John Coons/Teo
@johncoons.bsky.social
Musician, Writer, Homo, He/They, NYC
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AI boosters wilfully ignore the fact that genAI is gravely damaging the digital commons, right now, with false documents and false words and ideas attributed to people living and dead. That's absolute proof that they don't understand culture or history, and shouldn't be entrusted with these tools
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
AI boosters wilfully ignore the fact that genAI is gravely damaging the digital commons, right now, with false documents and false words and ideas attributed to people living and dead. That's absolute proof that they don't understand culture or history, and shouldn't be entrusted with these tools
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The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The recent trans rights cases--Skrmetti on health care, the shadow docket passport order, and the pending athletics cases--should be seen in this context, as vehicles for chipping away at the promise of equal protection
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
I swear to god, I’m uninstalling every app and blocking every business that tries to tell me how my year went.
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I swear to god, I’m uninstalling every app and blocking every business that tries to tell me how my year went.
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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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LMFAO. OFC David Brooks is in the Epstein files. Ahahahahaha
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
LMFAO. OFC David Brooks is in the Epstein files. Ahahahahaha
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this is how you do it. unmute
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
this is how you do it. unmute
Pictured: An artist yearning for a world in which they don’t have to bait the algorithm so that people can hear about their new show, DOUBLE INDUMBNITY, premiering THIS SATURDAY, Dec 20th at 9:30 pm at Green Room 42
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Pictured: An artist yearning for a world in which they don’t have to bait the algorithm so that people can hear about their new show, DOUBLE INDUMBNITY, premiering THIS SATURDAY, Dec 20th at 9:30 pm at Green Room 42
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Again, if a sex or gender binary were "natural," they wouldn't have to be enforced through law!
I hope Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. choke on their bullshit grifty supplements. Leave trans kids alone, you ghouls.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, if a sex or gender binary were "natural," they wouldn't have to be enforced through law!
I hope Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. choke on their bullshit grifty supplements. Leave trans kids alone, you ghouls.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I hope Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. choke on their bullshit grifty supplements. Leave trans kids alone, you ghouls.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.
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The next few days are going to be hard. The fear is palpable. So please, if you’re at all wondering: I wish you could see how much the world needs you. Right now, all that matters is getting to morning.
* thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
* pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/
* translifeline.org/
* thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
* pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/
* translifeline.org/
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The next few days are going to be hard. The fear is palpable. So please, if you’re at all wondering: I wish you could see how much the world needs you. Right now, all that matters is getting to morning.
* thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
* pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/
* translifeline.org/
* thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
* pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/
* translifeline.org/
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every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
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Alright, we're finally at the point of the rehearsal process where I can say that we've really made something special and if you don't get your tickets, you're missing out. Y'all are always asking, "When's your next NYC show?" WELL, IT'S THIS SATURDAY. BUY A TICKET.
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Alright, we're finally at the point of the rehearsal process where I can say that we've really made something special and if you don't get your tickets, you're missing out. Y'all are always asking, "When's your next NYC show?" WELL, IT'S THIS SATURDAY. BUY A TICKET.
Just realized that if my boyfriend had theme music, it would be double reed instruments in 6/8
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just realized that if my boyfriend had theme music, it would be double reed instruments in 6/8
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
NEW YORK: EIGHT DAYS until we premiere a brand new, full length show! GET YOUR DAMN TICKETS!
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
NEW YORK: EIGHT DAYS until we premiere a brand new, full length show! GET YOUR DAMN TICKETS!
Think of the speed and breadth in the ways AI has been shoved into everything, how quickly infrastructure was built, how we retooled our economy toward it.
But apparently we can only do these things to destroy the environment, not save it.
But apparently we can only do these things to destroy the environment, not save it.
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Think of the speed and breadth in the ways AI has been shoved into everything, how quickly infrastructure was built, how we retooled our economy toward it.
But apparently we can only do these things to destroy the environment, not save it.
But apparently we can only do these things to destroy the environment, not save it.
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Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
Jesus it was an insane choice to premiere a brand new full length show in December. It's gonna be great and also, what is sleep?
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Jesus it was an insane choice to premiere a brand new full length show in December. It's gonna be great and also, what is sleep?
Yeah yeah, that’s your gender. What’s your subclass?
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Yeah yeah, that’s your gender. What’s your subclass?
Because you all respond to pics, buy a ticket to the premiere of our new show, Double InDUMBnity on Dec 20 at Green Room 42! Our last NYC show for a while as we head to Puerto Vallarta with it all Jan/most of Feb!
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Because you all respond to pics, buy a ticket to the premiere of our new show, Double InDUMBnity on Dec 20 at Green Room 42! Our last NYC show for a while as we head to Puerto Vallarta with it all Jan/most of Feb!
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This cartoon is from 2009. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #SameAsItEverWas
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This cartoon is from 2009. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ #SameAsItEverWas