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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • training data from thousands if not millions of sources it takes without consent nor compensation.

    You know how Karl Marx said the workers need to seize the means of production? AI, from the perspective of the shareholder class, represents the opportunity to “seize the means of the worker.” The way I see it, our only way off this ride is to stop participating in the consumerism that funds it. No matter how you slice it, that means food. People don’t need to become subsistence farmers, but if we switched from buying premade food to making our own we’d be defunding the machine while rebuilding our communities.






  • Sound advice. We should be mindful of how social media polarizes us. but I must push back a little on one aspect.

    So I’d ask you to ask yourself: if you believe people in your community want to kill trans people and enslave blacks, how much of that belief comes from what people in your community have actually said and done

    The difference between wanting to kill people and remaining silent among the calls for violence is negligible.

    “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

    • Naomi Shulman