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· 1 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 22 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good morning everybody. It's Wednesday and it's cold and snowing outside. It's cold in htere too and I'm still tired.

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Joyce Carol GOATs by an author (Medium)

It’s easy to succumb to hopelessness, in this business of posting. You spend all day sticking your face in the soup of bad news and worse takes, watching progress erode and situations deteriorate…

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· 1 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 22 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

A Catalogue of the GOP's Paranoid Preoccupations by Bill Lueders (thebulwark.com)

From COVID vaccines, to unsecured borders, to commie public schools, to an abusive executive branch, the right is scaring itself silly.

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· 1 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 22 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

UPDATED! Editorial: It’s Time for a Complete Reset on How I Use Social Media by

Ryan Schultz (ryanschultz.com)

Early this morning, I deleted my Reddit account. As many of you already know, I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2018, followed by moving away from Facebook-now-Meta’s virtual reality hardware completely (I now have a Valve Index at home and an HTC Vive Pro 2 headset at work, both using SteamVR). And last … Continue reading UPDATED! Editorial: It’s Time for a Complete Reset on How I Use Social Media

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· 1 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 22 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same people banning books in school are flipping out about the Dahl estate editing its IP, but somehow I keep expecting just the tiniest scrap of shame

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· 30 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 21 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Steven Zekowski (@steve_zeke@freeradical.zone) (Free Radical)

@angusm@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Or...
We could fix our #healthcare system so that _no one_ is too poor to afford doctors,
so that ability to pay doesn't prevent people from receiving quality healthcare.

That CEO comment makes me sick.

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· 30 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 21 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Angus McIntyre (@angusm@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)

This seems to be a textbook instance of @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's observation that every truly horrible technological “innovation” gets tested on poor people and captive subjects first before being gradually rolled out to everyone else.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-ceo-ai-medical-advice

#ai #IGotYourDystopiaRightHereBuddy

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· 30 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 21 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

How Much More Can Girls Take? by Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day by Jessica Valenti)

Teen girls' depression is skyrocketing—now we want to force them into childbirth

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· 1 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 21 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

I'm worried they might finally get the answer they're really looking for by

an author (Welcome to Hell World)

A Creature Wanting Form my new book of short stories and poems should be shipping within a few weeks. For the next five people who buy a full price yearly subscription to Hell World I'll send you a free copy of that or one of my other books. Reply to let me know if you want to do that.

Earlier this week I added my name to a letter addressed to the New York Times' management that was signed by roughly 1,000 current and former contributors to the paper and around 23,000 other media workers and Ti