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A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
Eric & Don Jr. are turning the Iran war into a family business.
Trump starts war.
Trump bans foreign drone rivals (DJI).
Sons merge their golf co with Powerus to sell 10k drones/mo to the Pentagon.
Their own bank brokers the deal.
The ultimate conflict of interest.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
What I find really dangerous about this is that it reinforces the idea that there is exactly one kind of man, one way to perform masculinity, and that any other way isn't masculinity at all. It's dangerous because of how it distorts behavior, but also in socialization effects for young men.
the people who love AI books are the same management types in every industry who see $$ and nothing else
and in the scammers and grifters who are AI's most fervent boosters in every area, they're there in books too
But the rest of us? Writers and readers? Absolute violent loathing for the slop.
** And because this is the internet: I actually love thinking about abstract problems!
The thing is, the Trolley Problem does a poor job helping us actually solve anything or set ethics & morals. Instead it feels like intellectual masturbation to prove to other people that we're superior.
BREAKING: Federal lawsuit over Jan 6 plaque will CONTINUE. Police argue plaque was hung in “hidden” location that’s no better than a basement storage room
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I don’t know what’s worse: AI impersonating writers and editors and stealing the value they use to pay rent or people being casually dismissive of said writers and editors for being upset about that
Nearly forgotten in today’s news rush: I took over as editor in chief of the @oregoncapitalchronicle.com exactly one year ago. Working with the talented team of @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social, @miamaldonado.bsky.social and @shaanthx.bsky.social to inform you is a dream I hope continues for a long time.
I know enough people who have been poor to understand how little those of us who haven't been poor know what it's like. Patronizing advice from rich folks doesn't help anybody.
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3332):
The Jan. 6 plaque honoring police was just installed in the Capitol — at 4 a.m.:
Three years since Congress ignored its own deadline, the memorial plaque recognizing the service of law enforcement on Jan. 6 is finally on display in the very building they defended from a mob of Trump supporters.
This is an extraordinary reporting job by 2 Charleston journalists, meticulously fact-checking the Epstein victim who has accused Trump of abusive behavior.
Bottom line: Many details of what she told the FBI check out, though none relate directly to Trump.
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Good point. I actually think “tawdry” part could be the least of it and an excuse even if silently understood in the highbrow media. What national media refuse to do well, if at all, inevitably comes down to power maintenance in one form or another. Urgent question is: Who knew, buried what when?
Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now
What Heather said.
There. Is. No. Plan.
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
When DOGE needed executive power it was USDS, a previously-excellent government tech shop that DOGE parasitized for this purpose. When it needed to avoid responsibility it was a vague "policy agenda" containing no real people.
Category error! I'm sick to the back teeth of comparisons to humans. It's so rife even colleagues do it. What's next?
> I compared a rock and a person, and challenged them to stay still the longest and the rock won! Wow!
Things thought up by the unhinged & those who wish to dehumanise for profit.
As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.
Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”
Holy crap, imagine what it takes to ask people to compare three-sentence passage devoid of any sort of context or deeper meaning, and trying to argue that the results are indicative of anything at all
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
@thelancet.com
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A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car
The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror
The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror
“Look at that bird”
A Play In Three Acts
Nikkei is down about 6.5%
Real patriots ride the train.
Something to take into account on #InternationalWomensDay: Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
