Baubo

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Pretty much nonstop media consumption. I feel like SecUnit only without the usefulness.

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I can’t stop laughing

timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

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I just didn’t think I could have an event in a state where we weren’t allowed to keep guns out of the venue. There’s no way to look at a parent from the civilized world and tell them that the random guy with a gun is just someone they have to let near their child.

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Very true. In my book I’ve got a chapter on physical security in today’s America that talks frankly about the issues surrounding widespread gun ownership. Example: we ran active shooter drills at every Pokémon event, and there were entire parts of the country where I said we couldn’t hold events.

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Why am I doing this? I’m really just a boring appeals nerd, not a firebrand. But I believe 4 things: 1. Our democracy is in danger. 2. Few institutions still have a real shot to protect us from that danger. 3. City prosecutors are one of them. 4. We have to try. 1/x

Starting today, I’m building and leading a team in Larry Krasner’s Philadelphia DA’s office to target serious election-interference crimes. We’re seeking to hire people for an elite team. If you’re interested, contact me.

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Ever get overwhelmed with the myriad nightmares we've created for ourselves to plague our collective existence? You ever wish you were like, idk, an abyssal sea cucumber? Join me to explore the lives of the denizens of the deep to escape... all this for a bit. www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

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We are looking for an illustrator for Ex Tenebris, a galaxy-spanning investigative game in a world of shadowy cults, demons, and sinister ancient technology. Must be able to draw human scenes, monsters and technology (e.g. spaceships). Is that someone you know? Get in touch!

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Airbnb later dropped its forced confidential arbitration, btw, so now you can sue them when lax safety measures leads to something horrific happening to you. What a world. Bloomberg has done very good reporting on all this. This company is bad and people should stop giving them money.

Two Sexual Assault Survivors Spur Airbnb Arbitration Turnaroundwww.bloomberg.com For Sherry Dooley, Airbnb Inc.’s announcement last week that it would no longer force guests into confidential arbitration to settle claims of sexual assault was disturbing. For Natalie White, it mean...

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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.

No room for privacy: How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com A CNN investigation finds Airbnb fails to protect its guests against the persistent threat within its industry.

Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Awaywww.bloomberg.com When things go horribly wrong during a stay—the company’s secretive safety team jumps in.

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Hi #PortfolioDay I’m Élle - Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer Focus in occult, mythology/folklore related art heavy on details & research Open for new projects in publishing, posters & private commissions Reach out let’s chat ✉️ [email protected] Portfolio: cara.app/babeandoak

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The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxeswapo.st For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

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in all the (appropriate) memorializing of Shelley Duvall as a performer in the work of male auteur directors, spare a thought for her own auteur work: Faerie Tale Theatre was one of the few actually good media products aimed at children in the 1980s, but because it didn't sell toys it's forgotten

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It's worth noting that Obama set up a special office in the IRS to specifically audit the complicated returns of millionaires and billionaires, only to have Congressional Republicans defund the entire unit. So this is as close to consequences ad they've ever come, and the panic is palpable.

Rachel to Democratic Leadership: for the love of god, field a viable replacement or back your fucking candidate and shut the fuck up. You are making a spectacle of your inability to self-soothe.

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Seriously academics get genuinely excited about this, it is often the best email they will get all month. I once had a professor send me not just the paper I requested but six more that he'd written that related to the topic he was so happy someone outside academia wanted to read his work

Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!

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Few things radicalized me quite like healthcare while watching my grandmother waste away and die while burning through her entire life savings Nuke health insurance companies from orbit, then nuke the ashes just to be safe, then salt the earth so they can't grow back

Then, he can tell the chatbot to make it four times longer. “If you’re going to put all kinds of barriers up for my patients, then when I fire back, I’m going to make it very time consuming,” he said. lol

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Miracles are real and they are provided by science I am in tears. we can *prevent HIV transmission*.

Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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i love that an an apparently unalloyed success of a.i. chatbots has been in an administrative bullshit war www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/h...

In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I.www.nytimes.com As health plans increasingly rely on technology to deny treatment, physicians are fighting back with chatbots that synthesize research and make the case.

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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate." news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...

Biden's poor debate performance had almost no impact on voter preference, new report saysnews.northeastern.edu A new report shows that despite Biden’s debate performance – poor as it may have been – voter preferences haven't been impacted.

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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

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WGA East members at THIRTEEN WNET are fighting for a fair contract, but management is demanding extreme rollbacks that would decimate the union. Stand with the writers at WNET and tell management it’s a hard NO on unionbusting!

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The number of people who have replied to either argue or bemoan that “MAGA doesn’t care” like that’s the voting bloc we have to mobilize is going to make my brain melt out my ears like taffy on a warm summer’s day

“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

Yes, THIS

Y'all. I'm just a rando with some followers on social media who likes occasionally raising money for voting rights. You're the fucking party elite. GET IT TOGETHER YOU DUMBASSES.

Exactly. Also I need this t-shirt.

RUDE NATURE NEEDS TO PUT SOME PANTS ON

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

This👇

So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

I hate this. Of course it’s still happening. It’s still true of a majority of medical treatment for POC.

As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share