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Latest blog post. My reactions to the documentary, NAZA. mindonfire.com/site/posts/2... "Borrowing from film critic John Bleasdale: 'As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable. As a document, it is an indictment.'

When we see it, we have to call it what it is plainly: blocking the right to vote. Millions of Americans have already voted and more will vote between now and next Tuesday. That right is absolutely sacred.

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Thread.

Some people think rights are a limited resource, and the government has a big sack of them, and if someone else has rights there are less rights in the sack for you.

Thread, and article.

Crap. For a second I thought they did impersonate MIT. Nope, it's **the** MIT. The same MIT that caused Swartz's demise for doing almost the exact same thing, just without corporate backing.

I'm SO glad this technology didn't exist when my unmotivated, unmedicated, ADHD-riddled ass was in high school and college for computer science. There's NO way I would've become the writer or programmer I am today if I'd reached for AI slop dispensers whenever things got hard or I ran out of time.

but also, suggesting that children should use ai to write their texts is like suggesting that children should use calculators to learn arithmetics you’re not going to learn a thing by using the tool specifically built to let you avoid doing the thing

I hate this so much. The first draft is the MOST IMPORTANT DRAFT. Learning how to structure an argument and think it through and find holes in your own thinking is a large part of how critical thinking develops.

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substack.com/@alexandrabi.... Did Petey Boy miss his T injection? Or is he just a wimpy wuss?

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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If NTY, WaPo, etc, won't speak truth to power, other outlets will have to step up while they still can. Press freedom affects *all* media, so some of those rising outlets will be ones you wouldn't immediately expect, but who get that it matters.

“We want to ensure knowledge of the President’s persistent sexual abuse doesn’t affect how people vote” is Earth incinerating moral depravity.

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

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"I will pay you $400M to act out my pathological revenge fantasy against my daughter, even if it makes it less likely you'll keep the Senate."

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This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Lots of good comments on this, too.

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Musk's companies have received an estimated $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits since 2003. Musk has become the Worlds richest person on the backs of America’s tax payers. Now he uses the wealth to buy elections. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/russ...

I'm asking my fellow Jews in Michigan to help elect the first Muslim American to the U.S. Senate—a devoted dad, a scholar, a visionary thinker, and a genuinely good dude. Let's be the people we hope others will be. Islamophobia and antisemitism feed the same beast. Let's starve that MFer.

Interesting that the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, is recognizing that anyone who actually follows their recommendations will need criminal pardons. Wonder if they put that somewhere in the fine print.

Thread, and also the QTed thread, and its QTed threads.

Trump & the Supreme Court think ICE should have more immunity to local laws than the British Crown soldiers had under Boston law. Notably, it was our second President, John Adams, who represented the soldiers at trial. Demanding ICE have no more immunity than Redcoats seems a minimal demand.

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Two posts make a thread.

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

TRUTH.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacking Brad Lander - a self-described liberal Zionist - by name, simply for doing protective presence, should be the final sign that the Israeli government would gladly sacrifice every last Jew in Diaspora to dominate more Palestinians with impunity.

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#Pokemon #Pokemonart #pokemonfanart #corsola #galariancorsola #Cursola

That's the post, but it has a thread; click through and read.

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. That's it. That's the reply.