and hundreds of dead children
mhoyeI don't want to sugarcoat this: I don't and won't use LLMs and AI tooling for the same reason I don't use Tiktok, or Twitter, or Facebook, and I think that if you write prose with ChatGPT or code with Claude those systems will do exactly the same thing to your writing and your code and your ability to create either of them that Twitter does to your politics or Facebook does to your relationships or Tiktok does to your self esteem. I think they're doing that to you right now.
Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-invasive user tracking system but a remotely controlled off switch for anyone of any age.
Bowie