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The neoliberal solution to climate change is to hope that somehow it will become profitable to save the planet. This will not work.

Taking a moment to appreciate this paragraph from Kim Stanley Robinson.

#Google translate uses machine learning for context sensitive translation - and it reinforces all gender stereotypes. They desperately needed Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell. Happy #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/DPyaoiLzyz

We'll never be able to estimate the damage done to our communities because of such shows. And how local news, mugshot type reporting plays into such images that form the idea of black people in there heads.

Statue of Bristol slave trading Tory MP ‘tripped and fell’ insist police rochdaleherald.co.uk/2020/06/07/sta… via @@RochdaleHerald

2️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Los Angeles, CA: powerful montage of police violence juxtaposed with a speech from the mayor Another reminder that the love of police brutality is strongly bipartisan twitter.com/NickAndert/sta…

Washington’s legistlature spends more than *twice* as much on prisons and police ($2.6BILLION) as they do on economic security for working people ($738M). Any conversation about cutting the state budget had better start with cutting funding for these state troopers.

I think this is what it feels like to be in a country that gets on the United States's bad side. The helicopter noises have been going for days

Striking how curfew becomes a hyper expression of every-day selective enforcement. There's always a pretense for police to selectively target whoever they want. "Curfew" (1pm!) is same: a blanket pretense for selective targeting. Violating it will mean diff things for diff ppl.

The gazillion videos of ongoing police misconduct are shocking if you’re expecting community service and de-escalation. If you think of police as just another street gang at war with rival gangs (protestors, reformers, media), a heedless show of force makes perfect sense.

Y’all — Van Jones just said on CNN that it’s the White, liberal HRC supporters we have to look out for, and I- twitter.com/DBusters_/stat…

every single one of the top 25 places connected to significant levels of covid transmission being either prisons or meat plants (with the exception of one single aircraft carrier) feels more like a cheap parody of american life than anything

I'm officially offering The Democrats "access" to my vote

Open AI just announced Jukebox, a neural net that generates music *with singing* using genres, artists, and lyrics as input. The results are INCREDIBLE. openai.com/blog/jukebox/

nationalize the fossil fuel industry, wind it down and give the workers 5 years wage parity

69 deaths in BC, 516 deaths in Washington (with a population about 1.5x BC's)