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I’m voting for Joe-Biden-who-if-he-dies-or-is-incapacitated-during-his-term-will-be-replaced-by-Kamala-Harris Everyone else should too. Don’t mess with the ticket.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I firmly believe it is ALWAYS worth flooding the zone with reminders of how Trump is a convicted felon pedophile rapist who pees on people. That is how the GOP plays the game. We should too.

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Related, but different: How would we each feel if Biden used these new super-immunity powers granted by SCOTUS* to affect the election? *of course all know that SCOTUS has ample flexibility of morals and principles to only ever actually allow a repugnican president to exercise these powers

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If I were the arbiter of such things, I’d go with “global heating”

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How are pork rinds not way more popular than they are? I just don’t understand it.

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That’s true. We use ours about once a year, and usually need to frantically dig through kitchen drawers to find it just before the turkey goes in I think many don’t even have one

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Well, I think the answer “no” will probably be disqualifying from Agent Orange’s perspective, right?

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My child watched it. Yes, I was caught in the effect radius

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“Trump’s voters are a disaster for American Democracy” — fixed it

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Yep. None of them paid for anybody to be sailin’ here

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First one for anything that might *ever* be sorted or go in a spreadsheet or code. Second for human-targeted text docs

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The difference between our policies on Israel and Ukraine are stark and disturbing. Can anyone imagine the reaction if we told Israel it could only use our weapons inside Israel’s borders?

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Cooper Lund's avatar Cooper Lund @cooperlund.bsky.social
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People aren't mad about inflation, they're mad about not living in a near-zero interest rate economy

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Inflation affects the cash & short term investments of the wealthiest. Unemployment doesn’t (at least not in a negative way)

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I was looking at the prices thinking WOW that would be expensive for that time Then I realized it must be cents, not dollars

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Think of social media as a giant ongoing Turing test of indefinite duration. “Matt Stoller” is a failed Turing test (plenty of humans would fail a Turing test)

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Dems talk about defunding police Repugs defund police

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Aaron Rupar's avatar Aaron Rupar @atrupar.bsky.social
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"Following the release of the Access Hollywood tape, Trump insisted it was just 'locker room talk' & that he doesn't actually harass or abuse women. Republicans still pretend to believe him. But Daniels’s testimony indicates he did just as he said & used his wealth & power to pressure women for sex"

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No, I just had that same announcement for UK

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Didn’t the Supreme Court decide corporations are people too? People can get jail time for copyright infringement, so …

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With the media rise of artificial intelligence, social media REALLY needs a font that clearly shows lowercase L and lowercase I as different letters, ‘cuz I keep reading posts and wondering “who is Al”

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Seems to me the simplest answer: “if you use copyrighted work to train your ai, you pay the copyright owner” - just like we do with hi (human intelligence) in the form of textbooks, course fees, training, etc.

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I think it is inquisitorial instead of adversarial (like ours). There is an inquiry to ascertain the truth, instead of a contest. It’s considered more advanced among academic legal scholars

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I guess RETVRNing to the 1950’s isn’t enough - these guys want to go back to Dickens’ time

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Ok, but, learning also almost always involves reading copyrighted materials… should *use* of what you learned come either copyright fees on every applicable copyrighted work? No, you pay for the copyright *when you are trained* (e.g. textbook fees). AI probably is paying those fees?

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Can we get rid of “skeet”now? Maybe “flutter” or “flit”? idk

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Straw man. He didn’t say “blackball”

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Someone should write a poli-sci textbook on how they then undertook a multi-decade program to take control of a major party

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Racism is a useful tool for class warfare by the powerful classes against the weaker classes. New rule — if you exploit racism, you are racist, even if you don’t “really” feel that way about “them”

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George Takei's avatar George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
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When Hillary Clinton called MAGA supporters “deplorables,” it was in the news forever. We still talk about it today. But when Trump called his political enemies “vermin”—actually invoking the words of Adolf Hitler—the press just moves on like it’s nothing. They are failing us.

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Yep. Good first instincts on any news story: - if it makes the news, it is rare - some of the details are wrong

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Andy Famiglietti's avatar Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social
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Do not wave me through when you have right of way! You are not doing me a favor! You are acting unpredictably and increasing my cognitive load!!

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Truth is more like “democrats need fair elections to win elections”

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Reminder: The fact that Hamas does not care about Palestinian civilians is not an excuse for the Israeli government not to. Similarly, the fact that Hamas does not care about international law is not an excuse for the Israeli government not to.

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Also too isn’t there a difference between being questioned and being interrupted? I always thought there was, but maybe I’m just a moron.

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Phillips OBrien's avatar Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social
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Looking at wars happening now, I think it needs to be pointed out how Ukraine is doing by far the best at fighting while trying the hardest to follow the laws and conventions of war. Their efforts here are superb and a message to the world. Another reason to aid them forcefully.

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Alexander S. Vindman's avatar Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social
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All of the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP electeds calling for support to Israel, while seeking to cut support for Ukraine are morally bankrupt MAGA lapdogs. There is no rational reason for such a policy except to cater to Trump and MAGA.

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We're aware of a fake BBC video circulating on social media falsely claiming that Bellingcat has verified Ukrainian weapons sales to Hamas. We've reached no such conclusions or made any such claims. We'd like to stress that this is a fabrication and should be treated accordingly.

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Please call him "Agent Orange". It just fits so perfectly.

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