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wndlb

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arbitrator/mediator/lawyer; curious, humanist, globalist; husband, father, zayde x 3; Lexington Group; Little Crow band Mdewakanton and then Arch. Ireland lands by MSP. #tfr Header image is a rock formation in the Mississippi Gorge right west of my house that looks like a sci-fi soldier. Avatar is me, lying on Minnie, a ShihTzu/poodle mix. She looks...suspicious.

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GreenFire, to random
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In case anyone is willing to look into the situation, the organization Freedom House does a good job of describing the status of territories and countries efforts to safeguard democracy and freedom.

Their analyses of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank make it clear why people like me and Joe Biden who care about everyone's human rights supports Israel even if we despise Netanyahu.

BTW, now that campus protesters are engaging in obvious terrorism I'd be cautious of the support you give them.

alanrycroft, to internet
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By sunsetting Section 230, the US Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

The proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers from liability from users' actions

This legislation would deal a critical blow to the fundamentally American tradition of free speech and the internet as we know and love it

https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/sunsetting-section-230-congress-break-internet-tech-politics

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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noyes, to random
@noyes@mastodon.online avatar

It just keeps going and going and going...


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42320-4

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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#BREAKING 💥🔥 #WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE

TO REPEAT, #TrumpTrial

#TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

DebR,
@DebR@mstdn.social avatar

@GottaLaff When he walked outside just now, he looked just like he did when he entered the room in Helsinki after his closed door meeting with Putin.

JamesGleick, to random
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“I did not find the case trivial. I found it nauseating, a grouping of some of the least attractive and sleaziest human beings I have ever imagined in proximity to the levers of power. And critically, these were people actively and consciously engaged in an effort to corrupt an election. I came away from the trial thinking it was actually important that Trump had to answer for this conduct.”

@benjaminwittes

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction

benjaminwittes, to random
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Thoughts https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction

glennf, to random
@glennf@twit.social avatar

Imagine if Twitter still existed right now

carnage4life, to random
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A survey by the Reuters Institute and Oxford of 12,000 people across 6 countries shows a huge gap between adoption and hype around generative AI tools.

Just 1% using tools like ChatGPT on a daily basis in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the USA.

evacide, to random
@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar

"I cannot be phased by being condescended to by old white men in legislative meetings. I have worked many years in infosec and I am dead inside" is an actual thing I said in an all-hands meeting yesterday.

pluralistic, to random
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The corporate wing of the Democrats has objectively terrible political instincts, because the corporate wing of the Dems wants things that are very unpopular with the electorate (this is a trait they share with the Republican establishment).

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/#nothing-would-fundamentally-change

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18+ pluralistic,
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A political leader who does things that the voters deplore can't expect to become more popular, though perhaps they can pull off less unpopular:

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-left-is-not-joe-bidens-problem

Biden may be attracting unfair blame for inflation, and totally fair blame for genocide, but in addition to those problems, there's this: Biden hasn't gotten credit for the actual good things he's done:

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

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18+ pluralistic,
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The Unity Task Force promised - and delivered - key appointments and policies that represented serious and powerful change for the better:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/10/thanks-obama/#triangulation

Despite these excellent appointments and policies, the Biden administration has remained unpopular and is heading into the 2024 election with worryingly poor numbers. There is a lot of debate about why this might be.

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18+ pluralistic,
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Choosing not to do these things is political suicide. Good politics aren't boring. They're exciting. The fact that Republicans use eschatological rhetoric to motivate crazed insurrectionists who think they're the last hope for a good future doesn't change the fact that we are at a critical juncture for a survivable future.

