there are a lot of ways for the state to suppress dissident speech. one particularly bad one is by having armed agents of the state stand by and do nothing while partisan-aligned thugs or paramilitary groups beat you because of your speech, and then have the DA decline to prosecute the assaulters.
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A Conscientious Objector's Vision of Life for Israelis and Palestinians From the River to the Sea
Sofia Orr has just spent 85 days in military jail after refusing to enlist in the IDF. Now released after being recognized as a conscientious objector, the 19-year-old talks about why she did it.
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One of the few instances where android phones are useful. They have unknown number screening. It actually transcribes the interaction so you can decide whether to pick up the phone.
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Is he spreading his seed so that he can make up for all the kids that hate him?
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It was hyper loop for me. It just became super obvious that everything in tech was becoming more steam than water.
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New cyber truck styled AI robot just dropped.
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The next pandemic will make covid look like a cakewalk. It's great that the president that helped dismantle it was propped up Weekend at Bernie's style through the whole thing.
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Newsletter: The tech industry has a Sam Altman problem, one created by the Valley's power players accelerating the career of a manipulative non-technical con artist. And as he continues to lie about what AI can do, he's leading Silicon Valley to ruin.
www.wheresyoured.at/false-prophet/
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Critics warn the U.S.-constructed pier off Gaza's coast is being used for military purposes. Now a source in the Gaza resistance says there are indications it will be used to facilitate the forced displacement of Palestinians.
#Palestine #Israel
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NEW: After Netanyahu's government was caught ordering a malign influence operation against US voters last week, WIRED began questioning US lawmakers about it. We've been stonewalled at every turn. The White House even denied having heard of it.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is rightly being praised lately for her interview where she talked about how anti-PC whinging is a "red flag." But this bit I think is even more important context and it makes me respect her even more.
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Apple having the pride flag on their jumpsuits is hilarious because at this point, it’s all but obvious that corporations would throw lgbtq folks under the bus if it meant that their profits were sent soaring. It’s so cynical and condescending.
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They are literally doing "Donald Trump Is A Convicted Felon. Here's Why That's Bad News For Joe Biden."
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i reiterate that the u.s.'s obstruction of the icc is because if israel goes to the hague, the u.s. is going with them
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Hamas is also saying Israeli forces killed Israeli hostages during the operation, which is probably to be expected when you kill hundreds of people.
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One reason why the White House might be wary of acknowledging the death toll on this operation is that we helped plan it.
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"The White House commends Israel for the operation, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement."
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This conflict has made it easy to see how Germans were able to morph into one of the greatest evils the world has ever known. I don't think zionists/liberal Jews have any clue how they look to anyone with a conscience (most of the world).
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Shot --> chaser
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2004: Every Republican is a rapist, every Democrat a whore.
2024: Steve Bannon, architect of the provocative RAPE Plan for Reorganization, is the first domino to fall in a crushing monolithic tyranny. That's $5/month, $50/year. Welcome to Stalin 2.0's Five Year Plan.
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They're not even trying anymore.
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bunch of law professors cooking up arguments right now why this isn't *really* a *crime* crime, you know
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It’s beyond obvious Bezos did not buy the Post to save the institution or because he respects journalism. Without feeling it in the slightest he could transform that paper into the greatest investigative newsgathering operation in history. And that alone betrays his petty, petulant intent.
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A central part of this story is that Cornell faculty defended academic freedom by nixing the idea that a donor would determine what and how a topic should be studied. So Leo and administrators at Texas A&M did not tell faculty about his involvement in the flow of $.
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"urban Democrats are too corrupt to be trusted to govern" unfortunately has some sturdy legs
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marvel having no idea what to do with their ip except incrementally devalue it is a truly mind boggling bag fumble
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it also gets little attention, but the IRA has been a stupefyingly successful bill and is driving clean energy investment far beyond what its proponents hoped for
the clean energy future still might not get here in time to stave off much of the damage but it’s coming faster than we thought
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What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs
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Sunday should have marked the end of any country supporting Israel. But we've seen no major change in behavior from the West, nothing at all from the U.S. most importantly. So the massacre is allowed to continue.
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"In fact, making Jews the face of an unrelenting, genocidal campaign only puts us at risk even more." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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People are overworked and underpaid for busy work because we don't contribute anything of substance to the world. It's all a bunch of grifts feeding off of each other and keeping things afloat. Housing, healthcare, transportation, food is not affordable. Vacations are out of reach.
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