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A life of Art, books, guitar, and contemplation.

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Yesterday, I attended a party with about 15 millennials & 20 boomers. Politics came up. Not one person had heard of Project 2025. I gave them a crash course on it. By the time it was over, I was able to convince everyone that this election is a choice between democracy and a dictatorship.

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yo, I wrote a thing: "Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own it" — they can run, but they can’t hide. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are running away from Project 2025. let’s make the bastards own itbit.ly they can run, but they can’t hide

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Well, this could explain why I've only caught it once. I've been on Zyrtec daily for 15 years.

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Literally America is becoming "Borderlands" (the video game where you buy guns and bullets from vending machines) Vending machines selling bullets at grocery stores www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/...

Vending machines selling bullets at grocery storeswww.cleveland.com American Rounds offers vending machines, powered by artificial intelligence, that are selling ammo for guns at grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma.

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Read this, share this widely

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:

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When you pass Leonard in Montreal, you have to post about it. It's the law.

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"The United States Supreme Court was stolen from the American people in broad daylight by dark money." Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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The germans know.

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"It is important to not simply roll over and play dead" in the face of SCOTUS's "astonishing" immunity opinion, says Laurence Tribe. He lays out some of the ways this decision can be reigned in — as well as how the Court can repair its reputation. #Velshi www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Tribe: We cannot ‘roll over and play dead’ in face of ‘astonishing’ immunity rulingwww.msnbc.com Harvard Law School Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe speaks to MSNBC's Ali Velshi about concrete steps Americans can take to push back against the Supreme Court decision granting Donald Trum...

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Completely mind melted by how amazing this embroidery by peacocksandpinecones.co.uk is. Zoom in on the detail

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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“Skeleton Key” and “jailbreaking” are bad metaphors for general-purpose AI chatbots that anthropomorphize them into sentient prisoners whose behavior can be neatly observed and controlled. They are large-scale stochastic systems with unpredictable outputs operating with no coherent baseline.

“In a blog post last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich acknowledged the existence of a new jailbreaking technique that causes ‘the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions.’”

Microsoft Acknowledges "Skeleton Key" Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AIfuturism.com In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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Happy birthday to the Dalai Lama, a beacon of grounded compassion in a deluded world. "Compassion is the radicalism of our time," he once said. Here with my much-missed friend David Crosby, who was very inspired by the Dalai Lama's teachings.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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“New robes just dropped and we’re all screwed”, #EditorialCartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad on brand X. Please support the publications that employ Editorial Cartoonists. Link to original cartoon, as found online: x.com/SlyngCartoons/status/1807866360128758249

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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Everyone needs to see this www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/biden-nail...

Biden Nails Wisconsin Speechwww.dworkinsubstack.com Still got it

Drop the most powerful image in your gallery with zero explanation…

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This is how you do it newrepublic.com/post/183493/...

Trump Tries, Fails to Distance Himself From Project 2025newrepublic.com It’s still his blueprint for governing, no matter what he says.

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One other thing Mike Morell told HJC (aside from explaining how Trump's narcissism makes something like Jan6 more likely) is that the 2016 RU attack started in 2014, which I had come to believe, but didn't realize the spooks did too. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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McEntee for those of you who don’t know is a wildly misogynistic alpha male TikTok influencer who posts on an account called “Date Right Stuff.” He’s also a failed college quarterback who entered politics through via a Fox News job he got from his industry dad and a viral trick shot YouTube video.

Here's the announcement from Heritage that they've hired McEntee for their PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT. They note that McEntee headed up the Presidential Personnel Office for Trump at the end of his last administration. This is not complicated people. www.heritage.org/press/former...

Former PPO Director John McEntee Joins Project 2025; Personnel Database Launches | The Heritage Foundationwww.heritage.org WASHINGTON—John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office in the Trump administration, is joining the 2025 Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025) as a senior ad...

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Please read this. Jeff writes all the shit I’m thinking and would say if I wasn’t so damned angry that all my enraged brain is capable of right now is cursing like a fucking sailor!!! #TrumpIsNOTAFUCKINGOption open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

this is getting fucking ridiculousopen.substack.com for the future of our democracy, this shit has got to end