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cykonot

@cykonot@mas.to

Polyherbal cyberpolitics posting. Gay vegan living.

Avi is me in a hat and a short-sleeved flamingo-print button-up in a parking lot. I am mixed and 29 in the picture (30 now).

Background is a blooming palo verde bearing pendulous boughs laden with yellow blossoms almost completely obscuring the thin, skin-like green bark.

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ProPublica, to Texas
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#Texas Took Over Its Largest School District, but Has Let Underperforming Charter Networks Expand

The state took over #Houston ISD after one of its #schools continuously failed to meet academic standards.

But an analysis of records shows it’s been more generous with underperforming #CharterSchools, waiving expansion requirements at least 17 times.

#Education #Students #Teachers #School #News

https://propub.li/3toukMi

cykonot,
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@ProPublica corruption and indoctrination 😔

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    cykonot,
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    @Teri_Kanefield no, it was about oil pipelines. European racism is not putins fault.

    0xabad1dea, to random

    one of these is the leaked official, original source code of Pokemon Emerald and one of these is a decompile made by hobbyists trying to reverse engineer what the game is doing

    and you know I wouldn't be posting this if they were not, apparently, switched at birth.

    screenshot of an absolute disaster of completely obtuse magic numbers. THIS IS THE GROUND TRUTH SOURCE CODE

    cykonot,
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    @0xabad1dea maybe the devs weren't that good at English anyway? So gibberish either way

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    They give me far too much credit. I have no idea how to use Microsoft Paint.

    They've already unfollowed me after calling another one of my posts "boring, political, and gay", but to address their question, why does Low Quality Facts require a Patreon?

    I don't know, the tobacco industry makes over 100 billion dollars a year. I'm just trying to cover rent. Support laughs, not lung cancer. Let's go with that one today.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    cykonot,
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    @lowqualityfacts anime pfp not-be-fascist challenge, any%

    lawfare, to random
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    The First Amendment protects speech, but what kind?

    On today's Lawfare Podcast, Alan Rozenshtein talked to Jeff Kosseff about his new book, "Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation," technology's impact on misinformation, and more. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-jeff-kosseff-on-why-the-first-amendment-protects-false-speech

    video/mp4

    cykonot,
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    @lawfare campaign finance reform is NOT a free speech issue. Paying for bots to spread disinformation is not a free speech issue, it's a money in politics issue. Paying PEOPLE to promote something is not a "free speech" issue, it's ALSO a money in politics issue.

    Paid speech is BY DEFINITION not free speech.

    SecurityWriter, (edited ) to random

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    cykonot,
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    @SecurityWriter "incel jesus" 🤣
    👨‍🍳💋

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    You should be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

    cykonot, (edited )
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    @StillIRise1963 audio of Mrs. Hamer's testimony:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLN1dh-S5s&pp=ygUnZmFubmllIGxvdSBoYW1lciBzaWNrIGFuZCB0aXJlZCBzcGVlY2gg

    Transcript of her full speech (on another occasion): https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2019/08/09/im-sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-dec-20-1964/

    ned, to random

    I know this one to the bones.

    "Do you work well under pressure?"

    "Yes, I do."

    "Great, because we fabricate urgency through poor management, uneven distribution of duties and an inflated sense of self for upper management."

    cykonot,
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    @ned having been sacrificed by a poor manager covering her own ass by blaming me for things well outside my job description (in fact parts of her job), ouch

    gedeonm, to random
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    This succession movement to shift Oregon’s borders and make the red counties part of Idaho is the very essence of the modern MAGA movement. Political losers who think that government revolves around them and them alone. They are totally unwilling to accept defeat and that makes them the most dangerous people in today’s America. They’ll do anything to stay in power - break laws, commit violence, change the rules and laws and try to shift borders. To hell w/ all of them.

    https://youtu.be/wS0hc9mos8c?si=YjvFULGH4DC36IQ2

    cykonot,
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    @gedeonm they want to let their rich friends stripmine the place. Same with Eastern WA.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    : ’s classified edition.

    Trudeau is so damn good.

    Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/09/24

    cykonot,
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    @GottaLaff impunity. He's been doing crimes his whole life. But now hes not "just" hurting the little guys. Now he's hurting the people who MATTER.

    Madoff, sbf, Elizabeth holmes all got in trouble for scamming INVESTORS; ie: the people who own America... Trump just bit off more than he can chew. I'd hope this leads to an era of meaningful oversite, but the misaligned incentives of our system remain so im unconvinced. MAYBE if citizens united was overturned, but dems arent running on that.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Btw, saw no one masked but myself in the ICU or on the cardiac floor my dad was moved to in the hospital.

    cykonot,
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    @StillIRise1963 that's not fair, im sorry. It's absurd bordering on malpractice that medical settings aren't requiring masks.

    paul, to random
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    I thought charging for the API was going to fix bots.

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-says-x-will-charge-users-a-small-monthly-payment-to-use-its-service/

    cykonot,
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    @paul neuralink-based verification

    Only the best thoughts™️

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    Meanwhile in Missouri, Republicans set a pile of books on fire with flamethrowers, screaming, “Let’s go Brandon!”

