School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU)....
...launched what he called a "thermonuclear lawsuit" against Media Matters, which accused it of artificially manipulating the social network’s algorithms to achieve the contentious juxtapositions (while admitting that they had in fact occurred).
I saw in another article too that after they admitted that it had in fact happened, they claimed that the problem was that Media Matters had made it seem to be more common than it in fact was.
The reality of course is that MM just reported that it had happened. And used-to-be-twitter has already admitted that much.
So yeah - they're going to get their asses handed to them in this lawsuit.
The problem though is that we're now in a timeline in which the fascism-adjacent demagogues who support Musk are so invested in their narrative that they're going to view the failure of the lawsuit as some sort of contrarian proof that it was justified. To them, it's not going to fail because MM's accusation was in fact legitimate, but because "blah blah blah deep state something something great replacement yadda yadda woke mob."
In the 2020 presidential election cycle, more than $14bn went to federal candidates, party committees, and Super Pacs – double the $7bn doled out in the 2016 cycle. Total giving in 2024 is bound to be much higher....
They're each and all people who, in a sane society, would be institutionalized in order to protect others from the harm they inevitably do as a consequence of their complete lack of principles, morals, empathy and remorse. But instead they're allowed to run free, and this is what we get.
And it doesn't matter in the slightest that there's no substance to any of their allegations, because the entire purpose is just to get the idea that there's something there to investigate out into the world.
And it'll likely work, no matter what, because Republican voters are angry morons, so all they're going to get no matter what is "investigate the Jan. 6 investigators because [words]," so it really doesn't matter if those words make sense or not.
Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...
And right there, you answered your own (presumably rhetorical) question.
The money people jumped on AI as soon as they scented the chance of profit, and that's it. ALL other considerations are now secondary to a handful of psychopaths making as much money as possible.
Ironic that the thread is about men dying on average younger than women, and the majority of the responses are people completely ignoring that fact and instead just taking an opportunity to negatively stereotype men so they can shit on them collectively.
Resurfaced comments in which new House Speaker Mike Johnson talked about how he and his son monitor each other’s online activity using “accountability software” have raised questions about national security....
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s spokesperson asked anti-abortion groups to “make clear” GOP senators risk primary challenges if they support an effort to overcome his military holds over a Pentagon abortion policy, according to an email obtained by POLITICO....
Well... except that "cis" is actually a shortened form of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "cisgender," which is the opposite of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "transgender."
And it has nothing at all to do with heterosexuality, or with sexual preference in any way, shape or form.
So he's not just wrong, but wrong in pretty much every way he could possibly have been.
Which seems to be pretty much par for the course for the world's richest middle-aged teenage edgelord.
Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday....
Not that it makes any real difference, but I wonder how many of them are so stupid and/or blinded by ideological bias that they voted that way because they sincerely believed that the election was invalid and how many of them voted that way because they're cowards with no principles or integrity who were trying to suck up to Trump and his army of violent morons.
At this point, that's one of the only things that provides even a hint of interest about an American right-wing politician - wondering if they're an actual delusional psychopath or if they're just LARPing as one to get votes and/or not get death threats.
I don't really blame them, or at least not primarily.
They're just desperate and frustrated and looking for someone or something to blame for the fact that what should be a great nation is instead a festering cesspool of greed, corruption, violence and stupidity. Like most, they won't or can't consider the part they play in that, so they look for some "other" to blame.
There is actually an "other" to be blamed - the wealthy and politically powerful few - but most of American history, and human history for that matter, has been built around establishing and protecting the privilege of those few, most often by manipulating public sentiment in such a way as to direct anger and frustration away from them and instead towards others of the common people.
So they're really just the latest in a long line of people feeling wholly justifiable anger and frustration that's been misdirected by self-serving shitheels. I guess they're rightly faulted for failing to recognize that they're mad at the wrong people, but really, that's true of far too many people.
Now all that said, on a personal level there's almost nobody that fills me with more rage and disgust than the bigoted right.
