Some predict Trump will escalate his aggression towards Cuba with a military attack on Monday. While nobody can predict Trump, it can’t hurt to call Congress and leave a message. (If you hate talking on the phone, weekends are great for calls!) Make sure Congress walks in Monday to hundreds of calls demanding the U.S. leave Cuba alone. Visit 5calls for a script.
If you’re trying to figure out how to take action, confused about whether knitting red hats is really activism, or ready to take the next step to organizing, visit commonslibrary.org today. A “Social Change Library” they have lesson plans for the resistance.
Plan a party with a purpose. Charities do it all the time, and you can too! Plan a dinner with single-serve desserts and have an auction. Plan a bingo night with proceeds to the food bank.
Let people know what the plan is up-front, and enlist a friend to co-host.
Throw a fundraiser Find Out How »
Authoritarians test new protocols on groups we’re ambivalent about. If we go along, they expand the program, and then you have to explain why it was okay for one group, but not another. Reducing your own bias is resistance work, so learn more about transgender people. Now linked : another study showing no advantage in sports one year into hormone therapy.
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. In this world over-worked medical staff don’t have the time to review notes based on pattern-matching and hallucination. Say no thanks until and unless a legally guaranteed process for correcting medical records is implemented.
Refuse AI notes Find Out How »
It’s graduation season! Gift new grads a year’s subscription to a local newspaper, national magazine, foreign paper, or the PBS station! Learning doesn’t have to stop when the classes do!
