Yes. Because fascism demands absolute obedience to the leaders, regardless of pesky things like ”laws”. Most bureaucrats care very much about those, and push back against attempts to abuse the system. So, they are forced out and replaced by loyalists, who lack any actual competency in anything.
Yeah, I know what DEI is. It's like, girls who aren't into me, and like, gay stuff? And like, when people make me uncomfortable?You know. That whole bucket.
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
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Photo with capitol building in background, speaker and signs reading stand up for science and the assault on science will haunt this country for generations
Great speakers and signs at the Stand up for Science rally today.
#standupforscience
christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.
Let's be clear: the U.S. had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Trump ripped up that deal.
Then he started a war instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
The history of warfare is a pendulum of "is attacking or defending easier?"
I don't know about easier but right now attacking is a lot cheaper, at least on a small scale. A shitty drone with a few grenades attached can blow a hole in a building just as well as a heatseaking missile ever could.
Some combination of three easy fixes:
1. Journals started paying reviewers
2. Trash papers get hung like scarlet letters around their authors necks, to push that higher quality stuff gets submitted
3. Scientists list and ostracize journals that don't do 1 or publish trash papers discussed in 2.
No going back to that. When the American fundamentalist Christians are done smashing Iran they'll oust the oil dictators (just like they ousted Saddam when he outlived his usefulness) and install corporate heads. Then they go after Israel. They hate Jews as much as they hate Muslims. No rivals.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”
Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money
But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting
This is both an act of war *and* a war crime, as it is similar to cutting off water or destroying power plants. It's designed to kill civilians.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
More important than “teaching science” is teaching ABOUT science: The self-correcting, self-critical process of science which is a system which results in enforced honesty about evidence. The importance of reproducibility and open publication of methods and why that’s important.
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.
And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.
It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.
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There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."
"The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta.
Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.
Like, USAID still legally exists, still receives budget from Congress, and the few dozen remaining employees (who work at State) still have usaid.gov emails and all our systems and databases still exist.
It's just the 10k of us who actually did the work are gone. Just do that to ICE and CBP.
I'd rather live in a neighborhood where I can hear 5 different languages when I walk the dog than where I hear Fox news blaring from 5 different houses.
We used to say mathematics tells us there are other intelligent beings. Physics tells us we’ll never meet them.
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
