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Douglas Kelso@darkpoole.bsky.social |
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Bailing on the hellsite. Seeing how things go here. I'm darkpoole on Twitter and Spoutible.
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Douglas Kelso
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Yep. Whoever the nominee is, the corporate media will find SOMETHING about them to turn into a dozen bad-faith attack stories per day. If Biden has any genuinely serious health or cognition issues, he should resign and let Harris run as incumbent. Otherwise, he's absolutely right to stay in.
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Moira Donegan
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Iron Spike
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Didn’t even need to click through to guess the author’s race an gender. Do you what you want, fucker. But too many people got savaged by dogs, blasted with fire hoses, and hung from trees to get me into the voting booth for me to ever opt out.
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Rosemary Mosco
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Things I've spontaneously said to animals.
Mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco
Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
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Katie Mack
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Televised debates are uninformative in the best of times but both these people have been president and neither of them have hidden their plans and I cannot imagine any useful information will come of the whole debacle
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Dan Hon
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Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs
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Costa Samaras
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Our current moment, explained: imagine that keeping your car idling 24/7 solved mad libs that told you to put glue on pizza
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Douglas Kelso
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The story changes each time you watch? That's not a movie. That's a video game. And probably not a very interesting one, either.
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Douglas Kelso
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"Not fighting" is a pretty good start.
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Douglas Kelso
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I know I bought the JLA, LSH, and Freedom Fighters books, and Captain America Bicentennial Battles. I think I picked up the Action Comics and Invaders issues as well.
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@lizajae.bsky.social
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Wait for it.
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Douglas Kelso
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I'm uncertain that most Senate Republicans would vote to convict him even for that, as long as a Democratic President gets to nominate his replacement.
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Rosemary Mosco
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Happy pride! Remember: you can’t spell bird without bi 💙💜💖 and also, uh, r and d. So remember to thoroughly research and develop your bisexuality. I’m very tired
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Douglas Kelso
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Douglas Kelso
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I know who she is, and her background with the current system. But I'm talking about creating a new system, and her responses aren't really addressing my position. We're clearly talking past each other, so there's no point in continuing.
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Douglas Kelso
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I know there are a lot of judges who take their job and their roles very seriously. And there are judges who don't, because there are no consequences for misconduct at all. (Same goes for elected officials). Put consequences on the table, and a lot of folks will shape up fast.
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Douglas Kelso
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An attorney complains that a judge committed misconduct. (Say, failure to recuse when required to do so by law.) The complainant presents evidence of misconduct. It goes before a judicial panel. You assume the judges will automatically reject the complaint, regardless of the evidence presented?
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Douglas Kelso
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The Constitution isn't self-executing. But it limits judicial tenure to "good Behaviour" so a judge who commits misconduct is constitutionally ineligible to keep the job. Congress needs to define misconduct incompatible with good behavior, and a judicial process to resolve complaints.
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Douglas Kelso
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State bar associations do a pretty good job keeping attorneys in line. Those who ignore ethical obligations get turned in by other attorneys. The fear of being suspended or disbarred is a pretty good motivator,
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Douglas Kelso
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I disagree. Ethical judges -- those who take their oaths seriously & put in the work to conduct themselves properly -- will have very little patience for the ones who don't. Unethical judges will either clean up their act or get fired ... if not on the 1st complaint, then the 2nd or 3rd.
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Douglas Kelso
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The Constitution itself fires the judges on a finding of misconduct inconsistent with "good behavior." 4/4
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Douglas Kelso
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Congress also defines a body to handle appeals that is NOT the Supreme Court. For example, a finding of misconduct can be overturned by 2/3rds of the Judicial Conference. SCOTUS has no jurisdiction to review judicial misconduct cases. 3/
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Douglas Kelso
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Make the judicial branch self-policing for ethics & conduct violations. Congress defines a way to select an impartial panel of federal judges to determine if the allegation of misconduct has been proved, and what standard of proof applies (such as "preponderance of the evidence"). 2/
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Douglas Kelso
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Define who has standing to make complaints about judicial misconduct. Say, attorneys who practice before the court in question. And set some limits to ensure the system isn't swamped with BS complaints. For example, an attorney gets a lifetime limit of three complaints. 1/
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Stephen Farrow
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Today's inspirational message:
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Dr. Tessa Fisher
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The geomagnetic storm seems to be winding down, so if you still need to communicate across time with your dead father via ham radio to solve your mother's murder, now's the time!
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paulinator
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I know a good joke about trickle down economics, but 99% of you will never get it.
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Douglas Kelso
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Gotta say, though, "worm ate part of his brain" explains a LOT.
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David Slack
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Hollywood needs massive antitrust action at the federal level and it needs it yesterday.
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Douglas Kelso
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No, because that's not how it works. Politicians don't know how many votes they gain or lose on any specific issue. They DO know people are angry when a lot of folks demonstrate outside their offices or yell at them during town halls. And then they decide whether donor money or votes matter more.
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Douglas Kelso
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I'll reluctantly vote for Biden in November, because the system won't let me choose an anti-genocide candidate. (Which shouldn't EVER be the case, but here we are.) However, I wrote in Bernie on my primary ballot, and voted for Congress based on the candidate's position on the Gaza genocide.
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Douglas Kelso
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Come in in. The water's fine.
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Richard Kadrey
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Science is awesome. NASA rocks.
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A.R. Moxon
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Until right wingers got in on the whole “fighting antisemitism” thing, I had no idea that it involved sending police to beat up so many Jewish people.
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Douglas Kelso
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I'm thinking the whole "unabashed genocide in plain sight" thing makes it less unrealistic with each passing month.
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Ed Zitron
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Damn that's a good idea
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Douglas Kelso
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The one time I came face-to-face with a bear in the woods it froze, stared in my direction for a few seconds, then apparently identified me as a human and ran like hell the other way. If my main concern is safety, I'll take the bear.
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Douglas Kelso
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I read once that the point of owning a Jaguar was to show the world you were rich enough to afford your own personal mechanic.
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A.R. Moxon
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Seven lessons learned from a quarter century in a war-oriented society.
It's 2001—the year the movies promised we'd make contact with aliens—and the United States has rather recently been attacked by terrorists who flew passenger planes into buildings.
www.the-reframe.com/war-or-nothi...
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Barry Deutsch
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Solidarity from U.S. students matters more to some Palestinians than I ever would have dreamed.
www.instagram.com/reel/C6Osxlb...
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Nails Nathan
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Watching people gleefully cheer for the police to crack the heads of their own children in support of sending arms to a country systematically killing children with those very arms is definitely going to stick with a lot of people for a very long time.
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Douglas Kelso
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www.tumblr.com/prawnlegs/74...
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Douglas Kelso
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He can't. The sound of the protest is drowning him out.
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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We don’t have an alternative energy problem, we have a storage and transmission problem.
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Francis Gasparini
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Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and
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Angus Johnston
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"It's not a thing-knowing machine, it's a thing-saying machine" is an essential starting point for any discussion of AI/LLMs.
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Rose Eveleth
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You know what, point to all the superhero writers who have their villains lay out the plan in detail out loud. You were right. They do indeed do that. It turns out the thing you got wrong is the part where the good guys stop them. You didn't write unrealistic villains, you wrote unrealistic heroes.
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Standplaats Krakow
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Douglas Kelso
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Fozzie Bear.
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Emily Rice
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Friends, adopting an astronomer for a big event like a solar eclipse may seem like a great idea, but it is a life long commitment! You have to be willing to listen to them talking to the Moon and pedantically correcting science in films ALL THE TIME, not just one day.
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