Okay, this has to be an #AprilFools thing. I get that some tenures of #TheDoctor are short, but they can't bring back another old face every other Doctor.
I was taught from an early age to hold any object I was buying away from my body while shopping, lest I be accused of stealing. No under the arm holding of things, arms totally in front or to the side. I keep the receipt in my hand until I’m well out of the store. Any store. There are many different “talks” we have with our kids, not just the police talk.
Shocking that no company will accept as collateral for an appeal bond the very assets Trump was just found to have inflated in a years-long, half-billion dollar fraud.
Despite his braggadocio, Trump is not only too poor to post the bond himself, but his assets ("Beautiful buildings - worth billions!") are so leveraged that he presumably can't even secure a regular loan against them either to post the bond.
Trump's career of ripping off everyone he deals with is coming back to haunt him.
If we aren’t racist, how did our #AI become so racist? 🤔
“Technology was more likely to ‘sentence defendants to death’ when they speak English often used by African Americans, without ever disclosing their race.
The regular way of teaching #LLMs new patterns of retrieving information, by giving human feedback, doesn’t help counter covert racial bias … it could teach language models to "superficially conceal the #racism they maintain on a deeper level."
I keep hearing commentators asking, "Where are we headed with this?" - about Alabama's IVF ruling.
We've been TELLING you. For YEARS now.
The people who are pushing these laws are Dominionist Evangelicals who are, Right Now, LITERALLY talking about destroying Democracy and replacing it with Theocracy (which, honestly, will really just be Autocracy spiced up with CEO Jesus).
We've been warning about it for years, but every time we say "there's something Hitler about this speech" we're accused of cheapening the idea of the Holocaust.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
I think a key difference in Israel vs South Africa is that Israel literally thinks that land was given to them by God.
It's something that they can't just pack up and go to a different country for, which means the Jews have to learn to live with their Palestinian neighbors and vice versa.
But if the government is secular and doesn't favor one religion over another, I think most of the people would fall in line with that.
@paul the problem is getting that filter set up. I'm partially responding to this so I can get back to it on my PC, where I can set the filter up. There's no easy way to do it with @megalodon
Hint, hint, Meg. We need filtering options on the app.
"Trump is expected to immediately appeal the decision, but doing so will be a logistical nightmare....
"[Trump] wouldn’t have enough to cover this bank fraud judgment and last month’s $83 million verdict in his rape defamation case. Both cases require him to post the money up front, squeezing him at the same time."
#enshittification, anyone? Perfect example from publishing. A publisher is using AI to write crappy nonfiction, then assigning author names that almost match leading experts in that field (to trick search engines). No doubt other AIs will now search those texts as authoritative. This is done solely to make money and only makes the world a worse place. #books#reading#ai#bookstodon@bookstodon@pluralistic
Trump stole documents on confidential informants in January 2021 and 9 months later CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning an unusually high number of confidential informants had been killed, captured, or compromised. I feel like more people should mention that.
Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction. Hello?
