NicoKlaus

I think it’s unfortunate that we, by falling again for a marketing ploy, have wasted “AI” on tech that is not intelligent at all, and someday when we stupidly invent sentient, self-aware machines, they’ll get some other less appropriate label. At least in the brief interim before they kill us.

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The left and the center left joined together in France to beat the shit out of the far right,exactly the opposite of what the Democrats in the US are doing,they are destroying each other!!

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Do I know anyone who can do a cover design? I've got the ebook front cover and I need a wraparound for a KDP edition. It shouldn't need saying, but obviously I will fairly pay for this work. The only catch is I'd need it before Worldcon, so ideally within 2-3 weeks, faster if at all possible?

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Oof, just remembered... I am a two-time Aurora Award finalist this year! If you are a member, please vote before July 13! 🍁 www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

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A GENTLE REMINDER: Wanting a child born is Pro-Birth. Wanting a child fed, housed, educated, with parents who earn a living wage is Pro-Life. I am Pro-Life in the independent, progressive, democratic socialist sense that guarantees every child's health, safety & welfare :-)}

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I love Bernie Sanders.

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Voting against a criminal lunatic is the easiest choice you will ever have to make, unless you make it difficult.

We just voted dozens of the fuckers out. Feels reeeeel good.

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Gov. Greg Abbott departed on Friday as forecasts showed that Beryl was likely to hit Texas on Monday. Indeed, it made landfall along the central Texas coast early Monday, according to Fox Weather, with 70-90 mph wind gusts, a life-threatening storm surge. uk.news.yahoo.com/texas-govern...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Jets Off to Asia as Hurricane Beryl Lashes His Stateuk.news.yahoo.com Texas Governor Greg Abbott boasted of having “very productive” meetings with business bigwigs in South Korea on Monday morning just as Hurricane Beryl barreled into his home state, killing at least tw...

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Hey politics reporters, when the former president was in office he just stopped releasing WH visitor logs and it was like a 1 day story and you all were like ah well nevertheless instead of doing your job

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DeSantis vetoes water contamination reporting billbaynews9.com The Safe Waterways Act would have created a streamlined reporting system for when water contamination and quality issues arise.

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NEW: Colorado’s biggest & swingiest judicial district was split in half. With huge effects: One of CO’s largest counties is about to elect its 1st reform DA. While a tough-on-crime figure returns in other half of the old district. Districting meets criminal justice!

A New Boundary Sends Suburban Colorado Down Opposite Paths on Prosecutionboltsmag.org Colorado split its largest judicial district. Now the more liberal Arapahoe County is likely to elect a reform-minded DA; Douglas County may bring a punitive prosecutor back into office.

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Retreating glaciers unleash a world of ecological potential - Earth.comwww.earth.com Arctic glaciers retreat rapidly, revealing new landscapes. These barren territories become active ecosystems, crucial for carbon storage.

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SAGE. www.eatingwell.com/the-1-herb-f...

The #1 Herb for Better Brain Health, According to Neurologistswww.eatingwell.com Curious which herb best supports brain health? Neurologists say its sage, not only for its culinary versatility but also for its cognitive benefits.

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An incredible piece for @propublica.bsky.social. “Leo grasped the stakes of these seemingly obscure races and appointments long before liberals and Democrats did.” www.propublica.org/article/we-d...

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajoritywww.propublica.org The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

It's the #shitstem made up by hoards of shitty people. For the grace of Jesus:

If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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I don't think I ever posted the finished Octopus. Here he is in all of his glory.

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Florian Lipp 💜🇪🇺

Ja, weil man jahrelang geschlafen und überwiegend in den Individualverkehr investiert hat. Aber ein weiter so ist keine Alternative

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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.” -Lord Acton, 1887

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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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Vive la France!! 🇫🇷

That ecstatic feeling when voters defy right-wing media noise and turn out in unprecedented numbers to tell the fascists to crawl back into the sewers they crawled out of. Republique Square in Paris yesterday, photo by Olympia de Maismont.

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If interested, this is the summary of Project 2025 that I read over the weekend. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

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If you study TikTok, have a look at my newly updated Python package Pyktok--I just added a few features you might find useful github.com/dfreelon/pyk...

GitHub - dfreelon/pyktok: A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok.github.com A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok. - dfreelon/pyktok

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Today it is worth mentioning that I wrote a book on the weird history of the green belt, and one on the origins of postwar new towns

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Faith at its essential core is accepting that you are already accepted. 💙 —Richard Rohr