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When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.

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Nah trans women are women actually. They got it wrong.

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It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

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The right's obsession with autism is a stepping stone to (if not outright) eugenics.

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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

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there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

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Just found out that the father of a friend has been sharing 'migrants are the reason we have no homes' propaganda. The same father of a friend depends on renting out the family home as an Airbnb to survive. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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I know I keep saying this, but it is incredible important to understand that the Nazi playbook was US policy. So much of the anti intellectualism has been to erase the fact that the US was on this road before the Germans and is simply reverting to the original horrors that were in motion.

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AI does not write a guide for how to do something. It produces 1000-2000 words of content on the topic of doing something. Understand the difference, and you understand the AI phenomenon.

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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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$AAPL opened at $211.44 — up $16 from Friday. The 197.5 calls bought for $1.10 were worth over $13. The 196s were up nearly 900%. Even the junk 202.5s printed. These aren’t theoretical anymore. This is one of the most profitable short-dated trades on record. All done on insider trading.

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Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers. www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...

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The entire presser, INCLUDING Bukele's video, was staged defiance. It shows that Trump is not facilitating Abrego Garcia's return--SCOTUS' order. It was staged to precede the status hearing tomorrow. It was also staged to present the claim of terrorism in unquestioned fashion for media to parrot.

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SCOTUS didn't order Trump to return Abrego Garcia. They ordered the lower court to define "effectuate," they told trump to "facilitate" the return, they told trump to be ready to report the steps he's taking, & they told Xinis to show due regard & deference to trump's power over foreign affairs.

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Sooner or later, we're ALL going to be Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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These people are devils

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It’s time for people to stop saying “he can’t do that” or “he’ll never get away with it” because he can and likely will.

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"We were just following orders" was not an acceptable defense then, and it won't be later either. girightshotline.org

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More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

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“If you can’t feel for them or their families, remember that this is just a stage in a plan that will land ultimately at our own doorsteps.” Listen to Sherrilyn

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On Friday, April 11, traders placed large, aggressive bets that Apple’s stock would jump within days. They bought contracts that would only be profitable if the stock moved up fast. Hours later, the White House quietly announced a major policy shift. data-and-politics.ghost.io/173-returns-...

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Strange how once-potential and high-rated 2024 Dem presidential candidates like Newsom and Whitmer are going out of their way to tank their 2028 prospects and undermine what made them so appealing to so many last year: their willingness to take on Trump and MAGA.

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Willis 2028 invisible primary ratings (so far) Up Ocasio-Cortez Pritzker Meh Buttigieg Down Newsom Whitmer

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So the felon in chief is demanding that Amazon stop selling books that reveal the truth about him. And watch Bezos bend the knee. Amazon will cave. They all will. Whiteness has exposed itself to be hollow and thin skinned. The tyrant will never stop demanding more and more of your soul.

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Yes Ice can arrest people without warning or judicial warrant. Yes NTAs can be issued. Yes peoples status can be rescinded. Yes immigraiton judges deport people all the time for no reason. This is the due process in this country. This is what it looks like. This is what we’re fighting to abolish.

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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

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A 1mm slice of mouse brain - just 0.2% - held 84k neurons, 500M synapses, and 5.4km of wiring. Seen people compare synapses to params in an LLM But brains rewire, adapt, and run on vastly less energy Neural nets are static, brittle, and power-hungry. They're crude immitations, not replicas

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

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🙄👇BBC ignores what experts & Trump himself are telling us - that a key goal is to smash non-tariff barriers - ie regulation on everything from food & pharma standards, to data exploitation & AI. To stop any government regulating to protect its citizens from corporations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

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Remember: Cass is not peer-reviewed - and is therefore not “gold”, silver, bronze or even recycled plastic standard. IMO it’s just pseudoscience. There are now at least five damming, peer-reviewed critiques of Cass; all automatically of a higher standard, with at least two more in peer-review.

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Only the exact amount of illegal deforestation is acceptable

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Why did Trump pause the Tariffs?

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Ideas

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“So, like, slavery, but with free shipping”

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This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

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📉 😂

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