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charlotteclymer, to random
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"Political reporters have given Nikki Haley pass after pass after pass all these years. She lies and misleads and obfuscates and flip-flops, and still, they do it... Why? Because she’s nice to them at cocktail parties, and they need access from a Republican with her influence. Lucy and Charlie Brown. Every time. Without fail."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-ballad-of-lucy-and-charlie-brown

Blinxeto,
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@charlotteclymer

ai6yr, (edited ) to random
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Pakistan/India tomorrow 😬 ("feels like" temp) #heatwave

eff, to random
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Using Tor on your phone is a simple way to browse the web anonymously without deep technical knowledge. Here's how to get it working on Android and iPhone. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-tor-on-android-and-iphone

jeffjarvis, to random
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Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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I didn't pay attention to who shared this on my timeline, and I'm sorry for that, but this was one of the better things I've read in years - it's about neorealism, misogyny, reactionary thought and why the popular Three-Body Problem series and its "Dark Forest" hypothesis are feeding into a rightward shift towards authoritarian/hyper-masculine ideology in China and abroad (including here) and man, it's a banger. The author nailed that shit:

https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/the-three-body-problem-the-imperative-of-survival-and-the-misogyny-of-reactionary-rhetoric/?fbclid=IwAR1QkSOpsSj9J7vbGmUyYwpmlpeESsZv_VWO45l6eiRdxGJQpaQbWozK5KY

Green_Footballs, to random
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An Appeal to Heaven - LGF Pages

https://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/329604_An_Appeal_to_Heaven

cstross, to random
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A concise guide to the jargon used by the Christian Right, originally in the USA but increasingly visible in the UK and elsewhere. (These are the "The Handmaid's Tale was a road map, not a dystopia" folks now running the US Republican party.)
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112507657130614725

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Vote On Day 1

https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/26/vote-on-day-1/

AnnemarieBridy, to random
@AnnemarieBridy@mastodon.social avatar

I really miss what Twitter was. 💔

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/nyregion/twitter-lawyers-threadnought-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u00.PAmP.oALBilSCEloz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jeffjarvis, to random
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The ultimate Time Pitchbot self-own: Trump is Biden's fault.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/magazine/trump-reaction-videos-biden-campaign.html

benroyce, to NativeAmerican
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

the folks:

ignorant, petty, cruel

it's not even some grand political strategy. this is simply who they are and what they do. this is all they know of existence. what calls to them. what fills them with purpose and meaning: weak schoolyard bullying

so fucking pathetic:

"Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in public university employee emails"

did anyone tell these geniuses what "dakota" means?

https://apnews.com/article/pronouns-tribal-affiliation-south-dakota-66efb8c6a3c57a6a02da0bf4ed575a5f

18+ beadsland, to random
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NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey. Updated last Thurs.

Lower "Living with" figure aligns to change in question format—now asks about duration.

As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer have been staffing our hospitals.

#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent

This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [#pandemic.]

Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112436210752683712

18+ beadsland,
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Per WHO, every 12 minutes four people die of acute covid. Three of those deaths are in U.S.

As of Apr 2023, for every three covid deaths, U.S. saw another excess death not attributed to covid.

Feb 2024 WHO & Economist estimates reflect same trend globally.

[Global stalls again, as data slowly trickles in.]

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Chart: U.S. Share of 28-Day Covid Deaths Data: WHO (via Our World in Data), NCHS (via CDC), official srcs (via Wikipedia) [ beadsland on Ko-fi ] Shows covid 28-day mortality as reported for the U.S. as share of G7, G20, and global 28-day mortality, for 3 years through Apr 27, this being the most recent date on which at least 50% of world population was represented in weekly WHO reporting (see note regarding ◇ data points, below). Share of population for each comparison is provided for reference. With the end of PHE aggregate tracking, U.S. ceased reporting covid deaths to WHO. After 5/14/23, chart uses provisional covid deaths from NCHS. ◇ data points represent sum population (via Wikipedia) of those countries that reported at least one death in prior week, as percentage of world pop. [Down to near 55% as of Dec. Was 90% last Aug.] 7-day avg of U.S. share of G7 covid deaths at 95.4% , well exceeding share of pop. (~43%). Same date last year, share of G7 covid deaths was 48.2%. Avg. U.S. share of G20 covid deaths down to 74.9% (vs. ~7% of G20 population). Same date last year: 30.7%. U.S. share of global parallels: now 70.8% (vs. ~4% of pop.), with about 50% global reporting. This date last year, U.S. share of global covid deaths was 26.6% (with ~75% global reporting). All three metrics were near or below respective populations roughly May–Aug 2021; thereafter have been profoundly higher than population but for few troughs, including a data dump by China in May 2023.

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