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When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.

22.05.2025 11:42 👍 4787 🔁 1348 💬 123 📌 26
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Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, study finds UChicago scholar sheds light on why elected officials threaten democracy more often than military coups in the 21st century

The world's richest 1% have captured two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020 and emit two-thirds of all greenhouse gases. Implementing a global wealth tax would give governments the revenue they need to build carbon free infrastructure while easing emissions and safeguarding democracy.

21.05.2025 04:15 👍 229 🔁 95 💬 6 📌 14

I’ve said this before and i’ll say it again. Generative AI is not a solution to anything but a nightmare and a problem that society is left to grapple with

17.05.2025 11:21 👍 256 🔁 60 💬 1 📌 3

Wes Streeting is suppressing the publication of a report that would show that what he's doing to trans kids has increased the suicide rate

Scandal upon scandal

17.05.2025 11:27 👍 832 🔁 271 💬 9 📌 4
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Amsterdam wil minder Amerikaanse tech De Amsterdamse gemeenteraad heeft donderdag vijf moties aangenomen die ertoe moeten leiden dat Amsterdam geleidelijk minder afhankelijk wordt van grote Amerikaanse techbedrijven.

Amsterdam wil minder Amerikaanse tech

16.05.2025 07:36 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

16.05.2025 02:57 👍 4533 🔁 1008 💬 230 📌 928

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

16.05.2025 03:52 👍 12052 🔁 3229 💬 78 📌 41

No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.

15.05.2025 14:51 👍 1641 🔁 540 💬 39 📌 21

And bit by bit things are getting worse and worse.

15.05.2025 14:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Grandes questões dos nossos tempos: fotos do traje da Billie Eilish no Met Gala causam escândalo e ela nem sequer compareceu ao evento.

15.05.2025 11:28 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
TSLA stock 1-day chart

TSLA stock 1-day chart

Musk: “We’re going to make tens of billions of humanoid robots.”

People with brains: 🙄

$TSLA fanboys:

13.05.2025 17:56 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 2

"They happen to be white" is the full, complete, and honest answer to this question! He didn't need to say anything else. bsky.app/profile/atru...

12.05.2025 15:59 👍 1405 🔁 314 💬 49 📌 6
London BYU Fan @jfloyd314.bsky.so...•1m
I mean, no. Bush was a bad president, but he was bad completely within the normal parameters of expected presidential behavior. Trump nuked those parameters from orbit.

London BYU Fan @jfloyd314.bsky.so...•1m I mean, no. Bush was a bad president, but he was bad completely within the normal parameters of expected presidential behavior. Trump nuked those parameters from orbit.

(Me, a genius) I see no through line with how George W Bush, who legalized torture through illegal means and illegally invaded a country and killed millions of people, is connected to the current moment

10.05.2025 13:01 👍 2233 🔁 364 💬 77 📌 26

The Cass Review gets peer reviewed and absolutely shredded

Cass is the Wakefield of our time. A scandal in broad daylight

10.05.2025 13:45 👍 4123 🔁 1549 💬 37 📌 30
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Menina se jogou na frente da mãe para salvá-la de tiros disparados pelo pai sargento em SP Sargento da PM Samir Carvalho foi preso por matar a esposa, Amanda Fernandes Carvalho, dentro de uma clínica médica em Santos (SP). A filha do casal, de 10 anos, tentou salvar a mãe e acabou ferida. E...

Eu estou barbarizado com essa história. Isso aqui era para prender os policiais envolvidos, indiciar o comando da PM, derrubar governador. Aparentemente TODO MUNDO tentou proteger a mulher MENOS A POLÍCIA.

Tem que acabar. Para ontem.

g1.globo.com/sp/santos-re...

09.05.2025 17:05 👍 1067 🔁 319 💬 35 📌 63
Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

The two pictures are 11 years apart.

On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.

2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.

#Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.

10.05.2025 10:00 👍 870 🔁 384 💬 8 📌 17
Labour MPs must realise welfare system ‘needs reform’, says Reeves – UK politics live

Chancellor responds to growing rebellion from more than 40 MPs who have written to the prime minister

Labour MPs must realise welfare system ‘needs reform’, says Reeves – UK politics live Chancellor responds to growing rebellion from more than 40 MPs who have written to the prime minister

If the only legitimate style of governance within a country's democratic system is one that runs consistently counter to the popular will and desires of the people who participate in that democratic system, then it seems quite clear that said system has been captured by anti-democratic forces.

09.05.2025 13:29 👍 116 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 3

I love living in the era of the business idiot. Multiple 3 trillion market cap companies forcing software down people's throats that they hate that has grown a near-cultural level of ridicule about its propensity for errors, all because they forgot how to do anything but chase quarterly growth

08.05.2025 05:15 👍 3302 🔁 553 💬 47 📌 20

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

07.05.2025 15:01 👍 16497 🔁 3916 💬 413 📌 222

É o mesmo motivo pelo qual eles compram jornais.

Querem a credibilidade associada à "marca" sem que ela precise estar associada ao trabalho que trouxe essa credibilidade. Esse eles querem substituir por qualquer merda que eles queiram passar como se fosse verdade.

06.05.2025 14:54 👍 76 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
LinkedIn post from Daniel Stenberg, the creator of curl

That's it. l've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness.
1. Every reporter submitting security reports on #Hackerone for #curl now needs to answer this question:
"Did you use an Al to find the problem or generate this submission?"
(and if they do select it, they can expect a stream of proof of actual intelligence follow-up questions)
2. We now ban every reporter INSTANTLY who submits reports we deem Al slop. A threshold has been reached We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time.
We still have not seen a single valid security report done with Al help.

LinkedIn post from Daniel Stenberg, the creator of curl That's it. l've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness. 1. Every reporter submitting security reports on #Hackerone for #curl now needs to answer this question: "Did you use an Al to find the problem or generate this submission?" (and if they do select it, they can expect a stream of proof of actual intelligence follow-up questions) 2. We now ban every reporter INSTANTLY who submits reports we deem Al slop. A threshold has been reached We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time. We still have not seen a single valid security report done with Al help.

Who could have guessed

06.05.2025 05:07 👍 1184 🔁 219 💬 10 📌 14
Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing".

Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye.

"I inoculate myself," added the Harvard and Princeton graduate.

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing". Speaking on Fox and Friends, Hegseth said the infectious micro-organisms did not exist because they could not be seen with the naked eye. "I inoculate myself," added the Harvard and Princeton graduate.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.

Cabinet officials in charge of two of America's biggest departments - including one dealing with health - don't believe germs are real.

03.05.2025 21:47 👍 996 🔁 315 💬 68 📌 58

full, uncritical support of Disney hacker "NullBulge"

03.05.2025 14:52 👍 1537 🔁 622 💬 12 📌 10

who gives a fuck dude she brags about using the money she receives to get laws passed that abuse countless actual people who exist in the real world

02.05.2025 22:10 👍 6205 🔁 2034 💬 49 📌 4

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong!

We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science

(you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

02.05.2025 09:48 👍 3317 🔁 1176 💬 27 📌 16

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely.

This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal.

This is bioterrorism.

02.05.2025 00:04 👍 8602 🔁 2776 💬 301 📌 202
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans.

It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

30.04.2025 15:14 👍 4694 🔁 770 💬 459 📌 576
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The Perfect Fascist | Defector Curzio Malaparte was the shape-shifting Zelig of the catastrophe of Italian fascism, a political and social operator of such profound equivocation that in his writings he seems almost to convince even...

The perfect fascist: defector.com/the-perfect-...

29.04.2025 17:16 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0