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So the police are being overly aggressive and the protesters are being vague and tiktok level informed. Not a great combo.

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Senate Republicans attacked academic freedom at Rutgers. So our faculty unions wrote them a letter, defending our academic freedom and first amendment rights. Share widely.

Statement to Republicans of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciaryrutgersaaup.org

Kara swisher is shocked, SHOCKED, that the sleezy techbros fueled by shady capital, morally neutral capitalism, drugs/orgies/misogyny, and lack of accountability, were not, in fact working for the greater good all along.

If you think cybertruck fanboys are cray, these chip-in-my-head stories are going to be 10x worse.

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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI sayswww.theguardian.com Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...

Does anyone know of those tweet delete tools still work? Like if I wanted to delete all my tweets before saying adios?

Well maybe now that he’s killed xitter, Elmo can go back to digging those supertunnel things now.

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Unlike Susan Collins, I didn’t have to Google Mike Johnson. Why? Because I report on the Christian right, I first encountered him in 2007, when he was an attorney for ADF: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Mike Johnson is the House speaker Christian nationalists wantedwww.msnbc.com The new speaker cut his teeth trying to erode the separation of church and state and abortion and LGBTQ rights as a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund.

Well that speech was pretty terrifying. There’s a reason he led with the hardcore theocratic dominion stuff.

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The American Right is fully committed to a fundamentally anti-democratic project, and the Republican Party has a comprehensive strategy to put it into practice. Some thoughts on the radicalizing threat of authoritarian minority rule: 1/

North Carolina GOP advanced a new congressional gerrymander with 10 safe GOP seats, 3 safe Dem seats, & 1 GOP-trending swing district in a key swing state It would be among America's most extreme gerrymanders & replace a court-drawn map that went 7D-7R in 2022 davesredistricting.org/join/e595a26...

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People were understandably mystified and upset by how political news desks reacted (or didn’t, in most cases) to Trump’s death threat against Mark Milley. So I decided to take a granular look at how “normalization” happens. www.offmessage.net/p/video-how-...

VIDEO: How Trump Normalization Really Workswww.offmessage.net Why the political media slept on Trump's call for Mark Milley's death and other baffling decisions

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