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Tar Heel born // bred // dead - minor league baseball enjoyer ⚾ - college basketball obsessive 🏀 - CAROLINA PANTHERS NFC SOUTH CHAMPS 🏈 - happy atheist - boss of the bluesky CBB cinematic universe - probably listening to electronic music rn, beep boop 🎵

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

A photographic looking image of shoes floating in the water. It's crossed out with two red lines

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

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Dodgers announce that they have signed God as a bench piece. Also known as Yaweh or The Almighty, God is expected to play when a regular needs a day off. Going the other way was Jesus MacFarquhar, the #544 rated player in their minor leagues, who was hitting .221 at low A Dust Junction.

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I see people posting various places about getting involved in politics and they always say "phone bank! Knock doors!" but it feels like a big golden rule violation when I myself do not ever want to receive a phone call or talk to a door-knocker, are there not other ways to do this