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Once again Trump successfully uses better verbal fluency to present the impression that he’s younger and more vigorous and meanwhile he’s fully spouting gibberish

If you paid attention to Trump's side of the debate, he had the same underlying problem Biden did, where over and over he would start a sentence and realize he couldn't say or remember the words that would come next, but where Biden stalled out, Trump just switched to blurting something unrelated

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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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What would you say if you saw it in another country?

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“ - Rebecca Solnit (1/)

There's another key attribute of hope that doesn't get mentioned much. Hope fights. Even when victory seems unlikely—especially then—hope fights. We should be hopeful people. Full essay: www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

A Fool's Hopewww.the-reframe.com How to be hopeful people in this age of deliberate ignorance, empty optimism, lazy cynicism, and manufactured despair. A more useful definition of hope than these false ones we're offered.

I get the wariness around the TERF connections associated with the initial reporting against Neil Gaiman. However, when *his own denials* include essentially claiming that his newly-hired nanny was totally into their sexual relationship starting on day 1 of being hired… 😬

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Happy fourth

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We Stan a legend www.wired.com/story/oklaho...

The Genius Behind @OKWildlifeDept's Most Viral Tweets Is Signing Offwww.wired.com Sarah Southerland used the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's social media feeds to warn you about mountain lions and Halloween candy, leaving behind one of the internet’s great legacies.

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What happens when people with the institutional power to fight evil people don’t fight is those without institutional power despair. You can blame desperate people for the suffering that’s coming their way, if you want, but doing so doesn’t distinguish you from fascists.

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The founding fathers: checks and balances The Supreme Court: checks

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"The decades-old image that Israel alone gets named, blamed and punished for the kinds of things all others do for free is one of the greatest historical fictions in Israel's history." Dahlia Scheindlin in Haaretz.

Fact or fiction: Is Israel unfairly singled out for global condemnation?www.haaretz.com ***

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

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INCREDIBLE. Israel publishes footage of bombing someone on a bicycle, calling him a PIJ operative. Doctors Without Borders condemns the attack which killed Fadi and 5 other people including 3 children, while he was cycling to work near the clinic where he was providing care. x.com/manniefabian...

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super excited for the day AI will be able to take over the most tedious tasks of daily life such as making art, engaging with art, maintaining human relationships, etc., so that I can focus on my true passion: creating value for shareholders

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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"The poll questioned 75,000 people in countries representing almost 90% of the global population. It found a large majority (80%) wanted their countries to strengthen their climate change commitments, with only 5% saying their country should weaken its action." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most people in petrostates want quick switch to clean energy, UN poll findswww.theguardian.com Largest ever climate survey also finds majority want countries to set aside differences to fight global heating

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It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.

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Thanks for Reggie Jackson for saying this, and contempt and defiance, in advance, to the worthless shitbirds who will say he shouldn’t have and that he oughta leave if he doesn’t like it. Regrettably those worthless shitbirds are now fairly mainstream. sports.yahoo.com/mlb-at-rickw...

MLB at Rickwood Field: Reggie Jackson recalls racist treatment in Alabama in stunning interviewsports.yahoo.com For three minutes, Mr. October laid out in stunning detail what it was like to be a Black player in Alabama in 1967.

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Peanuts is the best sickbed reading (I'm sick, in bed, since yesterday).

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I have known many CTOs that did not need to replaced by AI because they could have been replaced much more easily with a very short shell script.

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says "some creative jobs maybe will go away" due to AI, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" (Kate Irwin/PCMag) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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John Moore, virologist/immunologist from Cornell Weill Med in NYC and I take the NYTimes to task for two opinion pieces on #COVID earlier this month. Both pieces are examples of "science opinion", where non-experts weigh in on topics beyond their ken. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covidwww.thenation.com A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.

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this is a declaration of war against creatives and it should be reported as such

Plagiari-ception…

NEW: The inevitable happened www.wired.com/story/perple...

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machinewww.wired.com Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases...

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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

Two shots per year. This was tested in 2000 women - another phase III is needed before going for approval but this is… it’s SO important and hope-giving.

New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIVwww.cnbc.com

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I am VERY excited about bringing back the writing fellowship. It’s important for The Onion to have a writers room with new and weird ideas, and it’s important to maintain a pipeline of great comedy writers for the world in general. It's a good job. Please apply. jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

The Onion Fellowship at The Onion jobs.gusto.com

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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones

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damn, dude

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Why don't I like Noam Chomsky very much? Well, he did spend quite a bit of time downplaying the Khmer Rouge genocide: chomsky.info/19770625/

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Friends, if your shark conservation advocacy demonizes China and Japan, but doesn't mention Spain and Portugal, you are not interested in a data-driven evidence-based approach to solving the biggest threats to sharks, you just want to scream at Asian people.

New Infographic Busts Myths about Global Shark Trade | PADI AWAREFacebookTwitterShareEmailFacebookTwitterYouTubeInstagramRSSwww.diveagainstdebris.org

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Some advice after 25 years of work in Egypt/living in AL: 1) Liquid IV is best electrolyte/salt hydration drink (or Pedialyte) 2)If overheated, cool shower, then colder bath (slow temp decrease) 3) Freeze bottles of water. Put between legs (crotch)+ under armpits+ at neck. Will cool blood rapidly

Check on your people. Heat waves aren’t generally regarded as the most deadly of natural disasters but they often are.