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Paul@paulmpax.bsky.social |
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Okay, I'm gonna stop talking about the NYT because it's done institutionally. I absolutely love numerous reporters and writers who work there. But the leaders of the paper are using it to usher authoritarianism into power. Inexcusable.
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Greg Pak
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Look at this link at the bottom of the New York Times' "Don't vote" opinion piece. They didn't run this as a one-off. They're trying to turn non-voting into a thing. Repugnant.
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Greg Pak
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Also for context, here's a screenshot of the second post in the thread, which I'm also going to delete to avoid sending that site traffic.
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Greg Pak
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Folks have noted that including links rewards the NYT with traffic for running this article. They're right! So I'm going to delete the first post in this thread - here it is as a screenshot for context.
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Greg Pak
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On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.
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Greg Pak
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NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.
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Greg Pak
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Imagine for one second if the NYT marshaled its massive influence towards voter registration, towards supporting voting rights groups, towards encouraging people to vote and fighting people who try to stop people from voting. Imagine if the NYT actually championed participatory democracy.
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Greg Pak
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If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.
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Greg Pak
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The NYT also allowed him to exclude his partisan inclinations. From the 2018 piece: "In a bland way I hope to see Republicans control various state and national offices. This arises from a single issue: the legality of abortion."
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Greg Pak
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More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
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Marisa Kabas
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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when โtrump opened the borderโ and her date said โbest president ever.โ obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!
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Cats of Yore
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Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.
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Tony Corsentino
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Iโm no software engineer, just a humanities person who spent 20 years of my life obsessively studying the question โCan reason be automated?โ and feeling extreme distress over the catastrophic consequences, for all of us, of this particular iteration of (re)discovering that the answer is โNoโ
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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My priors that the Biden interview would confirm everyoneโs priors have been confirmed
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CindyLou
@cindynorth1.bsky.social
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THEY DID IT!!
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TW
@twesq.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood
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CHOAM Nomsky ๐ญ
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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josh (oldfriend99)
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Can we please stop posting screenshots of Truth Social posts? I left that place for a reason!
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Paul
@paulmpax.bsky.social
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exactly even the perfect meal would be tiresome if you ate it too frequently
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ryan cooper
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one of the most out-of-nowhere moving experiences in a game I've had was at the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order where (spoiler) Blaskowitz recites The New Colossus. encapsulates the best about this country
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Kevin ๐๐
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I worked with asylees from Africa and wow it gave me a different perspective on life. Iโm so much more grateful for what I have. These folks are more patriotic than most native-born Americans because they really had to struggle for the freedom we were given at birth.
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Kevin ๐๐
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People can help others become citizens by becoming a tutor. You help them study to pass the citizenship interview. Itโs one of the most meaningful things Iโve done in my life. Search for immigrant or refugee services in your area. If you speak English and took 6th grade civics, youโre good to go.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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The Achiever formerly known as Karl
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Amy A
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All british actors know each other from Cambridge footlights except for Peter capaldi and Craig Ferguson who know each other from an acid house in Glasgow 1981 and I think thatโs beautiful
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Seth Cotlar
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat in Parliament and will now return to his former post managing Spinal Tap.
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John Scalzi
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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act
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Paul
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Orbรกn is in Moscow and Biden says he needs more naps or is it nappies?
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Paul
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To be clear > I was meaning why had voters given The Cons even this many seats in the General Election? 121 seems higher than polls about a week ago saying the Cons might not even be able to get as many as The Libs 71
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Paul
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Gut, dass wir den Mรผll los sind
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Paul
@paulmpax.bsky.social
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Gut, dass wir den Mรผll los sind
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Paul
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the non-biased T--Ass agency
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Paul
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T--ass non news bureau says what?