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lightninhopkins

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DevOps, Kubernetes, Mariners, Vikings, lefty.

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rbreich, to random
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Never forget that nearly half of the Pentagon budget goes to private contractors.

Investigations show these companies make egregious profits overcharging DoD.

The Senate is now debating an $886 billion defense bill.

Let’s call it what it is: corporate welfare on steroids.

lightninhopkins,
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@rbreich The military industrial complex, but really corporate welfare is a better term.

flexghost, to random
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Birds don’t exist.

lightninhopkins,
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@flexghost Can't you like, just feel that it is hot?

GottaLaff, to random
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President Biden is set to sign an executive order that will overhaul the Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of their authority over cases of sexual assault, rape and murder to ensure prosecutions are independent of the chain of command. https://t.co/aOoHKEuL0I

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff good on Gillibrand and Speier for getting the law passed in 2021. Glad Biden got his piece done months ahead of the deadline.

georgetakei, to random

BIG:

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed is no longer forecasting a recession. What a turnaround!

Meanwhile, the Dow has had its 13th straight day of gains. The last time that happened, I believe, was 2017.

lightninhopkins,
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@georgetakei Wait, are you saying the tech layoffs had nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with juicing stock price?

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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It's kinda surreal seeing so many people fleeing the rise of fascist governments on a global level

lightninhopkins,
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@BlackAzizAnansi On a state level here in the U.S.

georgetakei, to random

This is a record scratch moment for me. 👽👽👽 Link to testimony: https://twitter.com/brianroemmele/status/1684233888871362560?s=61&t=dlYuBcwzZXmET9Xd_RRdaQ

lightninhopkins,
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@georgetakei The one thing is that he was told this, he never witnessed that the program in question exists. Someone could have been lying to him for any number of reasons.

sysop408, (edited ) to twitter
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Heckuva job executing on the rebrand, Elon! 👏

Let's rename the company without first securing the account for that name. @x is already taken so the official account of the company formerly known as Twitter is... (wait for it) @twitter.

The @x name belongs to Gene X, a San Francisco based photographer. His tweets are now private, but the account still appears to be owned by Gene.

Today would be a beautiful day for Gene to reactivate his account and start promoting Threads. (Nothing personal, Mastodon, this is a street brawl.)

lightninhopkins,
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@sysop408 Threads is terrible.

timkmak, (edited ) to random
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Are you finding Mastodon to be less vibrant/active?

I’m worried that we are not getting as much engagement on our Ukraine war reporting as we used to.

We’re trying to decide which social media platforms to continue posting on, given how much effort it takes to replicate across all of them.

If you want to send a signal to us that we should keep posting here, will you sign up for our newsletter? http://Counteroffensive.substack.com

I’m only asking Mastodon users today so we can gauge impact.

lightninhopkins,
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@timkmak The guilt is strong.

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to environment

⬇️ This is a fact. ⬇️

It’s not a meme. It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact — a fact I wish everyone could accept, take to heart, and use to motivate action!!

lightninhopkins,
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@breadandcircuses Remember how billionaires dying in a submarine didn't really bother most people? Yeah, I'm fairly sure this sentiment is widespread.

Garwboy, to random
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So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

lightninhopkins,
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@Garwboy How dare you. 😂

jayrosen_nyu, to journalism
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Amazing story. Have you followed it?

Texas A&M announces a new journalism dean. She's black and she's qualified— and an alum of the school! Ex-New York Times too.

They announce her appointment in a splashy event.

Dark forces of reaction mobilize.

The offer is watered down to one year, with no tenure. She says no way, and withdraws. National news is made. It's negative. And today, the president of A&M resigns!

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/

lightninhopkins,
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@jayrosen_nyu Texas burning their University system to the ground? Shocking.

justyourluck, to random
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Is anybody surprised??

Breaking
Teen Suicide Plummeted During Covid-19 School Closures, New Study Finds

Rates of suicide and suicide attempts among teenagers were at their lowest when schools were closed for the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study published Wednesday shows, pointing to an overall pattern that shows mental health in children and teenagers is at its worst while school is in session.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/07/19/teen-suicide-plummeted-during-covid-19-school-closures-new-study-finds/?sh=2342af47dd9b

lightninhopkins,
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@fcktheworld587 @crowgirl @justyourluck For many kids school is their safe place.

GottaLaff, to random
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She's despicable. Beyond despicable.

