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repository, archive, haha really? YES! a museum of my interests

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Stop trying to be productive

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wow. It's like an infomercial for truly inspired 'not giving a fuck'

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#its the varied pinup poses that really sell it

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Idk if you know much about Irish history and politics, but I just saw a video of somebody in Belfast saying that due to the situation there, Protestants and Catholics have called a truce?

My understanding about the current state of Belfast is that a guy from an immigrant community stabbed a white guy, and now white people are going door to door terrorizing immigrants. Unsure if they’re just all non-whites or people from the perpetrator’s specific community.

As for the history of Protestants and Catholics I have a little bit of familiarity, but mostly stuff that happened decades ago, not more recent events.

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here - are you wanting to hear more info about the situation? Like, a primer of sorts? If so, you'd be best asking someone Northern Irish rather than me

Though, if I have any NI followers who want to chime in, please feel free! Only if you have the spoons though, the situation is horrible and the historical context is lengthy and complex

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Broadly speaking...

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend but an incoming intruder into our space so we're not allowing them in. We checked.

Never underestimate the Mam to Mum network.

[saywhat-politics]

FBI raids Ohio voting rights organization

Sources tell MS NOW that agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.

Jun. 11, 2026, 11:49 PM EDT

By Carol Leonnig, Will McDuffie, Alex Tabet and Laura Barrón-López

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, three people briefed on the search told MS NOW.

Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices, according to the three people briefed, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ongoing investigation. Members of the group contacted lawyers on Thursday to determine their legal options, the people said.

Prentiss Haney, a board member of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, told MS NOW Thursday night that agents approached people with connections to the group, including some who had performed basic canvassing and volunteer work, and pressed them for information.

Agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” Haney said.

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Lawrence: Trump lies about Vietnam War dead in a desperate attempt to justify troops killed in Iran

MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how we are watching the Iranian dictatorship “take advantage of Donald Trump's desperation to make a deal with them every day” as Trump again uses “Vietnam war dead and lying about that number in order to justify the Trump war dead.”

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“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

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Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

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Currently writing an email about why I will not, in fact, be heading up any initiative to integrate ai in my workplace.

Wish me luck!

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Update: Send me resources

We have a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to discuss my "valid concerns" so now I need all of you to send me anti-AI resources for that meeting because I am extremely bad at defending my viewpoints on the spot. I get flustered and forgetful and avoidant, so I need to have key arguments and evidence to back it up at the ready. Unfortunately, all my searches for "how to defend my anti-ai stance in the workplace" are only returning articles about "How to convince your employees that AI is a good thing"

Relevant information:

They are mostly looking at MS co-pilot and claude ai

They would be unlikely to use it to make any graphics so stolen art is only fuel to the ethical argument, not a main concern

They don't actually seem to have any specific ideas on how they want to use it other than moving data from excel to ppt

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Things to consider:

Confidentiality. If your company allows its data to be put into an AI tool, the AI company may keep a copy on its servers. Your company’s data may be used to train the AI model, which means it may be used to answer other people’s questions. That puts your company’s data at risk of being exposed to competitors or hackers.

Reliability. How does your company plan to quality-check the AI outputs? AI will often sound right, but as soon as you start to fact-check, you will find out that it’s factually incorrect. It often makes up numbers, graphs, and sources. Any AI outputs must be independently fact-checked by a human before they can be used to make any real-world decisions. Otherwise, the company is at risk of making bad decisions based on bad information, resulting in business losses and possibly even legal consequences. EY (formerly Ernst & Young) did a survey finding that “Nearly every large company to have introduced AI has incurred some initial financial loss … often due to compliance failures, flawed outputs, bias, or disruptions to sustainability goals.” Your company should consider those possible financial risks.

Customer perception. Your company should know that the public increasingly perceives AI as high-risk and low-value. It may hurt your company’s brand perception. Here is an open-access article that surveyed a nationally-representative sample of 1100 people from Germany — they found that “while many AI applications are viewed as likely to occur, they are often associated with high perceived risk and limited benefit.”

Functionality. Your company needs to check and see whether these AI tools can actually do the things they are imagining, before they commit to paying for a subscription.

For example, I recently tested my employer’s internal AI tool to see whether it could automatically extract tables of data from PDF articles and put them into Excel. It couldn’t “just do it.” All it could do was give me a sample Python script that I needed to modify and run myself. The output of the script still requires a fair amount of manual cleanup.

Also, the sample script it gave me didn’t even work, because it was based on an outdated version of one of the Python libraries. So I had to debug the Python script myself.

It’s a good thing I already knew enough Python to do this. But since I do already know enough Python to do this, I’m not sure it saved me much time compared to me just googling “pdf data table extraction”, finding the relevant Python library, and writing my own little Python script.

[adverbian]

More sources on the risks of AI hallucinations:

EY — who did the study cited in the previous reblog, finding that businesses often incurred financial losses when AI gave them bad data — recently got bitten themselves. They had to retract a report after researchers caught fake data and references made up by AI. That can’t have been good for EY’s reputation. “EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations” (Financial Times, May 15, 2026)

“Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas” (Fortune, May 28, 2026)

“Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients” (Futurism, May 16, 2026)

“AI hallucinations are infiltrating expert work—and entering the permanent body of knowledge” (Forbes, May 24, 2026)

“How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks” (The Hacker News, May 14, 2026)

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[hope-for-the-planet]

The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace

A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.

From 2021 to 2025 the amount of batteries added to the grid increased by roughly ten times and continued to grow significantly year over year. China is the biggest driver of this trend, but even with Trump's pressure on clean energy the United States accounted for 16% of the battery capacity added in 2025.

Grid batteries help address the intermittency of clean energy--when the sun is shining most or the wind is blowing hardest doesn't necessarily coincide with when the most energy is needed. But batteries are now beginning to catch up to the breakneck pace that countries have been adding solar energy. Just like solar panel costs are rapidly decreasing, the cost of grid scale batteries is sharply decreasing too.

[liberalsarecool]

Mamdani is showing the world that the greatest policies are public policies: invest in The People.

[saywhat-politics]

DOJ argues Trump could 'bulldoze' Statue of Liberty during White House ballroom hearing

President Trump's White House ballroom plans are in the hands of three appellate judges heard arguments Friday over whether construction sho

DOJ argues Trump could 'bulldoze' Statue of Liberty in White House ballroom hearing

The Justice Department argued no one can stop Trump from building the ballroom.

A lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal appeals court panel on Friday that the Trump administration believes the White House ballroom project cannot be stopped by judges, and that even if the president wanted to "bulldoze" the Statue of Liberty, no one could sue to stop him. 

"Let me ask you a straightforward question: that this court, the Supreme Court, no court could stop the building of this [ballroom]?" asked Judge Patricia Millett, an Obama appointee.

"Yes," answered Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Yaakov Roth.

Roth said the controversial project is "well on its way," with more than 3 million pounds of steel rebar now on site. 

"I think it would have been improper to enjoin it, even on day one," Roth said.

Across two hours of oral argument, a panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grappled with the Trump administration's view that laws passed decades ago authorize the building of the ballroom today.  

While the court, at times, appeared skeptical that President Donald Trump had the authority to carry out the construction without congressional approval, the panel seemed conflicted about whether the National Trust for Historic Preservation had the right to bring a suit challenging the project. 

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Nothing but facts

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Bowl and a quarter with cat...

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