It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit

I know a lot of liberal voters think democracy is on the line but I think it’s important to point out that “you only have one choice because every other choice leads to dictatorship” is also not democracy

The TikTok ban is really about who controls the algorithm and what topics are prioritized. The us wants to be able to pull the levers of topic suppression before people get too many ideas or start to organize. This is a free speech and censorship issue.

This Toyota truck is $10k. I would buy 5 of them if I could for our landscape business. Unfortunately, they aren’t selling them in the US. We need cheaper, simplified vehicles in the US.

The Have Nots vs The Have Yachts: Your reminder that teachers can only deduct up to $300 worth of teaching supplies on their taxes, which are necessary to do their jobs, while CEOs can write off their private jets and yachts, which are not necessary to do theirs.

The more Russian oil refineries Ukraine hits, the lower world crude oil prices go. In brief.. 1. Russian crude pipelines mostly travel toward export facilities. 2. Refineries pull what they need to make their products. 3. The less oil that refineries pull from pipelines, the

The contrasts between the two sides couldn’t be more clear

@peachlybeloved Amelia Gray — FOR LARRY the story of lawnchair larry really gets to me for some reason

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

Even if AI does pose a risk, what’s at risk? Capitalism? Coerced labor participation? American hegemony? Are these even things we want to retain? The things I’m most afraid of with AI is it will retain the bias found in our datasets or that people will immediately trust it.

When Notre Dame burned the entire world mobilized within hours to deliver monetary and moral support to France in reconstructing the cathedral. But ancient Muslim sites like this are bombed and destroyed routinely with the international community’s express approval.

Read about the Ben Gurion canal, it will give you a different perspective on the israel Gaza war and the west’s position.

The IRS is building a free digital tax filing system so you won't have to pay for TurboTax etc. The GOP's offsets for the Israel war funds strips funding for it.

I can’t even imagine being trapped in this hellscape like Gazans. This is not justice this is genocidal revenge. How many more innocents will die?! #FreePalaestine

That’s $276 a year for each user, by the way. The thing that blew up negotiations last week? SAG-AFTRA asked for 57 cents of that. #SagAftraStrong

Killing people is bad. War crimes are war crimes. It shouldn’t be controversial. Free speech and neoliberal corpo capitalism are incompatible.

"Israeli leadership must realise that there is no military solution to its security concerns." — King Abdullah of Jordan in Cairo One minute into his speech at the Cairo Summit, King Abdullah switched from Arabic "for our friends in Europe and around the world, my message is

I’m having such a hard time thinking about how ready the politicians are to send money for war. Literally destruction and entropy, and whenever we ask about housing or healthcare it’s always how much will it cost? This is just the biggest money laundering grift.

How is it that we can suddenly find 100 billion dollars for war but can’t fund healthcare, education or housing. Even school lunch is somehow an issue! How many Americans have to be hungry and unhoused before anything gets done.