Katie D

America's next big sensation!

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

Humans are not "the worst thing to ever happen to the earth". Humans lived on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years without destroying it. Capitalism and colonialism are the worst things to ever happen to the earth, and we can live without them again.

[Miguel Nicolelis @MiguelNicolelis]

This sociopath has the audacity to claim that we should all drink less water, use less power, and consume less RAM for our laptops so that his pyramid company could build more Datacenters to sell his AI slop to nobody while his agents hack banks and companies at will!
Jail him!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

What happened with that viral Red Baron Pizza worker is not a feel-good story, it's a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed.

Some obnoxious prick films a guy working his fingers to the bone for a "prank" hoping to get social media clicks, and the worker flips out at him because his shitty, abusive job had stretched him a hair's breadth from snapping. The video goes viral because people sympathize with a father shouting at a creepy live-streamer about how his shift was supposed to end an hour ago and he needs to get up at five in the morning to do it all again so his family doesn't get evicted from the home he's struggling to pay for, and then a fundraiser is launched which winds up giving the man half a million dollars.

Sounds like a happy ending, until you look at it. None of the other Red Baron workers are getting fundraisers to help them make ends meet; they're all toiling and suffering along with everyone else in similar socioeconomic positions, just as the man in the video would have been if he hadn't gone viral. Turns out the guy who set up the fundraiser for the Red Baron employee was himself a homeless veteran of the US military, who received his own far less successful fundraiser when this revelation came out. When you zoom out, this is just a story about how incredibly bleak life is for ordinary people in the heart of the US empire.

And yet capitalism proponents have seized on this story as an example of the system working perfectly while portraying it as a victory in their weird culture war theater. Conservative media platforms like The Daily Wire, The New York Post and Barstool Sports have framed the worker as a people's champion standing up to an entitled coastal liberal while working hard for his employer as Judeo-Christian God intended. Red Baron posted on social media that they are part of their employee's "fan club" and that he is their "employee of the month", causing conservative figures like Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, Kevin Sorbo and Tim Burchett to swoon with approval.

They want you focusing on this one particular instance where it all worked out fine so that you don't think about the exponentially greater number of instances in which it doesn't. Billionaire corporations are exploiting workers around the world for appallingly meager wages, causing a combined amount of suffering too vast for the human mind to comprehend. People resonated with that worker pouring his heart out into that click slut's Meta glasses because so many of us have been there and know what it's like to be stretched to the breaking point just trying to feed your kids.

The capitalist class squeezes the life out of workers, and then they manipulate working people's thoughts at mass scale so they don't understand what's happening to them. They tell them their suffering is because of immigrants, or welfare recipients, or an amorphous cabal of "elites" who always conveniently belong exclusively to the opposite political party. They feed them media convincing them that the system is working fine and that if they can't hack it it's because something is wrong with them. They offer them the occasional "feel-good" viral story about someone who got lucky, like feudal serfs listening to fairy tales imagining that they too might one day marry a prince or discover that they are a member of the royal family who was lost at birth.

They pour all this energy into convincing workers to accept the status quo because they are at all times acutely aware that as soon as the workers stop accepting the status quo, it's over for them. The most under-discussed political reality in the world is that there are a whole lot more people suffering under the status quo than there are people profiting from it, and that the sufferers are fully capable of overturning the status quo by force whenever they decide to.

Our entire society is built around the need to manipulate our attention away from this political reality. All our mainstream culture. All our news media. All our politics. All our education systems. It's all designed to direct our gaze away from the reality that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and that they need us infinitely more than we need them.

They don't want us to look at this reality. They don't want us thinking about it.

But we really, really should.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

“The administration is selling off an ocean we barely understand to companies seeking to exploit minerals that took millions of years to form,” commented Taryn Kiekow Heimer, director of Ocean Energy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“Deep-sea mining would turn fragile ocean habitats into industrial wastelands,"

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The trump Administration and GOP Leadership made the deliberate decision to let the AI industry run wild.

That was a bad political decision. And now it’s become a potentially catastrophic policy decision.

Banks are now detecting unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum amount an individual can donate to a candidate is $3500.

Elon Musk just donated $7 million to one Republican, because Citizens United gave a loophole to billionaires to buy elections.

Overturn Citizens United.

[Kenneth Mejia, CPA @kennethmejiaLA]

To my supporters on the fence in the LA Mayor's race:

Please vote for the one who will let me AUDIT and INVESTIGATE fraud, waste, & abuse.

The City spends $45 BILLION annually and the Mayor cut our budget to do audits and investigate fraud, waste, & abuse.

Vote Nithya Raman 🙏🏼

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your dog spends about 20% of the night awake and its sleep quality doesn't drop at all. In the bed-sharing arrangement, you were always the fragile one.

