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"Donald Trump tried to overthrow an election by violence."
That's old news, we already reported that.
"As president, Donald Trump directed tens of millions of tax dollars to his own pockets."
Old news.
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Re:Hearing in Georgia
Admitted , and today proved, that Willis and Wade had an affair.
Nothing impacted Willis and her office going forward.
The motion and the hearing was simply to embarrass a black female prosecutor who has Trump in her sights.
Willis isn't going away.
Trump is.
#willis
#TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal – at Erlanger, KY
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Israel journalist @Roi_Yanovsky just published an amazing piece in Hebrew about what Gaza is REALLY like, based on his personal observations there. Here is an English translation that you NEED to read🧵
100 reserve days officially ended yesterday. Some initial insights:
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It’s easy to dunk on Haley for this. It’s much harder to grapple with the fact that a leading republican candidate for POTUS made a calculated decision to not say “slavery” bc of how she thinks the party’s base would react.
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fearing Lincoln’s election would lead to the national abolition of slavery (a hyperbolic, reactionary response), a series of southern states seceded from the union and formed an avowedly white supremacist confederacy of slave states. that was the cause of the civil war
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I thought this was the most foreboding paragraph from the excellent article by @_KarenHao and @cwarzel: theatlantic.com/technology/a…
ALT Read differently, however, whether Altman stays or goes will do little to resolve a dangerous flaw present in the development of artificial intelligence. For the past 24 hours, the tech industry has held its breath, waiting to see the fate of Altman and OpenAI. Though Altman and others pay lip service to regulation and say they welcome the world’s feedback, this tumultuous weekend showed just how few people have a say in the progression of what might be the most consequential technology of our age. AI’s future is being determined by an ideological fight between wealthy techno-optimists, zealous doomers, and multibillion-dollar companies. The fate of OpenAI might hang in the balance, but the company’s conceit—the openness it is named after—showed its limits. The future, it seems, will be decided behind closed doors.
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My co-authors and I published this graph two and a half decades ago. A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words:
Imagine if more climate scientists had used those phrases back then and we worked to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and @GretaThunberg would never have had to skip school.
Instead we are now in 2023 and global emissions are higher than ever.
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One of Feinstein’s prime legacies will be her unflinching investigation into the torture of terrorism suspects and her dogged insistence on making the findings public to force a reckoning over what she considered a dark chapter in the nation’s history. nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/…
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It’s the anti-defamation league that’s driving away the advertisers from placing their ads near gasthejews6969’s posts.
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Someone has to lead CNN to a better place than "the middle," or its miserable equivalents. The central conflict in its reporting of politics has to shift: from Democrats vs. Republicans to the MAGA movement vs. American democracy. This will be Mark Thompson's greatest challenge.
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Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets.
Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.
A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter& YouTube activity.
Repression has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than tweets. Saudi authorities should quash the verdict.
hrw.org/news/2023/08/29/saud…
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The reverse milkshake duck – at Tukwila, WA
This is kind of hilarious. The guy who sings ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ was perplex by his song being used in the Republican debate: "I wrote that song about those people." themessenger.com/entertainme…
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Conservatives say we're becoming a socialist hellscape, but it's conservatives who've moved radically rightward, often for tons of million$ from their billionaire paymasters.
Here's the Pew study showing how far they've moved.
pewresearch.org/short-reads/…
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In this time of savage economic inequalities in American life, if your organization can't figure out how not to willfully cross striking workers, there isn't a fucking thing you can tell me about political science that I need to take seriously. Never cross a picket line.
Update on 2023 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition
politicalsciencenow.com/upda…
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This seems escalatory, and nudges even reluctant court watchers and skeptics of statutory reforms towards doing something. I mean, this is a fancy way of telling everyone to pound sand because he’s untouchable.
Justice Alito tells the @WSJ that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period." wsj.com/articles/samuel-alit…
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How do y'all feel about the fact that this is what current AI discourse, policy money and research is most influenced by?
I'll start. Every day I wonder whether everyone else is living in the same planet as me or if I'm in the twilight zone.
ALT Book cover saying with title Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans by Dan Hendrycks written in white over a green background.
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Perfectly splitting the difference between pathological ambition and self-vandalizing amateurism, the Replacements’ ‘Let It Be’ remains the final word on the unresolvable conflict between achieving a corrupt success or cracking up in the shade. The low stakes of high-heeled boys.
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This is also a warning for what’s to come. What will happen to knowledge sharing and human to human communication on the internet?
