"They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”

This personality-disordered insufferable gatekeeping sucks no matter what the avocation. Fortunately the protests were full of committed protestors who welcomed noobs.

Bella Ciao! 📯 🎶 🎺

Musicians surround Proud Boys, drown them out with tubas at 'No Kings' protest in Atlanta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Atlanta #protest

1M people in Boston 👀 #nokings

WCVB Boston: More than 1 million descend on Boston Common for Pride and No Kings rallies

https://www.wcvb.com/article/more-than-1-million-descend-on-boston-common-for-pride-and-no-kings-rallies/65065335

Beautiful show of solidarity and strength at #Boston #Pride today, combined with #nokings protest

RESIST WITH PRIDE

(repost w/ faces covered out of an abundance of caution)

Pride gets even more political this year, but then, how could it not?
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/pride-gets-even-more-political-year-then-how-could-it-not
#Boston #BackBay #SouthEnd

If you’re in the fence about going out and having your voice heard, just do it. We’re all already on “a list”, and now is the time to stand up and fight back.

#nokings

For non-Americans or even Americans that don't really have much of a grip on how the governance of America works, let me just say, this is for the history books. This is a moment that will be taught as a point of no return.

Re-upping story from 2011: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43018489

As I just responded to someone below, I'm not particularly interested in all the reasons "this will never happen". (Edit to ad: "This" referring to a future Nuremberg-style tribunal for human rights violations under Trump, both in actuality and as a current threat for reasons below.)

Nothing ever happens until someone starts saying it should. And part of the value in saying it should right now is that it gets people thinking and can help change the narrative around what is happening. It's absolutely important that we not be in full reactive mode all the time, that we start figuring out ways to change the story.

So before you start detailing all the practical reasons why something like this wouldn't happen, start asking yourself what is the value of making it part of a national conversation? Or any other idea, for that matter.

99% of the fight against fascism is a battle for narrative and who controls it. Control the ideas and the streets will follow.

Friend of mine has put one of their domains to good use, collating a few streams onto one gallery page:

https://bellriots.today/

Coverage shown there includes Chicago and D.C. but be advised that there are plenty of live broadcasts that aren't represented there.

(Al Rojo Vivo is well-represented because I gushed about their coverage yesterday 😅)

#FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

https://etsc.eu/20mph-limits-in-london-linked-to-sharp-fall-in-road-injuries-and-deaths-new-report-finds/

#RoadSafety #driving #transport #ETSC

ICE holding immigrants in 'abysmal' conditions at Burlington office building, lawyers say | WBUR News https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/05/ice-burlington-immigration-detention-conditions

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on mastodon.

@skinnylatte this entire thread is pure joy 😍

@fromjason seriously, multiple times a week I think about what a non-corpo LinkedIn would look like and how someone (us?!) might go about building it. There’s such a need for a no-bs jobs and networking space.

I never know what to say to people who are convinced, to the very core of their beings, that someone somewhere would want to “engage with a brand”.

Pride month means Pride hat

Think about it.

Who is used to a lifestyle where they get waited on hand and foot? Rich people.

So obviously rich people (and wannabe rich-adjacent people) are the ones pushing this false narrative that the general public is clamoring for “agents”.

We're not.

Honestly, I don't need Digital Jeeves 3000 to plan my kid's party, order my sandwich, check in on my dry cleaning, read my mail, text my friend, or *anything else* really.

What I need is more pay, healthcare, and better bike lanes. 🤨

Even more jellies drifting about today, around the Summer St bridge over the channel. They seemed to be concentrated around the current (ofc). The orange topped one was huge! Still so cool! 🤓 #boston #marinelife