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florduh
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So you're telling me I'm looking at a coin toss on if Jared fucking Kushner will be the US Secretary of State in like 13 months? Mickey Mouse ass country.
EarthworldTim
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Pshhh, Bob Iger wishes. It's more like an active decay country where a living corpse like Steve Bannon can be a potential VP candidate.
Golden mole that swims through sand is rediscovered in South Africa after 86 years
The De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 on the north-western coast of South Africa, and later declared officially lost. This iridescent blind mole with hearing superpowers evades contact with humans and “swims” through sand dunes, making it very difficult to locate. But in November...
www.rawstory.com
Cheebsy
Microbe minion
Elon Musk says X will reinstate Alex Jones’s account after poll of users | X | The Guardian
Rightwing conspiracy theorist was banned from platform in 2018, but could be back after 2m votes cast
amp.theguardian.com
cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
Just in case someone might be considering a return to X, Musk goes out of his way to make certain that doesn't happen. It shouldn't be long before it is, if its not already, nothing but a fascist playground. It's hard to imagine anybody might need that big of a write off but these days, that's pretty much all X is good for. It is pretty much unusable as a social platform, unless you are a white supremacist or some other form of racist or bigot and are looking for your brethren.
After losing everywhere else, Elon Musk asks SCOTUS to get SEC off his back
Musk’s last-ditch effort to terminate settlement over “funding secured” tweets.
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk's luck has finally run out
Buying Twitter was the biggest gamble of Musk's career. Now he — and his empire — are cracking under the pressure.
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florduh
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Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok roasts its creator
"Let's not forget your greatest accomplishment: turning Twitter into a dumpster fire."
Elon's most ardent bootlickers are extremely upset that Twitter's new anti-woke ChatGPT clone isn't transphobic.
Trajectory.
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Greens erupt as fossil fuel ‘phaseout’ is dropped from proposed climate deal
“COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said. But organizers of the summit in Dubai urged nations to be flexible and compromise.
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florduh
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Greens erupt as fossil fuel ‘phaseout’ is dropped from proposed climate deal
“COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said. But organizers of the summit in Dubai urged nations to be flexible and compromise.tinyurl.com
Seems like bad news. But to be fair, it's been clear for a while that world leaders have no interest in doing what needs to be done. Because they more or less exclusively come from a class that believes (probably correctly) that their wealth will insulate them from the worst of the climate horrors.
My dad likes to talk about how climate change is bullshit because OBAMA bought a beachfront house in Hawaii. "Guess he isn't too concerned about sea level rise, haha".
And I try to explain to him... the O'Bungler is a centimillionaire. His house getting washed away in a tsunami tomorrow would hurt his pocket less than a normal person breaking their phone.
Trajectory.
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Also, realistically, nothing these dreamers pass at COP conferences will do a damn thing. The world hasn't met any of the goals they've passed since 2015.
We're long past the goal of holding to 1.5C, which probably never was realistic in the first place. The only question is how far above 2.0C we'll go, and how soon.
florduh
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If he keeps talking, they're gonna Princess Dianna him...
Republicans used to have this little fascist kid named Madison Cawthorn.
He threatened to start talking about the weird sex parties Republican Congressmen engage in. They literally disappeared him. Here's the last known footage of the young man. Very sad.
Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot
Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system when using Autopilot.
Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment
Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN.
US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2022 decision to deny SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink $885.5 million in rural broadband subsidies.
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cybrguy
Putin is a War Criminal
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Iowa christofascists pass law allowing any religious to display their god in the state capitol due to religious freedom. 😈💩🤡👺 The Satanists were the first to display their god and now christofascists get upset about religious freedom display in the state capitol. I'm dying, I
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Florida & Child Labor Laws: Back to the Past
floridapolitics.com
A bill that would remove all work hour restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds — including the prohibition on overnight shifts on school nights — received lawmakers’ approval at its first committee stop over Democrats’ objections.
