… but literally every city had those. Wheeling WV had that for Pete’s sake. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114694442894505013

Me: Goddamn that guy deserves to die

Gandalf: Many who die, deserve life. Can you give it to them?

Me: Actually yeah, we can probably prevent a lot of innocent deaths if we can just kill that guy who I was just saying, deserves to die

Gandalf: Yeah that's fair, fuck him

It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part (or all) of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all.

Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?

Google’s long-con loss-leaders have been nothing but a ramp-up to replacing the entire internet with itself—& a single content creator they never have to pay.

Except in the energy of the whole planet.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Some of you protesting are far too into publicly posting identifiable pics and videos of folks in protest crowds without good reason.

If you brought a camera to the protest point it at the authorities, not your compatriots. Document and publicize incidents of abuse, but don't facilitate your fellow protestors being identified and punished for showing up. Assume every face you post will be recognized and catalogued. They're not there to be your photo op.

#Protest #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Activism

#outofcontrol #thatthingisfascism

@VaelynPhi even in circles who really ought to know better.

"Some 911 calls dialed by residents of Salt Lake City and Sandy soon may be answered by something like a robot, powered by artificial intelligence.

Faced with chronic understaffing among the ranks of its dispatchers, the 911 Communications Bureau based in Utah’s capital city wants to explore using an AI-automated sorting system [..]"

Imagine phoning 911 in your dying minutes and getting routed to a chat bot because of budget cuts.

Well, maybe don't imagine soon.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/14/slc-eyes-letting-ai-handle-some/

Don't bring your phone to the protest

Wear your most generic, mass-produced, non-identifiable clothes

Wear running shoes

N95's are a good idea for many reasons

Water in a bottle with no stickers

Don't RSVP with anyone beforehand

Tell a friend when you expect to be back

Be safe, don't get hurt, don't let them put you in the cop car

Give them hell

It's the third anniversary of Depp v. Heard. Not here to relitigate it for my readers, who are smart folks and get that it was a farce.

But I'm looking back because, in retrospect, it predicted Trump's win.

An analysis.

https://www.salon.com/2025/06/02/johnny-depp-v-amber-heard-predicted-young-male-flocking-to/

I sure wish Democratic mayors & governors hadn't spent the last few decades normalizing masked, militarized, anonymous police in response to the slightest civil unrest. TBH the military occupation of a US city would be a little more alarming if it wasn't already basically status quo.

Die Person, die den Wecker erfunden hat, müsste zur Strafe rund um die Uhr geweckt werden ⏰ 🤨

Guten Morgen :meow_coffee:

#GutenMorgen #Freitag #Kaffee

Sharing links, please remove the tracking codes. With YouTube it's the "si=" bit up until the next & ampersand. If you wind up with a "?&" you can delete the &.

Instagram has a similar setup with "igsh". If you notice that this is added when you click "share" but not when you visit the video in the first place, just cut it out.

I mean, not saying Trump is specifically planning a self coup this this weekend by sending tanks and troops into DC, but I'm not NOT saying it either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

Just a reminder that J.K.Rowling has said that any money she gets from the HP franchise she sees as support of her trans-phobia and she WILL funnel said funds towards further anti-trans and TERF activism.

Supporting the HP franchise in any way, whether watching movies, buying merch, or being part of the new HP TV Show is explicity enabling and endorsing anti-trans and TERF activism.
From: @xtaldave
https://xtaldave.net/@xtaldave/114663727153888071

It's always a baffling thing among liberals especially who seem to think it's okay to look at issues and events and court rulings and whatever else in isolation as if each one is being made without a broader context and agenda.

Libs: "Well you see, this court ruling was decided correctly because the plaintiffs didn't file that correct form in triplicate to office G before the deadline, so they can't seek relief under rule 6, they have to instead file under rule 9c at office R to..."

Meanwhile the fash and the judges speaking publicly: "Hahaha we fucked those shitheads so hard for no other reason than we hate them all and want them to die".

Libs: Clearly this was the correct ruling to uphold the rule of law

"Well, yes, the President is unilaterally revoking visas of immigrants and citizens, sending around squads to kidnap them and ship them to concentration camps, but TECHNICALLY under some random 150 year old law that was last used to catch slaves and indigenous people, he has the authority to do so, so unless Congress changes the law, I guess we just can't do anything at all because Rule Of Law".

Liberals probably