Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Tarpits are a new kind of poison pill for AI scrapers that trap the scrapers in an endless network of links pointing back at nonsense. There are some lovely quotes from this:

"I don't want to move fast and break things when what is broken is the social contact."

"Become indigestible. Grow spikes."

12-minute video
https://youtu.be/vC2mlCtuJiU

#AI secretly helped write #Californiabar #exam, sparking uproar. #contractor used AI to create 23 out of 171 scored multiple-choice questions. The admission comes after weeks of complaints about technical problems, irregularities during exam administration. State Bar disclosed that its #psychometrician, ACS Ventures, created 23 of 171 scored multiple-choice questions w AI assistance. Another 48 questions came from 1st yr law student exam, Kaplan Exam Services developed remaining 100 questions.

New in PN: Laws are for the little people

"Wealth has always been a shield against consequences. But never at this scale." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-weaponized-government

@AlliFlowers
He is claiming they leaked classified information, but in reality, they leaked that HE was leaking classified information.

If you want to classify #autism as a disease, then let's also fucking classify a lack of #empathy as a disease. Because that's the thing that's sure as shit killing society at the moment.

This is just outrageous [NYTimes-Gifted]: An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’. The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts. By Miriam Jordan

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.5ORy.QF9AakqiwjpN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online

Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html

Basically USA Republicans Have decided to try to cut Medicaid, and then when people lose medical services and get sick or die, blame the states. They think their constituents are stupid enough to buy that. I can't argue, history has shown that sometimes when they make that bet they're absolutely correct. I only hope this is not one of those times.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/republicans-plan-to-gut-medicaid?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

"The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

Criminal! - HHS Cuts Funding for NIH-Based Women's Health Initiative Threatening Decades-Long Study

https://www.ajmc.com/view/hhs-cuts-funding-for-nih-based-women-s-health-initiative-threatening-decades-long-study

Tonight, as the sun sets, marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah
where we remember the six million—
not just how they were taken,
but how they held on.

Shabbat candles lit in cellars,
psalms mouthed in the smoke,
Torah smuggled in torn coats,
faith buried like seeds in the snow.

They fought—
with words, with hunger strikes,
with lullabies in the dark.

They were not just numbers.
They were our blood.
Our broken, burning heart.

And somehow, we’re still here.
Singing in strange lands,
lighting candles with their names in our mouths,
walking the long road they never finished.

Their memory is not just grief.
It is covenant.
It is uprising.
It is the flame we refuse to let die.

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAI...

Senator Durbin is Illinois's longest-serving US Senator.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/senator-dick-durbin-retiring?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=101584

Time to stop using Vance's nickname. But what name to use, because he's had several?
His actual name, at the moment, is James David Vance.
His other alias are James Donald Bowman and James David Hamel.
JD is his Appalachian nick name that makes him sound all folksy.
He's anything but a man of the people and everyone should stop treating him as such.

They want you to be scared.

They want you to be silent.

They want you to feel alone.

Refuse. Hope is an act of defiance.

Even as defamation lawsuits continue to find no evidence of a fraudulent election, President Donald Trump keeps insisting that the 2020 vote was “rigged.” He’s issuing orders targeting officials and lawyers whose work undercut his claims, and demanding states tighten voting rules to prevent alleged fraud. #trump #election #politics

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0423/trump-2020-fraud-defamation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor

I was back in the DC Jail yesterday, working with incarcerated students on their way to a high school degree.

Their songs and poetry are visceral and honest and beautiful, I wish everyone could hear them.

Don't believe the hype about the "hardened criminals" and "gang bangers" who deserve to suffer at the hands of the state. Whatever they may have done, these are human beings, and they deserve human rights and human dignity.

What will JD Vance be best remembered for?