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Derek Cressman@derekcressman.bsky.social |
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Writer and satirist probing the nexus of advertising, brain implants, Citizens United, and post-truth reality. Regenerative farmer. Climate hawk.
www.derekcressman.com/
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Derek Cressman
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Up next, the Roberts Court will invent the doctrine of judicial immunity so long as the bribes they accept are connected to official duties.
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Derek Cressman
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“despite their incompetence, the justices continue to claim more and more power — even though they simply do not have the personnel or expertise needed to address every policy question they’ve added to their own plates.”
#RobertsCourtJesters
www.vox.com/scotus/35920...
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Derek Cressman
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Megalomaniac John “John Roberts has done what the Founders never could have imagined.”
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Derek Cressman
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Originalist sin.
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Derek Cressman
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So, according to the Roberts Supreme Court, if Bill Clinton lied under oath about oral sex received during his official duties as president, he should have been immune from prosecution, right?
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Monday will be the Supreme Court's final opinion release day Mind you, they still haven't ruled on 'can presidents do crimes' So they really said 'we're gonna hear immunity on the last day of oral arguments, announce immunity on the last day of the term, &then go on vacation. Don't forget to tip!'
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Paul Duane
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.
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Derek Cressman
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The “bought and paid for” Roberts Court rules state and local officials may take gifts and payments for steering contracts to grateful patrons.
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Derek Cressman
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Ads. Inside your head. What could go wrong?
“The global metaverse advertising industry is projected to grow by 315% and reach a value of $7.5 billion by 2030.”
www.mi-3.com.au/25-06-2024/i...
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Derek Cressman
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Boo!
“An Amazon engineer-turned-ethical-hacker finds a bug that allows websites to force animated 3D objects like spiders or bats into the Vision Pro's spatial environment.”
www.pcmag.com/news/apple-v...
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Derek Cressman
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We should hang the Ten Commandments outside Mara Lago, with The 7th one, about adultery, in bold ALL CAPS.
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Derek Cressman
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Oops
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Derek Cressman
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"Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology such as Neuralink symbolizes a new era of human brain-machine intersection, asking us to rethink our intuitions about identity, self and personal responsibility."
en.vijesti.me/BBC/711443/a...
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Derek Cressman
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$800,000 wire transfer from billionaire donor to US Chamber raises curtain on dark money.
Thank Citizens United.
thehill.com/lobbying/470...
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Derek Cressman
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With Hunter Biden convicted and Don Jr walking around free I’m beginning to think the Deep State hasn’t actually weaponized the Department of Justice after all.
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Derek Cressman
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“With a system that taps directly into your brain, not only could your thoughts be stolen, but it’s also possible they could be manipulated as well.”
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Derek Cressman
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When reality isn’t good enough:
“What we're thinking about is to provide a perceptually realistic experience that is very similar to the real world." said Wetzstein. "And the vision is to go towards something that is indistinguishable from a real object."
www.cnet.com/science/i-sa...
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Derek Cressman
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“A deluge of VR users are now regularly reporting migraines, nausea, and anxiety -- called cybersickness when clubbed together -- after just a week-long immersion in the metaverse.”
www.zdnet.com/article/head...
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Derek Cressman
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Clarence Thomas finally fesses up to being on Harlan Crow’s gravy train.
What will John Roberts do about it?
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...
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Derek Cressman
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“When I wore the headset at work, I’d get looks. Some were intrigued, others smirked and may have been thinking, “Weirdo.” At home, well, I don’t live alone, and some family members thought I was being downright rude when I put on the Vision Pro.”
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Derek Cressman
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“A remote tribe in the Amazon rainforest are now addicted to watching porn and scrolling social media sites after getting internet access through Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/2830077...
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Derek Cressman
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“Precision Neuroscience has implanted more than 4,096 electrodes into a human brain— breaking the world record and exceeding the previous record of 2,048 electrodes”
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Derek Cressman
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He’s got the BIGGEST convictions of any president ever!! Bigly historic!! Un-presidented!!!!
