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With the unprecedented corruption, weakening economy and consolidation of power at the top, we're starting to look like Putin's Russia every day. "Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you." NO DMs
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The Republican Party takes your money and uses it to openly bribe voters. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance: "Today, the Dept of Agriculture is announcing millions of dollars in new grants toward 10 meatpacking facilities right here in the state of Kansas"
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This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...
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There is a reason Anthropic are now asserting their AI agents *could* be sentient. It’s not about real concern that their agents could experience suffering, it’s about creating the narrative that they’re independent, thinking entities and regulating them as products would be unethical/illegal.
"Would we charge a hacker if they did this?" should be the bar for holding the producers and users of AI accountable for the results of their software It really is that simple
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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."
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Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.
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Pro-Lula Brazilians doing en masse digital organizing against the platforms is interesting. Basically took website/influencer growth hacking techniques—eg everyone go like/comment/share this, get the algorithm to pick it up—and applied them to electoral politics at a grand scale. Thread:
I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.
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House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.
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“.. Democratic investigations into the administration’s [equity] deals could lead Congress to turn Trump’s improvised portfolio into a permanent, formal ownership operation .. now that Trump has turned the federal government into a corporate owner.” @cato.org www.cato.org/blog/trump-e...
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They know how to hit them where it hurts (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...
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Replying to @atrupar.com
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — G. M Gilbert
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New in PN: In defense of empathy "Being aware of other people’s feelings, sensitive to them, and able to put yourself in another person’s shoes is pretty much essential for humans to function as a community. But the current conservative project has zero room for that sort of thing."
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This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...
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Latvian officials report that Russia & Belarus are backing criminal gangs to lure migrants via commercial flights to Moscow & Minsk, then forcing them toward forested EU borders. The goal: weaponise migration & destabilise the region.
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Court Records Show Mom From Ramaswamy’s Attack Ad Left Kittens in Hot Car The court found Donna Arthur “not credible.” Testimony revealed two newborn kittens died on her watch. meidasnews.com/news/court-r...
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Republicans continue to use our tax dollars to bribe voters weeks before the election. bsky.app/profile/atru...
JD Vance: "Because Pete Ricketts has been fighting for your farmers, today I'm proud to announce $1.3 billion in investment in domestic fertilizer manufacturing right here in Nebraska"