"There's nothing to worry about. Those cars have to stop because there's a stop sign right there, obviously."
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"There's nothing to worry about. Those cars have to stop because there's a stop sign right there, obviously."
I think focusing on "influencers" and "leaders" gives a free pass to the bigger problem of the influenced followers. Leaders aren't much without followers.
What a great way for school children to taunt their peers about how they're unfit to live
I might be way off, but I've long felt that the legacy media has in-general mounted a war against public education. Every rift and faux pas is blood in the water for the media to rip on public education. After all, private schools are potential advertisers
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Excellent selection
At the bare minimum we’ve all forced the White House into doing a potentially really embarrassing proof of life thing by making jokes online and I think that’s pretty neat
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fwiw, I've cited you a couple of times in casual exchanges with people about A.I. You're top shelf
Because duck face has fallen from favor/isn't code any more?
This right here, all day long
What's dangerous about these accumulated choices to cover the end of constitutional rule of law as a debate between reasonable sides is that it reflects a deep truth about constitutionalism: that the rules of the game are established purely by convention & the alignment of mutual expectation.
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
"just like the forefathers envisioned"
Hey remember how Trump covered up his child raping with Jeffrey Epstein and then moved his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell to tennis prison and everyone was like oh well and moved on? That was weird.
That's a skeet for all seasons, right there
"Pharmacology enthusiast," more like eh
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Don’t know who made this but thank you
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.
'Heroes' 'defending our freedoms' tho
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Just to show how far from god we've strayed...I can't even smoke in the elevator any more because tyranny
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
Top this, @wapopitchbot.bsky.social
It stands out to me that every time I land on Fox, they're banging on about "The Media," as if they're outside-looking-in. Anyway, "news organization" is definitely a misnomer for a fiction factory.
Big news! Sean and the lord are bringing the 'lettuce spray' tour to Seattle. Can I get an ahem
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
Somewhere on here the other day, I saw the words "Christian domination" and I had to log off. Screw that
Sure seems to me "has to serve everybody" if and only if someone or something *makes* them. Who's heading that up?
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Good morning. (Not you, "liberalcurrents") Substack? Read the room, ffs
Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody | WIRED www.wired.com/story/senate...
This is correct imo the low level insurgency and grey war the republicans have been waging is decades old, school shootings by Nazis, abortion clinics bombed, federal buildings destroyed and a coup that has been largely successful are all part of the broader goal to remake society in their image.
Trump: I am literally going to destroy america Media: Trump pursues controversial policies Trump: Seriously just gonna fuck your shit up Media: Ever the iconoclast, Trump doubles down
They didn't want Biden and Harris to win, but they do want Trump to win and rule us. So they use headlines, social media posts and push notifications to spin for him, especially around stuff like economic sentiment.
Seems notable that Trump is OBSESSED with hatefully talking about the <3% of people currently in the US who are undocumented and the <1% of the US population that identifies as transgender, while his administration wants to entirely ignore the 20% of people in the colonies who were enslaved.
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
We already know the jig on the Jubilee network. It is run by far right radicals as a method of laundering their ideas to the general public under the guise of ‘outsmarting’ them. This is known now. At this point going on their shows is enabling harm. Stop it.
Re-upping this thread in light of Trump’s recent comments about how Putin told him he needed to end voting by mail to prevent Democrats from stealing elections. The anti-VBM movement is simultaneously a Russian op, a national GOP priority, and linked to state and local GOP election ratfuckers.
Terrific work as always from @pbump.com
Logging on youtu.be/fkzC8RYT1vY?...
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For what it's worth, I started teaching myself Spanish in my 40s. After a year or so, I took three terms at the local community college because I wanted more formal training. I have no regrets. Learning Spanish enriched my life immeasurably.
One thing to “appreciate” about Trump himself, the Trumpist government, and the MAGA Right in general is that they couldn’t possibly be any more explicit about the grievance-fueled project of patriarchal white nationalist domination they are pursuing.
In the early 80s, I lost from "The Man Who Sold the World" through "Lodger" on vinyl in a house fire. I never quite got over that.
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I would never fight you about this. I knew you were one of the good ones.
