Jeff Janis

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Timeline cleanse Here’s some very big tomatoes I’m growing

I’ve decided to enter the discourse. Gulp

Timeline cleanse. Rose in the garden.

Timeline cleanse: hungry baby cardinals

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When Sydney Jones arrived at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto during a mental health crisis, her family assumed she would soon receive treatment. Instead, the hospital sent her to jail, though she was charged with no crime. www.propublica.org/article/bapt...

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“The letter’s signatories say their work includes reviewing content on platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram, as well as labeling images and training chatbot responses for companies like OpenAI that are developing generative-AI technology.”

"A typical workday for African tech contractors, the letter says, involves 'watching murder and beheadings, child abuse and rape, pornography and bestiality, often for more than 8 hours a day.' Pay is often less than $2 per hour, it says, and workers frequently end up with [PTSD]"

The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI’s Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From ‘Modern Day Slavery’www.wired.com African workers who label AI data or screen social posts for US tech giants are calling on President Biden to raise their plight with Kenya's president, William Ruto, who visits the US this week.

Cardinal eggs. Spring keeps on springing.

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UN experts "horrified at details emerging from mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women & children, w/ many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions, & potential instances of people buried alive.”

Onslaught of violence against women and children in Gaza unacceptable: UN expertswww.ohchr.org GENEVA (6 May 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the continued and systematic onslaught of violence committed against Palestinians in Gaza, with most victims being women and children over the past se...

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Cliff notes: Professor Pflugfelder taught at Columbia for 28 yrs. Was just trying to enjoy retirement & bingewatch Shogun. Got interrupted by police who he filmed from his own home/block. Arrested and jailed. One of the may “non students” the cops want us to believe were “outside agitators”

A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his homewww.usatoday.com The professor had just finished his last class to end a 28-year teaching career at Columbia University. Then police arrested him outside his home.

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Shout out to the embedded, engaged, and diligent journalists across media spaces who often do critical work that falls outside dominate trends in national coverage. Trying to fly again on bluesky. Been a minute. Sry abt that. theconversation.com/media-covera...

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excellent!!!

Jack Dorsey confirmed to me on Twitter he’s no longer on the Bluesky board :/ #Bluesky #jackdorsey

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Joshua J. Friedman

She says the police were taunting the arrested Columbia student protesters by talking about all the overtime they were making

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Once again, it is important to understand the NYPD not as a law enforcement organization, but as an occupying army of suburbanites attempting to force their views on a city that they see as resistive and unruly at best

Look at the overhead shot!

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WASHINGTON (AP) — US drug control agency is moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift, AP sources say.

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“We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing.”

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gazawww.theguardian.com IDF says it ‘completely rejects’ charge that its soldiers deliberately fired on any of the thousands of civilians killed in Israeli offensive

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Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

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My daughter is at the UMass encampment and I’m a proud mama 😊 Her political awakening started at 12 with Trump’s election, she then protested for Parkland, BLM, George Floyd, and climate crisis. There you go, this is how this generation grew up.

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NEW A coalition of lawyers domestic and abroad — including at least 20 that work in the Biden administration — are calling on President Joe Biden to halt military aid to Israel, arguing that its actions in Gaza do not comply with U.S. and international humanitarian law.

Attorneys inside and outside the administration urge Biden to cut off arms to Israelwww.politico.com So far more than 90 lawyers have signed on to a legal letter alleging Israel’s conduct in Gaza violates U.S. and international law.

Azaleas for YOU

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Sometimes the letters to the editor are very good.

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People who fail to understand that college is part of a big scam and then get hysterical about kids learning that fact are not people to be taken seriously. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/college-is...

College Is an Education in Bullshitwww.hamiltonnolan.com The value of universities is in revealing how they themselves suck.

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The new policy that Indiana University used to justify snipers, arresting students and faculty, and banning those arrested from campus for a year, was enacted *one day* before yesterday's protests began. It wasn't even posted online until yesterday morning. www.idsnews.com/article/2024...

‘Utterly unprincipled’: Policy created on eve of protest used to make arrestswww.idsnews.com IUPD said 33 protesters were arrested.

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José Andrés praised the World Central Kitchen workers that Israel killed as “the best of humanity.” Andrés said that WCK shared the aid workers’ whereabouts with Israeli forces and said they were “targeted deliberately nonstop until everybody was dead.”

José Andrés eulogizes World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gazawww.washingtonpost.com José Andrés praises the World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza as “the best of humanity” in an emotional speech at a Washington National Cathedral memorial service.

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Meanwhile

Speaker Johnson at Columbia: "If this is not contained quickly and if these threats and intimidation do not stop, there is an appropriate time for the National Guard." Full quote via C-SPAN:

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This went kinda viral here (or at least it kept popping up I my timeline) so I wanted to check it out. This is in the interest of accuracy and not reflexively reposting stuff in the heat of the moment. OP is date stamped April 23, 2024 at 2:32pm

Damn

At arguments in Grants Pass, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson are pummeling the Gibson Dunn attorney defending laws that punish homeless people who sleep outside. Sotomayor asks: If homeless people aren't allowed to sleep anywhere, are they supposed to just "kill themselves"?