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Because AI detection tools aren't solid, and may never really be as far as we know, the situation AI companies have created for themselves is that writers and artists now have a professional, reputation-guarding interest in talking about how terrible AI is as often as possible.
Josephine "Megalith" RiesmanAvoid such fates by doing as I do: (1) Never use AI for any part of your book, (2) loudly tell everyone how much you hate AI on social media
The 2028 Democratic primaries are functionally under way. Here's a very bad proposal to ban ranked choice voting in them that you should know about.
The Democratic Party’s Proposed Ban on Ranked Choice Voting in 2028 Presidential Primaries - FairVote ActionThe Democratic Party Rules & Bylaws Committee is quietly proposing banning the use of ranked choice voting in presidential primaries.fairvoteaction.orgInventing whole new kinds of corruption
Mark ChadbournTrump Media plans to charge trading firms for access to Trump’s Truth Social posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, the FT reports. The product, Truth API, is aimed at firms that rely on ultra-fast data to trade in markets that are often moved by those posts.
We hit it, folks! Thanks to all who pitched in.
Osita NwanevuHey all — an ask. A local father of three was detained by ICE last month. One of his daughters is in treatment for Stage IV cancer and he's her primary caregiver. He's been released temporarily, but he'll be redetained indefinitely unless he makes a $25,000 bond. Any bit would help.
Note the slide from 'Oh, so now every time there's a consensually ambiguous situation, it's rape?' to ' Oh, so now every time you physically overpower a woman into sex, it's rape?'
Tiffany C. GrahamI don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...
"If you have a cell and can txt, you'll never be bored again...E V E R!"
WebDesignMuseumOn July 15, 2006, the full version of Twitter was introduced publicly. #InternetHistory
The hot stove election
John GramlichIn 2024, the youngest adults were evenly split between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. That's no longer the case: 54% of adults under 30 now identify as or lean Democratic, while 38% identify as or lean Republican. www.pewresearch.org/politics/fac...
Just getting more and more difficult to know where to even begin. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Hey all — an ask. A local father of three was detained by ICE last month. One of his daughters is in treatment for Stage IV cancer and he's her primary caregiver. He's been released temporarily, but he'll be redetained indefinitely unless he makes a $25,000 bond. Any bit would help.
Donate to Help Dad supporting daughter with cancer stay out of ICE DT., organized by Barbara BuckleyYeni is a husband and dad to three kids in Easton, Maryland. … Barbara Buckley needs your support for Help Dad supporting daughter with cancer stay out of ICE DT.www.gofundme.comPlatner was endorsed by Sanders, Warren, the Maine AFL-CIO, the UAW, the WFP, Our Revolution, End Citizens United, and the Sierra Club. Favorability among Maine liberals & progs was 70-80+ percent. The vast majority of the left backed him. Rightful critiques some made on Bluesky do not negate this.
Daniel LivingstoneIf @ositanwanevu.com actually cared about it, he'd have noticed the many left voices right here on bsky who have been yelling about how awful a choice Platner was since he first put himself forward.
I wrote about Platner. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A Yale Daily News column for "the airing of grievances" has been one of the primary fonts of evil in American life.
mtswMan,
So what happened here, actually? A buff-looking random shows up on social media one day talking about billionaires in an ad that sounds like a Ford F-150 commercial and that's it? He's the progressive candidate? There are no progressives in the Maine legislature? No solid activists?
Jordan UhlA woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.