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GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW ๐Ÿงตstarts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

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Tyler McBrien:

At 2:04 p.m., the prosecution strolls back in and lays out stacks of papers, binders, and other documents on the desk.

fmhueffer,
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@GottaLaff NFL in other words, he definitely won't testify, but they want to pretend that he will for the weekend and exploit that somehow

GottaLaff, to random
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Wow. Good for you @atrupar, who tweeted:

Nate, almost murdered during a last cycle by rolling up on the stage as a biological weapon. Norms and traditions went out the window long ago.

Nate Silver:

You're supposed to be the candidate who stands up for norms and traditions and now you're ducking this tradition?

"The President will not be participating in the Commission of Presidential Debates' announced debates."

fmhueffer,
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@GottaLaff @atrupar proud to see nate silver, the voice of bad science, 100% in the bag for the "punish the dems on norms, but not the republicans" crowd

aral, (edited ) to design
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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and thatโ€™s your defense for calling all of them โ€œusersโ€, youโ€™ve designed a system that conflates people โ€“ who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected โ€“ with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

fmhueffer,
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@aral gaslighting is built into the roots of tech

rbreich, to random
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Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

fmhueffer,
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@rbreich start calling them ayn randists -- it's the one thing that shames them, even though they love all her ideas, but they can't call themselves smart if they are ayn randists

willoremus, to random
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I wrote about Apple's hilariously bad new iPad ad, in which the company somehow managed to cast itself as the villain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/

fmhueffer,
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@willoremus moving back into pepsi guy apple

dangillmor, to random
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If journalists cared about protecting democracy, they would be campaigning -- yes, in their news pages -- for free and fair elections.

Apparently that's too "partisan" for people whose fetish for balance has led them to help democracy's enemies.

So please read and pass around this piece from @marcelias, someone who cares passionately and is doing his best.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

fmhueffer,
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@dangillmor @marcelias they don't have a fetish for balance -- they are 100% on the side of power, and use balance as a cover

GottaLaff, to random
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I warned you ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ’ฅKatie Phang:

NEW: has now moved for a mistrial.

Todd Blanche: We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning, the guardrails were thrown aside, that testimony was so unduly prejudicial to Trump and the charges in this case and the testimony about the incident in 2006 is way different from the stories she was pedaling in 2016,

fmhueffer,
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@GottaLaff pick a spot or witness to put your foot down and scream (endlessly), no matter the merit -- classic rich man's tactic that they were always going to use

dangillmor, to random
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Blog post: NY Times editor: Democracy is good, but we won't actively defend it

https://dangillmor.com/2024/05/07/ny-times-editor-democracy-is-good-but-we-wont-actively-defend-it/

fmhueffer,
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@dangillmor this is like the ur-statement for every person who claims they can separate their moral home life from dog-eat-dog borderline illegal work life

dangillmor, to random
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The top editor of the New York Times makes clear that his newsroom won't take a stand on the increasingly likely end of democracy in America.

I'm sick to my stomach as I read this, but I think everyone should see what cowards we have running our most important media organizations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/joe-kahn-the-newsroom-is-not-a-safe-space

fmhueffer,
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@dangillmor the movie industry is going to have to come up with a new trope for dealing with journalism stories -- no more "all the presidents men" for many more idiots running the show farces

Daojoan, to random
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The conservative paradox is a desperate need to be seen as both powerful dominators and persecuted victims.

fmhueffer,
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@Daojoan ie, the psychology of gaslighting

fkamiah17, to random
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Still from last night's presidential address on Israeli TV.

fmhueffer,
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@fkamiah17 the next few years is going to be massive for outright fascists gaslighting

tzimmer_history, to random
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What an absolute disaster that Republicans are still successfully playing their disgustingly cynical game of exploiting fears over antisemitism in order to advance their reactionary crusade โ€“ and mainstream institutions keep willfully playing along.

I wrote about this a while ago here:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/we-are-falling-apart

fmhueffer,
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@tzimmer_history this is par for the course gaslighting, which people in power have used for millennia

Meyerweb, to random
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Google Vault out here reminding people to destroy evidence of their crimes, just in case they forgot.

fmhueffer,
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@Meyerweb just telling on themselves that they only see the law as a cost

rbreich, to random
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Ginni Thomas was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Yet Clarence Thomas didn't recuse himself from arguments today in a case about the January 6 insurrection.

How is this not a scandal of epic proportions?

fmhueffer,
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@rbreich probably 95% of the problems in the world have to do with powerful people exempting themselves from their own rules

PavelASamsonov, to random
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The true power of is not technological, but rhetorical: almost all conversations about it are about what executives are saying it will do "one day" or "soon" rather than what we actually see (and of course no mention of business model which doesn't exist).

We are told to simultaneously believe AI is so "early days" as to excuse any lack of real usefulness, and that it is so established - even "too big to fail" - that we are not permitted to imagine a future without it.

fmhueffer,
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@PavelASamsonov pretty close to the literal definition of gaslighting -- a tech specialty for 30 years

arstechnica, to random
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Appleโ€™s Jony Ive and OpenAIโ€™s Sam Altman team up for AI device startup

A venture fund founded by Laurene Powell Jobs could finance the company.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apples-jony-ive-and-openais-sam-altman-team-up-for-ai-device-startup/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

fmhueffer,
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@arstechnica ok, can we dispel the notion that there is ANYBODY good in silicon valley -- the whole load of them would consume the earth into an absolute desert and kill every last one of us

StillIRise1963, to random
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Everything is hard when people are so fucking stupid.

fmhueffer,
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@StillIRise1963 people are easily manipulable, the smart ones and the stupid ones

grimalkina, to random
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I swear I'm going to do a research study someday that's called "Do All Engineers Magically Turn Evil Once Promoted Into Leadership: Seems Unlikely"

fmhueffer,
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@mordel @grimalkina i agree with that wholeheartedly -- though tech managers got a lot of practice being evil when they were still engineers

gwynnion, to random
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The leadership, donors, and consultant class of the national Democratic Party see themselves as part of a white ruling elite with Republicans and the centrist "intelligentsia," and they don't care about social or economic progress for anyone outside that group and a halo of white middle class center-right voters except as absolutely necessary for social stability.

They're still better than Republicans, who would murder half of us given the chance, but that's not saying much.

fmhueffer,
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@gwynnion because their power comes from many (often conflicting) sources, they don't have the opportunity to become as evil as their aspirations would necessitate -- the goal always should be of fracturing power as much as possible

fmhueffer, to random
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if corporate scientists who crow about the primacy of the scientific method don't want to get challenged on motives there is a very simple solution -- don't shill for corporations

maxkennerly, to random
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So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

fmhueffer,
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@maxkennerly this was always the ultimate goal of AI -- something to hide behind for despots

lauren, to random
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A couple of days ago, Trump expressed his support of Netanyahu and "finishing his job in Gaza." Today, Putin, as he devastates Ukraine, is criticizing Netanyahu. Watch Trump flip-flop even faster than he did about TikTok after he spoke to a major TikTok investor/donor!

fmhueffer,
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@lauren this is a weird problem going ahead -- putin wants to (and will) destroy israel for iran and putin needs china, the two places trump wants to go to war against

fmhueffer,
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@lauren sure, it all gets really complex real quick

fmhueffer,
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@lauren but it already has destroyed israel as a moral power

fmhueffer, to random
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every single one of the "let's put trump in context" journalists know 100% exactly well that, should he be elected, trump will view every single one of his off the wall statements as mandated by vote

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