“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence” https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
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Jason Broccardo
@zoocoup@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Job: Managing Apple things. Hobby: Buying a lot of music. Western front of Chicagoland with the parts of a great family who haven't grown up and moved out yet.
I support all coups at the zoo.
Also: @zoocoup.bsky.social and http://zoocoup.tumblr.com
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@grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange Already have plans to go on Friday. Daughter and her husband are coming up from Georgia, and that was the son-in-law's request for lunch.
Happy “Beard” release day to all who celebrate. I'm going to give it a week to see if it gets posted for sale on Bandcamp later like “Broken Hearts Club” did https://www.syds.world/music
“Balcony solar bill gains momentum in Illinois” https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-bill-gains-momentum-illinois
“The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.” https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
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@MedeaVanamonde @joshsusser @kimlockhartga Ingrid Burrington coined it during the Grammarly nonsense last month https://bsky.app/profile/lifewinning.com/post/3mgqaymhkf227
Guess the bike ride is over
“The public spoke, the Forest Service ignored them… When one unelected bureaucrat can relinquish public access to hundreds of thousands of acres of public land and we don’t get a say in it? That’s a crisis.” https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-billionaires-club-at-the-center-of-americas-public-lands-fight/
Good enough for Utah but not Illinois, I guess https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-bill-dies-illinois
January 6th Welfare Queens https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement-00925801
“The court filing did not mention terms of any potential deal.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8
“It’s like the emergency room, we are getting them when they’re on their last heartbeat and we bring’em back to life” https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-cable-cars-22244954.php
“The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could cause the US to potentially lose up to $479bn in lost tax revenue over the the next 10 years, with enforcement deterring undocumented workers from filing their taxes this year, according to tax experts.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/trump-immigration-crackdown-lost-taxes-ice
Sans context, the phrase “fully Byrd compliant” is hilarious and confusing https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-trumps-ballroom-funding
“Empty nesters are sitting on America's family-size homes.” https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/boomers-millennials-kids-homes
“Even with the improvements, it’s striking that coal appears to be the only power source that actively reduces the productivity of what’s shaping up to be its primary competitor” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution/
“Legislation to repeal or replace it would arguably be easier to enact that some blatantly partisan Court-packing scheme or a ban on partisan gerrymandering that might not pass judicial muster.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/this-big-idea-could-fix-americas-gerrymandering-madness.html
“total wife - February 20, 2026” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motrvnYqjJo
“From a billionaire’s perspective, a US Senate seat can be tantalizingly cheap. In 2022, Peter Thiel bought one for his former employee JD Vance with $15 million…This year, a handful of cryptocurrency billionaires may be on the verge of helping to secure a US Senate seat in Alabama for even less” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/crypto-alabama-senate-coinbase-ripple-andreessen/
“A tale of two wormwoods” https://chicagoreader.com/food/food-drink-feature/absinthe-malort-wormwood-spirits-history/
Single data point — Getting near time to order some more coffee. Same variety and size was $16/bag a month after Trump's Inauguration, and it's $20/bag this morning.
Repossessing jets https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/16/spirit-airlines-airplanes.html
Why is Jared Polis so horrible? https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5690286/tina-peters-polis-commutation-trump
“Few places in the nation have been transformed so completely, so quickly. Since 2000, retail giants and developers have erected more than 146 million square feet of warehouse space in the Chicago metropolitan area, equivalent in size to roughly 1,400 Home Depot stores” https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/20000-trucks-a-day-life-near-a-booming-warehouse-hub/
“Sender spends two minutes; ten people downstream lose fifteen each–if they read the whole thing at all” https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/07/08/2130?utm_content=atom
“A recall would not only be costly — it would indelibly link Taylor Farms to the phrase ‘explosive diarrhea‘ in the minds of American consumers” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/as-parasite-spawned-chaos-taylor-farms-slow-walked-its-response?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDgzMTg2MiwiZXhwIjoxNzg1NDM2NjYyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSUJWUTVUOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOUU0RDg4NjE3MkM0Nzc3QUVFMDk3NTdCODRDQTlBRCJ9.lFWFWPQrdz6xRGjwst434Th_yuF45st_trDAUl6RVtU
"one of the conversations we're going to have to have as a society … If your house has already appreciated by 50% from the time you bought it, do you really need it to soar to 100% or 400%?" https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5910711/renter-owner-wealth-gap
