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-Amateur photographer -Left leaning NYC denizen living in exile in Florida -Maker of bitchin' cutting boards (vennfl.com) "Keep a clean nose, watch the plainclothes You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows" -Bob Dylan
An Orban-era grift pattern steered state contracts to political allies, who inflated costs, with no competition, then stole unearned gains from the public This basic mechanism converts public money into private wealth and is the stock and trade of corrupt governments
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
Alrighty then........ Daniel Kokotajlo is a former researcher in OpenAI’s governance division and one of the leading voices about A.I. safety. He estimates the odds of a globally catastrophic A.I. outcome are around 70 percent. He isn’t bothering to save for his retirement
Opinion | This Is Really Bad
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
nytimes.com
Texans: Make sure you are registered to vote. Being on the voter suspense list does not mean your voter registration has been purged. It simply means that local officials need an updated address before October 5th – the voter registration deadline in Texas.
Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold? thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...
Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.
thegrimhistorian.substack.com
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
Please read.... Dystopian Boots jesspiper.substack.com/p/dystopian-...
Dystopian Boots
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...
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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
We've become the trailer trash of the global community gregolear.substack.com/p/the-lay-of...
The Lay of the Land
This is what's happening, as we head into the heart of summer.
gregolear.substack.com
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!
The man pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists in one fell swoop and nobody did anything He started a war with one nation and kidnapped the leader of another and nobody did anything He literally tore down a third of the White House and nobody did anything What else will our leaders do nothing about?
Police have released a sketch of the main suspect accused of defacing the reflecting pool.
"It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live." ~ Nina Simone
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
The world now has its first trillionaire, but 39% of families in Florida are using "Buy Now, Pay Later" apps to buy groceries. This is Donald Trump’s America. A playground for the mega rich built entirely on the credit card debt of hungry children. What are we even doing?
“Experts say a war crime was committed” is what you write when it’s too scary to say “the United States committed a war crime.” The passive voice will be the death of us all
