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ok honey i’m gonna go drive my oxcart in the mud for a few hours. it’s grueling work but it’s honest. for real if i hear a distant piano twinkle signifying i’m the protagonist of a Tides of History episode, portending an era of massive societal change, im gonna be so pissed off

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New Popular Front won because of this

oui oui baguette

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Perhaps more than anything else in this war, Rafah's destruction and depopulation is a resounding US failure to stand up to its words www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/w...

In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategywww.nytimes.com Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.

Fell out of a coconut tree, you think you just did? No. In the context of all in which you live and what came before you, you exist.

vienna has finally fallen to the turks

i think it's funny they made all the england fans go back to Gelsenkirchen again

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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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you: doomerism about the debate me: doomerism about grants pass and cheveron

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We spent $365 to build an AI news site that publishes 50 times a day, plagiarizes directly from our original reporting, uses services like Fiverr and popular WordPress plugins, is SEO optimized for Google and Adsense & breaks the rules of none of them www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...

I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

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What climate change we’re already locked in for will necessitate a complete reshuffling of humanity. Billions of people are now living in places that will either be underwater or too hot to survive in the coming decades. We don’t have long—we MUST change how migrants are treated.

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“On Tuesday, Mr. Macron accused the new left-wing New Popular Front alliance of Socialist, Green & far-left parties of being totally “immigrationiste” — a word often used by Ms. Le Pen’s party to describe politicians who encourage uncontrolled immigration.” It’s all masks off in The West.

The Nation Resurgent, and Borders, Toowww.nytimes.com In France, as in the United States, feelings harden against immigrants, and President Emmanuel Macron and President Biden take note.

the worst feeling is seeing people acting up and realizing they’re speaking english

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The story of the 2010s in the Middle East was a dozen or so predominantly Arab societies demanding something approximating democracy and other powers conspiring with their governments to deny it to them

Conventional wisdom among America's public is that Arabs don't like democracy and if they were to ever acquire it it would be via the imposition of other powers meanwhile conventional wisdom in Washington's foreign policy making circles is that Arabs having democracy would be really bad for the US.

i was a native speaker of english once

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This sort of thing is great because it really highlights that unless the United States is willing to meaningfully confront the fact that the settlement enterprise is the state and the state is the settlement enterprise there's no reason why partition will ever be taken seriously as an idea.

Israel to ‘strengthen’ Jewish settlements in West Bank after countries recognize Palestinian state | CNNwww.cnn.com The Prime Minister’s Office says proposals for strengthening settlements in what Israel biblically refers to as Judea and Samaria will be voted on at the next Security Cabinet meeting.

the european airport practice of subcontracting literally every single aspect of operations to a different entity is maybe the most perfect expression of the EU neoliberal dream

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The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.

The NYT laying off half it’s art dept as they ramp up the use of A.I. tools is 100% related to UArts closing due to a “steep drop in enrollment.” Regardless of A.I.’s actual capabilities the story being told to (and accepted by) business leaders is damaging the perceived value of the visual arts.

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Every so often someone is like “I can’t take all this nonstop Bluesky toxicity and drama!” And I feel like I’m in some obscure room in the tower during a palace coup, unaware, eating cakes, wondering why my valet is late(he has been harpooned by the rebels)

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Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act COMPELS the President of the United States to suspend ALL offensive military assistance to a country if the President is aware of evidence that the country in question is blocking humanitarian aid to those in need of it.

Haaretz has documents to show that Ben Gvir ordered the police not to protect the aid convoys to Gaza. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Police chief: Ben-Gvir bypassed me to prevent police protection of Gaza aid convoyswww.haaretz.com

which way western man

europe: *falling to fascism around me* me: i been a nasty girl nasty i been a nasty girl nasty i been a nasty girl nasty i been a nasty nasty nasty

there was a time in my life when i had interests other than the song nasty by tinashe, but i can't remember it

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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one

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Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt congestion pricing in NYC — if it holds — is a generational setback for US climate policy. It is worse than the Mountain Valley pipeline or Willow project in Alaska, and it will have lacerating national implications. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/economy/kath...

Kathy Hochul’s Climate Betrayalheatmap.news Delaying congestion pricing is one of the worst climate policy decisions made by any Democrat in recent memory.

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amirite ladies??

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what gets me: not only do the aid distribution organizations say this, but *Israeli officials* have said this. clear case of deciding what the facts are based on which implications you're willing to face

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finally: an AI is doing your socializing for you, drinking on your behalf, getting you laid by proxy, finishing the books you didn't, learning the hobbies you planned to pick up, forming memories in your stead, all of that. you can at last relax, safe and alone, and contemplate death

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How do I put this as bluntly as possible: homeowners celebrating equity increases aren't remotely as important as people struggling to pay rent

Are you really going to say that if and when you become a homeowner? “Hey my house just lost value. I’m so happy!” Somehow I don’t think so.