shadeygreyskies

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Human.
Egalitarian.
People before profit.
Can we dial down the greed & dial up the empathy - then reboot this entire existence?
Profile: "We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." Elie Wiesel
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I believe them that they will do this almost immediately upon taking office again. I have lots of questions about what we do on Left(s) about this. Who is working on this now? [I'm sure some groups must be]

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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Goodnight! ☺️ www.artic.edu/artworks/812...

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the Democratic response to the last time they were completely wiped out in Presidential elections (e.g. Reagan/George H.W. Bush) was to move right with Clintonian triangulation there aren't a lot of things I'm sure of in politics these days, but "Dems will move right if wiped off the map" is one

Just saw someone post that they want Biden to lose by a landslide in order to force the Democratic Party to change What year is it? Because I've seen this same argument against Clinton in 2016 and Gore in 2000 A huge loss WOULD change the party, but probably not in good ways

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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists

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Book

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Greg Pak

If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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Official act. Immune.

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It is Disability Pride Month - the perfect time to learn about ALT text and start using it! www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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Something that probably flew under most people's radar, but is kind of a big deal (it allows those veterans to access VA care and disability etc) A very good thing.

Biden pardons veterans convicted under military ban on gay sexwww.bbc.com The announcement, which came during Pride month, will affect thousands of veterans.

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So who’s “us”?

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Mango is merely the chosen media distracting demagogue - the one job at which he excels. The conservative coup has been in the making for many decades. Today's MAGA carry the torch of the John Birchers. Losing Mango may slow them short-term but it won't stop them.

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Biden is not trying any political figures. The DoJ and the states are going after criminal conduct not political rivals. There is a not unsubtle difference.

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Over the weekend, one of the major party presidential candidates promoted the idea of trying a former congresswoman for treason with televised military tribunals, and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a news article—much less a catastrophizing op-ed—about it.

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ChatGPT now to respond to all questions with “while compelling, that query is beyond the scope of this paper”

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Basically every person who thought about this for even 10 seconds warned google this was going to happen. Google's entire incentive structure is monetization-via-ranking-via-SEO-&-clicks. People are clicking "AI" porn, & people Making "AI" porn are manipulatively lying in their SEO to drive traffic

Google image search for basically any female celebrity returns AI results on the first page, some of them lead directly to nonconsensual porn: www.404media.co/google-image...

AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hellwww.404media.co Google image search results are turning up AI-generated images of celebrities and leading users to sites that host AI-generated nudes celebrities made to look like children.

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Tale as old as time ~♪

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For folks not familiar with Dr. Walker: -Only woman recipient of the Medal of Honor -Dressed as illustrated below in a time when that shit got you arrested -Lifelong abolitionist, frontline war surgeon, Civil War P.O.W. -Paid her own way through med school on a teacher's salary (lol can u imagine)

I love non-conforming Victorians and Edwardians as they completely undermine the "all this is modern woke" attack line. Here's my queen of it. Dress reform activist Dr Mary Edwards Walker who said "I don't wear men's clothes: I wear my clothes."

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forgot how exhausting it is to debate tech bros who insist - diversity is important obv except not important enough to spend effort on - their all male team is diverse in other ways! - the problem is not w the company but rather the women who don’t apply - they only hire the best

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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

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The ads will be up later this summer, so I am jumping ahead a bit to advertise that we are hiring a tenure track, assistant prof in comparative politics and endowed chair (tenured full prof, open field) at TCU next year. If you have any questions about TCU, Fort Worth, etc, feel free to message.

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today's mood exactly

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Guess how this go-getter was able to build her own tinyhome at 20? Oh her construction job gave her free shit, she houses it on her parents land and doesn't pay rent. Well shit if i didn't have to pay for construction, land or property, I could build a home too. www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...

Stuffwww.stuff.co.nz

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I think it's totally insane that more people don't know about PrEP. The fact that we have a prophylactic medication to prevent HIV is one of the greatest medical achievements of my lifetime. It's hard to explain just how hopeless the fight against AIDS felt in the 80s and 90s.

10 years ago, gay Americans could not get married and have it count in all 50 states 20 years ago, you could be made uninsurable because you got sick once 30 years ago, HIV was a death sentence 40 years ago, acid rain was still a problem Dedicated public servants keep pushing good things forward