mctsonic

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“M-cee-tee sonique, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way." Loud music & drums takes/sci-fi/InfoSec & Sysadmin takes. Feminist, Pro-LGBTQ+ rights, Anti-fascist. Pro-science.

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"Charging for popular services that were previously free isn’t generally a winning political strategy. But hard-right policy makers appear poised to try to do just that should Republicans gain power in the next term." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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hey, I wrote a thing: "JD Vance is even worse than you imagined" — Trump-Vance is the most toxic, anti-woman ticket possible. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

JD Vance is even worse than you imaginedbit.ly Trump-Vance is the most toxic, anti-woman ticket possible

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Menstrual Surveillance Hawk sounds like a Tick villain

JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

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JD Vance “not only supports a federal abortion ban, but opposes rape and incest exceptions. When he was asked about abortion access for sexual violence in a 2021 interview, Vance replied that ‘two wrong don’t make a right.’” jessica.substack.com/p/jd-vance-o...

The NYT “deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. I don’t know whether to call this a massive fuck-up or malfeasance, but it’s really, really bad." jessica.substack.com/p/gop-platfo...

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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Ah shit, Fever-Tree is on the host committee sponsor list. Need a new ginger beer, I guess. Note that this is solely a sponsor list for the host committee; additional corporate and individual dollars went to the local Chamber and to other RNC accounts. Coverage here: readsludge.com/2024/07/10/w...

Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there

Who’s Funding the Republican Convention?readsludge.com The Republican National Convention (RNC), held this year in Milwaukee, will cost the Republican Party tens of millions of dollars, but the source of the bulk of that money won’t be publicly known unti...

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Copaganda like this only masks the dark side of policing. Later that day Columbus police swarmed a homeless dude and killed him.

A 'police dialogue team' from Ohio is facilitating peaceful protests during the RNC. Here's how.www.jsonline.com A special "Police Dialogue Team" from the Columbus Division of Police is in town for the RNC to help facilitate peaceful demonstrations. Here's how.

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I got to talk to Molly Jong-Fast about “Project 2025”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJS... The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be. What should people know about these plans for an authoritarian takeover of government? 🧵1/

What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerousthomaszimmer.substack.com Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”

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Why I truly and deeply love Thomas Pynchon is that you'll just have a character driving through Montauk and then suddenly he'll go on a run like this

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Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbye

Kaspersky offers free security software for six months in U.S. goodbyewww.bleepingcomputer.com Kaspersky is offering free security products for six months and tips for staying safe as a parting gift to consumers in the United States.

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kinda miss that window in the 80s where every horror novel has a cover like this

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Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there

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Baltimore leaders sued to block a proposal that would let voters decide whether to give new parents a one-time $1,000 “baby bonus” City leaders argue that the proposal gives voters too much say over legislative decisions

Baltimore officials sue to block 'baby bonus' initiative that would give new parents $1,000apnews.com Baltimore’s mayor and city council are trying to stop a proposed ballot measure that would give all new parents a $1,000 “baby bonus” meant to help reduce childhood poverty from birth.

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"Gen Z knows what kind of a future we want to build... Republicans are ready to tear that future down. Project 2025 is their plan to do that... We read through all 920 pages of Project 2025 so that you don’t have to. Read more about Project 2025 & what another 4 years of TFG would mean:"

Gen Z's Guide to Project 2025 - Voters of Tomorrowvotersoftomorrow.org This isn’t the future Gen Z asked for. Gen Z knows what kind of a future we want to build. We want a future where we can afford basic living costs, live free of the burdens […]

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Before Ariel Pink said nice things about Trump I thought his most 'popular' album sucked. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2024/07/17/b...

But you don’t know what you don’t know: Ranking Pazz & Jop’s 2010 albumshumanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com The year when I lost interest in Kanye West as a musical force also saw, thanks to Speak Now and Contra, my embrace of better pop songs about power, privilege, and queerness, and how they interact wit...

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"No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler is more clean energy, especially solar, and above all, battery storage..." 😀

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteriesthinc.blog No rolling blackouts or grid emergencies as California continues on path to a carbon free grid. Several strategies, including upgrades to vulnerable parts of the grid at play here, but key enabler …

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If you don't know about Bellingcat, you should. The kind of mining of publicly available data they do is both an education in how much info about ourselves data capitalism makes available and also how that can be used--by no intention of those who designed these systems--for good.

An instagram influencer posted images of her life in Dubai but in doing so, inadvertently revealed details about the whereabouts of her husband, an alleged Bosnian cartel member. Our latest guide explains how we located them. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Exploring the Skyline: How we Located an Alleged Cartel Member in Dubai - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com How we used features of the skyline to narrow down the whereabouts of an alleged cartel member in the UAE.

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Someone should create a book consisting of deleted and/or retracted comments by JD Vance and call it “Conscience of a Conservative.” This is a tweet he deleted when he ran for Senate.

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it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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under trump’s project 2025, a middle-class family with two children would pay $2,600 in additional federal income tax by comparison, a married couple with two children and earnings of $5 million a year would enjoy a $325,000 tax cut

Project 2025 would overhaul the U.S. tax system. Here's how it could impact you.www.cbsnews.com Project 2025, a blueprint for the next Republican president, proposes major economic changes that could impact millions of Americans.

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Posted a thread but short thread cannot capture all that’s wrong here. Bad pedagogy, a misguided dedication to “civility,” doing harm to students all wrapped up with an “ai” bow.

Bridging campus divide with Dangerous Ideas, AI moderatorswww.insidehighered.com In this polarized time, one assistant professor is teaching students to argue more constructively about the most contentious topics: abortion, guns, transracial identities, moral obligations to animal...

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Maybe VP Harris told a crowd that Trump said he would terminate the Constitution because Trump said he would terminate the Constitution.

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A moment of silence for a hero. apnews.com/article/buxt...

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86apnews.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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NBC's coverage of the RNC: "The theme of today's in 'make America safe again,' which takes on special meaning after this week's shooting." They could have gone with "but safe for whom? Millions of people would be less safe under a Trump administration," but what do I know about democracy?

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The highest and largest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars. 27 km (17 mi) high from base to peak, it's nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest, and 550 km (340 mi) across at its base. At the top, atmospheric pressure is less than 0.05% of Earth normal.

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When I got the news about the assassination attempt, "I knew there was no American 'unity' coming that would in any way include me as a transgender woman." The first night of the RNC certainly proved that last night, but pundits are still busy scolding Dems www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/america-th...

America the Surrealwww.bugbeardispatch.com An Assassination Attempt, Fake National Unity. and Our Fascist-Enabling Media

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I guess this was inevitable

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totally not a cult or anything

O Captain! my Captain!

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Thank Christ, this looks like a uniform somebody pulled out of a goddamned cereal box.

Rob Manfred says MLB may switch back to team uniforms for 2025 All-Star Gamewww.dallasnews.com Baseball fans didn’t appear to be too fond of the 2024 All-Star Game’s uniforms. Manfred has heard the message.

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Come to think of it, that was exactly the case that was used to teach joint tortfeasor liability in my torts class. Multiple shooters and unsure who hit/killed the guy.

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If the shooting was “not related to the RNC,” why would cops from Columbus, Ohio be involved in the first place? Also, pretty on the nose for cops from a red state to come to a blue city and kill a homeless black guy on the second night of the RNC. www.jsonline.com/story/news/c...

Milwaukee man dead after being shot by 5 Ohio police officers near RNCwww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.