    Flamethrowers.

    cykonot,
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    @Green_Footballs burning books is a symbolic act of violence. The symbolism remains, and was very much the point.

    w7voa, to random
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    Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine and was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as denigrating Black and female musicians. https://apnews.com/article/4052a04c35ce13cc2b17b5455ebe6883

    cykonot,
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    @w7voa i feel that his inability to identify with people in those categories is very much connected to his seeing them as inarticulate. Proper communication requires an absence of ego, especially with people who may bring foreign contexts and perspectives.

    It can't just be differences in vernacular. He confuses his failure to appreciate the meaning of what others say with their not saying anything of worth.

    A good interviewer brings out the best of their subjects, whatever communication style

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Via Mehdi Hasan (I'll spare you the vid):

    77-yr-old last night was so confused and incoherent that he suggested Obama was his opponent in 2024, also suggested he beat Obama in 2016 & seemed to think we were on the verge of Word War 2.

    I can only imagine the headlines if 80-yr-old Biden had said this. 🤷🏽‍♂️

    Trump: As you know, crooked Joe Biden & the radical left thugs who have weaponized law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent that leading by a lot, incl Obama...

    cykonot,
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    @GottaLaff @cindyweinstein he's a freudian mess

    ProPublica, to Insurance
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    UnitedHealthcare tried to deny Chris McNaughton health coverage. He fought back, filed a lawsuit and exposed the #insurance company’s inner workings.

    None of the UnitedHealthcare representatives heard in this video responded to our requests for comment.

    Shortly after we published our story, United settled Chris’ #lawsuit. The terms are confidential.

    #HealthCare #Patients #Doctors #Hospitals #Health #News #Video #Audio

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOS8I0wp24

    cykonot,
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    @ProPublica I'm sure they'll take the first doctor's opinion more seriously now, rather than stop using him for recommending an insurance company pay for care

    At least we don't have death panels 🙄

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    Ever heard of Kati Kariko?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html

    cykonot,
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    @futurebird maybe letting private equity dictate research (and massively profit off public funds / research only to price gouge consumers) isn't best for society?

    br00t4c, to random
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    Biden to issue new rules protecting federal workers Trump targeted

    https://nationalzero.com/2023/09/15/biden-to-issue-new-rules-protecting-federal-workers-trump-targeted/

    cykonot,
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    @br00t4c rules and traditions are not laws. Surely the Republican congress will see the need for some continuity within the executive branch; as the party of liberty, they understand the threat of a rogue administration installing loyalists in key positions. I predict effective legislation safeguarding against such legal whiplash just as soon as they've filled those empty posts in the military.

    marcelias, to random
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    These anti-democracy zealots are rejecting ballot language for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution. Republicans are afraid that if there is a citizen-led, independent redistricting commission they will lose.
    https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ohio-ag-twice-rejects-ballot-language-for-citizen-led-redistricting-commission/

    cykonot,
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    @marcelias you're the legal equivalent of Gandalf

    MnemosyneSinger, to random

    Gonna cheer this timeline up if I have to post every cute pic in my meme collection

    cykonot,
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    @MnemosyneSinger you must be a marsupremacist

    JamesGleick, to random
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    “Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. Its participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.”

    Jill Lepore clear-eyed about Musk and (his cozy biographer).
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review

    cykonot,
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    @JamesGleick i recall old twitter removing many (economically) left-wing topics from appearing on the "trending" list

    The people pretending corporate free speech is essential are the same people who think money is speech (and are funded by organizations and oligarchs connected to those same institutions).

    Allowing corporations to regulate markets and information exchange is a national security threat (and also kinda fascist)

    TonyStark, (edited ) to random
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    Republicans’ agenda: Pass a federal ban on abortions. Impeach Joe Biden. Pardon Trump. Have the rich and corporations pay less taxes. More guns. Screw our allies and screw unions. Support book bans. Dismantle public schools. Appoint more extreme right wing judges. Cut funding for Social Security, Medicare and VA benefits. 

    Trying find a new term for it ain’t gonna help.

    Republicans try to find new term for pro-life to stave off more electoral losses-
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-try-find-new-term-life-stave-electoral-losses-rcna103924

    cykonot,
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    @TonyStark don't forget "fill all those military positions they've been holding up with party loyalists" for SOME reason

    futurebird, to random
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    This whole book banning thing, Moms of 'Liberty' the pulling of school libraries, turning school libraries into detention centers.

    It's obviously all connected & 'concerns' about trans people and CRT are just excuses to make the policy go down more smoothly with the public. To make the debate a mess, emotionally charged & awkward.

    The real goal is obvious: Limit the exposure of young people to libraries. It's a war on libraries.

    And I've been too shocked to really process what that means.

    cykonot,
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    @futurebird prison graduates to use in schools before being forced on us all

    dyckron, to random

    wtaf... don't be a domestic terrorist then? Owning up to your transgression to get a shorter sentence through a plea deal seems fair... this just highlights the delusional fever-dream libertarian hallucination these folks live in. Like the

    'Trial tax': Proud Boys complain long sentences punish them for trials
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/07/proud-boys-appeal-prison-sentences-oath-keepers/70784994007/

    cykonot,
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    @dyckron @thepoliticalcat if you flip, then you won't get pardoned later

    maxkennerly, to random
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    Presumably there'd be Congressional interest in a private citizen monitoring an ally's military in real-time, chatting with the enemy about it, then thwarting the ally. But the GOP House will protect Musk, and the Senate will likely continue its proud tradition of doing nothing.

    Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

    cykonot,
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    @maxkennerly "not letting oligarchs dictate policy is literal communism"

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