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  I mean, other than medicine, algebra, mathematics as theory, some of the greatest stories known to man, the concept of fiduciary responsibility, long distance banking, trade networks, diplomacy, and going further back…wheat, sure Arabs haven’t contributed to western culture. #RFK is a white nationalist with a worm brain and he needs to be removed from office and polite society. Al Jazeera lists just a few Arab contributions, including recent Nobel Prize winners. Racists have no place in our...

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  A reminder of things to change between now and Nov 3: (Just so I don't confuse anyone into thinking daylight savings changes this weekend, it's next weekend. Extra hour of Halloween party! ) In most of the United States, daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when clocks turn back from 2 a.m. to 1 a.m. local time. #vote

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  This slipped past my radar when it happened, but this ruling is a significant sea change in #copyright vs #LLMs training theft. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on September 29, 2026, in Thomson #Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, that using copyrighted text to train an #AI model does not constitute fair use when the AI product directly competes with the original work.  For authors and artists who have seen prompts like “in the style of Terry Pratchett, or in the style of Davi...

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  Y’all I have a serious announcement. I may be lizard people. It has dropped below the temperature of the sun, it is 65 in my bathroom, and nobody can be expected to get naked in the tundra! So yes, I have turned on a space heater. Maybe I’m an Annunaki! If so, please send the mothership, this planet is all fucked up and I want to go home.

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  American political commentator Michael Tracey , on Twitterx, doxed the victim of the #Cornell7 and published her name, her address, her phone number, her government id info, and leaked files that could have only come from defense teams. Jane Doe has been swatted hour after hour. She’s getting death and rape threats by the minute. Her brothers were held at gunpoint during one of the swats. #MichaelTracey should remember he is real fucking easy to find. And swat boys? You’re script kiddies. As...

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  This, and please excuse my language, is absolute, bugfuck, pants-on-head, insane. One of UK's most critically acclaimed living authors (who isn't a walking hate speech or abuser), has had her books pulled by her publisher because of the laws against #PalestineAction. #Irish novelist Sally #Rooney said her books can no longer be sold in the #UK because she financially supports the banned group #Palestine Action. Rooney, 35, is the critically praised author of four novels: “Conversatio...

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  Do ya need proof that anti drag laws and anti trans laws were never about protecting women? Here ya go. High School senior has lead role stripped because “a girl playing a boy role is drag”. As someone who went to all girl schools and university, I shudder to realize what lawbreaking rebels we were…no wonder I turned out Auntie Fa. Here’s a link with more details: https://hesherman1.substack.com/p/little-shop-of-horrors-closed-for https://dallasvoice.com/grand-prairie-isd-cancels-musical-over...

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  Hey, It's Indigenous People's Day. May I suggest donating time or resources to the National Congress of American Indians #NCAI, or The League of United Latin American Citizens #LULAC. https://www.ncai.org/ https://lulac.org/about/find_lulac_councils/ #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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  Wow! The #DSA candidate Melat #Kiros beat incumbent Rep. Diana #DeGette, in Colorado, multiple outlets have announced. Interesting bit of trivia: DeGette was 15-term incumbent first elected the same year Kiros was born. DSA candidates have won 3 primaries so far this cycle. Doing the work, getting the votes. Awesome. In other news, Corporate Sponsored Schumer Dems are are raising war chests to fight the DSA. Because of course they are. Meanwhile magats are trotting out "communism&quo...

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  Have you thought to yourself, “Gee wilikers, it sure has been quiet on the eastern front, and the #GOP bot farms”, well sir, you can thank #Ukraine for that. The GOP #botfarms being operated out of #Russia have been tagged and tagged hard by the Ukrainians. Now is a good time to tell who the bots are. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-u...

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  @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai yes, there was a massive amount of natural gas. Gaza Marine Field: This field, with estimated reserves of 32 billion cubic meters, was discovered in 2000. Three weeks into the 2023 war, Israel issued new exploration licenses in what they call the G Zone. 62% of this region falls within the maritime boundaries declared by Palestine, raising legal and ethical concerns regarding the exploitation of resources in occupied or disputed territories. UNCTAD estimates...

