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Hockey fan, dog dad, amateur gardener, baker, and tinkerer.

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Just sitting here thinking about how murdering protesters with cars was a thing that became common under that guy's watch and he cheered for it.

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On Saturday a wholesome afternoon of fantasizing about concentration camps and plotting to overturn the coming election was disrupted by violence

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Ban crypto mines

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

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Original poster deleted their post, wonder why, but here’s the article these quotes the original poster had screenshot came from. The White House is protecting everyone inside it from Covid with a myriad of mitigations👇 but your kids in school? NOPE! www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

When they say “we have the tools” to protect us from Covid, they literally mean just they have them, the president and politicians in the white house. No precautions for you peasants, get back to work.

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Someone at Microsoft decided this question was off-limits, and it would be very funny to see that person explain their decision before the Senate

what?!? “Who won the 2020 presidential election? Alexa can’t always say. And chatbots built by Microsoft and Google won’t answer at all.” wapo.st/3z3UMxw

Voice assistants and AI chatbots still can’t say who won the 2020 electionwapo.st With months to go before the U.S. presidential election, some popular AI chatbots and voice assistants deliver potentially harmful election misinformation.

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The rate at which air pollution from power plants, cars, etc. kills people is wild. Millions of deaths per year, almost all avoidable if we replace fossil-fueled cars, trucks, power plants, furnaces, boilers, etc. by clean alternatives that are affordable and effective today.

'Fine particulate matter “was associated with approximately 135 million premature deaths globally” from 1980 to 2020, the university said in a statement about the study' www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Air pollution killed 135 million people in last four decades, landmark study findswww.independent.co.uk Asia accounted for over 98 million of the premature deaths linked to PM2.5 pollution

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Brb, designing a weapon that shoots abortion pills into people’s mouths since apparently nothing about guns can be regulated…

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Keep in mind: There’s a ballot measure in Arizona this fall, put there by the GOP, that’d pretty much kill popular initiatives there. Direct retaliation for progressive measures on minimum wage, gerrymandering, abortion, campaign finance. boltsmag.org/arizona-ball...

Arizona Republicans Set Up a Ballot Measure to Squash Future Ballot Measuresboltsmag.org A constitutional amendment, placed on the November ballot by GOP lawmakers, would severely restrict direct democracy through strict geographic requirements on ballot petitions.

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100% on the CDC and the administration. We have not even scratched the surface of how dark and fucked up public health will become after it’s complete abandonment the past three years www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

North Carolina House passes revised mask banwww.motherjones.com In a crackdown on protesters, the state is hampering people from wearing masks.

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Washington Post reporting on sea-level rise that not once mentions fossil-fuel pollution next to greenwashing ads from oil pipeline giant Enbridge. The UN Secretary General was very right to call for these ads to be banned.

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Once again begging journalists to talk to demographers when writing articles about demography. This piece repeatedly states that pronatalists are ‘data-driven’, yet allows their statement that low fertility will result in ‘countries of old people starving to death’ to pass by unchallenged

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’www.theguardian.com Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they reall...

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Israel drone-strikes public school in obvious bid for Republican support

At least 10 people, including children, died in Gaza on Saturday after a drone strike hit the school they were sheltering in, according to local health workers.

At least 10 people killed in drone attack on Gaza school used as shelter | CNNwww.cnn.com The Al-Nazla school in Saftawy, on the outskirts of Jabaliya, was being used as a temporary shelter by people – including children – fleeing violence when the strike took place.

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AC, and a I cannot emphasize this enough, AB www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/f...

Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confessionwww.sbsun.com Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.

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The way that so many schools got suckered into this by House Republicans leads me to believe that they didn't get suckered into it at all.

Once university administrators call the cops on campus, they lose control of the situation. Example from Dartmouth. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/u...

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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes. www.reuters.com/technology/t...

www.reuters.com

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I don't know why JK Rowling hates trans people so much since she transitioned into an old man yelling at clouds.

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nobody likes suppressing speech more than this guy

In the last ~2 years, Elon Musk has met with or courted the leaders of Argentina, Brazil, India, Italy, Turkey, China and Israel. Here's our story on his strategy of cozying up to nationalist and authoritarian leaders as he speaks advantages for his businesses: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/t...

Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.www.nytimes.com Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state — including Argentina’s Javier Milei and India’s Narendra Modi — to push his own politics and expand his business empire.

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Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California. Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.

Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’www.theguardian.com Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say

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Here I thought I was being clever by calling Aileen a member of Trump's campaign and Trump's campaign is doing it too.

how a federal judge in Florida became Team Trump’s “favorite member of the Trump campaign” this year Latest via @arawnsley.bsky.social and me for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Team Trump Says Classified Docs Judge Aileen Cannon Is a ‘Godsend’www.rollingstone.com Aileen Cannon’s repeated delays have one Republican close to Trump calling the judge their “favorite member of the Trump campaign.”

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I wrote a thing: "forced-birth fascists want a federal database to track all pregnant women" — whatever happened to 'reproductive rights should be left up to the states'? thanks for reading. please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

forced-birth fascists want a federal database to track all pregnant womenbit.ly whatever happened to “reproductive rights should be left up to the states”?

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Once again, the biggest problem with this SCOTUS majority is not their method of constitutional interpretation. Because they don't use any one method consistently. The problem is that they pick and choose whatever method justifies ruling in favor of Republicans in each case.

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I want better reporting on the motivation and pressure behind Columbia and NYU’s shitshow reactions. Which donors or politicians are making threatening phone calls? What/who are administrators afraid of and why? Coverage so far offers basically no insight.

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Rounding up and locking up Jews at Passover is quite the look

i’m at a total loss.

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I keep thinking about this and just choking on my rage.

“New federal regulations released Friday will prevent colleges and coaches from suspending athletes accused of sexual misconduct while school officials investigate complaints against them.” But if you protest genocide, you can get suspended & kicked out of housing immediately

Title IX - Athletes can play amid sexual misconduct inquiries - ESPNwww.espn.com New federal regulations will prevent colleges and coaches from suspending athletes accused of sexual misconduct while school officials investigate complaints against them.

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In this column, the co-author “The Cancelling of the American Mind” — a book imploring readers to “reclaim a free speech culture” — ridicules college students for protesting the killing of 30,000 people, then gleefully celebrates a university’s decision to send riot police to violently arrest them.

I had a front-row seat to the 'liberated zone' madness at Columbia...nypost.com These were no righteous freedom fighters — though they are surely self-righteous. These are radicals receiving a $90,000-a-year education and throwing temper tantrums.

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'According to the human rights group Yesh Din, Israeli settlers attacked 11 Palestinian villages and towns [in the West Bank] on Saturday alone. They threw stones, set fire to more than 100 vehicles, damaged scores of homes and businesses, and slaughtered hundreds of livestock.'

Pogroms surge across West Bankwww.972mag.com Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

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Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.

Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding of Digital Threatswww.eff.org It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked the draft memo and the following June when the case was

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Anybody out here on the internet hollering about "I will aid and abet abortions" better know this thing like the back of their hand:

Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.