Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

We now know that all the years of Susan Collins concern kabuki was, in fact, just Collins hanging out a shingle, letting the world know that her vote was available for purchase.

#SusanCollins #Maine #ChooseTroyJackson #GOPTraitor #USPol

America abandoning routine vaccination programmes and watching eradicated diseases surge back is a grim warning on anti-science populism. Allowing conspiracy theories to dismantle public health safeguards endangers children. Why let fringe ideology risk lives? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE https://inews.co.uk/news/world/america-stopped-vaccines-diseases-back-4757248

I was astonished, yesterday, talking to a friend in Ottawa.

Me: "wait! Did you just say your daughter uses … a pencil? At high school?" 😵‍💫

Friend: "oh yes. The teachers are bringing pencil and paper back to counteract [other educational trends]."

😯 I admit, I didn't expect that.

Bravo! 💐

"As AI use rises, some profs go back to pens and paper"
Sorry, paywalled … Ottawa Citizen
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/pens-and-paper-carleton-professors-students

#noAI #education

American workers need to remember that we're currently around 400% as productive as our parents' generation. We're working the same or sometimes more hours and we're not making ends meet.

Employers could have doubled our income or halved our hours while still making double the money. Instead they just hoarded it all for themselves.

Even if AI is more efficient, it's never going to help you.

#fascism #corporate #unionizeDammit

… "A chatbot w. good cultural fit might reflect beliefs back sympathetically, in the user’s own vocabulary. In psychotherapy this is called collusion. … a therapist goes along with a client’s account in a way that prevents anything from changing.

Chatbots are prone to collusion b/c of how they are built & trained (ex: on human approval ratings) …"

I'm sad to see folks using ChatGPT (etc) as coaches & therapists.

We professionals are ethically constrained against this collusion.
#ethics #noAI

Food for thought...

If elected, Brandon Herrera, "the AK guy", would represent the town of Uvalde
where, in May 2022, an 18-year-old former student killed 19 children and two teachers.

Shannon Watts, the founder of the gun safety group Moms Demand Action,
has been a target of Herrera’s aggressive use of social media.
Should he win, she says, there could be long-lasting consequences.

“His idea that somehow we should be grateful that firearms are being used in mass killings is a very cynical ploy to numb people to gun violence,
to make them expect it and even accept it.
The more Brandon Herreras we elect to Congress, the more likely that will be our destiny.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/23/brandon-herrera-ulvade-congress-race?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

51 UN member states issued a joint statement supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression and calling on Moscow to accept a ceasefire. “Ukraine has agreed to a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire. We call on Russia to finally do the same,” the countries said in their joint statement at the UN. #Ukraine

MSNOW - Ford's Theatre, the playhouse where President Lincoln was assassinated, has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry Donald Trump's name. https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fords-theatre-name-kennedy-center?cid=eml_mda_20260923&user_email=1b58f056e9a32795f0c9e3c3ed07989126e27ee1d4e6b2839569e8246a0ee755

We need a full investigation and accountability but will not likely see either. Another reason we must abolish ICE.

Story: https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/ice-shooting-victim-doordash-delivery-austin-22441179.php

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”

An Iranian couple seeking refuge in the United States faces a cruel new form of family separation. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/21/asylum-iranian-couple-detention-deport

"As a lawyer, I almost have to thank him, because he makes the job of lawyers very easy when it comes to doing something that typically has been considered difficult, which is proving motive." https://trib.al/1KCKNu3

Suspect ‘opened fire’ on officer as worshippers gathered at Belleville synagogue for Yom Kippur
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/40cb4175f7bfe25f2916997a14b60fdda9a856091715abd6ca244b2f88f2222d/HFYQYGLL3FGKXC4Q5JUOK7UWHQ/

I’m a left wing radical because I believe in the radical idea that people shouldn’t starve to death when anyone in their society is throwing away food, people shouldn’t succumb to treatable illness due to an inability to pay when elective surgeries are happening, and people shouldn’t be rounded up into camps because of the color of their skin or the language that they speak.

And yeah, I grew up in Colorado. I hunt. I fish. I drive a truck. I just also abhor suffering and hate.

RE: https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/117309926355759820

This is the future for every company that doesn't pull their assets out of Russia

Gonorrhea just issued a statement: ‘Please stop comparing us to him. We have standards.’ 😂 https://www.byteseu.com/2386048/ #America #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #WeThePeople

Man shot by ICE in Austin held with a bullet still in his back, attorney says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-shot-by-ice-in-austin-held-with-a-bullet-still-in-his-back-attorney-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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