Franki Butler
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Just asking for the class, was that *before* or *after* he condemned an entire generation to die horribly from AIDS while he obliterated all the union protections that kept the rich from exploiting everyone? I’ll hang up and listen.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Just asking for the class, was that *before* or *after* he condemned an entire generation to die horribly from AIDS while he obliterated all the union protections that kept the rich from exploiting everyone? I’ll hang up and listen.
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.
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I feel like it might have been a bad idea to get rid of all the people who know how to find mass shooters because like, DEI
Manhunt for Brown University shooter stretches into fourth day, leaving residents on edge reut.rs/4oWdnj2
Manhunt for Brown University shooter stretches into fourth day, leaving residents on edge
The manhunt for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and injured seven more in a classroom shooting stretched into a fourth day on Tuesday, leaving the campus and surrounding neighborhood on edge.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I feel like it might have been a bad idea to get rid of all the people who know how to find mass shooters because like, DEI
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It's structural racism for the future
Did you know that Workday is being sued because an AI tool they sell for hiring actually discriminates against marginalized people?
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
AI Bias Lawsuit Against Workday Reaches Next Stage as Court Grants Conditional Certification of ADEA Claim
A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, when the Northern
www.lawandtheworkplace.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's structural racism for the future
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Did you know that Workday is being sued because an AI tool they sell for hiring actually discriminates against marginalized people?
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
AI Bias Lawsuit Against Workday Reaches Next Stage as Court Grants Conditional Certification of ADEA Claim
A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, when the Northern
www.lawandtheworkplace.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Did you know that Workday is being sued because an AI tool they sell for hiring actually discriminates against marginalized people?
This is my shocked face.
This is my shocked face.
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
The Coke cost more on the Black side.
One of my least favorite parts of Hollywood is that while it's an industry famous for douchebag screamers, almost everyone who *isn't* a screamer is so conflict-avoidant that lying "you didn't get the job b/c diversity" is preferable to saying "you weren't a good fit"/"you weren't up to par."
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of my least favorite parts of Hollywood is that while it's an industry famous for douchebag screamers, almost everyone who *isn't* a screamer is so conflict-avoidant that lying "you didn't get the job b/c diversity" is preferable to saying "you weren't a good fit"/"you weren't up to par."
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Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.
The narrative is that trans people will harm and harass people in the bathroom, but it almost always is actually like this case where the aggressor is the transphobe confronting the trans person. It's ridiculous. They want to kick "undesirables" out from public life entirely, if they could.
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Minneapolis has FIFTY YEARS of inclusive laws protecting trans people, allowing them to self-identify, and ZERO cases of trans people attacking women in the bathroom. ZERO. Over FIFTY YEARS.
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This is just one example, but this story is the perfect example of why mediocre white guys are against DEI and this is the “American Dream” they’re trying to preserve. This is the “western culture” they want to protect, and anti-discrimination laws and policies destroy that.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is just one example, but this story is the perfect example of why mediocre white guys are against DEI and this is the “American Dream” they’re trying to preserve. This is the “western culture” they want to protect, and anti-discrimination laws and policies destroy that.
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Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98.
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Pauline Copes Johnson, a descendant of Harriet Tubman, has died at 98.
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
She spent a lifetime guarding that legacy from the small city where Tubman spent her final years
www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/11/t...
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He decided racism was the cure to his mid-life crisis. Many such cases.
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
He decided racism was the cure to his mid-life crisis. Many such cases.
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Guys you can literally avoid all weird "Christmas is secular!" nonsense *and* still give your community and workplace some joy during a dark time by doubling down on being excited about New Year's, an *actually secular holiday*
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Guys you can literally avoid all weird "Christmas is secular!" nonsense *and* still give your community and workplace some joy during a dark time by doubling down on being excited about New Year's, an *actually secular holiday*
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Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
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One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.
Federal government employment is down more than 270k since the start of the year amidst DOGE cuts—that's nearly 9% of the Fed workforce
The large drops in recent months are caused by many workers who've been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed
The large drops in recent months are caused by many workers who've been on deferred resignation becoming officially unemployed
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.
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Every time: see how confidently wrong AI is when describing unimportant things (like cartoon details).
Now imagine relying on AI for *important* things.
