ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

"This button gets people killed"
Sticker seen on a police emergency button in NYC

WOW: Speaker Kevin #McCarthy wishes #GeorgeSantos had more power than President Joe #Biden.

He said the quiet part out loud.

I’m the spirit of sharing quality content, please enjoy my favorite meme of all time.

Who knew that the history of the Pink Lady apple was not so much #QuiteInteresting as VERY interesting! Thank you @theconversationau
https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-how-lady-williams-founded-a-great-australian-apple-189788

I see legislation titled “Protecting Life on College Campus Act”, and for a brief moment I let myself think it will be about gun control.

Nope. Of course it’s all about old white dudes controlling women’s bodies.

I guess “Treating College Women Like Broodmares Act” didn’t test well.

#Politics #RepublicanAssholes

"i love tram windows and train windows. seeing something through a window seems to me more enjoyable and engaging than seeing it directly. seeing something through a window means that you do not own what you see. you are moved. and the movement means that you preserve a space for your own longing for what you see." milena jesenská on windows

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Copyright attaches to works that have been fixed in a tangible medium of expression. You don't get them in the ravings that babble forth from your lips unless you're the one fixing them to that medium.

I don't know who needs to know that only yes I do, it's Fuckface von Clownstick.

Men: Every man who’s nice to you isn’t trying to fuck you.

Women: Ok now replace “man” with “woman,” read that back to yourselves, and act accordingly.

this is MUCH better than chatgpt: catgpt

https://catgpt.wvd.io/

Meet the exoplanet KOI-55 b. It's a small, rocky world 4,000 light-years away. It's less than half the size of Earth, yet it orbits so closely to its host star, that it's stretching its sun.
#MondayMotivation: Don't let anyone dim your light. SHINEhttps://go.nasa.gov/3kOmWW1
#NASAExoplanets

Racism is endemic to policing in the
U.S. whether internalized or overt. Any brutal killing by any cop of any unarmed person is wrong. But there’s a double standard. Police unions are often exclusively white (some have even openly chosen a confederate flag as their banner). PUs defend white officers at all times, regardless of their actions but are conspicuously silent when non-white officers are acccused. Non-white cops get fired and suspended without pay and publicly condemned. #PoliceCrimes

Here's gifted access to this WaPo article if you're interested.

Bankrolled by mysterious donors, a little-known group named Consumers’ Research has emerged as a key player in the conservative crusade to prevent Wall Street from factoring climate change into its investment decisions. https://wapo.st/3Y2VAK6

#uspol

This article is *excellent*. On its face it’s about #NYC #rent, but the larger story it tells is amazing — part ‘prosumer’-level data-science dive, part Alice in Wonderland. What the author finds is world of data that isn’t: cooked books, liars and shills, manipulated indicators, and a Bullshit-as-a-Service ( #BSaaS ) outfit that gives the landlord industry plausible deniability in the form of an “algorithm” to extort jaw-dropping amounts from renters across the US and around the world. Things like this make clear how much of the debate about #AI and #LLM is plain-old techno-fetishism or, as they say, *affirmative critique* — ‘lite’ analyses that end up endorsing what they supposedly question. It really doesn’t matter *how* the ‘data’ is generated — an AI, an intern putzing around with Excel, an army of typing monkeys. What matters is the power of an industry to create a Matrix-like illusion to rob the masses blind.

https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html

19-year-old Olesya Krivtsova has an anti-Putin tattoo on one ankle. On the other, she wears a bracelet that tracks her every move.

Krivtsova is under house arrest after she was charged over social media posts that authorities say discredit the Russian army and justify terrorism.

Russian officials added her to the list of terrorists and extremists, on a par with ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban, for posting an Instagram story about the explosion on the Crimean bridge in October that also criticized Russia for invading Ukraine.