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@totoole.bsky.social

i'm a vegetarian, and a dad, who works in healthcare IT. i'm interested in climate and fairness issues. my hobbies are music, sailing, and reading mostly. california

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Hazard 2 Navigation@totoole.bsky.social · last wk.

as the article states, the main, critical-factor thing is these "companies" don't want to get caught. it's worse than "opportunistically amoral", they know it's wrong, and they are trying to hide their perfidy with every fiber of their sleazy, greedy being. the resulting ai will mirror the creators

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · last wk.

#ResistanceRoots At a “conservative” event in Dallas in August 1980, Repub operative Paul Weyrich said, “I don’t want everybody to vote. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” It cemented the Repub focus on voter suppression. /1

A still from a video of Paul Weyrich speaking at the National Affairs Briefing, Aug. 21, 1980. It was a defining moment that influenced the trajectory of the 1980 presidential election and reshaped American politics. Many evangelical Christians had voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976. This conference — organized by the Religious Roundtable and advanced by Weyrich — was an effort to swing that bloc toward the Repub candidate, Ronald Reagan. More than 2,500 pastors and thousands of laymen attended, transforming “conservative” churches into active political hubs for registration and fundraising. Weyrich used the momentum of this gathering to champion a highly calculated strategy. By uniting disparate “conservative” factions around hot-button social issues, his organizations (such as the Moral Majority) proved they could turn out a motivated minority of voters to sway elections. This strategy established a playbook for targeting specific demographics and managing turnout that political strategists still use today.
LouFromBoston@loufromboston.bsky.social · 3w ago

What is ironic is, this is something McConnell would do. As we learned when Scalia died - the art of buying time and bending rules to cheat to get what you want. The entire GOP is covering up McTurtle; the most dishonest political party ever.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

Predicting how things will change decades from now is a daunting task. Thomas O’Toole, The Post’s science editor at the time, attempted to do just that for America’s bicentennial in July 1976. Here's what he got right — and wrong about 2026.

50 years ago, The Post pictured life in 2026. Here’s what it got right.

Science editor Thomas O’Toole forecast innovations, including gene editing, deep-sea mining and nuclear-powered artificial hearts.

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Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A young valedictorian at Clayton High School in North Carolina was dragged off stage and threatened with losing her diploma, all for speaking up for oppressed people around the world. They couldn't even let her finish. This is insane.

Hazard 2 Navigation@totoole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

whatsoever you do jan 6 to the least of my brothers abruptly cutoff usaid to the poorest that you do unto me fight medicare expands when i was hungry you gave me to eat cutoff snap benefits, when i was thirsty you gave me to drink reduce clean water protections now enter into the home of my father.

Nic McConnell@mcconnell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

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