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Good story at Common Dreams. "...leaders including Jeffries have reportedly become "very frustrated" with progressive advocacy groups like Indivisible and MoveOn for organizing ... to pressure the Democrats to act as a true opposition party." I don't know whether to scream or weep.

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Straight-up cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the 8th Amendment, so I hope there is some prisoners' rights group looking for a restraining order, because the harm is going to be immediate and severe.

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HEY, BOSTON! This guy says you should be afraid of him!

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Arrested by the Capitol Police, who were probably watching him and hoping he would make One Wrong Move, which of course he did.

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Have to feel sorry for all these Republican women who thought that "DEI hire" was simply a polite word for "n****r" when in fact it has a much broader meaning. I can understand their confusion.

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Another very stable genius shares his vision for the future of humankind. The man who single-handedly designed the Cybertruck wants to take us to Mars.

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Today's What Oft was Thought but Ne'er So Well Expressed award goes to the final sentence here.

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Wow, if this judge was assigned randomly the Government had some seriously bad luck. Not every judge is this informed on the science. Judge Reyes is a transphobe's worst nightmare.

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Wish I could make out what the guy is saying at the beginning of this clip.

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When this ends we are going to need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission where this smirking sadist has to sit quietly and listen to the people he has hurt. And try on the shackles.

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Some good things still happen. Leonard Peltier walked out of prison today.

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Our government is firmly in the hands of absolute amateurs and I don't understand why the media are so strangely reluctant to say so. Where are the damned grown-ups?

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And now for something completely different...

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Seriously, stamp every one of them "Gift of the Ukrainian People" and airlift them in before he can slap a tariff on them.

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I don't think this is good news. What all the big LLM cheerleaders seem to be missing is that the difference between truth and falsehood is important, but the dimension of facticity is nowhere to be found in the word-association data universe where LLMs operate. They have no concept of "truth."

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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This would be comical if it weren't so absolutely hilariously unfunny and the diametric opposite of comical. Is this the price that Panama has to pay to avoid being invaded and protect its sovereignty over the canal? They misspelled "diplomatic blackmail."

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Some poor soul here trying to be the voice of common sense deserves a reskeet. Lots of bad uses of AI/ML these days. ML for content moderation is not one of those.

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I don't know why this showed up on my timeline, but I'm glad it did. Something about how much work went into sexting in 1828 makes it heartfelt in a way that a cellphone selfie can only hope for.

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This seems like a really good idea.

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Compare and contrast with the recent statement from Encyclopedia Britannica saying that nope, it will still be Gulf of Mexico, because (1) they serve the whole world and (2) it's an international body of water and the US doesn't have naming rights. At Google, pandering is a core principle.

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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

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This is encouraging. People making decisions in the Army are still taking their responsibility to defend the nation seriously and deciding they got no time for this move-fast-and-break-things MAGA shit.

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This is a really good thread to read if you think AI is just ChatGPT telling you to put glue on pizza and DALL-E stealing actual artists' work. AI and ML are not dirty words.

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Can't say I'm a fan of Altman, but that's a good hard slap.

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The failing, woke Wall Street Journal:

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Also, "the regime"? Seriously? They control all branches of the Federal government and when something happens that scares them they blame The Regime? Is The Regime in the room with us right now?

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I am in tears

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I remember an interview in 2016 before he was elected in which Trump suggested he would reduce the national debt by sitting down with our creditors and working out lowball deals like he did with his businesses. Didn't get the attention I thought it deserved.

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They're really going to do it, aren't they? They are going to claim that they aren't required to obey the courts. Hard to predict how that will be received by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and some others.

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This story is way too short

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Needs alt-text: a german shepherd on a sidewalk. In his mouth he is carrying an uprooted wooden stake with a "no dogs" sign showing the silhouette of a dog with a red X superimposed.

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I just learned that Wired and Teen Vogue, two of the best of the few remaining sources of serious investigative political reporting in this country, are both owned by Condé Nast. So it's not just a coincidence. Wired is running rings around the legacy media on Elon right now.

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Grandstanding to the small gang of malefactors of great wealth who are still not going to give him the approval he so desperately craves. A fifty-three-year-old four-year-old throwing a totally senseless multi-billion-dollar tantrum.

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New word just dropped. Better alt-text would say "Man holding sign that says 'Elon can oligargle these nuts.'"

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