Bailey McCann

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You know we're down bad when peloponnesian war bookstore guy starts chatting to the clerk about how all the young people are gonna lead us into fascism because they don't like Biden

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Foreign Press Association issues latest statement about access ban to Gaza, raising “questions about what Israel doesn’t want international journalists to see”

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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Highest turnout at midday since 1981 for French legislative elections. Today’s vote is going to be nail-biting.

On one hand this is cool, on the other hand are they gonna make Zyrtec $800/bottle now or make it illegal because I still need it for the one week a year some tree goes bananas

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"Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.” The war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled peoplewww.motherjones.com “Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.”

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsgizmodo.com In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Five journalists in 24 hours

“At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.”

Five journalists killed as Israel steps up bombardment across Gazawww.aljazeera.com Journalist couple Amjad Jahjouh and Wafa Abu Dabaan and their children were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat camp.

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Very fun we live in a country where “well meaning liberals” are happy to assist conservatives in spinning up new ways to slur Black people as long as they can find a way to couch it in “genuine concerns” they have about the left “going too far”

Couldn’t even muster a capital letter P for “DEI president” in this poorly-worded, inflammatory, heat-seeking headline.

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"Look, we can't help it if this is the prevailing narrative," say the folks working at the country's largest narrative-creation factory.

So are there just no actual crisis communications people working anymore? This Biden cycle is giving Kate Middleton and the firm's complete inability to recover a fumble

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“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

Just listened to a commentator say with a straight face "is it bad if the UK is going left when everyone else is turning to the right" so I guess fascism FOMO is a thing for some white people who should go sit in a quiet room for a long time and think about what words mean

Felonies all the cool kids are doing them so they aren't bad anymore

What the FUCK is this dog turd ish www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...

A Mark of Shame for 900 Years. Until Now?www.nytimes.com “Felon” carries an ancient stigma — one that falls on millions of Americans today. Trump might well redefine it.

Rewatching the Robert Wun show just to remind myself of other things AI absolutely can't do

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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

Feels like we're veering into territory where Biden needs to go to Walter Reed have the pit crew look him over and publish the report

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They went on to say if Black electeds "just want an African American" on the ticket and are less personally loyal to Kamala Harris "then, it's open."

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The Dem member of Congress I spoke to said "African Americans are the most formidable bloc" in discussions of Biden's future. "If their delegation is more loyal to having a Black woman than they are to their state party orgs than it is Kamala's."

I really do not like the odds of trying to make it through a fascist season with the level of absolute bullshit currently on display and we were already starting from a bad position

Gotta say I'm annoyed that I have twice sat down & figured out how to get behind this candidate & suck it up about this god forsaken party & a bunch of people I wouldn't want to share a cab with are now like here's 60 other dumber options for you to sort through at the last possible fucking second

What's the over under on when they start trying to turn Jill into a scarier version Nancy Reagan at the end of Reagan's term

So is there some other new pollen thing or is it just particulates because my eyes hate life today