People don't grasp how wrong AI is about things *entirely because they're asking it about things they don't know*.
Now imagine relying on AI for *important* things.
People don't grasp how wrong AI is about things *entirely because they're asking it about things they don't know*.
December 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Every time: see how confidently wrong AI is when describing unimportant things (like cartoon details).
Now imagine relying on AI for *important* things.
People don't grasp how wrong AI is about things *entirely because they're asking it about things they don't know*.
Now imagine relying on AI for *important* things.
People don't grasp how wrong AI is about things *entirely because they're asking it about things they don't know*.
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How reliable is AI?
I recalled a funny review of Warners' THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP that analyzed how Mrs. Grecht, Porky's landlady, compared to the "Karen" stereotype.
I googled keywords to find it.
Google's AI hallucinated a new character named Karen and gave most of Petunia's role to her.
I recalled a funny review of Warners' THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP that analyzed how Mrs. Grecht, Porky's landlady, compared to the "Karen" stereotype.
I googled keywords to find it.
Google's AI hallucinated a new character named Karen and gave most of Petunia's role to her.
![A Google screenshot shows how I googled "day the earth blew up" along with the names Daffy, Porky, and Karen.
Google's AI Overview promptly hallucinates the idea that the movie actually has a character named Karen in it (it doesn't): "a new character... a science-loving, resourceful companion who helps [Daffy and Porky] foil the plot, adding a smart, energetic element to their classic odd-couple dynamic."
Obviously, the AI describes its invented character as having what is essentially Petunia Pig's role in the film.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2adqysxyt44dtz5bqlxdud2/bafkreicfqxd5d23ncxqz5g5nkwyzn6cg22ad23xzki24yzqz7zvct4x7ji@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
How reliable is AI?
I recalled a funny review of Warners' THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP that analyzed how Mrs. Grecht, Porky's landlady, compared to the "Karen" stereotype.
I googled keywords to find it.
Google's AI hallucinated a new character named Karen and gave most of Petunia's role to her.
I recalled a funny review of Warners' THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP that analyzed how Mrs. Grecht, Porky's landlady, compared to the "Karen" stereotype.
I googled keywords to find it.
Google's AI hallucinated a new character named Karen and gave most of Petunia's role to her.
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I think one of the reasons why people are angry at this objectively true statement (aside from “they’re racist”) is that people still want to believe that the internet is inherently egalitarian and video is about as far as you can get from an egalitarian medium
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I think one of the reasons why people are angry at this objectively true statement (aside from “they’re racist”) is that people still want to believe that the internet is inherently egalitarian and video is about as far as you can get from an egalitarian medium
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If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶
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December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Some people took down entire websites, changed mission statements and mandates or dropped entire projects at the start of this year
But kept the job
Kept the title
and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world
But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.
But kept the job
Kept the title
and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world
But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Some people took down entire websites, changed mission statements and mandates or dropped entire projects at the start of this year
But kept the job
Kept the title
and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world
But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.
But kept the job
Kept the title
and kept posting online telling other people what they can do to save the world
But couldn’t even hold the line themselves.
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People across the world will likely spend the end of the year revisiting or newly discovering Reiner's art. When the other one dies, people will be looking for places to party and then they'll put him out of their minds.
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
People across the world will likely spend the end of the year revisiting or newly discovering Reiner's art. When the other one dies, people will be looking for places to party and then they'll put him out of their minds.
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Remember, Mr. Rogers' original comment was intended for CHILDREN. Children need comfort, and their power is obviously very limited.
We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.
We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.
An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Remember, Mr. Rogers' original comment was intended for CHILDREN. Children need comfort, and their power is obviously very limited.
We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.
We're adults. We do need comfort, but we also need to take action. And what you'll find is the more you do, the better you'll feel. Look for the helpers and join them.
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I’ve missed the Twitter experience. Over here, when I say hello, nobody responds with “what about black on black crime in Chicago?”
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I’ve missed the Twitter experience. Over here, when I say hello, nobody responds with “what about black on black crime in Chicago?”
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Distrust and verify is the appropriate stance re: anything coming from the FBI (always).
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Distrust and verify is the appropriate stance re: anything coming from the FBI (always).