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Android dev, gamer, dad

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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I had to check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...

It feels wrong we thay have to rely on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 ( #CFAA ) to regulate "AI" in 2024.

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Andrew Johnstone, MD's avatar Andrew Johnstone, MD @pallbro.bsky.social
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I make sure to tell every recruiter that I would never practice in a forced birth state. #doingmypart

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Matti's avatar Matti @mrbtx.bsky.social
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irs now like IM DOING MY PART *stares at doj*

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0's avatar Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0 @tammi.bsky.social
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Washington Post has a similar page but they’re not doing quite as much irresponsible coverage as NYT (and I think Biden should bow out in favor of Harris)
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."

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Sock Puppet Pundit's avatar Sock Puppet Pundit @sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social
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It was pointed out they also want to disband the VA, benefits will only cover service-related injuries, and end military pensions. Not sure why that is not getting more attention.

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PCFclub's avatar PCFclub @pcfclub.bsky.social
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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Julie DiCaro's avatar Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social
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WaPo and NYT subscriptions gone. 😕As someone who has spent the last 15 years begging people to subscribe to newspapers, it was so hard to pull the trigger. But gonna subscribe to more newsletters and independent outlets. I hope WaPo and NYT earn my subscription back some day.

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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"It’s easy to tell yourself that not voting will somehow work magic, that literally doing nothing is not just a principled protest but even an effective strategy for getting what you want. But it’s a delusion." Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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I once wrote a fact check of a Morgan Spurlock book. He included what he said was a direct quote from the FDA that aspartame causes cancer. I checked the footnote. An FDA newsletter did publish that claim — but *only to specifically refute it*. That’s basically how Barrett quotes Madison here.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social)

reason.com/volokh/2024/...

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🩊MythiccVixen 🔞 [drĂŒsshe/drayr]'s avatar 🩊MythiccVixen 🔞 [drĂŒsshe/drayr] @mythiccvixen.bsky.social
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From firsthand experience: lot of local “nonprofits” are Christian-based & discriminate against disabled, BIPOC, single parents, Queer folks, & non/wrong Christians. They pressure people to covert & go to their church. State-handled means less discrimination & religious violence against the poor.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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LinkedIns most important purpose for me isn't really achieved by spending much time there. I auto generate my resume from it, and that's what it's for, to list where I have worked and to describe in limited detailed what I did there. At this point some jobs require a LinkedIn url for applications.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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Yeah, it's alright, we're doin' fine

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DanglinDon's avatar DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social
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clearsky.app will fill in that info (I jump on there every other month or so, just out of curiosity)

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DanglinDon's avatar DanglinDon @danglindon.bsky.social
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Even tho I know it's overdone, every year I nevertheless set up a tripod to do long-exposures of the fireworks...here's a capture from a couple years ago

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Joshua Foust  đŸȘ–đŸŽź's avatar Joshua Foust đŸȘ–đŸŽź @joshuafoust.com
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I’ve made this point broadly but it also applies to newspapers and the teevee. The New York Times is a pristine example of how embracing transphobia as a guiding ethos inevitably leads to embracing fascism.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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“Some folks need killing, It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!” the republicans are attempting to goad their followers to terrorism against their perceived enemies. This is what fascism looks like.

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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Robinson positions himself as a truth teller against "wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping" and that "some folks just need killing." There could not be a more explicit call to commit violence against perceived enemies "because we have forgotten who we are."

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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You see how Robinson invokes an *actual* war (WWII) to establish that this is, in fact, a "war" with combatants (who are the fellow citizens of the warriors he's inciting). He claims they are trying to make 1776 (i.e. the Christian founding) a "distant memory":

newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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I've written for years about the Christian right's calls for "spiritual warfare" against demonic enemies of Christian America. They used to claim their struggle is against "powers and principalities" not "flesh and blood," citing Ephesians 6:12. But it was still dangerous. Now we see how.

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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One striking detail in this story: The Pastor at Lake Church, where Mark Robinson gave this speech, told me he and Robinson expected these remarks to be "scrutinized." Then the Pastor defended them!

(also worth noting Christian Nationalist overtones in rest of speech cc @sarahposner.bsky.social)

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834
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James Felix Black's avatar James Felix Black @tft.io
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Surely a contested convention in Chicago could never go wrong

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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wint @drill saying "Ah they got me" in response to an involuntary blue checkmark

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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legit quote: why do i give a fuck what the new york times thinks, i thought biden sucked before the debate and thought he sucked after the debate, it doesn’t matter, he’s not a fascist

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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I am reminded of:

boardgamemanuals.fandom.com/wiki/Chronon...

"turning the 1865 "Lincoln Assassinated" card to "Lincoln Wounded" causes the 1868 "Andrew Johnson Impeached" card to turn, leaving a paradox in place for that year (1868). This paradox can then be repaired by playing a Patch"

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Bearded Pip's avatar Bearded Pip @beardedpip.bsky.social
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I live down the street from the John Brown Bell. We are never giving it back.

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 Coach Jerry (referee đŸŸ„) 's avatar Coach Jerry (referee đŸŸ„) @gopher33j.bsky.social
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The state of Minnesota still has a Virginia confederate battle flag from Gettysburg. Virginia asks for it back from time to time and Mn says to fuck off - winners keepers. Ventura was much more animated about it. Anyway - it still sits locked away in Minnesota.

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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today is the 161st anniversary of pickett’s charge, when 12,000 confederates marched across 3/4 of a mile of open land, directly into constant rifle and artillery fire. half the confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in the slaughter, a turning point in the battle of gettysburg and the war

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Warhammerchick's avatar Warhammerchick @celticdragon1.bsky.social
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Federal artillery fields of fire at Gettysburg because AMERICA FUCK YEAH

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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THIS IS CALLED "FAIR USE" AND IS ALLOWED FOR PURPOSES OF CRITICISM, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING, AND PARODY WHICH DOESN'T INFRINGE OF COPYRIGHT UNDER 17 USC 107.

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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In defense of psychopathic rats, chocolate IS delicious.

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War Takes's avatar War Takes @wartakes.bsky.social
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I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social's avatar MathiasTCK.bsky.social @mathiastck.bsky.social
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I just hope his next VP choice remembers he sent a mob to hang his last VP.

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