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I wasn’t aware of this AI ability to reconstruct facial recognition based on face mask and sunglasses, but perhaps you could point me to that source- thanks.
Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2
A reminder for future generations….please don’t let this kind of music die out.
That’s colonialism for you.
A voyeuristic exercise in a repressed S&M SmackDown?
No accounting for IQ
For NYT, Trump's decision to flood Greenland with spies to prepare the field for an invasion is just "the latest twist." Not responsible coverage.
isnt the phrase that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if asked? WELL
Such is the accountability of the unregulated.
The beauty and the beast.
The problem here is exactly the trap that they’ve laid their mask. How are they identified? How are they apprehended? Etc, etc.
She has proven an embarrassment to her state.
You may be referring to the 1980 Heritage foundation mandate-the predicate for P2025. With that in mind, hopefully it won’t take us 45 years (that we don’t have) to enact any pendulum swing.
I believe there may be more to his attempt to take over the Fed than meets the eye - If we diligently connect the dots/forecast: think digital - think crypto - think the WEF ‘s great reset of the world’s economic structure and, of course, think the founders of PP and control of the digital wallet.
What an absolute waste of taxpayer $$$
He epitomizes Abbot’s Texas.
Same.
Yes, their finely honed strategies have been a drip stream (aka the frog boiling in water) for over 10 yrs. The question is truly why has it taken us this long to recognize them-a suspension of disbelief that anything so heinous would be enacted against our fellow Americans by fellow Americans ?
Looks more and more like the Ken doll skull cap motif … oh, if only it were that simple.
In light of the news that RFK Jr plans to pull the Covid vaccines from the market… this is a very smart move for Canada. We can’t rely on the US anymore. We must have public health contingencies to ensure as many citizens are protected. I expect we’ll see Americans traveling for the vaccine too!
Georgia special election for state senate seat: Debra Shigley (D) 72.2% Steve west (R) 17.1%
Absolutely… and they probably remind Miller of his days being the outcast of Santa Monica high.
Reportedly, Charlie Kirk is an Incel. With that in mind, the delusionally entitled egoist has no standing to advise Taylor Swift, or any woman, in matters of matrimony … or anything else.
And make no mistake, I understand the racial profiling involved and the fear & intimidation that is wholly unwarranted+ illegal. Being from the East Coast, I understand the cultural/social difference in how people react - but it is also complex.
My point is: with “Latinos” who have a heritage of US citizenry, there is a righteous indignation + legal entitlement to rights-in being abducted off the streets-without cause. This is far different than abducting a “Latino” who has reasonable insecurities due to being undocumented migrant worker.
Latinos comprises a wide swath of nationalities - especially in NY. Many of those considered “Latinos” in New York are US citizens (Puerto Ricans) for several generations. In the West a majority of “Latinos” are from Mexico, which invokes a very long and complex history of colonial territorialism.
What needs to look further into the situation with DC, as reportedly Bowser was in discussions with T for months preceding this- although, apparently,the content of those discussions was not made public.
Begs the definition of “fight”. They are provoking violent reaction … perhaps they should be met simply with the continual peaceful - yet overwhelming- numbers of mass protest. It may well reflect/defeat the smallness of miller.
This may be where FDR comes in: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.
Indeed! But first the info needs to be disseminated by MSM. It may have been that I simply missed it in the avalanche of info - or it may not have been wide spread.
This was a story handed down by one of my GGGGrMothers who immigrated from Ireland in 1850 as a child.
Wow - missed that.
Trump is attempting to eliminate Federal Funding for libraries, but RIGHT NOW Congress is deciding how much funding IMLS will receive—and your voice matters!
📚✏️ Trump’s tariffs are making back-to-school more expensive. Families are paying 7.3% more for supplies and $163 more to pack a lunchbox than last year. Tariffs aren’t abstract — they’re a tax on working families. @banking.senate.gov
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
Surveillance pricing. Algorithmic collusion. Data-driven wage suppression. Big corporations are using your info to rip you off. Our panel, ft. @lindsayowens.bsky.social, @bedoyausa.bsky.social, & @dohamekki.bsky.social will show how to stop it — if you help us get there. Vote today!
It’s all about power. If they replace the heads of military with yes men, they have power and control. And ensuring it just before the mid terms. By the time most realize what has happened and what continues happening, it will be too late.