Via @atrupar

Marjorie Taylor Greene is currently brandishing Hunter Biden nudes during a House hearing. I'm not going to post it. Disgusting.

Adding:

Goldman: "My understanding is that this committee was provided the suspicious activity reports on the condition it not publicize them, for the reason that they are not even allegations much less evidence of anything, and [Greene] has now just revealed it publicly."

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff @atrupar Anything for attention.

TexasObserver, (edited ) to Texas
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“When people form a shell LLC to hide a donor and then the very next day make a million-dollar donation, we know they’re up to no good.”

Special Correspondent on @stevanzetti teamed up with journalist Goad Gatsby to uncover this bizarre situation, which links a billionaire investor with Glenn Youngkin. Experts say it reveals flaws in campaign finance laws: https://www.texasobserver.org/joe-liemandt-glenn-youngkin-donation-austin/

lightninhopkins,
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@TexasObserver @stevanzetti

Future of Education LLC

I see, so for-profit charter schools. Ugh.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to Michigan
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👉🏼#BREAKING: #Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Sixteen people forged documents and claimed to be "duly elected and qualified electors" for the state of Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel said.
#legal #Jan6 1/...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff @emptywheel They all wanted to get in on the grift train by kissing the ring. I don't get why folks don't know that Trump only works for himself, the sycophants all get tossed under the bus.

lightninhopkins,
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@GottaLaff So bizarre.

erictopol, to random
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No, Covid is not an ordinary illness.
https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/briefing/covid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
For accurate information, see Katelyn Jetelina's newsletter today
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-catch-up-quick

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lightninhopkins,
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@erictopol I was scrolling past quickly and thought this said Katelyn Jenner and was horrified.

TheConversationUS, to news
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In 1965, Hollywood executives made 15x the average salary of their workers.
By 2021 those top execs were earning 350x more than the average worker – including actors. Those actors also face increasing technological challenges to a steady paycheck.
Here's some essential background on the . https://theconversation.com/actors-strike-209829

lightninhopkins,
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@TheConversationUS Greed at the top, just like every other industry.

taylorlorenz, to random
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It turns out that someone touted by Megyn Kelly, Bari Weiss, Eric Weinstein and Joe Rogan has some major credibility issues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/16/yeonmi-park-conservative-defector-stories-questioned/

lightninhopkins,
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@taylorlorenz Another one riding the right-wing grift train. If you have no scruples it is certainly an easy way to make money.

MarkRuffalo, to random
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When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

lightninhopkins,
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@MarkRuffalo Don't forget the hedge fund billionaires who will remove the CEO of they are not destroying the world for profit.

bagder, to random
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Fresh from my . Crackpot level: high.

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I'd like to know who you are.

Found your Open Source Project tests on my phone and laptop illegally and need to know what you use it for?

I need a lawyer to sue people who Tazed my dogs to death so I need to know WHAT THE FUNCTION OF THIS IS FOR TO ENSURE ELECTRIC CURRENT AND MIT ENGINEERING WITH GOOGLE DEVOPS ISN'T STILL BREAKING EVERY LAW, GLOBALLY AND IN THE MILITARY AND POLICE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

lightninhopkins,
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@bagder As a devops engineer the fact that we have entered the lexicon of the crackpots makes me feel like we have really arrived.

lightninhopkins,
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@bagder @philip TBH the tone of the email and the references to Google make me wonder if this is the same person who emailed you before.

kissane, to random
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Bluesky had a bad week as a company in relation to its community of users but a thing that is totally alive there rn and really not here is Black journalists and writers and internet people having non-101 conversations about rhetoric and networks at full speed without being hit with hundreds of identical replies about not seeing race or being asked to prove the existence of racism.

I hope fedi people who care about this stuff are paying attention and not just smugly writing them off.

lightninhopkins,
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@kissane I didn't know they had a bad week. Out of the loop. Glad to hear there are good discussions happening for the black community over there. Musk seemed gleeful to destroy "black Twitter".

eniko, to random
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Ah, it appears liberal cis straight white dudes are advocating for freedom of speech for nazis who want to genocide certain minorities again. If you're the type of person who says "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" I invite you to read up on the paradox of tolerance because saying shit like that is how fascism proliferates. Do you want fascism to proliferate?

Original post by @Impossible_PhD: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/110664473950896111

lightninhopkins,
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@eniko @Impossible_PhD what a bizarre take

lightninhopkins,
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@eniko you didn't say "some". I'm not a mind reader.

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