@physisyst
Democracy serves those who serve it. The greatest, most complicated and important process humans have devised requires active participation, constant oversight, and continuous improvement. We own the specs. We are the control plan.
This is troubling: Meta developed an AI that would be able to impersonate people based on images, posting style, and video footage.
Sounds nuts, but this could be used to impersonate people killed and nobody would be the wiser, right?
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The fabric of our supposed resilience as a democratic republic is the distribution of power. We tend to focus on the three federal pillars, but the states have a role in constraining Fed power.
#GOP has leveraged that forever. Now that they hold the D, they must counter it every possible way.
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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.
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You are stoking division. Whining about DST is evidence of the Cult of I and entitlement of people incapable of keeping a republic.
This is a non issue, and there are many greater concerns.
People, stop moaning. DST is an effective solution to maximize daylight during the hours we're active.
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Been sayin' for a while we're poisoning our hearts and minds with "entertainment" made from depravity.
For any who think TV and video games don't have that effect, you may ask yourself why there are more ads per hour every day...
Marketing works, it's working, and we're losing all we had to this.
Hands down!
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What Just Jill just said...
That's the spirit!
Now stick to it!
Let this sink in.
Four years ago, the US expected Ukraine to fall within days and even withheld military aid because they thought it’d be wasted. Today, the US — the most powerful nation on earth — is asking Ukraine for military aid.
Never underestimate Ukraine. Arm them to win.
Given how @kare11.bsky.social continues showing opinion polls as benchmarks of right and wrong, it seems that we should discard or neglect the R and D groups, and consider only the I group as the "least biased", if not entirely objective, measure of overall community opinion.
Doncha think?
Substack profits go to Technocrats working against you, and US.
They are. The differences are purely aesthetic.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told House Republicans their fraud claims didn’t hold up—at one point reminding Rep. James Comer that Minnesota’s Medicaid error rate is lower than Kentucky’s.
The hearing didn’t quite go the way they planned.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Zero desire to navigate your marketing obstacle course.
Pro tip: It's not "free" when you demand information for it. We all know the value of our data now, don't we? Companies will literally kill for it.
Maybe try actually free, and if people like it they'll register, and pay, for more.
Did he get a certificate?
The zealots in our government are actively trying to bring about the end times and they're not even pretending anymore...
Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.
He doesn't care what position they're in.
War is not only Hell, it is extremely expensive.
Prediction:
Grabbing companies by the balance sheet will trigger a greater backlash than gleefully admitting grabbing women by their pu$$y did.
Yes. But what the f*I took them so long?
They were all in until they weren't.
Now that the evil madness touches them, grabbing them by the balance sheet, they wince.
Exactly.
Our language gives our immaturity, and degeneracy away.
Talking about real people and their destruction in the language of TV and video games is a huge symptom of what ails US.
@kare11.bsky.social is repeatedly popping polls up on screen now, as though right and wrong, are good and evil are opinions.
They've completely lost the thread of democracy.
Lots of folks think slavery is not only fine, but our natural order, Jason Hackett.
Democracy isn't an opinion.
They should understand their tactics have the opposite effect on me. Strongly.
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.