Laura Toffenetti

Laura Toffenetti

@ltoff.bsky.social

retired teacher, writer, quilter, native flowers fan, Senior advisor to Rohingya Culture Center in Chicago which provides support to Rohingya refugees who have fled the genocide in Myanmar.

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“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote. This should get us all to stop AI. If he’s for uncontrolled AI then we know it’s another mess he got us into.

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Replying to @girlnewsie.bsky.social

Stop trying to create life, by burning things that are already alive. stop trying to invent intelligence, when intelligence is everywhere. stop trying to give credibility to the grifters who we know are building these machines with apocalypse as their goal.

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more and more and more i find myself feeling like people are wishing for intelligence to be magic, instead of a series of complex processes that are equally as traceable and predictable as an algebra problem.

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Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

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Now ICE’s contractors are shooting protesters. (this is Colorado)

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

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funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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If you're in the twin cities, you can celebrate my birthday by bringing cash to Smitten Kitten, by helping your neighbors pay rent and buy groceries, and protesting the closures of sidewalks and overpasses and greenways. protect our unhoused neighbor.

Helix@girlnewsie.bsky.social

im 40 now. someday you will be too. participate in community organizing efforts where you live. engage in mutual aid. follow and support @cempoaloon.bsky.social to help fund the Evernight project.

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He fell asleep in a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, referred to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Japan", TikTok as "Tic Tac", President Zelensky as "President Putin" & once again demanded the U.S. be given control of Greenland. He's much less dangerous while sleeping than when he's awake. 💤

I have a question. The physician that does the physicals for our president should be held accountable so that they have to tell the truth or our held in contempt. Does HIPAA protect the presidents health issues? Congress should subpoena the Doctor and demand the truth or hold him in contempt.

Absolutely

Helix@girlnewsie.bsky.social

this thought feels messy but when i see calls for "get ICE out of my state" an alarm goes off in my head bc it sounds a lot like calling for the fascists to go back to operating in areas where there is less political opposition. I want them out of Arizona and Texas too.

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CALL TO ACTIVISM@calltoactivism.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN YET. Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims. He called her "crooked" and "stupid," and abruptly WALKED OUT Thank you, Kristen for challenging his BULLSH*T!

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ok but we're taking the whole Mississippi River with us, along with its associated watershed, and also as an added requirement Joe has to eat glass

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Kernen says he's ready to trade Minnesota to Canada

49 years ago? I saw it when it first opened at Graumans Chinese theater. The line went around the block and starting right from the beginning the audience roared! But 49 years ago??? How old am I???

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Heya neighbors, I just got my June rent invoice. Wanna help me pay it? That'd be rad.

Helix@girlnewsie.bsky.social

If you haven't tried the Evernight demo yet you really should. If you haven't followed @cempoaloon.bsky.social yet, you should do that too. If you've heard about what we're up to with this and want to support the work, the best way to do that is with a Patreon sub. www.patreon.com/posts/we-did...

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This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

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Khanna to Maria Bartiromo: "Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. Obama actually did his homework ... all Donald Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's his entire foreign policy."

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A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim. #justsayin

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC