Carrie K

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Writer, Typewriter Collector, Consumer of Tomato Toast
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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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Gee, I wonder what kind of things happen when people like AOC and Bernie are standing firm behind the candidate in the face of pressure and pushback from the more 'traditionalist' wing of the party.

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.

Cat owner problems: “No, you cannot go back outside until I’m done cleaning the blood off the patio. Be patient.”

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A McSweeney's I actually find funny

“Its predecessors already produce hundreds or even thousands of words almost instantaneously. Now GPT-5 brings PhD writing skills to the table, meaning it can generate text at a rate of about ten words per day.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove Itwww.mcsweeneys.net “If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence… and then systems like GPT-4 are more like ...

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Clarence Thomas took $267,000 from a health insurance executive, then issued rulings that made health insurance companies more money, while harming millions of Americans. This is a bribe. This isn’t complicated. Expand the Supreme Court.

Clarence Thomas, a $267,000 RV, and Why American Health Care Suckswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got an RV from a top health insurance executive. Then he protected the industry.

Hooray!

Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

Huzzah!!

Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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it's live bear cam season if you need some good salmon munching background media

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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I get that life and politics being a series of often painful compromises is frustrating. But it doesn't change. Acceleration or even revolution will not get us to a place where we will suddenly get perfect candidates. In a way, I'm jealous of people who can even wish for this.

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That’s the thing about voting. Or winning an election. Or passing a bill. It isn’t one-and-done. You don’t slay the dragon then it’s all happily ever after in the village. Democracy and progress are lifelong commitment. It’s a never-ending war against the forces of regression. Sometimes you lose.

I’m never going to say that voting is the path to our liberation. But if we don’t want to sacrifice a tremendous amount of Black, brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, and poor people, we HAVE to have both inside AND outside strategies. The system is fucked up. But we cannot concede it.

If you're in the #Seattle area and looking for a free piano, my old instrument is up for grabs! seattle.craigslist.org/see/msg/d/se...

Free Kimball Piano - musical instruments - by owner - sale - craigslistseattle.craigslist.org Lovely Upright full size Piano for free. We were gifted this Piano from my daughter's piano teacher and she cannot take it back due to her current space. We are downsizing and need to have it go to...

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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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beautiful, perfect, heartbreaker today from Annie Marhefka "The roaming charges, that is. They were my fault. I had been calling Herb’s phone since he died. In the morning. At night. Just to hear a part of him that still sounded alive." https://www.havehashad.com/qxps4

Roaming Charges by Annie Marhefkawww.havehashad.com When my brother died, my mother had a helluva time cancelling his cell phone plan. I don’t remember her complaining about packing up his clothes or planning the funeral, but I remember hearing her end…

Nearly missed this one. #Wordle 1,089 6/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

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When singer Alexander Morris visited a Michigan hospital with chest pain, he said staff thought he was mentally ill after he told them he was a member of The Four Tops A white security guard told him to “sit his Black ass down” and he was put in a straitjacket, a lawsuit says

Four Tops singer’s lawsuit says he visited ER for chest pain, ended up in straitjacketwww.statnews.com A member of the Motown group The Four Tops is suing a Detroit-area hospital over claims that he was treated poorly when he arrived at the ER experiencing a heart attack.

Theo has run the Couth Buzzard Bookstore in Greenwood since 2008. He's saved it over and over and kept a vital community space open and accessible. That work doesn't allow for retirement savings and he needs a little help: www.gofundme.com/f/support-th... buonobuzzard.com/about/

Theo's Transition into Retirement, organized by THEODORE DZIELAKwww.gofundme.com The Couth Buzzard community has been with Theo through good times and bad. You were… THEODORE DZIELAK needs your support for Theo's Transition into Retirement

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(with great suspicion) just how well read is this herring?

A fun one! #Wordle 1,082 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Good news about Bird Flu! www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06...

White-tailed eagle treated with human drug returns to wildwww.japantimes.co.jp After having been released in the wild in February, subsequent tracking verified that the bird was successfully living independently in its natural habitat.