Bob Booten

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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!

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I’ve been laid up sick today, but I still managed to accomplish something. www.404media.co/a-beloved-te... and www.engadget.com/apple-blog-t...

A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffwww.404media.co TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI...

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My friend Christina on what it feels like to see your professional self exploited by sleazebag "content" hustlers who combine blog graverobbing with byline identity theft: "it’s kind of fucked to me that these approximations of the past are being recreated in these really blasphemous ways.”

I’ve been laid up sick today, but I still managed to accomplish something. www.404media.co/a-beloved-te... and www.engadget.com/apple-blog-t...

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Thank you @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @karissabe.bsky.social for writing about this utterly maddening fuckery www.engadget.com/apple-blog-t... and www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farmwww.engadget.com The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has come back online nearly a decade after shutting down ... as an apparent AI-generated content farm.

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Sen. Jim Inhofe, GOP buffoon who threw a snowball in Congress to "debunk" the global warming now causing misery and death all over the world, is dead at last. I interviewed him; he was a nasty piece of work, blathering lies, and white-knucklingly obsessed with trashing the Clintons. Enjoy Hell.

“What is the democracy for which the world is battling For which we offer up our man power, woman power Money power, our all?” youtu.be/s6YusIO4gHE?...

Aoife O'Donovan & Hawktail - America, Comeyoutu.be Aoife O’Donovan & Hawktail - “America, Come" from the digital EP 'Aoife O'Donovan & Hawktail Play All My Friends' on Yep Roc Records. Order here: https://ffm.to/allmyfriendsep Subscribe to Aoife's Youtube and tap 🔔 to turn on notifications https://bit.ly/AoifeYT FOLLOW AOIFE: https://aoifeodonovan.com https://instagram.com/aoifemaria https://www.facebook.com/aoifeodonovanofficial https://twitter.com/odonovanaoife https://www.tiktok.com/@aoifemariaodonovan SONG CREDITS: Select text taken from speeches given by Carrie Chapman Catt: “Women’s Suffrage as a War Measure” (1918), “The address to Congress on Women's Suffrage” (1917) https://www.loc.gov/item/mss154040420/ https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Addres... Written by Aoife O'Donovan Produced by Aoife O’Donovan and Darren Schneider Recorded and Mixed by Darren Schneider at the Audio Temple at Full Sail in Winter Park, FL Additional recording by Gary Paczosa at Minutia in Nashville, TN Mastered by Paul Blakemore Aoife O'Donovan - vocals, acoustic guitar Brittany Haas - fiddle, vocals Jordan Tice - acoustic guitar, vocals, Paul Kowert - double bass LYRICS: What is the democracy for which the world is battling for which we offer up our man power, woman power, money power, our all? The world does not wait for such as these nor does liberty pause to heed the complaints of man or woman. She does not wait for those who have a special interest to serve, nor a selfish reason for depriving other people of freedom. Holding her torch high Lady Liberty points onward and upward says “America, come.” (Holding her torch high... America!) Suffrage is coming -- you know it Some of you are old I know Are you willing that those who take your place might blame you for not keeping pace? Is there any gain for you, or gain for the nation to delay? Don’t drive us away, don’t wait... What is the democracy for which the world is battling and for which we offer up our man power, woman power, money power, our all? _________________________________________________________________________ Published by Just Yogurt Music (ASCAP), administered by Seed Soup Songs (ASCAP) Commissioned by The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (Eric Jacobsen, Music Director) and originally performed May 8, 2021 at Festival Park with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

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That's why we have vice presidents Chris

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entering text in the terminal is complicated jvns.ca/blog/2024/07...

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the Midwest is a fucking weird place. They love Obama and so many hate Harris. For absolutely stupid and racist reasons. I worry about this and we all should if we want to win What the Midwest does like is old, experienced grandpas with a strong backbone. They don’t like quitters

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major white dudes figures in media need to get a fucking grip. The cowardice is so gross and repulsive

Notice how few of them are women and people of color! (Of course not all, but this is fear-driven cishet white dude stuff, trying to control narratives they can’t control and nobody wants them to)

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As others have said, Macron was too clever by half. He set up EXTRAORDINARILY (record) speedy elections: Only 1 week before filing deadline. You'd think: No way fractured left unites in that time. Instead, made situation SO URGENT that Left had no time to fight on its issues.

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largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

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I think Dems are dealing with chaos of our own making right now and among other things, I blame the West Wing for brain poisoning an entire generation of political operatives.

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That's the good stuff.

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Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese tallied her 13th consecutive double-double during a game against the Seattle Storm Sunday to surpass WNBA-great Candace Parker’s all-time record for the most consecutive double-doubles over multiple seasons.

Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese makes WNBA history with 13th consecutive double-double | CNNwww.cnn.com Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese tallied her 13th consecutive double-double during a game against the Seattle Storm Sunday to surpass WNBA-great Candace Parker’s all-time record for the most consecutive...

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🤡LOL! No. You people are not serious. You have a Vice President Kamala Harris. It's Biden or Harris. Y'all trying to hit Kamala with some "OK fine! Yes, you won already, but hear me out... best out of three! 😜" type nonsense. You ain't slick. At all.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io 🤡LOL! No. You people are not serious. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/07/2024/blitz-primary-could-open-up-democratic-race-if-biden-drops-out You have a Vice President Kamala Harris. It's Biden o...

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Maybe it's time that the @nytimes.com should step aside for a younger, fitter, more coherent newspaper.

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by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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Whether Biden drops out or continues, I expect a primary target of foreign info operations this year to be the legitimacy of the Democratic candidate and the legimitacy of the courts in relation to the the GOP candidate. Expect them to target audiences on both sides and exploit organic criticism.

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"My mother... reacted exactly as I had feared she would, as if she had learned of an infidelity." I know from painful experience that this reaction is common, and I'm grateful to Andrea Robin Skinner for sharing what happened to her. (via @sarahweinman.bsky.social) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with himwww.thestar.com In the shadow of my mother, a literary icon, my family and I have hidden a secret for decades. It’s time to tell my story.

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Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

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Yes, I can see that you perceived my post, on an account you don’t follow, as an attack on your own ability to fight for truth (in, specifically, my mentions). It’s unfortunate that we have met, for the first and last time, under such circumstances!

Palate Cleanser: youtu.be/gmP1A667M6o?...

Claudio Jimenez Quispe on miniature retablos - MINIATURES preview, now streaming on PBS Appyoutu.be craftinamerica.org. International Folk Art Market artist Claudio Jimenez Quispe on his miniature retablos, featured in the MINIATURES episode, now streaming ...

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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:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

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Fun new video alert skepchick.org/2024/07/amer...

America’s Looming Theocracyskepchick.org Well, the Christian nationalists have finally done it: public schools in Louisiana will now be required to display the Ten Commandments despite the fact that this is blatantly unconstitutional. Fun…

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in case you weren’t aware of what happened the last time the Democrats dropped their candidate in July

News about Thomas Eagleton's prior treatment for depression (which included electroshock therapy) dropped in July, he withdrew August 1, and in November McGovern won only Massachusetts - far and away the worst defeat in Democratic party history

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about The last time I ever thought about shitter.

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“We need a strong institution that sits outside of electoral politics, that is not at the mercy of right wing courts, that has its own inherent form of power that can be exercised on behalf of the public good, that will naturally work towards progressive goals.… [T]hat is the labor movement.”

The End of Liberal Institutionalismwww.hamiltonnolan.com Excessive belief in institutions is a proven failure.