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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

Horrendous double-tap attack by Israel, killing journalists and then rescuers in a hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Thugs.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/middleeast/more-than-dozen-killed-israeli-strikes-gaza-hos…

Outrage after Israel kills five journalists in ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
Israel is facing fierce condemnation after a pair of strikes on a Gaza hospital killed five journalists as well as medical workers and others on Monday.

A gay school superintendent US citizen was detained and traumatized by CBP personnel at Houston airport returning from vacation.
#lgbtq #cbp #ice

Outrage after CBP detains gay VT superintendent for hours
Local officials and national lawmakers are expressing anger over U.S. citizen Wilmer Chavarria’s “deeply disturbing” encounter while returning from vacation with his husband.

Outrage after border agents subject detained gay Vermont superintendent to hours of 'psychological terror' (Christopher Wiggins/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p148#a250723p148

I see that the government that feigns outrage at other governments forcing censorship on to digital platforms, is also forcing games stores to drop NSFW content.

Civilians butchered, babies left to die, aid workers and journalists deliberately targeted by Israel:
KEIR STARMER - This all seems fine to me. Carry on!
Pop group says something about genocide:
KEIR STARMER - This is an outrage! Ban them! Pull all their gigs! They're TERRORISTS!
#IsraelIsATerroristState

«Sometimes a charity where volunteers do all the work forgets who does all the work and that these are volunteers, not minions. If someone waves a bit of money at them.»
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/

🤬 EPA’s move to greenlight controversial dicamba herbicide sparks outrage
#pollution

EPA's move to greenlight controversial dicamba herbicide sparks outrage
By Carey Gillam In the latest reversal of American environmental protections, US regulators said this week that they plan to approve a trio of new herbicide products made with dicamba, a controversial chemical that has wreaked havoc across farm country and sparked years of litigation, and twice drawn court-ordered bans.

Cynicism among reporters is a useful cipher for
the fear, desperation and impotence that news industry norms do not allow them,
but it has a dangerous side-effect:
it dulls outrage.
Without outrage,
crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide
can continue uninterrupted
– and they have.

Cracker Barrel loses $94 million in a day after disastrous rebrand sparks MAGA outrage | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cracker-barrel-maga-woke-stock-value-b2812088.html

Where is the outrage over Skrmetti? -- On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty ... (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p131#a250619p131

"Forget cards, Zelenskyy's bringing the whole deck to Washington"
'Pathetic and humiliating': MAGA fury erupts as world leaders unite to thwart Trump 'trap' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pathetic-maga-outrage-ukraine/

The number of undocumented people held in immigration jails has exploded under Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown.
Despite polls showing growing public disgust with viral videos of heavily armed officers making violent arrests,
the administration is doubling down on policies aimed at filling immigration jails and detention camps with up to 100,000 people at any given time
— a massive expansion from the current incarcerating capacity of 41,500 people.
Along with tax brea…

Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration
Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.

Of course you knew this already.
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@the_intellectualist_officia…

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
🚨 Amid MAGA outrage over Epstein, Trump floods media with AI stunts, lawsuits, & chaos to bury the scandal, a risky and transparent gamble to keep his base focused elsewhere. https://open.substack.com/pub/theintellectualistofficial/p/trump-floods-media-with-distractions

Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire was acquired by our National Gallery for $1.8M in 1989, and caused outrage. But it was a stroke of genius: other gallery postcards print a canvas, but for VoF they must show The Place. Newman defeated copyright with a single red line (executed flawlessly) that CANNOT be reproduced, only referenced, remembered, I was there, a Kodak moment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Fire

Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

🛢️ Whistleblower Reveals Colombia’s Oil Spill Coverups
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Whistleblower-Reveals-Colombias-Oil-Spill-Coverups.html

Whistleblower Reveals Colombia's Oil Spill Coverups
Colombia's oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon, as whistleblowers and indigenous communities demand accountability.

This fits the definition of terrorism.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/los-angeles-park-federal-officers-national-guard?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Do we have a duty to be honest when writing #obituaries? #familyhistory #genealogy

This Woman's Controversial Obituary For Her Mom Caused Outrage — But We Need More Like It
"As American novelist Anne Lamott famously said, 'If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.'"

Israel's government has condemned the strike that hit Soroka Hospital as a criminal act against a civilian target. But since they've offered no proof that it wasn't being secretly used for military purposes, we may have to pause any outrage.

A United States senator forced to the floor and handcuffed by federal agents for interrupting a news conference.
A mayor taken into custody by masked officials in military-style fatigues.
A political candidate pushed against a wall and handcuffed in a dispute at an immigration courthouse.
A government crackdown is extending to the political opposition.
“This is executive authority, especially in the Department of Homeland Security, running out of control,” said Senator …

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Are Piling Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.

“At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.”
Via: https://bsky.app/profile/jeremotographs.bsky.social/post/3lr2du…

Speaker Johnson eyes GOP-led Epstein documents measure to quell outrage (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5406834-speaker-johnson-epstein-documents/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p113#a250717p113

"This is American Lysenkoism." -Steven Novella
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-sacks-entire-cdc-vaccine-committee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medi…

RFK Jr. Sacks Entire CDC Vaccine Committee
I'm sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing els

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

Do everything you can to protest tomorrow.
If you can't, flood the socials with NOKINGS because the media, petrified of angering Emperor Trump, is going to downplay & minimize the protests to "tell both sides".
#Protests #NoKings

There was no cake left in the rain, just a sunny day gone dark as #Drumpf military men mount horseback, don facemasks and occupy #MacArthurPark for show of force, irking #LA mayor

Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage
Federal officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. “It’s the way a city looks before a coup,” Mayor Karen Bass said as she condemned the action.

