“A US-Israeli airstrike has destroyed the desalination plant in Qeshm Island, southern #Iran, severing the residents' access to freshwater.”
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The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants
Gavin Newsom publicly touts his prison reform plans, the so-called "California model", which are nothing more than smoke-and-mirrors.
If you want a Bill Clinton-style Democrat, "I feel your pain" for the cameras, cutting important porgrams while increasing police funding, Newsom is your guy.
A bunch of signs are currently indicating the Trump regime is going to ground-invade Iran.
The president wore a red tie and a baseball cap to a ceremony in honor of fallen soldiers.
Republicans are being racist liars about the Virginia redistricting effort. Shouldn't have expected any better from them.
I’m starting to think that climate change won’t be solved by having every individual person volunteer to accept minor inconveniences
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
"I'll do anything I can to stop this illegal war" except commit to not funding it or pushing for any accountability for the perpetrators
The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.
Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!
Just when you think there can't be a new low...
So, they've already "apologized and surrendered," but the US is still going to "hit [them] very hard" today? And specifically, we're going to hit "areas and groups of people" not previously considered threats?
Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.
Israel attacked UN forces in Lebanon. It’s nowhere near the first time either.
NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.
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Wow. The corruption and self-dealing is boundless — in the billions.
You're going to see a lot of people break from Trump over $5/gallon gas that were just perfectly fine with him being in the Epstein files and having American citizens murdered in the streets of Minneapolis.
This country is just that vile.
I truly wish more people would read science fiction and not just watch big-budget adaptations. SF authors have thought about the ethics of the creator vs. the (technological) creation / created ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Knowing humans, perhaps long before then.
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.
There are no limits to what they are capable of.
This comes soon after reports that Russia is helping Iran with the targeting and locations of US forces, so…..
This.
Regardless of whatever whiz-bam cool "feature" is touted, these military ghouls don't actually care if it does a better job at finding targets.
The real utility of a tool like Claude in this situation is *accountability dodging*.
"The computer told me to do it."
ELECTIONS Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC PUBLISHED WED, AUG 3 2016 8:05 AM EDT UPDATED WED, AUG 3 2016 3:01 PM EDT Matthew J. Belvedere @MATT_BELVEDERE WATCH LIVE VIDEO 1:20 Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
![Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiber7pzv36je2r6zhrzajzv7qayzukcurjzp3on7t7w5fwcm4kzay@jpeg)
Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.
I will just say it out loud:
I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran.
I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:
The US and Iranian navy were invited to an Indian naval exercise.
The Iranian ship came- and came unarmed.
The US pulled out last second and sank an unarmed vessel.
This is bad. Really really bad. 😳😳😳
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
War is the worst of human endeavors, but the reason militaries do not fight by pure thuggery, as the United States now does, is that it ultimately puts us more at risk and defiles us as a country. What are we even fighting for if we are nothing but the biggest bully on the block?
"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
Quite the headline from People.com
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Come for the news that Kristi Noem just got fired, stay for the news that Trump's Doral resort (which he owns and profits from) is hosting a summit for foreign leaders that is almost certain to direct unconstitutional payments his way.
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
