Many medical offices are integrating AI-mediated note taking. In a different world where LLMs prioritized accuracy and practices weren’t squeezed for every dime of profit, this wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. That’s not our world.
Most offices are experimenting with AI, and will ask your permission. This protects them from liability. Head off problems by refusing to be a guinea pig.
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The food industry is one of the few not utterly monopolized in America. As prices and cuts drive food insecurity, small restaurants will struggle. They are the first budget item most families cut.
To the extent your budget allows, shift spending from national chains to local ones.
Reward Restaurants Find Out How »
Instead of annual gifts at the holidays, or for pledge drives, shift to equivalent recurring donations.
If finances are tight, see if there is a subscription you can cancel, and shift that money to a worthy cause.
Recurring donations Find Out How »
Chicago has emerged as a leading anti-ICE organizer. Their neighborhood watches run smoothly and are innovating resistance.
One of the simplest actions you can take is to help organize whistle brigades. Click through for resources and information.
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Whistle Resistance Find Out How »
Winter brings cozy weather for tea and reading. Order a couple of history or how-to books that will fuel your resistance, and make time to read them, or listen to audio books while you clean.
If it’s been a while, read anything at all. Get back in the habit of training your mind to stick with a topic for more than a few minutes.
Build relationships with folks in armed forces. They make choices every day about whether to cooperate, or be sand in the gears. Remind them what’s at stake, and avoid isolating them.
This is not incompatible with making ICE unwelcome in your city. Click through to learn more about confronting the uniform, not the human within it.
Actively support the content you want to see online. We’re in an eternal war with social media’s commercialization. They want to show you ads. You want to see friends, activists, or cute dogs.
Every time you see something you like, interact with it. Your feed will improve quickly, and everyone around you benefits too.
Get a t-shirt, jewelry, lanyard, pin, button, sticker…something that lets people know where you stand. I recently complimented a rainbow-flag peeking out from a doctor’s busy lanyard. She was so pleased and said she wasn’t sure anyone noticed. I assured her anyone who needs the reassurance, notices.
Normalize progressive messages! Flood the zone with symbols of the resistance. Make it cool to dissent!
Battles over symbols matter. Furious efforts to brand the No Kings! rallies anti-American were countered by a strong presence of American flags in protest images. It’s time we reclaim the image of America as inclusive and constantly striving for greater fairness and justice.
Flag Resistance Find Out How »
