MaysonLancaster

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2025: We have to detain these 'illegal criminals' [who may have no criminal record at all].
2026: Wow, we have so many detained immigrants, we should put them to work.
2026: We should have private industry run the prisons and reap the rewards of all this free labor.
2026/2027: Dissenters, communists, and 'illegal protesters' who hate America should also be 'detained'.
2028: 'Can the citizens who are detained vote in the upcoming election? What upcoming election?'

Please please please don’t impose dark mode on your websites. Honor the user’s system settings.

There are plenty of people with visual impairments as common as astigmatism who can’t read light text on dark background, because it’s like staring at a strong lightbulb in the dark.

And it’s not hard. Just a few lines of CSS.

#accessibility

A better world is not only possible, it's pretty straightforward.
Alright, this took way longer to make than I am willing to admit. But the fact it didn't exist bugged me.
#shitpost #meme #EatTheRich #NoBillionaires #NoKings
“We walk on stolen land: a truth etched into the soil, in the rivers that have carried stories of a people for millennia, and in the skies that have witnessed it all.” https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/114798302452767352
Gift Articles (@GiftArticles@tomkahe.com)

New map for justice https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21055/25Yo2A0Y

Tomkahe
Understanding suburban sovereignty

For me, the great Australian novel is Patrick White’s The Tree of Man. I am not the first to say this: the story of Stan and Amy Parker as they build a new home in the wilderness is an Australian Genesis story. Questions of God loom over the work. Stan Parker could not see the God of his mother, the God of “pale-blue gentleness”. The God Parker feared was the God of his blacksmith father, who had looked into the fire. Parker’s God was a God of the prophets.

The Saturday Paper

It started slowly.

Seattle-based companies made the move to Vancouver, with generous re-location packages.

The Valley, bit by bit, moved northward, first capitalising on the cheaper real estate in Portland and Seattle, then joining the ex-SFats in Canada.

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SoCal had crumbled a decade prior - the nexus of water-guzzling, power-sucking AIs that mimicked Hollywood actors only worked as long as there was water and power - and Hollywood actors to mimic.

The LA fires of '32 had destroyed so much infrastructure the city was broke - and dry.
And once they'd been cloned and recast as AI avatars of themselves, actors retired - on albeit reduced residuals. No-one flew to LAX with a dream and a cardigan. Those left were either ICE agents or Undocumented they hunted.

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The Big Beautiful Bill had exactly the intended effect - an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor. You either had capital or you died - usually from something preventable like gum disease or pneumonia.

Those with capital moved north.

Those who only had labour - human, devalued yet expensive, connective yet computed labour - stayed. Inflation grew. The $USD sank.

The future, as the Great Dismal wrote, was already here - it just wasn't evenly distributed.

Five eyes became three when Australia and Aotearoa ripped up ANZUS in '30. Canada followed and Starmer, enjoying an unprecedented fourth term in a time of turmoil, made it one in '31.

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NoCal took a little longer - the vulture capitalists hanging on to the carrion of would-be unicorns, hoping to get a RoI.

After adding AI to everything, they had to enshittify to get a return. Inferencing a 5Q parameter model doesn't scale, even with a Redis cache the size of Sonoma county.

AI had, paradoxically, re-ignited the Open Source movement, who, determinists at heart, rejected the stochastic musings of the Bullshit Machines.

A team from Eleuther paired up with Wikipedia and dropped a reciprocal-licensed distilled RAG model that inferenced quicker than DeepSeek. They might have had help from CC Signals, who reached out to people interested in opening their information - but not for profit.

Then they used BitTorrent to do results caching. Inference cost dropped to marginal. A couple of big names saw, ahem, a slight decrease in market cap.

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Anyway, enough of the history lesson!

We're delighted to welcome you to Victoria Island, the new headquarters of FAANG, Inc.

We've pivoted a little in the last few years, and now most of our work involves geo-engineering so we can stay under 3 degrees.

We like it here, and we hope you do, too.

#TootFic #AlternateHistory #MicroFic #MicroFiction

Chris Hayes explaining Karl Marx’s labor theory of value and theory of alienation was not on our bingo cards.
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
Weaponized Custody: How the New Hampshire Family Court System Punishes Women Like Me

My ex-husband, through his attorney — the same one who once derailed a $600,000 film deal during my divorce — is now threatening to take full custody of my son. He’s demanding a Guardian ad Litem…

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