Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@tomcapuder There is zero concrete evidence. However this does not preclude the fact that living in a state of ignorance despite what we consider advances in our scientific knowledge, that we have a handle on this reality, see the big picture and understand the limits under which we exist and comprehend. We can’t even see to the other side of the room. It would be a mistake to draw premature conclusions. 🤔🙃
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“Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along.” Listen to these women! They’ve been sounding the alarm for a long time.
#AI #LLMs #ML #BlackMastodon https://mastodon.online/@dgodon/110880115860332495
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Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial - FAaFO, #AmIRight? 😂 https://apple.news/A9FQ5iCnCROK8rmLF5qMMxQ
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"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders
Mary Hunter Austin died #OTD in 1934. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. via @wikipedia
Books by Mary Austin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/201
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“Trump appears to have given up on winning the cases against him on the legal merits and is instead trying to win by whipping up a political base to reelect him, or even to fight for him.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-11-2023
@Siroj42 @MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social Not making any excuses for humanity. We don’t instantly rise up to correct atrocities wherever, whenever they occur. We usually respond when we personally start to be adversely effected by some situation somewhere. For the US, the post WWII anti-communist world cops we became, which btw we can longer afford to be.. world cops, as we can’t seem to manage our own affairs much less the Worlds…🤔
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@Huntn00 @MikeDunnAuthor If it had actually been fought to eradicate fascism, the allies would have finished the job by defeating Franco. But they didn't, letting down the veterans from the Spanish Civil War (which is the war the originator of the quote fought and died in, by the way) who supported the allies by joining their armies or the French resistance after fleeing the country.
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Near-infrared view of Saturn and the rings taken by Cassini in July 2017. Saturn is also showing ‘ringshine’, light reflected off the rings and onto the night side of the planet.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
@Deglassco Racism gets very juicy and animated when you threaten to actually give all citizens equal rights. Today we have the GOP trying hard to march us backwards to the “good ole” bad days of the 1950s. Racism was beat back, and for 60 years has been trying to resurge like a bad rash. 🤔
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“Because of the way they are treating my people in the South, the US government can go to hell” and [US President Dwight D. Eisenhower] “has no guts’ for not sending in the military to protect the Little Rock Nine.”
He called Eisenhower "two-faced" and described Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus as an "uneducated plough boy".
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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory
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Sue the hospital, the state, the person who released and anyone who saw the records. Take food out of their children's mouths. Cost the hospital so much they have to shut down an entire wing. Cost the State so much they have to raise taxes.
#Mastodon I can’t be a good Mastodonian, apologies. I wake up in the morning, see 600 new posts and start to look at all of them, come to a realization and then just swoop to the top. So I’m sure to be missing good posts, but with scrolling text, it just can’t be helped unless I want to live on the app which I won’t. So that’s why I likely did not boost or reply to your great posts. 😕
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When Governor Orvil Farbus refused to allow nine Little Rock black students to enroll in Little Rock high school in 1957, Louis Armstrong put his career on the line to speak out very publicly against racial injustice. Armstrong said:
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Motion to change all instances of "food desert" to food apartheid because it speaks to the systems-level barriers communities face when accessing food.
Diverse communities are not barren wastelands. They are full of culture and lives that matter.
#FoodJustice #LanguageMatters #food #hunger #diversity #justice
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Ron DeSantis dogged by protesters at Iowa State Fair
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds urged the demonstrators who interrupted her one-on-one interview with DeSantis to be "Iowa nice."
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Executive dysfunction is fun because I can want to do a thing I enjoy, think about doing it all the time, but instead literally just sit here doing nothing while feeling miserable about it
@The_Icarian With this crowd it’s pick and choose, and let’s be hypocrites while we’re at it, whatever gives us the advantage for the moment, with zero accountability if we can get away with it. Btw, the Constitution nor the Bible grants any rights to fetuses. This is a standard inferred by wishful thinking theocrats and supported by Right Wing politicians seeking carte blanche from the zero tolerance anti-abortionists in their base. It’s all politically motivated. 🤬
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
