remember.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

I phrased the search a different way and the bot happily gave the opposite claim also as true, once again connected to a different set of semi-credible sources. Among the other issues, then, is that we are dealing with de-contextualizing tools. Information lifted from its chain of reference.

In other words, even good students who are mostly doing their due diligence may be misled by how the bot takes nearly-accurate information, and then presents it as field consensus. The claim in question was one of those borderline bits of field-discourse, which can understandably be tricky.

An illegal order was given. An illegal order was followed.

This puts into context the reaction of the Trump admin to the video by Democratic lawmakers urging troops not to follow illegal orders.

Now it’s illegal orders to kill foreign nationals. Next it could be illegal orders to kill Americans.

This is amazing!! "What if we just said 'fck you' to *all* viruses??"

I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/

I'm now wondering if the South Korean beauty market uses the same snails as French chefs...

You can go to your local library exactly ONE time and get a free membership there that lets you download all kinds of ebooks, audiobooks, streaming movies, the works. Do that