And again - no matter how much money he might have so what the reality might be, whenever I visualize Musk posting to used-to-be-twitter, I see him as a greasy teenager in cum-stained sweatpants, hunched over an off-the-shelf desktop PC on a rickety desk in a room with fake wood paneling and green shag carpet in a trashy suburban tract house, furiously tapping away at a grimy keyboard and giggling to himself.
When someone says that a lack of religion leads to a lack of morality, what they're necessarily really saying is that they're so deeply sociopathic that they not only can't reason morally, but can't even envision the possibility of doing so. They're effectively stating outright that they can't even imagine arriving at sound moral judgments through the application of reason, empathy and concern for others, and that the only way they can even conceive of morality is as a set of rules laid down and enforced by some enormous daddy figure who's going to punish them if they break them.
It's also the reason that religious people can contentedly do horrible things - because they have no ability to make moral judgments on their own, so if their religion tells them that something that anyone with even a minimal ability to reason morally would recognize to be obviously wrong is actually right and proper, they just slavishly believe that it's right and proper.
Mom's a great character - she comes across as stern and distant and intimidating, but we get to see what's underneath that.
And it just hit me - I don't recall a specific reference to where her dad is now, but I'm willing to bet that he's in Tokyo, and we're going to get to meet him soon.
Christian college president: Sorry I let a man with long hair present at a Creationism seminar (www.friendlyatheist.com)
Kansas School Demands Eight-Year-Old Native American Student Cut Hair to Attend (nativenewsonline.net)
School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU)....
Elon Musk’s antisemitic comments have pushed X advertisers over the edge (www.independent.co.uk)
It's been 20 years, and The Simpsons Hit and Run developers are just as surprised as you that the cult open-world game hasn't got a sequel yet (www.gamesradar.com)
People, please, it's "ex-twitter"
I still don’t get how - with such a perfect tee-up - we settled on “X, the platform formerly known as Twitter”....
Billionaires are lining up to eagerly fund Trump’s anti-democratic agenda (www.theguardian.com)
In the 2020 presidential election cycle, more than $14bn went to federal candidates, party committees, and Super Pacs – double the $7bn doled out in the 2016 cycle. Total giving in 2024 is bound to be much higher....
The Republicans Pushing To Investigate The Jan 6 Investigators All Played Parts In Efforts To Overturn The 2020 Election (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Is it just me, or has the BS with OpenAI shown that nobody in the AI space actually cares about "safeguarding AGI?"
Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...
Florida Republican proposes bill to ban sale, distribution of lab-grown meat in the state (www.actionnewsjax.com)
Step-By-Step Guide to Buy a Senator (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/399058...
US men are dying much earlier than women, as death 'gender gap' widens: Study (medicalxpress.com)
Help my friend name this cat. (I know next to nothing about it) (fanaticus.social)
Mike Johnson's porn "monitoring" remarks spark national security concerns (www.newsweek.com)
Resurfaced comments in which new House Speaker Mike Johnson talked about how he and his son monitor each other’s online activity using “accountability software” have raised questions about national security....
Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds (www.politico.com)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s spokesperson asked anti-abortion groups to “make clear” GOP senators risk primary challenges if they support an effort to overcome his military holds over a Pentagon abortion policy, according to an email obtained by POLITICO....
“Cis is a heterosexual slur” Tweets Elon Musk, Who Halved Twitter’s Value — Assigned (www.assignedmedia.org)
Clarence Thomas didn't repay $267K luxury RV loan: Senate committee (www.rawstory.com)
Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday....
Chevron boss says the $300 billion oil giant has changed life on Earth for the better: ‘We’re not selling a product that is evil’ (finance.yahoo.com)
Says exec of company that has objectively caused more environmental harm to the world than any others
9 Republicans are running for House speaker. Only 2 of them voted to certify the 2020 election (www.usatoday.com)
Musk offers Wikipedia a billion dollars to change their name (boingboing.net)
They should do it, just to empty Elon’s pockets. I’m sure he’d try to weasel out of it like the Twitter deal. Would be entertaining to watch.
No moral anchor (feddit.de)
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