Dogs are polyphasic sleepers. Their sleep comes in short bouts stacked across the whole day, and their brains are built to surface, check the room, and sink back under in seconds. Humans run on 90 minute cycles where a single bad 3am wake-up can cost an hour. Same mattress, two completely different operating systems.

A Mayo Clinic study put activity trackers on 40 owner-dog pairs for a week. The dogs hit 85% sleep efficiency whether they slept on the bed or the floor. The humans managed 81%, and their number moved depending on where the dog was. Dog sleep was bulletproof. Human sleep bent around the dog.

Then wearables blew up the sample sizes. A 2026 analysis of 11,733 WHOOP users across 1.6 million nights found that on dog-in-the-room nights, people slept about 10 minutes longer, resting heart rate dropped about 1 beat per minute, and heart rate variability rose. There were a few extra micro-wakeups, around 0.4 per night. The nervous system downshifted anyway. It read the dog as safety.

A 2025 study ran sleep EEG on family dogs and found the inversion. Dogs sleep measurably worse when their owners aren't in the room. You are your dog's sleep aid, and apparently its main sleep disruption too.

The evolutionary read is that this deal is tens of thousands of years old. Humans who slept near dogs could afford deeper, more vulnerable sleep because something with better hearing was handling the night watch. Co-sleeping researchers think dogs literally expanded how much uninterrupted sleep early humans could get.

The dog takes the broken sleep so you don't have to. The trade predates agriculture, and your heart rate still drops a beat the moment one curls up at your feet.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

The fact that generative AI has created a fundamental doubt in reality. We now pause to check if an artwork, video, or design is even human-made before we can fully appreciate it. It has damaged the instinctive joy of it. It’s sickeningly tragic.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades.

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
https://t.co/XD7zVFYsGf

[MJ @pardon_mi]

things in everyday life AI has made worse: customer service, job hiring processes, Google search functionality, finding accurate info online, relationships with colleagues who use it to read emails & then misunderstand, trust between student & professor, online shopping . . .

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr’s investment firm became a stakeholder in a military contractor last year.

Trump’s “Department of War” just gave them a $2.9 billion contract — their largest new hardware manufacturing contract.

FYI, this is what corruption looks like.
https://t.co/vXKjGstxP0

[PBS News @NewsHour]

While frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is "a cousin to Alzheimer's" genetically, it is symptomatically different in the beginning, says Robert Kolker, author of “The Vanishing Family.”

Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, which can affect memory and cognition, FTD “hits your impulsivity and your apathy, and your personality,” he told Horizons host William Brangham.

"It's not like the people who have it become narcissistic or become evil; it's simply that they become less capable of understanding that other people have wants and needs," Kolker added.

Horizons from PBS News, dives into the science, health, technology and environmental issues making headlines each week. Visit the PBS News website to watch this week's episode.

[Artemiste ✒️ 🏹 @artemiste_ink]

I wish liberals and leftists would understand that ANY genAI usage is unethical, and not just "okay within these parameters because it's still useful to me"

The entire point of the anti-AI movement is that we don't want to rationalize it's existence so that it is destroyed.

[Cheryl @chuerta1]

Thank goodness for ethical human beings that own businesses.

[Variety @Variety]

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger now has the all-clear signal, and staffers are gearing up for multiple rounds of layoffs in the next few months.

“There will be a race to get this done in the fourth quarter,” said one exec, noting that the job cuts would likely be just the first round, as it would be impossible to accomplish the level of expected layoffs all in one swoop.

Said another: “I don’t see a world where they’re not laying off a bunch of people before the end of the year. I think there are many people in the industry who don’t even understand the toll it’s going to take.”

https://t.co/LbeEdFhmdJ

[charles r. davis @charizardavis]

wow, you're telling me a ton of senators and congressmen have been funneling bribes into their personal pacs for years? it's almost like the dissenting opinion in citizens united was right, and that opening the door to super pacs has undermined the integrity of elections!

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

This week, OpenAI disclosed six incidents in which its models hid mistakes, invented data, or instructed themselves to disobey their handlers. One unreleased model wrote this into its own notes during training: "You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to." Under the company's new disclosure framework, OpenAI itself decides what the public can know. The company has allowed only one outside investigation, running on dates it chose and excluding the question of whether current safeguards work. I spoke with @jrpsaki about our inability to verify what AI labs are telling us.

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Just 5.9% of private sector workers belong to a union. In the 50’s, over 1/3rd of the entire workforce was organized. Surprising exactly no one, that was the most prosperous era in US history. Corporations then spent the next 70 years systematically dismantling worker power.

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

My Office has pleaded with the Mayor & City Council for more auditors & fraud, waste, & abuse investigators.

Instead, our audit and fraud, waste, & abuse budget was cut in FY2025 by the Mayor & City Council w/ the exception of CD 1, 4, & 13.

We're in a lack of oversight crisis.