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  I've not had much luck convincing my joints to move on this day, and I can't get my braces on cause swelling, but when looking for inspiration for inktober, I often turn towards medieval manuscripts, because the art in them is just bonkers. Despite it not being relevant, I did feel it necessary to share. So, while tomorrow will include today and tomorrow's prompts, today instead I give you; a sultry sturgeon atop a jousting helmet. The middle ages were wild, if the illustrations a...

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  Oh America, I dunno how we’re gonna come back from this era of madness, but when we do, hoooboy, we owe a lot of people a lot of apologies. Can you imagine any other time in this nation’s history when the President could have been ridiculed so publicly and so well, and most Americans think “ yeah, that tracks.” Utterly humiliating. #trump #art #eu #parliament https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-humiliated-as-giant-golden-nude-statue-unveiled-at-parliament/

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  Hey, was the soul crushing, land stealing, water guzzling plagiarism part of the data furnace #AI nonsense not quite enough for you to consider them a danger? How about knowing they're also rat fink informers? https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html?ref=explainx #anthropic #claude #FeloniousDiary

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  So, I gotta tell ya gang, I'm a little worried about the #IDF takeover of American media companies. With the new #Skydance merger, effective on Oct 6, #Ellison and Son, and their stated policy in multiple public interviews is "that corporate allegiance to #Israel is unwavering and that employees who disagree have no place in the company", will control: Streaming Platforms & Apps • Paramount+ • HBO Max • Pluto TV • Discovery+ • SkyShowtime Film Studios • Paramount • Warner...

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  Holy mother of god. Some satellite images from #Gaza have been unembargoed on google. #Rafah is gone. Just gone. Khan Younis is ruins. Everything, gone. #Palestine is being ethnically cleansed so billionaires can have a new playground. This is what #Israel has done. This is their crime, the blood of 22,637 children stains the hands of every member of the #IDF. This is #America's crime, this is everyone who has ever supported #Israel's crime. This is unforgivable. We are a terrible cou...

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  Y’all. Texas where I am hasn’t had measurable rain since May, and the weather man is saying we’re finally going to get water from the sky. Yay, you say…except, this land is clay and limestone. Dry, dry, 5” deep cracks in the ground, dry soil. If we get the projected rainfall, it’s gonna flood. And if it floods on the prairie, it’s gonna be nightmare time in the Hill Country and below. So, if you’re one of the millions of folks who moved here since the last go round with weather, when the rains...

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  RE: https://c.im/@msbellows/117327725373472404 I'm so old I remember a federal prosecutor (Ortiz) hounding a darling boy (Aaron Schwartz) to suicide by threatening him with 30 years in prison for downloading academic articles with borrowed university credentials. One of the brightest minds of a generation was snuffed out by aggressive prosecution for "hacking", while we're letting billionaires do it wholesale without a peep from the DOJ.

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  This is a beautifully argued short essay about how the techbros have lost the plot, and we need to remind everyone of that, all the time. Quote: It is imperative for us to push back on that. Now we don’t get to talk to Jensen Huang – which might be good for our intellectual and psychological well-being – but we talk to people who might accept those statements and argue based on that. “Jensen Huang said that we don’t need those skills”, “Sam Altman said that Intelligence is something that we ca...

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@humanhorseshoes/117310185742897075 Trump wants to buy materials from a UN sanctioned oligarch who is allowing #russia to stage attacks on civilians in #Ukraine from it's territory, instead of buying it next door from our buddies in #Canada. What's it going to take before the #GOP grows a spine and does something about the mad king? (Edit, sentence construction)

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  Hey #Denver pocket friends! If I were to be in Denver on Halloween, what part of town would I want a hotel? In Dallas, the whole area of Oak Lawn becomes a massive adult party with the most amazing costumes. Denver must have something similar, yes? Where there are drag queens and ooonce ooonce blaring into the street, and glitter as far as the eye can see? I want to see the pretty people, while staying out of their way. Where are Denver's peacocks on Hallow's Eve?

