This Palestinian child was not even in this world on October 7th. Still, Israel has a deliberate policy of starving her to death. If you cannot stand up against this, then nothing else you say or do matters.

We simply must destroy these corporations. Meta in particular has tried to assault every single part of our civilization for more money than God (which they already have). Our financial system, social lives, cultural landscape, political system, mental health, the list is endless

Demonic

Ms Rachel in a new video: “Grownups of the world are supposed to protect children and some grownups are not doing that.”

This is the program Loomer & Rubio shut down. "Three-year-old Adam has lived through unimaginable loss. On July 7, 2024, while sheltering in a tent in Khan Younis, a bombing claimed the lives of his entire immediate family—his parents, sister, and brother—and cost him his right

“Activists who disrupt the flow of weapons to a genocidal regime may violate petty criminal statutes, but they uphold a far greater law and a more profound human imperative: to protect a people and culture from annihilation.” ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

One of the most horrifying and shameful statistics you’ll ever come across in your life.

Cities aren’t loud; cars are loud.

Important to raise the salience of universal free school lunches because conservatives sound so insane when they catastrophize about a kid not having to pay a couple bucks for a slice of pizza

Guy who rides one of these to work every day, fighting back tears: this is nothing compared to the GDP of Mississippi

Today is World Orangutan Day! The only truly arboreal ape, the orangutan is also the largest tree-dwelling animal. 🦧

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 (D) on Justice Department letter to "sanctuary jurisdictions" to fully comply with immigration enforcement: "The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is ... Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures."

every AI guy like Sam Altman should be required to live 50 yards from a data center

Free Gifts is officially out today!!

NEW: A large crowd chases law enforcement out of Columbia Heights neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Dozens boo and chant "ICE go home" until they return to their vehicles and leave the area. The crowd cheers and celebrate once law enforcement leaves. NBC News

Agriculture is uniquely ill-disposed to capitalistically organised labour. To take an example, there hasn’t been a time since commodity production was generalised in England when our agricultural sector hasn’t made use of ‘unfree’ labour in one form or another. 1/13

AI, ORALITY, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF GRIFT In today's newsletter, I go back to Ong-posting to try to answer the question of why grift is so out in the open these days. Why don't people feel shame and the impulse to obfuscate? Why don't other people react more judgmentally?

This pervasive belief in the Badness of Discomfort is a primary reason for increasing dependency on ChatGPT. Nobody wants to feel bad, tired, challenged. So we retreat into tools that affirm, soothe, remove our requirement to think. We trade agency to become slaves to comfort

This grotesque figure is the one that’s been self-reported by the IDF—a group that smears doctors and journalists as terrorists and considers pretty much every Palestinian man of fighting age to be a Hamas combatant. Can you imagine what the actual % is? theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…