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• Post #4114285

  Attn: Starbucks workers and customers “Our union is hearing concerns from baristas about an ingredient in the new Starbucks Blended Refreshers. The blending powder is silica-based and becomes airborne easily. Breathing in silica powder can be dangerous.” https://www.prismnews.com/workplace/starbucks/starbucks-workers-raise-alarm-over-silica-in-new-blended

• Post #3694339

  "It's impossible to reverse engineer the truth from bullshit." ~Lambert Strether

• Post #2376011

  A good read, if you're into geopolitics and history and the like. https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/my-temporary-enemys-temporary-enemy

• Post #2376010

  Grab a bag of popcorn for this one. 🍿 "If you’re running production workloads on Azure or relying on it for mission-critical systems, this story matters more than you think." https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

• Post #2376008

  ...The starting point is to recognize that since Trump’s return to the White House, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba have been in a de facto state of war, which is an escalation of the multiple forms of hostility and aggression of past years. This is key to how all three nations should be judged. While the Left’s commitment to democracy needs to remain unquestionable and unwavering, in these cases primary responsibility for democracy’s somewhat uncertain prospects lies with the siege imposed by imperial...

• Post #1978715

  Looks like Anna's Archive no longer has free downloads (every link goes to their donation page) and they are specifically pitching themselves to LLM companies now. jfc [EDIT: it has been pointed out that this is a fake site that is masquerading as AA - the real one still exists at .gl]

• Post #1978713

  "In a social media response to The Lever editor-in-chief David Sirota on April 17, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) posted that a five-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a War on Terror-era measure that has allowed federal law enforcement to unofficially spy on Americans’ communications — was “not acceptable.” "But emails reviewed by The Lever show Himes, the top Democratic lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, urged his collea...

• Post #1978711

  Here's the COVID Vaccine Paper the CDC Censored "...The censored paper presents data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during the 2025-2026 season. The results suggest that, in the first few months after vaccination (September-December 2025), this year's vaccines were 53-55% effective against hospitalizations among the study's population of adults without immune compromise." https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/121016? The paper in...

• Post #1978709

  Sound familiar? "Red Liberalism emerges not primarily from ideological confusion but from material conditions specific to the imperial core. In a context of fragmented labor organization, high levels of ideological incorporation, and extensive state capacity, the costs of revolutionary rupture appear prohibitive, while the incentives for institutional participation are significant. "The result is a left formation that speaks the language of Marxism while operating within the...

• Post #1978704

  Ready the Maypole!

• Post #1978703

  Something for the transit nerds out there: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-invention-of-buses/ #buses

• Post #1601753

  Best spam email evah! 😂

• Post #1020313

  🎶 Just found footage from one of my favorite jazz albums: Mingus Live at Antibes (1960). Featuring Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Bud Powell, Ted Curson, and Dannie Richmond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Q58qtF0Cg

• Post #1020311

  "New UNSW research shows social media platforms do not need to addict users to keep them – they just need to make leaving worse than staying." https://www.technology.org/2026/04/04/how-do-social-media-platforms-trap-users-in-networks-they-would-rather-leave/

• Post #1020310

  House Democrats Have Moved to the Right Since 2018: "For the first time, Democrats’ center-right caucus holds a majority in Congress. But their growing strength is out of step with where the base is headed — a huge opportunity for labor and the left." https://www.left-notes.com/p/house-democrats-have-moved-to-the

• Post #1020308

  Researchers: Hey Google, we asked your chatbot a bunch of questions and it gave a lot of wrong answers. Anything to say about that? Google: You're asking it the wrong questions.* 🤦‍♂️ https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/04/analysis-finds-google-ai-overviews-is-wrong-10-percent-of-the-time/ *i.e. if you can't control the outputs, control the inputs.

• Post #1020307

  Important stuff here for understanding the world, imo: https://www.mathofpolitics.com/2026/04/01/all-measurements-are-local/