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#CBPOne effectively was the only way for immigrants to enter the country legally. Now that Trump has shut it down, he can stop pretending that it was ever about letting people if they come "the right way." It's only about not letting them in, for any reason. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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New blog post up: "I (don’t) feel your pain: A dialog with ChatGPT about what 'empathic AI' in healthcare really means" Can an entity that can't feel simulate empathy to the extent that it captures pain, an inherently subjective experience? giantif.com/2024/12/16/i...

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Guess what argument this dipshit was trying to make? Hint: it wasn’t for abortion.

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Advice and consent? No it’s submit and rubberstamp

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rubs temples That's literally the Senate's job

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I'm just going to say, if I were in my 80's and had been through what Joe Biden's been through, I'd pardon my son too. Fact: Hunter Biden hurt NO ONE. And if his name wasn't Hunter Biden, he'd not have been put through the shit they put him through.

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As is often the case, cruelty is vastly more expensive than compassion.

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Teach critical thinking in schools FFS!

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@arthurcdent.bsky.social Glad you’ve joined this remarkably calmer side of social media! Your Valium will arrive in the mail shortly.

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When was the last time a President elect and his nominee for attorney general had mug shots? What country. My gawd.

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"Hey, what can you tell about that trafficking case with all the hot girls?" "We'd recommend 18 to 20 years, Mr. Attorney General." "I like them a little younger than that." "No, sir. That's the sentence we're recommending for the trafficker."

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Dawkins is just gone, man, gone.

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Good lord. I spotted this at Half Price Books just now and thought “How appropriate!” But then I cracked it open and read the recommendations…

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giantif.com/2024/11/12/a... New blog post just dropped.

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I still haven’t managed to quit Twitter— perhaps because I can now write and rate community notes, which I use primarily for fact-checking Republicans. But it makes no difference to them, or anyone, it appears. So maybe this will be my last tweet.

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Trump voters have, objectively, endorsed making the world, and life on it, worse. For every living thing, including themselves.

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The myths that people believe about immigration are pretty absurd. by @gretchenk.bsky.social

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Imagine if SCOTUS was just as unsure about striking down reproductive rights as they are about deciding that something is an insurrection.

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But is the collective cognitive decline of the Republican Party enough to remove it?

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It's staggering how much the Republican party has changed in terms of how it views immigration. Nobody would have ever called George HW or Reagan a liberal, and yet their positions were far more liberal than not just Biden, but any Democrat or Republican (to my knowledge) has been since.

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#OpenBorders

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@knowledgefight.bsky.social Maybe t's not new, but the tick Jones has had recently that bothers me most is pronouncing "evil" as "eeble." Kinda takes the teeth out of it-- I'm not evil, I'm eeble? Oh, alright then.

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Time to pull out some old cartoons that are relevant again...

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Pssst…George HW and Reagan were in favor of Mexicans working legally & sending their children to public schools in the US. Reagan literally promoted an “open border both ways.” Their solution to illegal aliens working in the U.S. was to make them legal. youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok?...

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Well, this sure fails on the Alignment Problem: www.bbc.com/news/world-u... "The Alignment Problem addresses the need to design AI systems in such a way that they make decisions and take actions that are beneficial, ethical, and aligned with human interests."

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I protect hate speech. While some hateful speech might otherwise meet the test for another exception, there is no exception to me for speech that is bigoted, racist, or hateful.

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. @galloprehistorico.bsky.social reminded me of this cartoon I drew of @kenwhite.bsky.social in the before times, and I’m laughing all over again at “jar of porn.”

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Judge Engoron's principal law clerk is receiving 20–30 calls on her cell and 30–50 written messages every day filled with the most vile antisemitic, misogynist threats since Trump started posting about her, per a graphic new filing. (CW: IMAGES CONTAIN TRANSCRIBED THREATS) tinyurl.com/4rtpvf46

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I think about this often. Why is Matt Gaetz still allowed to make decisions on behalf of the country? Jim Jordan? Josh Hawley? Clarence Thomas? We now have people in elected offices who ran on their denial of the legitimacy of the election. Even if Trump goes to prison, would that change anything?

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