MishuPishu

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Here for the art and the unions and the films and the music and the pet lovers and progress and diversity and the joy of human expression.

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There’s an interesting parallel between how fascism is the violent repression of the periphery brought to the imperial core, and how yesterday was the violence that the GOP’s policies push outwards onto the edges of society turned in a single, violent moment on it’s current core, Donald Trump.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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the thing about advocating political violence is that other people decide they get to do it too, it’s part of why you shouldn’t do it

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The amount of harm I wish upon someone is determined by the amount of harm they have inflicted. If the collective world is safer & better without you, in a truly significant way- because of harm you willfully & deliberately cause- you leaving this planet (violently or not) pleases me. The end.

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The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Timewww.esquire.com See if your favorites made our expanded list.

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No joke here (sorry): Homelessness in Finland is very low because they provide small apartments and mental health support without any conditions attached to it. 80% of those who use it get jobs , gain stable housing, and sobriety But thanks for the plastic trash can in NYC, Mayor Adams

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Logan’s Run but the runners are people who have hoarded more net worth than the poorest country in the world’s annual GDP

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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seriously I cannot get enough. cry more. cry harder. understand that as long as people draw breath the opposition to fascism is stronger than you. whatever your reasons for being a fascist, know every time that your gains will be short ones which you'll relinquish in tears every. fuckin. time

DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS btw

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the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious

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Something I really wish people in leftist spaces would remember is that military service is one of the few viable paths of upward mobility in the US, especially if you’re in a situation where paying for college is impossible. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but it is absolutely a reality.

Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.” This is absolutely NOT the case.

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You can look at a burnt down house and say it's pointless and everything is terrible and give up. Or you start gathering stones and bricks and tools. And yeah, sometimes you can do both. I will always turn to the Arthur Ashe quote for help: Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

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"The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment, period."

I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

The silver lining around these SCOTUS decisions being released today is that everyone seems to have forgotten that there was a debate last night.

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold an alternate debate Thursday night after failing to qualify for CNN’s. Kennedy will answer the same questions as President Biden and former president Donald Trump in real time.

Live updates: Trump, Biden arrive in Atlanta in first 2024 presidential debatewww.washingtonpost.com Donald Trump and President Biden are set to take the debate stage at 9 p.m. Thursday for the first time in 2024.

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All bitcoin mining facilities should be seized, bulldozed, and turned into multifamily housing. ALL. ALL OF THEM. They have no right or reason to exist.

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Didn't Cronenberg make a movie about this?

Scientists are collecting cicadas that are exhibiting strange symptoms due to a fungus that hijacks the bugs, turning them into sex-crazed zombies

Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungusapnews.com With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and weird enough.

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Elon was supported by a power structure of nepotism & South African white supremacist megawealth to gain massive business success & maintain a certain standing. His acquisition of twitter revealed him to actually be fumbling & inept, & since he's customizing the site to his bigotry it exposes him.

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LLMs are just not capable of most of what is being promised they do not work that way, what we think of as AGI can't be achieved through an LLM so every executive spewing this bullshit either doesn't understand their own product or is lying through their teeth, and neither inspires any confidence

One way to know its just hype is that they talk about massive social upheaval the same way they would discuss choosing an appetizer.

Anthropic’s chief of staff: 'I am 25. The next three years might be the last few years that I work'fortune.com “Anything that a remote worker can do, AI will do better,” warns Avital Balwit.

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

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A drag performer in Idaho won more than $1.1 million in damages on Friday in a defamation lawsuit against a blogger who falsely claimed that he had exposed himself to a crowd that included children at an event two years ago.

Idaho Drag Performer Wins Over $1.1 Million in Defamation Suit Against Bloggerwww.nytimes.com The jury unanimously sided with the performer in a case against a blogger who made false claims that the artist had exposed himself to a crowd at a pride event in 2022.

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Seeing a lot of "this story is depressing not inspiring!" And yeah. Here's an actually inspiring story you may not know about: school lunch (and breakfast!) in Massachusetts is free for all students starting in 23-24 thanks to Democrats using money from the voter-passed millionaire's tax to fund it

A fifth grader has paid off the entire meal debt, and then some, for his elementary school. In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken Kramer had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.” He wound up turning in a check for more than $7,300.

A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school’s meal debt | CNNwww.cnn.com Kids can now eat without breaking the piggy bank – at least, at Thomas Ultican Elementary School – thanks to fifth grader Daken Kramer.

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FILMMAKER: In my film I created Samantha as a cautionary tale about abandoning other humans. TECH COMPANY: At long last, we have created Samantha from the classic sci-fi movie HER

“The era of the detached, impersonal AI helper is coming to an end,” Kevin Roose writes. “Instead, we’re getting chatbots modeled after Samantha in ‘Her’ — with playful intelligence, basic emotional intuition and a wide range of expressive modes.”

A.I.’s ‘Her’ Era Has Arrivedwww.nytimes.com New chatbot technology can talk, laugh and sing like a human. What comes next is anyone’s guess.

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Stephen Rapp, the lead ICC prosecutor in the case against Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and the ICTR cases against RTLM and Kangura:"If you look at the black letter of international law in this area, it is actually very, very clear [why the indictments were made]." www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/w...

What to Know About the I.C.C. Prosecutor’s Request for Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaderswww.nytimes.com The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Hamas leaders. Here is a closer look at the court and the warrant.

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it’s not a coincidence that they started this crackdown and this fight as soon as the WCK strike was starting to get through to the American mainstream just how egregious Israel’s conduct has been

“It's easier to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict which is, of course, the source of these protests.” www.youtube.com/channel/UCaX...

MSNBCwww.youtube.com The official MSNBC YouTube Channel. MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching more than 95 million...

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New: I talked to a bike expert to see if he could explain the NYPD’s bike lock/outside agitator conspiracy at Columbia. I ended up with so much more. My chat w/ @brooklynspoke.bsky.social: www.thehandbasket.co/p/columbia-b...