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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

New video has emerged of NYPD cops brutally beating a man working at a homeless shelter.

The cops didn’t have a warrant to enter the facility, and the workers’ boss told him not to let them in.

So they attacked him. Trigger warning for the video.

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

nobody sighs louder than an unemployed, debt-free dog who spends at least 16 hours a day sleeping

[❀ white nik ❀ @niknyxx]

Here is his family’s GoFundMe, to help reimburse the burial but mainly to give the family the chance to get out of the city that tried to cover up his death.

They are only at $2500 so any little bit helps. Thank you for listening to his story.

https://t.co/Gd8QJbPgoC

[❀ white nik ❀ @niknyxx]

Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.

[harlan @morepain4harlan]

acquaintance referred to a normal dice as a "d6"

[Game Informer @gameinformer]

The Final Level: Farewell from Game Informer 🕹️

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the greatest male swimmer in history. Meanwhile, female athletes with genetic differences are legally discriminated against and harassed to no end. This is not about “protecting women in sports” - this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

PALESTINIAN MAN SPRAYS CHILDREN WITH WATER DURING THE HOT WEATHER IN GAZA

THEIR EXCITEMENT♥️

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

France’s extraordinary election results provide an urgent, valuable lesson.

Don’t concede ground to those who sow division and fear. Build a bold Left movement that offers an alternative of inclusion and hope.

That is how you defeat the far right.

[Jennine K @jennineak]

in the last few days I’ve seen the face of a baby in gaza separated from the rest of their body, the jaw falling off a little girl, the guts spilling out of another girl, a mutilated child hanging off debris, five journalists killed…but they want you to be mad at a palestine pin

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state

[Bedazzling Bearer of Bad News @PixieOfDeath]

Not to state the obvious and all that, but incitement to genocide in the most watched election debate in the world is in fact a punishable act according to Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Today of all days we need to internalize this