Art is born out of an ill-designed world. ― Andrei Tarkovsky
And these are the same people that revile any use of what they view as intellectual jargon…
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
Part of the authoritarian attempt is this sense when you’re living through it that life continues to look normal around you, & you feel slightly schizophrenic … You feel like you’re going crazy—like, Is this really happening? There’s still matcha lattes everywhere.” slate.com/culture/2025...
Today is the National Park Service’s birthday! 🥳🏞️ You know what would be a great birthday gift? Not firing staff or cutting funds from the agency responsible for keeping our public lands pristine and accessible!
But, of course.
Current and former FEMA officials are warning Congress that the Trump administration’s policies have undermined the nation’s ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Who would a thought?!
The genesis of the throne in Game of Thrones.
Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change
Better than most.
“A hill to die on” ?
Just received a mailer “gerrymandering is wrong-no matter who does it” from RightPathCa (www.rightpathca.com) whose solo leadership is Jessica Millan Paterson, Chairperson of the CA GOP Party (www.millanpaterson.com) No wonder I didn’t receive an earlier mailer re: the Texas bad boys gerrymandering!
This is his pattern of telegraphing his intentions. He seemingly does this only when he feels the confidence offered by the final nail being put in the coffin. To quote a well-known tech figure, “this is concerning.”
Your discussion of the Am. West + SoCal is fascinating - but I was looking for the direct link to the worldcon initial inclusion of their notions of “manifest destiny”.
The video edit running behind her talking head is a bit confusing - is she saying she can’t touch “big balls”?
Do you have a direct link to what you are posting about?
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
À better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
I would love to know how you imagine that happening in this moment…whenT+P 2025+TechBros+evangelists et all have been strategizing this cold civil war for years. They consolidated all of the military+tech+surveillance justice powers into one cohesive machine ready for deployment to crush dissent.
The rest of that sentence should read: …” who pays their salaries and benefits.” What’s wrong with that picture
Gliding in for a landing
Katie Drummond on the rise of the broligarchy. "We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political and tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime"
Ya think?
This is the official narrative.
The photo editor is fabulous! www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Oh rest assured, they can be redesigned to accommodate all of the above!
As it may be the case, I’m sure this is not the first time that he is been privy to this information. As we all know timing is everything… in other words why didn’t he publish this earlier?
At 2:00 a.m., Texas Republicans passed their gerrymandered congressional map. At 8:00 a.m., with the support of the National Redistricting Foundation, my law firm sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
Begs the definition of “human being”.
How about we have to help the unhoused?
Curious take for a Professor (of practice?) Of course I readily understand what you’re getting at - but being complicit in a race to the bottom is a very slippery slope. Then again, a relatively under-educated populous, maybe easily controlled no matter what the ideology.
And then take another breath, thank God that you’re still breathing, and that you can still do something about it!
Or the Doge of Venice.
The photo editor did their job- The Supreme Court could give immigration agents broad power to stop and question Latinos - Los Angeles Times
Actually, Schumer is the snooze button that we’ve kept pressing for the past 10 years.
Again, pattern recognition may behoove you.
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
He looks and acts like a man dying. It will happen, hopefully soon but remember his power was always theater. Even if his health fails, the architects of Project 2025 remain. Celebrate, but know the hand inside the puppet still moves and their plans haven’t changed. #Resist
#AI A research paper predicting that artificial intelligence will go rogue in 2027 and lead to humanity's extinction within a decade is making waves in the tech world. www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Having Hakeem Jeffries in a position of leadership in this moment is like intentionally having an alarm clock that doesn’t actually wake you up.
1/2 More reasons to keep your vaccines up to date The shingles shot doesn’t just stop pain…it's associated with a significant reduction your risk of dementia including Alzheimer’s by as much as 35%. Protect your mind while you protect your body. Influenza vax? 30-40% reduction. Pneumococcal? 2--30%
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
Neo - brutalism.
“Permeable “ is not in vocabulary.
That’s the most optimistic post on this thread!
The strategic “cold civil war” is at that that tipping point which is exactly where T wants it. He’s provoking it’s thawing so he can brutally crush his perceived opposition. T/jdv/V & co. control surveillance & military powers now deployed on/to the streets of key “example”targets in the US.
How many times has he telescoped that to us? And how many times have we ignored it?
The 21st century “company towns”: www.propublica.org/article/memp...
? So this is the strategic plan unfolding for inter-state AI supply chain: unregulated privatized mining/resource extraction,proprietary algorithmically controlled chip manufacturing + unregulated development of data centers on public lands- ensuring total control/$ by 21st century tech feudalism?
Masked skinheads.