Bill that would loosen decades-old child labor restrictions advances over Democrats’ objections
'This bill gets government out of their way to choose the path that is best for them.'
floridapolitics.com
florduh
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Florida & Child Labor Laws: Back to the Past
A bill that would remove all work hour restrictions on 16- and 17-year-olds — including the prohibition on overnight shifts on school nights — received lawmakers’ approval at its first committee stop over Democrats’ objections.Bill that would loosen decades-old child labor restrictions advances over Democrats’ objections
'This bill gets government out of their way to choose the path that is best for them.'
Reading the article will probably lead to me immediately walking to Panera to get one of their death lemonades, so I'm not gonna do it. But just seeing this blurb:
What's best for them is not working overnight shifts before going to school the next day, you disgusting vampire fucks!
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Oh, it's worse than I thought.
So in The Free State, the government demands that teachers inform parents if their teenager is gay or trans. But if your 16 year old daughter's boss is feeling her up on her overnight shift? Well, that's none of your business. This party might loves fetuses but they despise children.
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florduh
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Javier Milei’s government announces plan to crack down on Argentina protests
The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, has presented a new protocol against street blockades as tension increases over the economic cuts announced this week
english.elpais.com
"Libertarian" President Javier Milei announces a total crackdown on Argentine civil society, calling on armed forces to break strikes, arrest protestors, “protect” children from families that bring them to demonstrations, and form a new national registry of all "agitating" organizations.
GetLeft
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“The forces will use the minimum sufficient force, which will be graduated in proportion to the degree of resistance.”
Yepper. Argentina. Watch the fascists crawl out of the woodwork.
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Graffiti (Julio Cortázar, Eng.)
(Narrations in second person typically serve to make readers complicit in the story.)
Grafitti (short film)
Yepper. Argentina. Watch the fascists crawl out of the woodwork.
Graffiti (Julio Cortázar)
Graffiti (Julio Cortázar, Eng.)
(Narrations in second person typically serve to make readers complicit in the story.)
Grafitti (short film)
florduh
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Jews targeted in Argentina's dirty war | | The Guardian
Jews were a prime target of Argentina's self-styled "Western and Christian" military dictatorship during the "dirty war" of the late 1970s, accounting for a disproportionate number of the thousands of "disappearances", a report has confirmed.
amp.theguardian.com
Anywhere from 1300-3000 Jews were killed during the US backed military Junta in 1970's Argentina.
Kissinger in Argentina
“If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly,” Henry Kissinger advised the Argentine regime. In the first three years of the dictatorship, thousands of labor, student, and community activists were killed or disappeared.
The US backed the Fascist régime because they were killing thousands of leftist "agitators". Pretty much the same people Milei is targeting now.
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Canna Chameleon
Muted by mods. Run off by rudeness.
Jury awards $148 million in damages to Georgia election workers over Rudy Giuliani’s 2020 vote lies
A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation.
florduh
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Jury awards $148 million in damages to Georgia election workers over Rudy Giuliani’s 2020 vote lies
A jury awarded $148 million in damages on Friday to two former Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation.apnews.com
Looking at the lawyer, I'm not shocked he got his client slapped with a 9 figure settlement.
I don't know what's more deranged. The "Hitler in the front, skinhead in the back" haircut. Or that tie.
More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright
apnews.com
Mickey Mouse will soon belong to you and me — with some caveats
Mickey Mouse is about to belong to you and me. The earliest version of Disney's most famous character will become public domain on Jan. 1, 2024.
Trajectory.
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If AI keeps solving problems like this, it may figure out how to get your wife to listen to you.
www.futurism.com
They have the right idea, sorta. Must be intensely amusing to IDF soldiers.
www.jpost.com
DeepMind Says Its AI Solved a Math Problem That Humans Were Stumped By
AI has, for seemingly the first time, solved a famously difficult math problem — and folks, this discovery is huge if true.
They have the right idea, sorta. Must be intensely amusing to IDF soldiers.
Iran-based women send IDF soldiers explicit photos in attempted honey trap
The young women were trained by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), were fluent in Hebrew, and contacted the soldiers, sending them explicit videos and photos to gain information.
www.jpost.com
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Canna Chameleon
Muted by mods. Run off by rudeness.
I like watching the church eat itself from the inside.
Can’t wait to see what happens next…
Can’t wait to see what happens next…
