When I was on SNAP, there were days when only the promise of an ice cream carton waiting for me at home got me through the workday. I will fight every single one of y’all who wants to take away sweet little treats from folks.
A 22-year-old in Wisconsin died after a severe asthma attack because he couldn't afford the price of his inhaler, which was no longer covered by his insurance.
The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) that rescheduled his medication is OptumRx, which is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.
This young man was murdered by the for-profit healthcare system in the United States.
My God. Rachel Maddow:
Today, a duck farm in operation since 1908 shut down to euthanize their entire flock of 100,000 ducks….Birdflu has killed more than 130 million U.S birds...and Trump ordered all information stopped
including data for hospitals.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen, I think it’s a good time to remind everyone or tell for the first time that ChatGPT and other forms for AI are contributing to the rapid warming of our planet.
Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.
Apparently using ✨ means something made with A| now?? Bro fuck you I love using that emoji you're taking that from me too???
Fuck you and the prompt you came on
chappel roan using ai, my fave polish youtuber using chatgpt, my uni mates laughing at ai generated memes and using chatgpt in their coursework, every app bombarding me with random ai "helpers", this is how ive been feeling lately