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"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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Just remembered this Onion headline from 10/3/2001

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Noteworthy that this specifies "longer and later than the law permits," implying that child labour is fine as long as they don't do any overtime.

I might burn all the world

10-year-olds found working at McDonald’s until 2 a.m.www.axios.com More than 300 minors, including two 10-year-olds, were found working at McDonald’s later and longer than the law permits.

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The FBI has a post outlining the scam: www.fbi.gov/contact-us/f...

Individuals Spoofing Law Enforcement Phone Numbers to Scam Victims | Federal Bureau of Investigationwww.fbi.gov The FBI Atlanta Field Office is warning the public about a phone scam where individuals are posing as local law enforcement officials.

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You wouldn't know it by the chyron, but this woman literally said said: "I'm voting for democracy. A convicted felon is not it. Biden is our guy." That was her quote.

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Now that people are starting to be aware of the right wing horrors in Project 2025, Facebook, Instagram and Threads have started tagging posts about it as “partly false information,” citing right wing propaganda site The Dispatch as a “fact checker.”

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They just added a paragraph saying it’s “unclear” why this expert visited the White House, without mentioning the Parkinson’s bill he just signed.

knowing that the white house just signed a massive parkinson’s bill in july changes the entire tone of this story so much that this makes it wildly, horrifically offensive

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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The NYTimes busy organizing twelve op-ed pieces for tomorrow’s front page on how France choosing compromise over fascism is bad for Biden

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The people making Republican policy in 2024 are the descendants of the ones who were so extreme they believed it was their religious duty to bomb abortion clinics, and murder doctors like Dr. George Tiller. But they’re not openly calling for violence. Yet.

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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!

Trump later appointed this federal prosecutor as his first U.S. Secretary of Labor. www.kare11.com/article/news...

Florida prosecutors knew Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before cutting deal, transcript showswww.kare11.com Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal, according to transcripts.

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One of the advantages, if you want to call it that, of having information of your own that you can check on Large Language Models, is that you quickly understand how badly they get what you know wrong, and if they get that wrong, what are they getting wrong that you DON'T know about?

Oh, God, I just did this with one of my own novels and the results are hilarious. The novel is on-line and free! It got, like, 30% of the plot. It actually identified the theme accurately, but completely hallucinated the three central protagonists!

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the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...

The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.

In Opinion The greatest public service President Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not run for re-election, the editorial board writes after Thursday's presidential debate.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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"You wouldn't use air conditioning if you care about the environment" is just the new "You'd recycle your plastic if you cared about the environment." Both purposely default to individual responsibility as the cure when the real issue is industries & companies. It's. a. distraction. It always is.

There absolutely is this pervasive global idea that Air Conditioning Is The Sworn Enemy of Being Green (in a way that we don’t tend to think about heating), and this is dangerous and bad. Providing cooling that uses less energy is great, but forcing people to go without entirely? Not so much.

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here is the dirty secret about promotions past a certain point: they suck it’s a ton more responsibility, it’s a ton more pressure, it might be functionally a completely different job, and - mostly - the pay delta isn’t worth it there’s a reason I’ve stayed at my current level (senior) for ages

Dell gave employees an ultimatum to return to office some of the week or accept they were never eligible for a promotion ever again. Half the employees shrugged and stayed remote. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”arstechnica.com Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

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I’ve been amazed and horrified by the things these people feel comfortable enough to say right out in the open.

Talk to any AI booster for long enough and they’ll make a crack at how bad human writers and artists were to begin with. Their glee the idea of hurting them barely concealed. They don’t love AI. They hate people.

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I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

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Suing someone for calling you a troll is irrefutable proof that you are, in fact, a troll.

DC Cir. rejects a defamation suit from a Seth Rich murder truther who was mad about being called out on a podcast for, among other things, being a “conspiracy entrepreneur,” “troll,” “crankster,” alt-Right, and “bully," which are statements of opinion. www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opi...

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It also draws distinctions between Nazis and those who make common cause with Nazis, and expects us to find such distinctions meaningful.

