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brewsterkahle, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to history

Jenna Ellis just pleaded guilty, in a tearful apology. But try watching her when she was on full bore election sabotoge:

"this much fraud and massive corruption in states that impact hundreds of thousands of votes, that result is you arer redeemably compromised and can't be certified."

it does not square. This TV clip and many others available on tv.archive.org @internetarchive

#preservation matters. #history matters.

https://archive.org/details/FBC_20201208_110000_Mornings_With_Maria_Bartiromo/start/8460/end/8520

kevinteljeur, 7 months ago to random

The Bookshop today, in Wexford. It was a lot to cope with.

Photo, landscape, interior: Looking from one small booklined room into the next where a woman inspecting a book, many books on shelves and stacked, no apparent system
Photo, landscape, interior: A corner of a small booklined room, many books on shelves and stacked, no apparent system
Photo, landscape, interior: A small book-lined corridor, many books on shelves and stacked, no apparent system

jensorensen, 7 months ago to journalism

Neglected to post this cartoon from a couple weeks ago: Always blame the left!

#uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

NicoleCRust, 7 months ago to random

Is the DSM (manual for psychiatry) equivalent to the Farmer's almanac?

Provocative idea (shaped around the notion that both the brain and the weather are complex systems)

According to the NWS, it takes in 192,000 observations from surface stations, 2,700 from ships, 18,000 from weather buoys, 115,000 from aircraft, 250,000 from balloons, and 140 million from satellites. This doesn’t include information incorporated from other international networks. The data are then updated (remember weather and climate are CASs and therefore always changing) at least every hour.

Compared to meteorologists, the relatively meager data available to clinicians about the individual and the disorders they are faced with is sadly lacking. Evan Collins quipped, “This begs the question, is the DSM akin to computer modeling or The Farmer’s Almanac”

https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197509326.003.0002

beckett, 7 months ago to random

I survived the Big Beep.

tzimmer_history, 8 months ago to random

Shamefully silly to publish such utter nonsense even at the best of times - a complete disaster doing it in the current situation in which a paper that has adopted “Democracy dies in darkness” as its official slogan should have other things to alert and inform the public about.

Some thoughts: 1/

evacide, 8 months ago to random

“When people post about their pregnancies to BabyCenter, I think it’s safe to assume they are doing so without the expectation that ICE is watching."

I get snarky about ShadowDragon and ICE tracking your pregnancy info.

https://www.404media.co/inside-shadowdragon-ice-babycenter-pregnancy-fortnite-black-planet/

Strandjunker, 8 months ago to random

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,800,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $160,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $105,200,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

evacide, 9 months ago to random

Any day I can stop someone from using “your Mom” or “your grandma” as an example of a technically unsophisticated user is a good day.

joebiden, 10 months ago to random

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Joe Biden, is in fact, GNU/Joe Biden, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Joe Biden. Joe Biden is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

beckett, 10 months ago to random

@CARROT You should probably add wetbulb temperatures to your forecast offerings. Unfortunately.

QasimRashid, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

I remember when applying for my law license, having to disclose toll violations & parking tickets from a decade prior amounting to less than $100.

Absurd that a sitting SCOTUS justice claims a $150K vacation didn’t require disclosure or recusal.

Where is the accountability?

absamma, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to reddit

So there you have it. Twitter under Elon is the inspiration for Reddit's new business vision. That explains so much of what we're seeing. #reddit

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

lauren, 11 months ago to random

***** How #Google employees are reacting to YouTube permitting 2020 election fraud videos *****

Just FYI, I'm hearing from numerous Googlers I know who are absolutely dismayed and embarrassed by the decision to permit 2020 election fraud videos back on #YouTube. These denials led directly to the Jan 6 insurrection and the violence that resulted -- not to mention almost destroying our democracy -- and they feel, as do I, that Google's claim that this is just ordinary political speech is self-serving, hypocritical, and vastly dangerous.

Google has been making a series of serious unforced errors lately in this toxic political environment. This does not bode well for its future, for its users, or for the world at large. I find this extremely distressing. -L

JamesGleick, 1 year ago to random

The CW (that’s conventional wisdom, not content warning) is that Biden will eventually have to negotiate on the debt limit, because Republicans are crazy enough to welcome catastrophe. Josh Marshall explains why that’s wrong. Gift link: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/no-93-its-gonna-be-a-very-bumpy-ride/sharetoken/ZRcV0WETdPIq