Side note: I tried reading “Hillbilly Elegy” after the election just to inform myself, and I just abandoned the effort after JD Vance left Pennsylvania out of his list of Appalachian states. Protesters rally in West Pittston against Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Story by Hannah Poggi Enraged by the bill, protesters shared their reasons […]
Pennsylvania AI boondoggle summit as full of BS and unwanted garbage as expected.
I listened to Trump at the Republican data center power plant “summit” in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and read about Josh Shapiro’s involvement so you don’t have to. (You can thank me later.)
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Avoid scams targeting people looking for remote work.
“Don’t pay for the promise of a job. Honest employers will never ask you to pay to get a job. Anyone who does is a scammer.”
Check it out before you send a check – or cash app, or whatever.
Beware new exciting people bursting onto your internet scene with an uncanny amount in common with you…
Trying to fact check everything wrong put in and everything right left out by a chatbot probably isn’t all that efficient.
I keep hearing stories about people defending their use of chatbots by claiming they fact check them, but then it turns out they really hadn’t.
How do liberal pundits and Dem political operatives who advance right-wing framing stay in business?
How do audiences swallow this in a time of authoritarian outrages? Somebody must be paying them to keep it up because how much demand in the “free market” is there for right-wing content for the left? I know I’m not just paranoid, because it would not be the first or even the most stupid of […]
Don’t use pet medical products on humans.
If you have anyone in your life suggesting using pet covid tests, advise them that this is not wise as tests are generally designed differently for animals.
How is anyone safe without due process if I can’t even prove my identity on an credit card application?
I have excellent credit, applied for an Apple Card, was turned down repeatedly; the reason they gave: they couldn’t verify my identity. I have not been given a way to prove my identity.
Conflict of Interest: Stephen Miller financially profits from Palantir.
Stephen Miller has personal financial profiting interest in Palantir and he’s in a position to make decisions about the government using Palantir, the company named after the bad guys tool in Lord of the Rings.
Republican politicians have been using “natural” catastrophes for eugenics purposes.
Of course the Republicans are using weather now the same way they used the pandemic.
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
The bad guys use wild animals as torture weapons.
I’m remembering back to when I went to the cinema in 1984 to see Romancing the Stone…
Government determines the distribution of wealth. That’s not charity, it’s governance.
Social insurance is not charity. Social programs make a civilization work.
Data center PR never mentions the burning gas or burning tires part.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value.
I used to like the em dash, but I do not want to be mistaken for a chatbot.
I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too Evan Edinger Jun 8, 2025 This gets at some of the things I find both annoying and a bit nauseating about synthetic text, that are phrasing techniques so obviously ripped off of very viral influencer writers on Medium, and then amped up.
Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania noted to benefit with defense stocks from a war with Iran.
It’s ironic because he campaigned on stopping Congress from trading stocks, and introduced legislation to that effect in May 2025, but he’s continually in a position to be criticized for doing it himself.
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
Conflict of Interest: Rep. Rob Bresnahan campaigned on stopping congress stock trades and then dumped medicaid-related stock before voting for the big boondoggle bill.
It’s a little ironically insulting because he actually introduced a bill in Congress to supposedly ban stock trades. I guess he has to make a show of it because he campaigned on the issue.
Disguises in casual dress have paved the way for crude and awful law enforcement impersonation.
Seems like this isn’t a good standard to set.