With the strong caveat that this is purely anecdotal, I have to say that over the past months it's been increasingly difficult to ignore the sheer number of mistakes people have been making. There's a kind of endemic sloppiness and I think part of it is cognitive dysfunction.

This is the official channel of the United States Army broadcasting a private corporations live feed. This is illegal. No one in the Republican Congress will lift a finger.

Why do Republicans say AOC is “just a bartender” when she has a masters in economics, but they don’t say Markwayne Mullin is just a plumber? HINT: racism and misogyny

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

We need a “Not interested, this is AI” button or a proper AI blocker. The algorithm needs to learn how badly most people don’t want AI slop.

He’s doing the meme irl

We were given a planet that grows its own food, overflowing with trees, fruit, water, medicine, and sunlight, where life itself is abundant and generous. Yet we built systems of debt, competition, division, and war instead of learning to live in balance with it.

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

A lot of people don’t realize that Paxton was impeached by members of his own party. He was accused of engaging in cartoonishly corrupt behavior while in office. It’s wild to watch people pretend like none of that ever happened.

It would be a shame if the Republican Party’s ad about Ken Paxton went viral

The past few days have been a bit crazy. I made a post during a time of extreme frustration because of extreme empathy I have for those living in South Bay San Diego who are being exposed to hundreds of toxic gases, carcinogens, and airborne pathogens. Multiple generations of these residents have had zero voice in California. I just sent the note below to them. Someone who was questioning me suggested I share it here so here it is..... I want to share something with all of you living in South Bay San Diego and experiencing horrific health issues due to poor air quality due to the polluted Tijuana River. When I first heard this weekend that a State of Emergency had been declared in California, my heart lifted. For one moment, I let myself hope that someone had finally heard all of us. Then I learned it was for Garden Grove, and that flicker of hope vanished almost as fast as it came. I am genuinely glad those families are safe. They faced a real threat and deserved a fast, fully resourced response — and the state gave them one, within 48 hours: more than 785 responders, scientists and air-monitoring teams among them. I would never wish them anything less. I also want to share something I didn't expect. In raising my voice for the South Bay these past days, I found my own character — my motives, even my integrity — called into question. I won't pretend that didn't feel terrible. But I'd rather share it with you than pretend the road has been smooth, because you all know that it never is smooth for any of us. So let me let you know directly what I believe. I believe Garden Grove and the South Bay both deserve the same protection — fully, neither at the other's expense. I believe the quietest injustice in all of this is the way communities like ours are made to compete for the bare minimum, as though safety were a scarce favor and not a right. And I have spent years measuring the air you breathe not to win an argument, but because the evidence is undeniable and someone has to say it out loud. Because for years, the people of Imperial Beach, Coronado, Chula Vista, Nestor, San Ysidro, and across the South Bay have been breathing something far worse than one single chemical — and we have measured it, not guessed at it. In peer-reviewed science published in Science and Science Advances, my team at UC San Diego has documented hydrogen sulfide at more than 100 times California's health limit, night after night; hundreds of toxic chemicals in the air, including benzene, a known human carcinogen with no safe level of exposure; and airborne pathogens carried inland from the contaminated water. This is not a worst-case model. It is what you have been living, and being harmed by, for years. You did not imagine it. You did not exaggerate it. So I've put that flicker of hope to work. I've written a formal statement making the case that under the very same law the state used for Garden Grove — California Government Code §8558(b) — the South Bay meets and exceeds the threshold for a State of Emergency. It's ready to send to the Governor, and I'm sharing it with leaders across the region. But I wanted you — the people who live this every single day — to see it. We are not asking the state to do one thing less for Garden Grove. We are asking only that the same standards, the same urgency, the same humanity be extended to you in South Bay San Diego. The data are public and updated continuously at airborne.ucsd.edu/h2s. If you feel what I feel, share this — the more of us who say it out loud, the harder we are to ignore. That flicker of hope is not gone. Me and my entire team are holding onto it, and not going anywhere. — Dr. Kim Prather (UC San Diego)

I used to always say, “we’re killing the planet.” But that is not true. The planet will be fine. It just will not be habitable for human beings and many animals. We are not killing the planet. We are killing ourselves.

“Brain fog” is brain damage. Imagine if we called cancer “oops-a-growth”. Infantilizing the public and trivializing material harm is unethical and a cause of harm.

Project 2025 Clif Notes

From this date six years ago. This many still die from covid per year in the US but I guess it isn't an incalculable loss now.

FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!!

genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks

the QR code leads to the wikipedia page for deaths caused by chatbots and holy shit I did not think it would be this long. this is harrowing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths…