Tyler King

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General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
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Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

Courts matter: A federal Judge in TX ruled the FTC lacks authority to ban noncompete agreements. Right now this ruling only applies to the plaintiffs in the case, but after the Chevron SCOTUS ruling, it’s only a matter of time.

Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreementsarstechnica.com Authority cited by FTC just a "housekeeping statute," US judge in Texas rules.

Berkeley researchers found toxic metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium present in tampons of various brands—both organic and non-organic. Too little research currently exists to know the potential health effects.

First study to measure toxic metals in tampons shows arsenic and lead, among other contaminantspublichealth.berkeley.edu A new UC Berkeley study finds that tampons used during menstruation can contain toxic metals, including lead, arsenic, and cadmium.

This is the unintended consequence of the intended disinformation these companies peddle. Chatbots are not search engines and are incapable of delivering reliably factual info because that isn’t their function. That’s not how they were designed. Like training a dog to howl the national anthem.

Well this is grim

Doesn’t mean that dog understands the words, only how to perform a specific and finite action on command based on training. And even then there will likely be significant variance in success.

And with a LOT more training that dog can probably get better at that task, and add more tunes to his repertoire, but inevitably that additional training and information will cause new unintended complications—like mashing together different tunes because he doesn’t know the difference.

Until eventually you’ve trained that dog on so many songs with varying difficulty and results that he just goes back to howling incoherently because you’ve filled his head with too many commands he doesn’t have the capacity to understand besides makes noise that sounds like this.

So, in conclusion, it’s incumbent upon you to educate your family and friends on the Lie of AI.

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I know the latest NZ election outcome was less than good, but jesus.

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Four NASA volunteers are exiting a simulated Mars base after a year of isolation. I don't know how much news they had access to but can you fucking imagine re-entering the world in July of 2024. www.scrippsnews.com/science-and-...

A NASA crew is about to finish a yearlong Mars mission isolation experimentwww.scrippsnews.com NASA is concluding a yearlong Mars mission experiment — and four volunteers are set to leave a simulated Mars habitat that they've been living in since June of last year.

Or just don’t dig on the beach. Those holes trap nesting sea turtles and their hatchlings.

Perspective by Stephen P. Leatherman: Digging holes in sand might seem innocent, but experts recommend never digging a hole deeper than the knee height of the shortest person in your group — with two feet being the maximum depth.

Perspective | There’s real danger in digging deep holes on a sandy beachwapo.st Experts recommend never digging a hole deeper than the knee height of the shortest person in your group — with two feet being the maximum depth.

Part of the cultural orientation for Americans arriving at Camp Humphreys in South Korea is about how Koreans are really gonna take it personally if you’re walking around with the Japanese Rising Sun motif on your t-shirt and whatnot.

The bartender at my local pub is from Cork. His response to anyone ordering an Irish Car Bomb: "Can't make you that, but I can make a 9/11. It's just two kamikazes dropped in a Manhattan."

The patience of the Korean woman teaching that class was, to put it mildly, extraordinary. Even with the guy who was on his like second or third tour so decided he should teach HER about Korea.

I’m not saying the Trump campaign drugged Biden before the debate. I just wanna know the whereabouts that night of those Secret Service agents Commander bit.

They’re gonna ban TikTok because the KPOP army made fun of his empty rally that got his internet guru fired. The right made one of the world’s richest men buy Twitter because we were bullying fascists and organizing. American journalism has become almost exclusively transcribing tweets.

People are like "there's no point in posting it doesn't make a difference to anything," 8 years after Donald Trump posted his way to the presidency of the United States

This is the way

Some AI-generated-sounding motherfuckers

When you think about it, this disillusionment is a good thing. Our press has failed us. Our institutions have abandoned us. Benevolent billionaires aren’t coming to save us. We have only ourselves to rely on and owe nothing to no one. So smear some mud on your face and sharpen your knives.

According to the indisputable website tesladeaths.com, Elon Musk has already killed at least 523 people and counting.

Musk is subsidized heavily by US taxpayers and in return he has committed rampant fraud, platformed and supported Neo Nazis and is now suggesting executing Americans.

Tesla Deaths: Digital record of Tesla crashes resulting in deathtesladeaths.com Tesla Deaths is a record of Tesla accidents that involved the death of a driver, occupant, cyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

If things go poorly in November I might lure a bunch of hapless influencers to my fake island nation and livestream them sitting through my 200-hour timeshare pitch.

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When Trump tweeted out what became the transgender military ban with a 17-minute gap between tweets, I was on the phone with someone on the JCS. During the lag, we debated if we'd feel it if he nuked North Korea.

I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons

Call me cynical but I tend to these declarations are more about their own political futures than the party or keeping the White House. Like something tells me these weirdos are thinking, you know, it could be me.

One does wonder

Dems in Disarray is not a winning strategy to keep the presidency and hold the Senate, but more than a few are probably doing the math on how they can personally benefit by maneuvering and grabbing some headlines. Which inevitably fucks us all.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Plognark

Yeah, Apple has gotten pummeled by lawsuits specifically so bad companies can compromise more of your privacy and probably defraud you. I’m no tech apologist but considering the alternative, I prefer the Apple’s garden.

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Lew Morton

They haven’t earned the benefit of the doubt from me. I’m not that generous.

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Remember, everyone you fucking hate is voting against your interests. Don’t take that shit lying down.

In his case, sniveling rich assholes.

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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in case you weren’t aware of what happened the last time the Democrats dropped their candidate in July

News about Thomas Eagleton's prior treatment for depression (which included electroshock therapy) dropped in July, he withdrew August 1, and in November McGovern won only Massachusetts - far and away the worst defeat in Democratic party history