This is so truly disgusting on top of all other from the past year..

"How Trump's IRS settlement could block tax audits of him, his family and their businesses"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0pk2e22jro

Please.. Congress step in and DO something!

#Trump #US #USPol #corruption

I was thinking about this today…
- Pete Hegseth exemplified his Christian nationalist faith by killing 175 school girls.
- Amin Abdullah exemplified his Islamic faith by giving his life to save 140 school kids.

MAGAs praise Hegseth despite him killing kids, and they condemn Abdullah despite him saving kids.

If you still don’t qwhite see the difference why, at least let this be another proof that MAGA never actually cared about protecting kids.

I've written about the futility of "voting with your wallet." Billionaires love it when you try to vote that way. Billionaires are 0.00004% of the population, but their wallets are 100,000x larger than average. So when we wallet-vote, their vote counts 100,000X more than yours:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/#stop-fucking-that-chicken

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File under: AI Resistance

I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.

I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:

"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."

Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!

#AIcritique #AIhype #NoAI #AIresistance #AI #books