Hunky Dory is a masterpiece, start to finish, imo
Oh, come tf on! Reading the Chyron text underneath. What crime is there on the National Mall?
Hundreds of billions of dollars to automate the experience of being groomed in an AOL chat room in 1998
"If you smoke, you should quit. If you don't smoke, you shouldn't start.
I deleted a reply about A.I. because it spread more than I was ready for. I still wonder about: How to handle friends and family who casually drop that they "used A.I. for the thingy?" A little kid excitedly comes to me with, "look at the art I made! [with A.I.]" What to say to that?
The onerous process Oregon put in place in the 1970s to stymie nuclear plants is now being used to stall wind and solar projects, and one 76-year-old has filed more challenges to green energy proposals than anyone in the state.
I hope people pile on all day because this crap deserves to be ridiculed.
Trump is threatening to militarily invade American cities to defend against the release of the Epstein files—and Republicans are on board.
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If we all went blind and spoke and understood only Swahili the @nytimes.com would not be any less suited to report on the moment
Important @gelliottmorris.com analysis on moderation: Going from the average House Dem position to the most moderate position will net you just over 1 percentage point in the general election. Eh.
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if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.
once again reminding everyone that the start of stephen miller's political career was a speech condemning rules barring littering on campus at santa monica high school because that's what the janitorial staff employed by the city were there for
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
I remember 30-40 years ago when all the conservatives I knew were grinding their teeth and screaming about tyranny coming
If we’re ever to have any hope of recovering something out of this mess, assuming we get out of it, the first step will have to be prosecutions and trials and real accountability for this lawless regime.
Dictator on day one. He told us exactly what he was going to do. The media laughed it off and got back to the horse race.
I don't know. What I can tell you is what I keep saying. The kids are paying attention.
The dumber they are, the smarter RFK Jr. sounds
Wait, that's not a euphemism for "blow job?"
Setting aside the people who look up to him
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"The Treachery of Images" revisited duckduckgo.com?q=trump+epst...
There sure are a bunch of images of Trump and Epstein together that could be more widespread
I can't forget seeing *scores* of those "StOp LiViNg In FeAr SheEpLe!!!!!" posts from them 'back in the day'
"Every Android can turn off" is right where I live
Love waking up and instantly stressing myself out by reading about institutions failing to meet the moment in any way
And now this... about Dean Cain.
bro it's a measles vaccine not a four loko
It's not communist to demand billionaires to pay taxes like the rest of us do.
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"the visuals of him driving to his golf course?" OK, I'll bite. What kind of car does the President drive, Dasha? What's his driving record like? How many miles a year does he drive? He has a freakin' helicopter on our nickel, ffs
This this this this this
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Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
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I remember that reference. Well done
Because he’s not saying it to be truthful he’s saying it to tell you why he’s about to attack a lot of Black communities while you debate his truthfulness
Trump is destroying the country I love. Here's why I don't regret voting for him.
Anyone telling you that we can end this only by voting out this fascist autocracy that has been built around us that is now solidifying is not just wrong. They are dangerously naïve to the reality of what has happened. America is not a democracy even the flawed democracy we had is dead.
President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC and takeover of the local police department is baseless and an abuse of power. The people of DC shouldn't be forced to live in occupied, militarized communities.
"Freedom of choice Is what you got Freedom from choice Is what you want" — Devo, "Freedom of Choice"
The public needs to know how much of their taxpayer money is being spent to promote Trump-branded businesses. If Trump is going to be so blatantly corrupt, the least he could do is provide this transparency.
Factories are god-like entities "child care industry" is the future.
As you watch Trump manufacture pretexts for militarizing our cities on your TV, please note that an internal Department of Homeland Security memo recently put it in writing that officials want to see the military get much more involved in domestic law enforcement. We obtained that memo:
the church of scarcity: "a better world is possible but it won't be enough"
Deploying military troops to seize control of our nation's capital is sickening. It is more terrifying because of the lies used as a pretext. Violent crime in our capital is the lowest it has been in THIRTY YEARS, according to the US Dept. of Justice. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
He’s not going to hurt Black people to avoid talking about Epstein. He’s going to hurt Black people because he’s racist garbage. When it comes out that he’s in the files there won’t be a consequence. They’ll fold like they always do. He hates Black people.