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Derek Cressman
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I managed to tow an electric tractor from Santa Rosa to Oroville using my Ford F150 Lightning. I had to unhook and park the trailer in order to charge but otherwise it went pretty smoothly.
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The vOICe vision BCI 😎🧠
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"The Argus II just didn't work that well." Indeed, two blind Argus II retinal implant recipients were beaten by a blind user of The vOICe smart glasses at the Neurothlon 2018 blind navigation and object identification contest in Samara, Russia www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYce...
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The vOICe vision BCI 😎🧠
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Bionic eye gets a new lease of life spectrum.ieee.org/pixium-bioni... by @meharris.bsky.social: Ex-#Neuralink exec Max Hodak's new company rescues #Pixium technology; "It's very important to us to avoid another debacle like Argus II"; retinal implant, #BCI #NeuroTech
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Derek Cressman
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The FDA “has cleared Neuralink to implant its brain chip in a second patient after the company reportedly outlined fixes to an electrode problem that limited the device's functionality in the first human test subject.”
www.axios.com/2024/05/20/n...
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Marisa Kabas
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the fact is that he could’ve replied “pee pee poo poo” and there would’ve been zero consequences
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Derek Cressman
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The Roberts Court was never impartial and anyone who pretended otherwise was straight up lying.
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Derek Cressman
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The same folks who got all hot and bothered about Colin Kaepernick probably love a Supreme Court “justice” who flies his flag upside down…
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/u...
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Max Kennerly
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"Why are our politics so hostile?" Oh, I dunno, but one factor is how rich scumbags, unsatisfied with unimaginable wealth, have declared war on the rest of the population and are trying to extract even more from people who live paycheck-to-paycheck. That tends to raise the temperature, y'know?
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Hypervisible
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Included are “incidents where Waymo robotaxis crashed into stationary and semi-stationary objects, such as gates, chains, and parked vehicles. The agency added that it identified other incidents such as Waymo robotaxis driving in opposing lanes with oncoming traffic and entering construction zones”
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Derek Cressman
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As a result of the test, she is taking paxlovid and feeling better.
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Derek Cressman
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Neuralink knew from animal testing its implants tiny connective wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals.
www.reuters.com/technology/m...
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Derek Cressman
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I guess they don’t actually believe in freedom. Who knew?
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Derek Cressman
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She only tested because she has, ya know, symptoms of feeling terrible. Will refraining from testing make her feel better? Or maybe just make you feel better?
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Derek Cressman
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My wife just tested positive for COVID, which is a bummer. But at least the POTUS isn’t suggesting she drink bleach. #HaveToAdmitItsGettingBetter
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Don Moynihan
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The grand irony is that there are real abuses of nonprofit status, which have been enabled by a SCOTUS & the GOP. Decisions like Citizen’s United have allowed the wealthy to use their money to reshape politics. The IRS were told not to investigate abuses.
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Derek Cressman
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Orcas: Black and white lives matter Yacht owners: what about us?
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Derek Cressman
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I wonder how this works with a brain implant.
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Derek Cressman
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“Neuralink revealed that Arbaugh had recently used the brain-computer interface for 69 hours in a single week, of which 34 hours were for recreational purposes.”
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Derek Cressman
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It’s the fossil fuels stupid…
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Derek Cressman
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Kinda like Congress…
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Derek Cressman
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“Neuralink encountered a problem with the implant in its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, that reduced the amount of data it could capture from his brain.”
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Derek Cressman
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When you lose to George Santos …
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Derek Cressman
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Presidential candidate…
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Derek Cressman
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Everyone knows vaccines kill brain worms.
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Derek Cressman
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This causes “some amount of brain damage when they’re inserted to the brain.” That, of course, is less than ideal.
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Derek Cressman
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“in the early days of brain-computer interfaces, there was this notion that in order to extract information-rich data from the brain, one needed to penetrate the brain with tiny little needle-like electrodes”
gizmodo.com/neuralink-el...
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Matt Seybold
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In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops. It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”… 2/
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