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  Speaking of boycotts, #Omarchy is an open-source Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson (#DHH), the coder behind Ruby on Rails. DHH has also been infected by the billionaire virus that turns rich white guys into white supremacists. His comments have been pretty vile, some verging on exterminationism. DHH is a Nazi, and Omarchy is a vibe-coded Nazi bar. But he’s not alone in that Nazi bar. You want a list of people who’ve given millions to the cause of this Nazi? I got you....

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  This was almost a throwaway paragraph in the middle of the article, but I want to highlight what we are allowing billionaires to do, instead of paying taxes. Quote: …Kraft’s antisemitism nonprofit the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate, which spent $62 million and collected $135 million in donations in 2024, keeps a “command center” based in Gillette Stadium that claims to monitor between 500 million and one billion social media posts a day /quote He’s not the only one. Multiple billionaires a...

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  OMG. Y'all! The WH #Press Pool found their collective spine and said that if some journalists were not allowed, then nobody would put a camera in the malignant narcissist's face, and see how he likes it when there's nobody who can see or hear him spout syphilitic slanders. “This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Boughton wrote in the email, obtained by POLITICO. “This follows the White House’s...

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lysdexic/117305989410417216 In case you hadn't heard; Karl Rove emerged from Satan's own asscrack to say that the Republicans had gotten too far right for him...and whoa buddy, that's pretty far right. And if the rumors are true, then apparently Exxon's own Senator Cornyn of Texas, a man who has never seen an oligarch's cock he would not suck, came out and said that Paxton was a corrupt, smirking, woman-bothering asshole, but as far as I can tell, d...

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  Hahahahahahaha, omg y'all, this headline is *not* The Onion, although as Bob is my witless, I will buy the writer a round given the opportunity. FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them https://gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ice-agents-not-to-trust-any-woman-willing-to-date-them-2000814283 So, as it turns out, most women don't want to make the beast with two backs with rage fueled bigots who get their rocks off by hurting people. And honeypots are outing the Secret Pol...

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  So, I've stayed out of the whole #Sheeran / #Macklemore situation because I honestly don't think I could have picked either of them out of a lineup. But as it's escalated, and people are choosing sides, we need to talk about something it has illuminated so brightly it cannot be ignored. #Zionism. And why we need to talk about it is because there is a difference between it and #Judaism, and people on many sides, for many political reasons, are trying to make the two synonymous in t...

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  Oh look! The Narcissist in Chief has decided that if the #press isn't going to be a state controlled media that fellates him full time, then they can't be press at all around him, so there. Go full Fuhrerbunker, buddy; I believe in you! Take Eva, I mean Natalie, and go hide under the ballroom. And as always: There's an #Onion article. https://theonion.com/anguished-screaming-trump-bans-father-s-ghost-from-pre-1830316211/ Once again, I remind you that the #GOP is allowing *all of...

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  Hey, so about that #AI going to kill us all thing...while #agentic AI is mob of authorized crackers and should be stopped...it's what the war machines are doing with it that is the real concern. Have you seen #Palestine? That's what AI targeting looks like in the field. Nothing left standing. In January of this year, Pete Hegseth released a memo directing the United States to embed AI in every part of the “kill chain.” As it moves to comply, the Department of Defense is placing rela...

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  Omg y’all, I have finally put enough red string on the board to figure it out. The tsunami of “ai will kill is all” is all coming from the #EffectiveAltruist (EA) network. So, all of the swarm failures in ai testing has come from one lab: #Irregular, a Tel Aviv-based frontier #AI security lab founded in 2023 by Dan Lahav (CEO) and Omer Nevo (CTO). Irregular's founders are deeply embedded in the (EA) network, through organizations funded by Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook co-founder). ( cites...