They cut off usda funding from Minnesota, which includes wic and snap. Please consider donating to food banks around the area or food drives. Many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes to shop as well and a community member is doing great work.
Link to midwest food bank:
Link to a community food drive:
I really think we should stop saying "kid-friendly" and start saying "ad-friendly". We shouldn't indulge these companies and their excuses anymore. I also think that continuing to pretend that this is about "protecting the children" pushes a lot of the blame onto kids and teens, who don't have the political power to push through any of this censorship legislature. Corporations and governments are to blame.
Many people are aware that copyright originated as and remains a protection for publishers, not authors.
However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.
These rights include:
The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.
The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.
The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.
So let's review:
❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.
✅ AI harms authors because it violates their rights to attribution and integrity.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
facebook screenshot is unfortunately an AI generated story, searching for mary richardson or alice richardson or any of the quotes from the "diary" doesn't give any results other than various facebook posts that are all identical and were all posted no earlier than 2 months ago, from what i could find
the OG post is very true though
I found this post on linkedin with "references" that don't check out. Smithsonian magazine has no article on washing machines for example.
The photo is from a 1956 German laundy.
Here is an article about the material culture around laundry that came up when I was trying to verify the Mary Richardson story.
Agitated to Clean: How the Washing Machine Changed Life For the American Woman by Leslie Madsen-Brooks.
Madsen-Brooks uses quotes from an oral history project from 1981 about domestic labour.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
This is an AI generated story :(
The facebook account it comes from has a clearly ai-generated thumbnail, and is chock-full of likely fabricated stories written in the exact same format, following the exact same layout and style. I could find no records of this story or anything like it from before two weeks ago.
I suspect even the name "Mary Richardson" is ripped from the wikipedia page of Margaret P. Colvin, the inventor of the Triumph Rotary Washer and three other patents related to laundry, in the 1870s/80s. Mary was her mother.
The topic of this post is valid and important, but it's equally important that we talk about the real people who have been affected by labor-saving devices and the absence thereof, not the inventions of a soulless LLM.
Obviously no hate toward anyone who has shared this or been otherwise duped by it. It's horrifying that we live in a time where we can't trust that anything we see is even made by a human hand, let alone true.
"ICE Agents are Murderers"
Seen in Mexico City
"Quit your job"
Graffiti painted on an ICE facility during a protest in Austin, Texas
"Who do we call when the killer is the police???"
Seen in Iran
We need to talk about the false narrative around the Iranian people’s revolution.
Some Western leftist media/ figures refuse to support the ongoing revolution in Iran because they believe regime change would benefit the US and Israel. But what if I told you it benefits Iranian people?
We are against the Islamic regime. We want secularism. That is the one thing uniting everyone in the streets. We come from different backgrounds and groups, and we may have different visions for Iran’s future, but we are united against this regime.
This is not new. We have risen up before — in 2009, 2019, 2022, and many times before that.
The Islamic regime has killed more people in three days than Israel has killed in twelve days in Iran. You must understand: the Islamic regime is the enemy of Iranian people too. This regime is killing people to survive, accusing protestors of being connected to Israel or the US, while they are all Iranians demanding freedom.
It has been almost two days the internet was cut off in Iran. The last time this happened, during the bloody November of 2019, the regime killed 1,500 people within 3 days in silence.
Please do not fall for the regime’s narrative. This is a people’s revolution.
Idea: drawing feminine pokemon as men and masculine pokemon as women (without changing the base design much)
BEHOLD! THE MAGICAL JEW! We're white when it's convenient for antisemites, we're nonwhite when it's convenient for antisemites, we're evil disgusting communists when it's convenient for antisemites, we're evil disgusting fascists when it's convenient for antisemites, we're snivelling whipped beggars when it's convenient for antisemites, we're domineering greedy billionaires that control the world when it's convenient for antisemites, we're anti-racist when it's convenient for antisemites, we're racist when it's convenient for antisemites,
Every scapegoat you want and MORE!!!
when a mutual posts a poll you know nothing about, but they say "orangutan johnson my beloved, orangutan johnson sweep!!!!" you vote for orangutan johhnson. it's called loyalty.
the doctrine of "original sin" frustrates me not just because that's a cruel thing to believe about literal babies but also because the "sin" it's talking about is... chava eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? which i don't personally view as a "sin" in the way christians view the concept, e.g. a moral stain, but more like a child's act of disobedience -- an act that teaches a lesson, establishes a boundary, and by doing so makes the actor (the child, or chava) more mature or rounds out their worldview through experience. children don't intrinsically know the difference between right and wrong or good and evil, and they need to explore in a safe environment (like an idyllic and enclosed garden) to develop that understanding.
as a result of their disobedience, adam and chava realize they're naked (toddlers don't care if they're wearing pants or not), are cast out of the garden (children grow up and leave their parents' houses), and learn a.) the toil it will take to feed themselves and b.) the pain that is unavoidable in creating a new life. every child learns these things in the process of becoming an adult.
christians took a coming-of-age story and decided that it actually meant that every woman and every child was tainted (notice how men aren't given nearly that level of demonization based on adam's disobedience). that's heinous.
Throwback to this post (it happened again, just with the Original Sin instead of Heaven/Hell)
i didn't mind that mormons were reblogging this but this comment crosses a line for me. you do not get to tell me, a jew, that my jewish interpretation of this millennia-old jewish story is "reinventing" a <200-year-old religion that claims zion -- an ancient hebrew name for jerusalem, our holiest city -- is in fucking utah, on pueblo and southern paiute land. haven't you guys already stolen enough
i'm not gonna touch the adam damned humanity thing bc i think the person who made that comment is catholic, not baptist/southern baptist and i don't know enough abt the different christian demoninations' theology to weigh in there.
that said, this is really interesting to me that (some?) christians take this story as meaning you should blindly trust authority Or Else, given that all the conflict in this story stems from adam blindly trusting g-d that he really would die if he ate from the tree, and chava blindly trusting that adam had relayed the instruction accurately. it was their blind obedience that left them vulnerable to the serpent's manipulation. the most common jewish interpretation that i've heard of this part of the story goes something like this:
in breishit/genesis, g-d tells adam that he may not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or he will die -- a falsehood. once chava is made, adam then tells her they may not eat from or touch the tree. when the serpent comes, chava tells it that she and her husband are forbidden to eat from or touch the tree, and the serpent responds, "you're not gonna die, but if you eat this fruit you'll know stuff only g-d knows like good and evil." so chava touches the tree - a necessary step in eating from it -- and doesn't die. so now she trusts the serpent and she eats, and then gives some to adam, who also eats.
adam gave chava an extra instruction that didn't come from g-d -- the part about not touching the tree -- perhaps to make extra-sure she wouldn't transgress and thus die. this resulted directly in chava eating the fruit. then, when chava shared it with him, he could have said no, but he ate anyway. chava didn't die, so it must be fine. adam gave chava faulty information and she acted based on that, and he followed her, also because g-d kept the correct information from him.
the lesson i've been taught and gleaned from this is, basically, about misinformation and honesty. if you lie to someone (especially a child, going back to my original post) about why you're giving them an instruction, it may actually lead them to disregard that instruction when the reason you gave proves false. additionally, if you misreport the words of another, you may lead someone else to transgression or danger. this informs two jewish principles: 'do not place a stumbling block before the blind' -- do not do things that would lead someone else to screw up out of ignorance -- and the principle of not adding or subtracting any words from the torah, bc faithful and accurate transmission of g-d's word is essential to teaching our children how to follow g-d's laws.