Natanael, Tech janitor

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A nerd who likes cryptography. A bit weird, a bit witty, a bit whimsical

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rahaeli

Bluesky's aggressive, uncharitable, bad-faith reading of every single fucking post and the prominent, systemic, immediate, and reflexive dismissal of any statement that challenges the reader's preconceptions and assumptions is getting extremely tiresome even for me.

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Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there

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again, the press' failure in this moment is so severe, profound, and widespread that it almost doesn't feel real

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Today marks 10 years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down. All 298 civilians on board lost their lives. Using open sources, we helped to uncover who was accountable, amongst a wave of disinformation. You can listen to our investigation here: www.novel.audio/shows/the-be...

The Bellingcat Podcastwww.novel.audio Bellingcat, a group of open-source investigators, painstakingly uncover the truth about flight MH17, which was mysteriously shot down in 2014.

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Wrote about watching information travel in the hours after the assassination attempt. How the machine isn't broken (it works perfectly) &how it makes sense that the ppl investing/supporting the machine are behind Trump, a man made in the machine's image www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This Is What Happens When News Breakswww.theatlantic.com The chaotic aftermath of the assassination attempt shows a toxic information system working as designed.

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This comes as a 20-year-old with a gun tried to assassinate Trump. The story--every story such as this--should say who appointed the judges. Minnesota’s age restriction to carry handguns is unconstitutional, court rules www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

Minnesota’s age restriction to carry handguns is unconstitutional, court ruleswww.washingtonpost.com A federal appeals court ruled that Minnesota residents ages 18 to 20 should be able to publicly carry handguns under the Second Amendment.

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“women should stay in violent marriages - for the kids.” —JD Vance

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Liberal Silicon Valley is a myth akin to liberal mass media. How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Power www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/t...

How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Powerwww.nytimes.com Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

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People with Long COVID three times more likely to give up work. "Study highlights the toll of ongoing COVID-19 symptoms on the workforce." Study: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver

People with Long COVID three times more likely to give up workwww.gavi.org Study highlights the toll of ongoing COVID-19 symptoms on the workforce.

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Among other too-fast responses after the shooting, we noticed that Real Clear Politics did some quick stealth-editing: (RCP did not respond to a request for an explanation.) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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I'm going to keep beating this drum: just expand the court to 70 to 100 Justices or so so that NO SINGLE JUSTICE matters that much. That's it. That's the plan.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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(2/2) "...Nazi promise was exposed when Hitler decreed a law bringing an end to collective bargaining...Ley promised "to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory--that is, the employer...Now they are once again to be the 'master in the house.'" Shirer, ch7

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The tl;dr This is union-busting, written as a statute. A company union is not a union, it is a way for management to dilute/interfere with the power of the union. Company unions have been unlawful since 1935, because everyone recognizes it is an attempt to union bust. This is trying to undo that.

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

www.rubio.senate.gov

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Covid is SURGING right now & NO ONE is paying attention. Freaking French Cyclists have mandated masking... if Olympic-level healthy athletes want to avoid it, what chance do you think YOU have to avoid Long Covid or WORSE?!?! Masks work against all variants! www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de...

I keep seeing surprised posts "Huh, I went to [insert event, conference, club, on an airplane, the Sphere] and got COVID!" Meanwhile CNN is running headlines saying "COVID-19's Back." Friends, it never, ever went away and I'm still masking in indoor spaces for your protection as well as my own.

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concernswww.cyclingnews.com New measure follows spate of abandons due to coronavirus

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he looks equally rigid and uncomfortable and scared tonight. it's actually kinda weird, this is his whole deal

trump looks like shit lol. good

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rnc security cops shooting people from entirely different states now

NEW: Columbus, Ohio, police detailed to the RNC in Milwaukee have shot a Black man in his early 20s a few blocks outside of the security perimeter. Details TK. (via Columbus Dispatch, CBS 58 Milwaukee)

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Menendez’s biggest mistake was not appointing three Supreme Court justices.

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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They've had a plot going against top Trump admin officials ever since Trump dropped a hellfire on Soleimani. This has been previously reported including when they were looking for this HOA president-ass looking mfer (excellent spycraft is about blending in)

Breaking News: A potential Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump was recently detected by U.S. intelligence agencies. They said it was unrelated to the assassination attempt at the rally.

U.S. Detected Iranian Plot to Kill Trump Separate From Last Weekend’s Shootingwww.nytimes.com American intelligence agencies were tracking an Iranian assassination effort even before the attack on former President Donald J. Trump. But officials said the two were unrelated.

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hey look it's possible for a political party to cast out a convicted felon

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Tomorrow is (another) internet law day at the Ninth Circuit, with the court hearing arguments California's Age Appropriate Design Code (Netchoice v Bonta) and CA's social media reporting law (X v Bonta). For Our amicus briefs in each case: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

EFF Urges Ninth Circuit to Reinstate X’s Legal Challenge towww.eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to reinstate X’s lawsuit challenging a California law that forces social media companies to file reports to the state about

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Delta Green Agent: “It’s okay, I have a Drive of 89%.” “Oh. Oh, no.”

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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oh will you look at that, JDVance has never voted for anything for anyone in a working class demographic

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Project 2025 and Trump and Vance's own words are the Democrats greatest weapons. Where are the ads? EVERYONE has something that Project 2025 would make much, much worse. "Gotta pay for private tornado warnings" is just one of thousands of examples.

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Per this NYT story, an alleged Syrian war criminal and torturer received his visa and entered the US during the Trump admin, so I don’t understand why the Syria guy on Trump’s National Security Council gets to offer an analytic comment and whistle off into the sunset. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/u...

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Will Stancil

if I were a pollster, I’d give poll respondents a score based on how “networked” they are, using income, education, whether they read newspapers or watch TV news, and whether they live in a city or suburb. and I bet you that score would correspond heavily to sensitivity to news narratives

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Tired Art Goblin

It was impossible for them to understand that the land of plenty they saw was the result of careful management, largely because it would have been inconvenient for their narrative that the native people weren’t REALLY using the land.

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Courtney Milan

Ah, just like the colonists in the US who saw the abundant flora and fauna and decided to clear cut and over fish/hunt everything because surely God will just... make more somehow, right? Why harvest nuts when you can cut down the whole tree? 🙄