KatiePlanted
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KatiePlanted
@katieplanted.bsky.social
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Forever gardening, running my mouth, and other old lady hobbies
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
Absolutely incredible radar loop
Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.
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When the circle-jerk of AI spending runs dry, when people wise up to the fact that OpenAI is running the grift of the century, what happens to the data centers?

The most likely use-case, I argue in this piece, is an entrenchment and expansion in surveillance and military tech.
When the AI bubble pops, what happens with the data centers?
The most likely use-case: mass surveillance & military tech
open.substack.com
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I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
Read the replies and all the quote shares. I’m dying of laughter right now!
do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.
This happened to my family, but the person said it to us as my dad was turning into a parking lot. My dad still cracks that joke every time we drive together.
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People act like you have to pay to use your turn signal
I read the Wikipedia entries for scary movies so I can keep up with popular culture bc there’s no way I can watch them. I STILL think about the Hereditary entry.
If you are able to, PLEASE donate to your local food banks (plural).
This is what my boyfriend made himself for dinner last night. He had a banana split with brownies.
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space fantasies are to billionaires what apocalypse fantasies are to the rest of us: avoidance of our responsibilities to this planet and each other
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It will never not be lost on me that the tech weirdos whose brains got scrambled on Lord of the Rings missed the central narrative of the book which is that friendship and good simple food is what makes life worth living.
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love living in an era where every new SUV looks like a tank for ICE
When you search for the owner of this helicopter, the first hit is a news story involving Border Patrol

Heads up Roseville/Placer
I dunno man, I feel like someone who’d work for Blackwater is someone too far down that road to ever be able to deconstruct those beliefs.