Snopes is such horseshit. The claim that Trump was only talking about people at the Confederate statue protest when he referred to "very fine people" ignores that it was exclusively white supremacists at the statue protest.

No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People'www.snopes.com Trump's remarks about the deadly Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 remain controversial.

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Fun fact: the Rabbis removed the Ten Commandments out of our core liturgy (Shema &tc) bc the Jewish Christians were SOOPER into it & the Rabbis wanted to be clear that the 10 weren’t superior to the other 603 mitzvot in Torah. So we’re clear that this 👇 is Christian supremacy. & a 1A violation.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana becomes the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

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“Frisk’s campaign said that he was exercising rights under the Second Amendment, which allows armed home defense, and the Third Amendment, which prohibits forcible quartering of soldiers in your home, the penumbras of which right clearly extend to allowing you to expel aggressive strippers.”

Neil Frisk is one of our MAGA Republican state lawmakers here in Michigan. Last night he solicited a local stripper and brought her home where they had a fight and he fired a gun at her. Friske campaign said he is "always exercising his 2nd Amendment right." www.fox2detroit.com/news/michiga...

Michigan lawmaker arrested for 'felony-level offense' in Lansing Thursday morningwww.fox2detroit.com State lawmaker Neil Friske, who is a Republican that represents Charlevoix and Emmet counties in northern Michigan, was taken into custody by Lansing Police.

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I will not sit in my house and feel like I'm dying so folks can ignore Bitcoin and ChatGPT and rich people's private jets. Fuck everything about that!

I loathe air conditioner shaming. It’s bizarre Puritan nonsense that gets vulnerable people killed in heat waves. (Did you know a lot of people who die in heat waves HAVE AC, but never turned it on?). Shut it down wherever you encounter it.

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LOL it was a general point on free speech LOL “Speaking at the Cannes Lions festival on Wednesday, Elon Musk said his remark telling advertisers to “go f—- yourself” was meant as a general point on free speech rather than a comment to the wider industry.”

Elon Musk softens 'go f--- yourself' comment as he tries to woo advertisers back to Xwww.cnbc.com Elon Musk said his remark telling advertisers to "go f--- yourself" was meant as a general point on free speech rather than a comment to the wider industry.

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Now politicians might finally get around to taking action against microplastics. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Microplastic discovery in penises raises erectile dysfunction questionswww.theguardian.com The contaminants have also recently been found in testes and semen, amid concerns about falling male fertility

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Dude was a surgical resident at the time, he's only 34, fucked up his whole medical career. Reaping and sowing you piece of shit, enjoy the next couple decades of regret. ✌️

READ THE INDICTMENT of Dr. Eithan Haim, who DOJ has charged with four counts of violating HIPAA by leaking stolen patient records from Texas Children's Hospital to Chris Rufo to attack gender-affirming care www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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fundamentally, at the core of conservatism is an empathy gap they might, in the abstract, know how things work - but it isn't real unless it happens to them, at which point it becomes an outrage they don't think other people are real, not the way they are

I haven't stopped thinking about this since I read it.

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As is often the case with Mr Moxon's writings, I find myself at a loss to pick just one part to quote to sum it up. It truly deserves to be read in its entirety. Though ultimately it might make you feel far more tired than you were before - but not because of its length.

"The child wasn't following the man's orders, the story reported." Cops, bombs, billionaires, gun maniacs, and other luxurious cruelties we've been sold. Things we never could afford that we should stop paying for. www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuries

Cruel Luxurieswww.the-reframe.com Those who insist that we all as a society pay the cost of a serious problem they are creating, just so that they can imagine themselves to be the solution. Things we could never afford and should stop...

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The right-wing trolls refuse to listen but they demand to be heard. Hard pass. Block them early and often.

Trolling + misinformation requires an audience: so when rather than responding, I simply block, they also perceive that as censorship. This latest accusation, for example, claims that, as a university professor, I am a public official and hence shouldn’t be allowed to block anyone on social media.