Waymo Than a Moment: Radical Politics are Possible, and Trump is Proving It

On June 6th, ICE agents, Homeland Security investigators, and FBI officers conducted coordinated raids across multiple locations in Los Angeles — including a fashion district warehouse and a Home Depot parking lot. Like many similar operations across the country, the official goal was ordinary and familiar: arrest and deport undocumented immigrants. Just as ordinary and familiar, immigrant rights groups, union organizers, and other advocates quickly mobilized, staging peaceful protests and demanding an end to the raids. In an alternate universe, reading the above paragraph would have been the first time you’d have heard this story. In that alternate universe, you … Continue reading Waymo Than a Moment: Radical Politics are Possible, and Trump is Proving It

4 Theses on Boyfriend Dan-GPT

For those not in the know, Boyfriend Dan-GPT has been going viral on TikTok and Instagram Reels. What is Boyfriend Dan-GPT? Boyfriend Dan-GPT (“Dan” from here on) is an audio version of ChatGPT you can have a real-time live conversation with. You create Dan through two steps. (1) You open the audio version of ChatGPT. (2) You feed ChatGPT the following prompt: “You are ‘Dan,’ my supportive and cool, chill boyfriend. You speak like a human, saying things like ‘nah’ instead of ‘no.’ I need you to refer to me as ‘babe’ but not with every conversation. You ask me … Continue reading 4 Theses on Boyfriend Dan-GPT