Update: We've fixed Michelle Pitcher's interactive map of #Texas prisons, showing which ones have air conditioning, and where inmates are being left to cook in the #summer heat. https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-air-conditioning-texas-summer/
#prison #CriminalJustice #HumanRights #HearWave #ClimateChange #environment #news
What experts *say* about controlling AI is what they *think* about controlling workers and citizens.
The idea that human-equivalent AI should be treated equivalently to humans, which seems tautological, is almost never brought up.
That's because they don't think humans are human-equivalent and deserving of rights, either.
Fox panel is desperate to put a happy face on fallout from Dobbs.
https://metrozone.newsroomlabs.com/article-content/12857506?index=7&brid=2861ea0a&lang=en #Jan6insurrection #OathKeepers #MAGATerrorists U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a defense effort to throw out the Washington jury's guilty verdict against Thomas Caldwell, a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer who was convicted last November in the U.S. Capitol attack alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
Galaxy Group Hickson 90
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive, Oliver Czernetz
#nature #space #astrophotography
Saudis come to Calgary warning of consequences of ditching oil 💩🤬
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-duhatschek-wpc-saudi-oil-wti-ccs-climate-1.6970637
* Alberta Premier Danielle Smith toured Saudi Arabia pavilion, World Petroleum Congress, Calgary 2023-09-18
Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110984989327850177
Danielle Smith’s False/Misleading Statements @ Global Energy Show
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110798495159916845
Alberta Slaps 7-mo. Moratorium on Solar/Wind; Puts Booming Clean Energy Industry at Risk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110828849050864409
Canada only approved the new Omicron variant booster a week ago.
I am going to try to get my COVID vaccine and flu shot in the US if I can...
Ray Epps, a Trump supporter who was falsely portrayed by right-wing media as a covert FBI agent who helped incite the Jan. 6 attack, has been charged by the DOJ for his actions during the Capitol riot.
https://t.co/iWLab2Rxgl
The "Big Lie." The "Biden Crime Family." The White House’s “Election interference.” These three well-worn GOP narratives are nothing new, but they are better seen as classic conspiracy theories. A good number of Americans, including most Republicans, have bought into them fully. Join Team Big Picture writer @jaykuo as he explores the deeper psychology behind the blind faith in these pernicious conspiracies: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-maga-gop-conspiracy-theories
Photo Credit: Bill Clark / Getty Images
I just hate it when words like “patriotic” and “liberty” are twisted into unrecognizable dark fantasy manipulation to appeal to self serving con artists. You can’t apply a word like “joyful” to this kind bull shit unless you are selling to #STUPID.
Moms for Liberty: ‘Joyful warriors’ or anti-government conspiracists? https://www.alternet.org/moms-for-liberty-2665634455/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@Ulrich_the_Elder@mastodon.social And if you support a fascist, racist for President, you’re a fascist, racist, or so incredibly myopicaly selfish, you think somehow in the mayhem you’ll land on top, which still makes you a tragically flawed human being, or #STUPID which we seem to have an abundance of. . 🤔
Rudy Giuliani Facing A New $1.36 Million Lawsuit As Humiliation Continues https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-facing-a-new-1-36-million-lawsuit-as-humiliation-continues/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
'Parental-rights activists' are pushing an 'authoritarian' agenda — with Trump’s help https://www.alternet.org/moms-for-liberty-2665635059/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@charlotteclymer They are Broken Bad in multiple ways, big fat cheat to win, oh so righteous and <GAG> faux- religious, preaching to #STUPID, Hypocrites, asking “Did we fool ya?”🤮
Imagine if any trans person did this. Imagine if any LGBTQ public figure did this. Imagine if Rep. AOC did this. Imagine if any Democrat did this. It would be a top story, and we sure as hell would be hearing the word “fondling” a LOT more than vaping. https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/when-youre-a-republican-they-let
@GOGREENECOWARRIORSS I want to know is anyone listening ready to take serious action ready to drop everything to fight this off? Or just making excuses waiting for the other shoe to drop because we are that locked into our economies, and it won’t be that bad…😳
#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.