Annamarie/Áine Máire 🇮🇪🇺🇸

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Animal lover. Classical soprano. Early adopter/addict of Internet tech. Bookworm. Nerd. LlyrCat on former Twitter, also at @[email protected] and http://Post.News/sopranovox

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JD Vance and >90% of the people at the RNC convention think of themselves as the good guys. Ascribing to them self-consciously evil intent does not help us understand what they are up to, nor does it help us reach the sorts of people who might vote for them but are still reachable.

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One of the guiding premises of my research is that most people -- even extremists -- think of themselves as the good guys. @intelwire.bsky.social's Extremism goes a long way in explaining why/how this is so. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253587...

Extremismmitpress.mit.edu What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to de...

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1/ "In breaking news situations, the facts constantly evolve during the hours that follow, & even in the days & weeks after. We should avoid the temptation to propagate opinions that could further fuel false & unverified claims..." 🔗 Full NLP statement: bit.ly/StatementNLP... #NewsLiteracy

Statement on the attempted assassination of former President Trump and the mis- and disinformation in its aftermath:bit.ly News Literacy Project joins those troubled by the attempt on former President Trump’s life and encourage all to share information responsibly.

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Hopping on (since this book is still due 😅) to quickly say: 1. RNC starts today. There's going to be a lot of discourse, including today's VP pick. 2. As much as possible, stay informed but DON'T get involved in the chatter. Focus on doing the work. What's one thing you can do today?

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If you ever find yourself suffering from Imposter Syndrome, remember that Aileen Cannon is a federal District Court Judge with life tenure, received after being nominated by the former President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate

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Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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This is happening now: the four stages of how conspiracy theories develop in real time on social media 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/cons...

The 4 Stages of Conspiracy Theory Escalation on Social Mediawww.scientificamerican.com Here’s how social media can help conspiracy theories spread and even spark violence

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While the Democratic Party decides which presidential candidate has the best chance to defeat Trump, the Republican Party focuses on making sure that the election doesn't matter. Plan accordingly. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/u...

Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeatwww.nytimes.com Mr. Trump’s allies are preparing to try to short-circuit the election system, if he does not win.

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Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

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Guys. Sept 11, 2008.

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I’m confident that these two pieces of excellent news which have taken place under the Biden administration’s watch—the IRS story in particular paints a sharp contrast with Trump/GOP demonization of the IRS—will dominate the news cycle.

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how it feels to live in america

An excellent analysis of the current Democratic party options for this year's presidential nominee.

(📢) FREE at PROOF: The Future of American Democracy Is Biden, Obama, or Bust 🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-future... This essay takes a dramatic—and radical—view of the crossroads that America has come to. It’s not an easy read, but I hope a fulfilling one. Please consider sharing.

The Future of American Democracy: Biden, Obama, or Bustsethabramson.substack.com Media may want an internecine bloodbath inside the Democratic Party as democracy hangs from a cliff, but it won’t happen. It won’t happen because data and history point to only three likely outcomes.

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Updated: I read the NYT Front Page so you didn't have to.

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I feel like Trump ending up in Walter Reed for a surprise visit when he got Covid was covered less than Biden's non-existent Parkinsons

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BREAKING: Aides report that Biden is increasingly showing signs of Irishness

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

Glee-watching Tory-trouncing in Britain has been a much-needed break from my daily anxiety-watch of this year’s U.S. national races. Also pleased to see the SF-DUP balance changing (although I do not align with SF on several issues, I continue to dream of a united Ireland).

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An estimated 11,000 people will celebrate July Fourth this year by officially becoming American citizens. In honor of the holiday, test your knowledge with some of the questions aspiring U.S. citizens must answer to become naturalized.

Can you pass a U.S. citizenship test? Take our civics quiz.wapo.st How much do you know about America? In honor of July Fourth, test your knowledge with some of the questions aspiring U.S. citizens must answer to become naturalized.

“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.” —George Washington

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Quack claims that diets can cure cancer are dangerous. Cancer cells don't care whether their glucose comes from a carrot or carrot cake. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/quac... by @drg.bsky.social on Scientific American

Quack Cancer Diets Endanger People. Stick to Science-Backed Medicinewww.scientificamerican.com False cures and dangerous misinformation, from the misguided to the exploitative, surround cancer patients, with the capacity to do serious harm

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I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

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Kevin M. Kruse

Threw together a quick post from the book here: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Thou Shalt Notopen.substack.com When I saw today’s news that Louisiana has become the first state to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, I thought it sounded a lot like the 1950s campaign to ...

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Juneteenth is a federal holiday. But in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; Republicans have passed laws to prevent teachers from teaching kids why.

Clearly PENNDOT’s driver improvement course needs improvement

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was speeding and at fault for a Sunday morning auto accident in western Maryland, where he rear-ended another driver, a 62-year old woman who was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, according to a Maryland State Police report.

Fetterman had speeding tickets, distracted driving episodes before car crashwww.washingtonpost.com Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was at fault for a Sunday morning auto accident in western Maryland, where he was speeding before rear-ending another driver, a 62-year old woman, who was taken to the hosp...