Casey the Confused

Sometimes it's hard to put into perspective how so much of what we fight about is irrelevant if we cant confront the climate crisis that's right around the corner.

My main concern with AI in entertainment isn’t that it’s gonna take over everything, but that CEOs will be swayed by tech grifters and will TRY to have it take over before finding out it doesn’t work. But it’ll be too late and they’ll have destroyed the industry chasing vapor.

1. This week, a federal investigation found that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises illegally employed at least 305 children. Two ten-year-olds were working cleaning and taking drive-thru orders until 2 AM And they weren't even paid!

They don’t go to school because they don’t wanna get shot They have no respect because adults are full of shit They’re self-medicating because adequate healthcare is inaccessible They’re scamming because late stage capitalism has fostered a culture of ‘exploit or be exploited’

This story is a must-read! LAUSD students were told they were going on a field trip to honor Tyre Nichols. By the end of the trip, they say they were wearing VR headsets to simulate how police respond to school shootings:

After their mother died, one Iowa family received a startling letter: Medicaid covered her health care, so the government was entitled to recoup that money from her estate. It seemed bogus, but Medicaid recovery efforts in "clawback" funds are very real. n.pr/3mepz4c

Every single Democrat on House Appropriations voted to gut the free school meals bill. That includes Seattle's own Lauren Davis, Cindy Ryu, Gerry Pollet, Frank Chopp, Nicole Macri, and Joe Fitzgibbon.

A Sacramento dildo saleswoman was secretly unmasked as the leading propagandist behind a neo-Nazi network that encourages acts of far-right terror and celebrates the people who commit mass shootings huffpost.com/entry/dallas-hu…