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Congratulations on your thirty pieces of silver. apnews.com/article/trum...

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It's always time to listen to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

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@aoc.bsky.social last one—who signed the ATO (authorization to operate) the new OPM server and did they have the legal authority to do so? All of these things are public records.

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@aoc.bsky.social I get that SCOTUS is bought and paid for, but they don’t have capacity to handle thousands and thousands of challenges every session.

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@aoc.bsky.social And when they absolutely cannot produce any of that mandated documentation, file injunctions in a friendly district to keep them tied up?

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@aoc.bsky.social Stupid question, but could congressional democrats file FOIA for every EO and OPM memo? Demand PIA for every system they plug in? Demand FISMA complete documents for every program they start?

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"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 48 days ago • 379 comments

There are a million little Stasi wannabes in this country, from boyfriends suing partners for abortions, book banners contacting the state AG, these guys. You don't need to build an infrastructure, you just have to grant permission.

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UPDATE: The Connecticut DMV and top state lawmakers have vowed to review towing laws after a @ctmirror.org and ProPublica investigation found that people’s cars can be sold just 15 days after they’re towed. Read more: propub.li/3DNkwRa

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NEW: The U.S. Department of Education has fined Michigan’s Baker College $2.5 million for years of “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes, following a 2022 ProPublica and @freep.com report detailing the college’s low graduation rates and the heavy debt that many students shoulder.

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A way to think about "AI" is that it's like single-use plastic: Super-convenient, sold as disposable, designed to be used without much thought, and while it's easy to get annoyed with your mom for using it, the real problem are the dudes destroying the planet in order to keep shoveling it out

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TIL that Tasmania is the largest supplier of legal opium and the poppy farmers troubled by crop circles. Aliens? Nope! It’s wallabies. They are busting into the farms, eating the poppies, getting HIGH AS BALLS, and hoping about in circles. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31539...

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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published June 2023)

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The Voight-Kampff test questions sure have changed over the years, haven't they

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When the nephew of Kyng Arthour left Camelot on hys quest to seeke the Green Knighte, the entyre Round Table threw hym a Gawain away partye.

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So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

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Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

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Our fiction sold AI as an existential threat because it decides our meat is weak and so it kills humanity or uses us like batteries. But reality is far far stupider: so-called AI, run by rich tech bros, is shoved into everything despite being crappy, and plunges us into dystopia and climate change.

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AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

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I mean, damn.

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If you are a teacher, you do not know the status of your students. Really, you don't. Haven't got a clue, move along, officer.

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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

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www.propublica.org/article/endo...

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STAY POSITIVE!

submitted 77 days ago • 2132 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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NEW: Here’s how some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a decades-old legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care.

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On December 6, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. As we reflect on this dark chapter, we’re reminded that the fight for justice and equality continues today. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

Congratulations on your thirty pieces of silver. apnews.com/article/trum...

It's always time to listen to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

@aoc.bsky.social last one—who signed the ATO (authorization to operate) the new OPM server and did they have the legal authority to do so? All of these things are public records.

@aoc.bsky.social I get that SCOTUS is bought and paid for, but they don’t have capacity to handle thousands and thousands of challenges every session.

@aoc.bsky.social And when they absolutely cannot produce any of that mandated documentation, file injunctions in a friendly district to keep them tied up?

@aoc.bsky.social Stupid question, but could congressional democrats file FOIA for every EO and OPM memo? Demand PIA for every system they plug in? Demand FISMA complete documents for every program they start?

"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

There are a million little Stasi wannabes in this country, from boyfriends suing partners for abortions, book banners contacting the state AG, these guys. You don't need to build an infrastructure, you just have to grant permission.

UPDATE: The Connecticut DMV and top state lawmakers have vowed to review towing laws after a @ctmirror.org and ProPublica investigation found that people’s cars can be sold just 15 days after they’re towed. Read more: propub.li/3DNkwRa

A way to think about "AI" is that it's like single-use plastic: Super-convenient, sold as disposable, designed to be used without much thought, and while it's easy to get annoyed with your mom for using it, the real problem are the dudes destroying the planet in order to keep shoveling it out

TIL that Tasmania is the largest supplier of legal opium and the poppy farmers troubled by crop circles. Aliens? Nope! It’s wallabies. They are busting into the farms, eating the poppies, getting HIGH AS BALLS, and hoping about in circles. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31539...

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published June 2023)

The Voight-Kampff test questions sure have changed over the years, haven't they

When the nephew of Kyng Arthour left Camelot on hys quest to seeke the Green Knighte, the entyre Round Table threw hym a Gawain away partye.

So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.

Our fiction sold AI as an existential threat because it decides our meat is weak and so it kills humanity or uses us like batteries. But reality is far far stupider: so-called AI, run by rich tech bros, is shoved into everything despite being crappy, and plunges us into dystopia and climate change.

AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power. New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans

I mean, damn.

If you are a teacher, you do not know the status of your students. Really, you don't. Haven't got a clue, move along, officer.

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

www.propublica.org/article/endo...

STAY POSITIVE!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

NEW: Here’s how some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a decades-old legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care.

On December 6, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. As we reflect on this dark chapter, we’re reminded that the fight for justice and equality continues today. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

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