clggmf.bsky.social

@clggmf.bsky.social

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Resident of the Colorado mountains, father of three grown daughters, mapping professional, supporter of LGBTQ+ people everywhere, singer, piano player, very amateur composer

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Ugh. Also, no one can possibly be surprised by this. When you own the world, you don't have to pay to use anything - it's already yours.

WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

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unbelievable context

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.

Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.www.washingtonpost.com Phone scams are still hugely popular — and they depend entirely on people curious enough to answer.

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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

My Fathers' Day entertainment...I just asked Meta AI how to change a setting. It sent me down 2 dead ends. Then it asked if I had any suggestions for a better experience, and I said, "Let users opt out of Meta AI." It told me, "That's a great suggestion!" Can Zuck fire it?

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

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#Pride month facts: There has never been a war between two countries with legal gay marriage

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Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates. reason.com/2024/06/03/t...

The viral story about a defendant driving with a suspended license was fake newsreason.com Corey Harris' case should never have been a national news story to begin with.

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this is the funniest thing happening on the internet today: people claiming the newly elected president of Mexico isn’t really Jewish because she thanked Jesus (she thanked Jesús, her husband)

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I was reading about how the restaurant chain Rubio's was closing a bunch of locations and blaming California's new minimum wage law for fast food workers. So I did a quick search for Rubio's with the term "private equity" and you're never going to believe this but.... yes you will believe it.

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Sean

ron desantis also intentionally scheduled this ban on rainbow lights to coincide with the pulse nightclub mass shooting anniversary. but he can’t force people to forget happy pride everyone. i know i’m proud and i hope you can find a place where you can be proud too

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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Every Democratic consultant and politician should ask themselves "how would FOX behave if Biden were convicted of 34 felonies" and do that.

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Donald Trump has now been convicted of 34 more felonies than the Central Park Five.

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The cross-examination of Michael Cohen begins: TODD BLANCHE: On April 23 you went on TikTok and called me a "crying little shit." COHEN: That sounds like something I would say. (Prosecution objects, judge sustains, exchange stricken.)(via Kyle Cheney, everybody)

Looking forward to future class reunions of Traitor High School. www.reuters.com/world/us/vir...

Virginia school board considers restoring Confederate names to schoolswww.reuters.com A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the nation to reinstate such names.

Clearly, and sadly, learning from the Civil Rights movement is not considered a positive by most of those who want to control the story. Breaking heads, which is still their go-to move, didn’t work that time.

"Outside agitators are training our children" I should HOPE so. Do you know how incredibly trained Civil Rights era protesters were? Do you have any clue how often they were drilled on how to receive literal violence? Those trainings were long and brutal.

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Hey walmart we have some notes on your product placement can we talk

My local TV news just aired a story about a charity basketball game to raise money for the high school's special education program. My first thought was, "Ya know, I remember when special education was paid for through taxes."

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Poetic justice

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Today a judge has ordered a review of ALL death penalty cases out of Alameda County after evidence of decades-old misconduct showed how prosecutor's office excluded Black people and Jewish people from juries. oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/a...

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Imagine being one of the most conservative right-wingers of your generation, way off in the anti-gay creationist white Christian nationalist cultural fringes, and because you let the House take a vote, now your people are calling you a "corrupt Democrat."

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It's like the fucking 80s all over again.

School board cancels an anti-bullying talk with gay presenter, because he is gay. I'm sure this taught the kids an important lesson about bullying. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/u...

School Board Cancels Gay Actor’s Anti-Bullying Talk Over His ‘Lifestyle’www.nytimes.com Maulik Pancholy was scheduled to give a talk on anti-bullying at a Pennsylvania school next month. School board members scrapped it, citing concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.”

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Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a bill banning police agencies from purchasing Americans' location data, has passed by the House in a 220-to-197 vote. Big victory for @wyden.senate.gov

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Being an American involves this weird little yearly ritual where I either just successfully filed a tax extension or committed a felony, I’m not exactly sure.

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Thread. I’m so angry.

THREAD: UK transphobes are doing a bizarre victory lap over a "systematic review" of gender-affirming care even though it refutes all of their core arguments. First, only a tiny number of kids medically transition every year. cass.independent-review.uk/home/publica...

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When you grow up in an authoritarian state & witness your father being dragged away at 3 in the morning, NOTHING is more important to you than democracy. It isn’t a luxury. It’s a vital necessity, & I’ll fight every asshole who puts it in danger. I’m a single issue voter. My issue is democracy.

Quote of the day: Superintendent Greg Poole wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and have higher academic performance, and that “being an American requires conformity.” apnews.com/article/hair... Texas school legally punished Black student over hairstyle, judge says