The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.
> you open a website
> it says: "click all the traffic lights"
> it takes you 10 seconds
> 200 million people do this every day
> you weren't passing a security check
> you were labeling training data for a self-driving car
> google acquires recaptcha in 2009
> deploys it on every bank, store, and government site on earth
> turns the entire internet into an unpaid AI annotation factory
> waymo is now worth $45 billion
> you didn't pass the test. you built it.
“Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter."
— Billie Eilish during her acceptance speech at the #GRAMMYs
Maybe I’m too much of a European, but I honestly can’t understand how so many Americans find it perfectly natural to be shot in the head on the spot for the slightest act of disobedience toward any sort of law enforcement. You might wanna revisit that "land of the free" thing.
This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.