El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Leftists think Protest Votes will shake up politics. If they withhold votes for flawed candidates, the DNC will offer better candidates. But they never think about the other side. By showing up to vote in numbers too big to ignore, they could shift demographics and become a bloc worth catering to.
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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See Max Fisher's excellent video "America's job market is collapsing " It's 30 minutes about how all of Trump's major initiatives are strangling our economy. If you don't have 30 minutes, the TL;DW is in this thread 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM4...
America's job market is collapsing
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Remember: AI stands for Artificial Improv. The goal is to deliver something that's shaped like an answer, even if it's nonsense. It's only (barely) suitable for entertainment.
A lot of people are correctly dunking on Matt Walsh for pretending that SCOTUS just invented birthright citizenship, when they just upheld it. But I want to add to the dunking for another reason: it's also how he and his kids got citizenship. Let me explain... x.com/MattWalshBlo...
Look, don't blame the GOP for being vultures and dismantling the country's prosperity for private profit while the public starves. The US Federal Government is just undergoing the "Toys R Us Process" as a natural stage in the capitalism lifecycle. This is "running the country like a business."
I don't know what everyone's talking about. The Freedom 250 "Great American State Fair" obviously has a huge crowd of energized attendees!
Looking at the contrast between Zelenskyy's defensive war with Russia and Trump's offensive war with Iran, I find myself watching two very different models: steady and reserved vs reckless and loud. As often happens, I am reminded of Star Trek. 🧵1
Ok so here's my plan for policing: We recruit from white supremacist communities. We look for bullies and abusers and otherwise angry men with victim complexes. We then give them very abbreviated training, focused mostly on how everyone is trying to kill them and how they should shoot first. 🧵1
We're at the "gulags for pamphlets" stage of Freedom™ www.ibtimes.co.uk/texas-man-se...
Anti-ICE Activist Gets 30 Years for Moving a Box of Antifascist Literature, Longer Than Many Jan. 6 Rioters Received
Daniel Sanchez-Estrada received a 30-year prison sentence for moving antifascist literature linked to a protest, sparking debate over protest-related prosecutions compared to January 6 riot sentences.
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If a dollar were a second: 1 million = 11.6 days 1 billion = 31.8 years 1 Musk = 35 millennia Does this seem reasonable?
Someone: They doctored the photo. Trump: I'm a doctor in the photo. Someone: That candidate talks about cisgender. Trump: He wants six genders! Someone: Are you going to deal with illegal aliens? Trump: Release the UFO file.
"You can't win. The game is fixed. So when they say, 'Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?' It's not ours. We don't own anything. ... The social contract is broken." www.youtube.com/watch?v=llci...
#BLM How Can We Win? Kimberly Jones Powerful Speech Video Full Length Black Lives Matter #BLM 2020
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo agoJUST NOW: Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis or representation wearing a trump flag as a cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DYCuFmt...
Sharing this because it's important to understand just how the pieces fit together. This is a 30 minute video, but it explores the compounding ways Trump is wrecking the American economy: from deportations to tariffs to government cuts to datacenters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM4kv0HnG0
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Centrists are so strange. They look the Dems trying to achieve complex solutions and succeeding slowly, and Reps trying to achieve simplistic solutions and failing quickly, and they can't tell the difference? If I hear "both sides" one more time, I will lose my grip on reality. 🧵1
I'm not shocked there are so many non-Catholics upset about the Trump/Pope feud. American Protestant Christians don't even care what the Bible says. What makes you think they care what Martin Luther said? They just think Luther was a black civil rights leader.
Imagine still pulling a Ruth Bader Ginsberg after seeing what that did to the nation
Russia's invasion of Ukraine crippled the Russian economy, humiliated their military, and made Ukraine a world leader in drone tech. America's invasion of Iran is crippling the global economy, humiliated their military, and made Iran richer than ever. Doesn't seem fascist invasions work well lately.
As a child I thought a concession stand was a place to get popcorn and nachos. As an adult I know a concession stand is when Hakeem and Chuck make a speech.
"You see, Timmy, in my day, American products were reliably high quality and the Chinese imports were cheap or defective. "Sure, Grandpa. Next you'll tell me that you did your own homework instead of just subscribing to BlackboardGPT!" futurism.com/space/pentag...
Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk's Starlink Fails
The US Navy has had multiple high-stakes drone tests thwarted by spotty and unreliable connectivity to Starlink satellites.
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If you have 30 minutes to kill, this does a good job walking through how Trump's policies, from tariffs to deportations, caused the economic mess we're in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM4...
America's job market is collapsing
YouTube video by Max Fisher
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Would a Dem like Harris have started this war of choice in Iran? Netanyahu asked previous presidents to attack. Bush: No Obama: No Biden: No Trump: Sure thing boss!
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoKerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
You have 4 choices for your finances (voting analogy): A: Get a job, pay taxes and bills. Sucks, but responsible. (Dem) B: Join a gang, steal and murder. Fun while you're winning. (Rep) C: Play the lotto. Never win. Whine that you're rich. (Third) D: Couch surf and expect to be supported. (Nonvoter)
TheIrishCommentator@irishcommentator.bsky.social · 4mo agoYou fuckers out there who just couldn’t suck it up for one term and vote for Kamala; was it worth all of this?