Just to reiterate what disabled people have been saying: the push against masking was always about surveillance.

do americans have an actual right to protest or is that just some abstract thing you say for fun

They sent out cops to arrest protestors and cops to shield the arrests from view.

.Greg Abbott is escalating the situation at UT Austin and putting Texas students and journalists in danger. These young adults have a right to protest peacefully. DPS needs to be recalled before someone gets seriously injured. The Governor should respect the First Amendment.

The word "peace" has been stripped of all of its meaning in modern political discourse. It signals nothing.

Friendly reminder that Dr. King was 26 years old at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott—not that much older than most of the students occupying campuses at the moment. For those folks who think these brave young people ain’t old enough to have enough sense for moral clarity.

it's so so so so crazy to have young people in this hell of a world, tell them that this is going to be -- no money, no jobs, you can't pay rent, and we're going to use your tax money for genocide -- and then punish them when they say we don't want this life

i'm gonna join the cicadas this summer and scream

Boeing whistleblowers keep suddenly dying.

In other words: No, you are not crazy They really are banning TikTok to cover for a genocide and regain control of the narrative.

Because we’re conditioned to see each request for help, each homeless person, everyone struggling as an individual failure. Society, capitalism, they can never fail. Just individual people.

Just a reminder that what has driven us into debt is not Social Security and Medicare, but rather the George W. Bush tax cuts and the Trump tax cuts, both of which disproportionately benefited the wealthy and corporations.

“As it becomes harder to survive, we can make it harder to survive”

"tHiS cAnT bE tHe SaMe HeAt We PlAyEd In As KiDs" It's literally not. The world is much warmer now. Climate change is here. It's not a joke. Heat kills people. Now what are we going to do about it?

>become poor >Lose housing >Get arrested because you are a human that needs sleep >Go to jail >Work as a slave because that's legal in the US in prisons >If you manage to get out you are arrested again because you have nowhere to go and will fall asleep eventually Deeply evil

Not only that, but, the computers require so much computing power, which generates so much heat, they use a LOT of water to keep them from overheating. Training ONE AI program for three weeks can require over 250,000 gallons. It's harmful RIGHT NOW, let alone long-term.

Training a single model produces 5 cars worth of co2. And that’s a car’s entire lifetime. After training, single query sent to a GPT model uses the equivalent of 20 minutes of a house’s electricity. Since 2019, Google’s emissions have increased 48%, coinciding with their AI pivot

Conspiracy theorists who keep saying there’s “no way” the hurricane could have intensified so much without some human cause are so close to getting it.