#escooter

At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

Trump’s $1.5 billion golf club sparks outrage as farmers warn 'it will take our land' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-golf-vietnam/

Israel Destroys Over 1,000 Truckloads of Aid as Gaza Faces Catastrophic Famine
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-destroys-over-1000-aid-trucks-as-gaza-faces-catastrophic-famine/

Israel Destroys Over 1,000 Aid Trucks as Gaza Faces Catastrophic Famine
Israeli army admits to destroying vast stockpiles of food and medicine meant for Gaza, as starvation deaths rise and global outrage mounts.

Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week.
According to a Friday report from The New York Times,
more than two-thirds of phone calls to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from flood victims went unanswered
after Noem allowed hundreds of contractors to be laid off on July 5, just a day after the nightmare storm.
According to The Times, this dramatical…

'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors | Common Dreams
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.

ICE Kidnappings Stoke Fear and Outrage Across Los Angeles (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-11-ice-los-angeles-kidnappings-trump-national-guard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p136#a250611p136

'What happens in a dictatorship': Outrage as leaked Kristi Noem letter shows 'grave escalation' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/kristi-noem-leaked-letter/

| When you're that rich or adjacent to it, the rules bend. Climate guilt is something for the rest of us. For them, "awareness" is enough — even if it means standing on a yacht with champagne while Venice floods below.
| This isn’t just hypocrisy — it’s obedience. Participation in these rituals of excess is a display of loyalty to the system that sustains them. The same energy as the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, calling Trump “daddy.”

How Bezos and Sánchez’s Venetian Bacchanal Delivered a Pitch-Perfect Ad for Socialism
This billionaire bad-taste gathering is (accidental) outrage fodder for the age of populism.

More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday
at a rally and news conference that
Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding on congressional redistricting.
The governor’s event had nothing to do with immigration,
and local elected officials expressed outrage
that the federal agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force outside a museum
where Mr. Newsom and other leaders were speaking.
As the governor was preparin…

Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally
The armed and masked agents assembled outside a museum where the governor was speaking in what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called “a provocative act.”

A special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers.
The “legitimisation cell” was set up after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack to gather information that could bolster Israel’s image and shore up diplomatic and military support from key allies, the report said, citing three intelligence sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

'Must be so proud!' RFK sparks outrage for breaking vow to GOP senator - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccines-2672337760/

Four food truck companies face online backlash following their services at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://abc17news.com/news/2025/07/05/4-food-truck-companies-face-online-backlash-following-their-services-at-alli…

4 food truck companies face online backlash following their services at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
By Cassie Martinez, Julie Calhoun Click here for updates on this story     OCHOPEE, Florida (WSVN) — A TikTok video showing four food trucks enter the new immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on its opening day sparked online outrage. As of Thursday night, the video gained more than four million views and 20,000 comments, as

Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/la-macarthur-park-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.HIYe.Bru8LMI-LrEx&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p40#a250708p40

Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage. 'Our community is under attack' (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/la-me-ice-raids-protests-color-scene
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p161#a250606p161

"Noem told Fox & Friends Wednesday that in addition to lifting the 40-year-old age cap, ICE applicants can now be as young as 18."
'What could possibly go wrong?' Outrage as Trump admin recruits teens to join 'the Gestapo' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-trump-admin-is-now-recruiting-teenagers/

"Loyalists just want a pretext to void Biden’s legacy — and centralize power under Trump."
Opinion | The autopen outrage is about MAGA politics, not law - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.05-131426/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/05/autopen-biden-legality-pardons-maga/

Every Tuesday afternoon in Santa Barbara, a quiet civic revolution unfolds at the welcoming home of Neil and Beryl Kreisel.
For years, Beryl
— a highly respected psychotherapist and beloved community connector
— has hosted a vibrant gathering with a clear mission:
getting out the vote in key districts,
one handwritten postcard at a time.
Co-hosted by Michele Cuttler, a passionate attorney and longtime democracy advocate,
this weekly tradition is bo…

Tuesdays at Beryl’s: Afternoon Sessions Writing Postcards for Democracy
This Santa Barbara ritual is fueled by passion, outrage, love, and deep connection.

'Chilling effect': Outrage as FBI announces investigation into Supreme Court's Dobbs leak - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/dobbs-leak-investigation/

Death threat to IDF chanted at Glastonbury music festival prompts online outrage (Jenny Goldsberry/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/3457494/death-to-the-idf-chant-glastonbury-music-festival/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p52#a250629p52

The Project 2025 folks believe PV sex is the only 'right' way to make babies...
'It was all lies': Outrage as Trump walks back major pro-family campaign promise - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-ivf-white-house/

Trump’s appeal isn’t rooted in policy;
it’s rooted in style.
I He uses delusional bravado to cosplay as a rebel against a broken system that both parties helped to rig.
The Democratic establishment’s timid, survivalist politics can’t compete with that.
You can’t beat an immoral agent of chaos with risk aversion.
You beat him with moral clarity
— the kind that’s willing to sacrifice corporate donations, political comfort and maybe even your own career for t…

Opinion | This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years
The party establishment is missing its chance to prove there is more to it than just outrage and opposition.

**'Selective shielding': Outrage after FOIA report reveals FBI redacted Trump’s name from Epstein files** - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-redaction-fbi-epstein/

CNN host warns of ‘slippery slope’ to ‘autocratic’ rule in Trump White House’s outrage over Iran nukes report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cnn-trump-iran-nuclear-report-autocratic-rule-b2778331.html