Insert flap "A" and throw away

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Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report says

It’s hard to explain such a complicated matter in a short comic, so please forgive me for not diving deeper in some nuances. Also: I am not black, and I’m Canadian, so I’m not an authority on the matter. I just know how to draw. Listen to black voices.

White men: Don’t use the term Karen. Coming from you, it’s just misogynistic. Karen is a word coined by people of color, mostly black people, in reaction to acts of racism.

And if you’re a white woman campaigning against the use of the term Karen— wonder why you’re not campaigning against the racist acts of the ones that get called Karen.

Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.

The site is called Climate.us, and it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by researchers, journalists, teachers, planners and insurers for trusted climate information.

The new nonprofit site went fully active this week as a clone of Climate.gov.

It includes around 15 years of climate and weather data, articles, illustrated reports and access to government-mandated climate assessments.

The effort comes after the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov to a different NOAA page and fired most of the staff behind it, making years of public climate information much harder to access.

Rebecca Lindsey, the managing director of the new site, said trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change.

So far, more than 2,500 donors have contributed about $250,000 to fund the platform. Around 80 scientists and subject-matter experts have also signed on to review its content.

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Trump’s New Leak in the Back Reflecting Pool Legend 

This is one of the truly insidious, deadly, and dangerous aspects of AI use in search results, and it’s entirely by design.

The oligarchs and tech fascists want to manipulate reality (or at least the public perception of reality) by substituting their ideological lies and false bullshit for actual facts. They tell the AI to ignore sources they don’t like, and to privilege those that they do, and this is what we get.

It’s *vital* that we teach kids (and reeducate adults, if necessary) to never use AI for this sort of information gathering. It’s so dangerous to let this happen without any pushback. 

Juvenile Guineafowl Pufferfish,

A lot of rich tech folks are Mad As Hell that people are turning on AI. Despite the fact that the rich tech folks themselves have been telling us:

AI will likely put tons of us out of work

AI might end up destroying the world

Their need to advance AI (mostly To Build Data Centers rn) is more important than any needs we little people might have (not having our water supply fucked, not having noise pollution, not having utility bill spikes, etc)

They just seem stunned, STUNNED that people might be upset by ANY of that because HEY, the AI is making THEM money, isn't that a GOOD thing?

And it's not just about AI. The Bezoses have been doing press round about how they're "done" "apologizing" for their wealth and want to instead show off how great being wealthy is. Aka they're mad at people complaining they're assholes for hoarding wealth and fucking over employees. And a lot of other ultra-rich agree that we've had enough time of people being bad at the insanely wealthy and need to go back to worshiping them again.

They're getting what they wanted out of Trump and the GOP: tax cuts regulations slashed to ribbons, government contracts with next to no oversight, and getting to made trade deals with American adversaries with zero pushback from the government. They are going to fight like HELL to keep all that when Dems get back in any amount of power.

Again, one of the BIGGEST reasons the rich turned on Biden was his putting Lina Khan on the Federal Trade Commission and her blocking some corporate mergers. She ran some of the most effective FTC anti-monopoly pro-consumer enforcement IN YEARS and they never forgave Biden for it. They also hated that the Securities and Echange Comission under Biden tried to put some rules on cryptocurrencies to prevent people from being scammed (this is why they hated Gary Gensler so much).

Now Crypto gets to run free again! And people are free to lose all their life savings on it once more!