Did you know that the U.S. Postal service acted as a subsidized news delivery service in the 1800s America?
Trump admin executive order lets tech tycoon villains do secret unsafe AI programs.
I don’t think tech tycoons ought to have complete opacity to run whatever AI stuff out there that they want to.
There is no system that you can just adopt and then set it and forget it.
There’s no political perpetual motion machine. Society will never work like a crock pot.
Trump administration puts workers on paid leave willy-nilly in effort to satisfy DEI obsessed fanbase.
Politically motivated witch hunt for Civil Rights related federal jobs is apparently resulting in forced paid leave for those suspected of being involved with ensuring equal rights in workplaces.
Eugenics is always a pseudoscience hoax.
It’s just an ideology, and a bad one based in accelerationist hopium and ableism, and racism. Mother Jones – January 2, 2025 – Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech – A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley. – Julia Métraux The US psychologist and eugenicist Henry Goddard played an […]
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
Tax prep company lobbying to get Donald Trump to kill IRS Direct File.
Nearly 30 House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the IRS free tax filing service, Direct File, on day one of his new administration.
Trump administration hides critical health and safety information from the public.
Why is the Trump administration locking down public safety information from the federal health agencies?
AI search is not a search engine, it’s just dysfunctional.
We should not be forced to use this stuff in order to access information on the internet.
Trump quits the US from WHO like he’s cancelling his country club membership.
Membership in the WHO isn’t like giving to some sketch non-profit charity in order to get tax favour.
Butts in seats downtown for “The Economy” (aka commercial real estate & fossil fuel)
RTO GTFO. The future of our civilization depends on maximizing remote options wherever possible.
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
What to expect by what we already had in a Trump admin CDC.
I think a lot of people have memory holed just how bad the Trump administration was even before the pandemic.
Elected representatives care about what their constituents say.
No matter the issue, you are always best off contacting your own elected representatives.
David Lynch deserved better public health, just as we all do.
The lack of strong public health and remote options robbed the rest of us of David Lynch’s last years.
Trump HUD nominee mega-pastor Scott Turner thinks housing assistance can be compared to slavery.
This is obviously not someone who even thinks things through before they speak in public, or maybe ever.
Your voice does matter.
Though it may seem that things will keep going, and Trump nominees will pass into the administration, it’s still important to register their unpopularity with your elected officials so that this is at the forefront of their understanding — that there is widespread opposition.
Pro-Trump Pastor: “We drank the kool-aid and it’s orange.”
Shane Vaughn claims “They” (whoever that is), forced him into the Trump cult.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Legislation against municipal mask bans introduced by President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate.
Massachusetts state Senator Will Brownsberger, Democrat from Boston, introduced a bill that would prohibit municipalities and boards of health from enacting mask bans that include banning “protective or medical use” of wearing masks in public.
Even Trump voters didn’t sign up for invading Greenland, right?
The whole Greenland thing should be dropped. Nobody voted for this.