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#cats #fiendish stare #video

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Shelley Duvall for the New York Times, April 2024

#waaaaaaaaaaauuuu...

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Bitch I hope grey aliens come and walk around on your lawn in the dark and make your censor light come on and the ring camera record them looking into it with their huuuge eye

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Something very interesting about the framing of self-driving cars between the US and China.

In the US, companies like Uber, Lyft, or whoever, push self-driving cars with the objective of increasing their profit (but decreasing their rate of profit) by removing drivers from their cars, effectively shifting a large part of their labour costs from the driver seat to the factory.

In China, self-driving busses are designed, built, and tested with the goal of reducing the workload on bus-drivers - who, while remaining in the driver seat, now don't have to micromanage the route at all times, like using a cruise control. It is explicitly framed as a labour-saving device.

If you're interested in the socialist position on automation, there it is in practice.

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Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.

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#GOO #cats

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Mumia Abu-Jamal addressing the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment.

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someone handed me this at a convention this past weekend where the fuck did it come from. where is he

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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also been drawing a lot of people's pets lately, it's been so emotionally healing to look at all their sweet little faces 🥹

#every time i see this post i like it again so i can keep seeing it when i access my likes... the expressions are so sweet #cats #dogs

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watching the transphobic and transmisogynist false history and supersessionist redefinition of casab terminology get canonized by public facing lgbt orgs and online terminology guides as well as major institutions like universities people look to as authoritative is actually so fucking miserable. we really cannot have fucking anything

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cambrian seas

#pokemon

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www.tdick.gov

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im so happy for lenny

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Well my life is fucked i lost my only special toy