Chris in SF

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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”

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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.

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The sad truth is that there will likely never be justice wielded against the men and state that kidnapped Dr. Abu Salmiya and tortured him for seven months. Abu Salmiya was a hostage, but the New York Times will never use that word, nor will any US government official. One has to wonder why that is.

Release of Gazan Hospital Director Draws Outcry in Israelwww.nytimes.com Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was released on Monday after more than seven months in Israeli detention without charges.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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"Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law... With fear for our democracy, I dissent." - Justice Sotomayor

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Just so disgusted by the (all but 2) Republicans and 62 Democrats (see below) who voted to ban US officials from acknowledging the death toll in Gaza. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024313

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They keep making the same mistake, which is the assumption that Palestinians' conflicts are inherently with Israel -- and therefore a religious or ethnic conflict -- rather than the with the brute reality of occupation and dispossession

TBH if Washington thinks a US-Arab occupation of Gaza would be any more tolerable to Palestinians than Israeli occupation they're very mistaken.

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DESPITE the wage hike lol www.ocregister.com/2024/06/21/s...

Southern California added 4,800 fast-food workers in May despite wage hikewww.ocregister.com May 2024’s increase was nearly double the industry’s average of 2,760 hires during 2015-19.

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

What fresh hell

One of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: a bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker is on the brink of "losing it"—and play them AI-made family photo montages to calm them down. Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...

AI can't fix everything automation already brokewww.bloodinthemachine.com Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life

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"On the first day of Eid, a Palestinian child visits the grave where 24 of her family members are buried, victims of an Israeli massacre that claimed their lives on October 23, 2023." :*( x.com/QudsNen/stat...

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"Some of us have to actually live the future that you all are setting on fire for us." youtu.be/nMkpGR2uJsw?...

AOC Grills Oil CEOs Over Lobbyingyoutu.be At a Congressional hearing in October '21, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confronted oil executives over their industry's lobbying to influence clima...

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This week's comic: Many white Americans fail to assimilate

Year like 10 or 11 of this stupid game and they still can’t show the players the slightest bit of respect by leasing more server space on day 1s. So glad no more Bungie for me after this year.

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It says something about techbros that they created a machine that does nothing but endlessly bullshit and gaslight and spew biases and instantly thought "wow this thing is so intelligent, just like me."

My father-in-law passed about a decade ago. I just found a copy of a book I’d ghost-written and given him for Xmas around 2009…I’d forgotten about what I’d written inside. Lol. Miss you dad!

Eve Fartlow

strangers on twitter tried to get me fired multiple times, called me a rapist/abuser, cost me opportunities, etc. but yeah being called eve fartlow sounds hard too

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ALWAYS note the language Israelis: butchered Palestinians: shattered Living beings are butchered Objects are shattered Dehumanization is more subtle than you think

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Trump and his supporters are not angry that the Manhattan trial was “rigged.” They’re angry that it wasn’t. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Man, the week of Memorial Day is ROUGH for that family

Happy Day to those who celebrate

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This is why they spend a half billion a year on union busting

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Doctors Without Borders forced to close primary care centre in Al Mawasi due to Israel’s offensive in #Rafah. We had treated over 33,000 patients at the health centre since February. This is the second health facility we have been forced to close this week. #Gaza

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To whomever needs to hear it, I did not learn, practice, struggle, fail, persevere, and sacrifice throughout my years of creativity just to serve some fucking algorithm, or to be the fodder for those that wish to kill the process. And neither did you.

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To repeat: generative "A.I." is not inevitable. It's a derivative, boring bullshit generator. It wallows in mediocrity and fails by design and definition. Just say no.

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I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore