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
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From #murdoch resignation letter:
""Self-serving bureaucracies are seeking to silence those who would question their provenance and purpose. Elites have open contempt for those who are not members of their rarefied class"
What the fuch does the tax avoiding billionaire think he is, if not "elite" ?
Bullshit #populism of the sort that has poisoned our polity.....
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This is so wonderful. Every state should be implementing programs like this. https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/09/14/universal-free-school-meals-keeping-massachusetts-students-more-awake-during-class/ #FreeSchoolMeals #FeedTheChildren
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Kevin McCarthy Has (Once Again) Lost Control: With the radical right calling the shots, the government is likely to shut down. McCarthy seems powerless to do anything.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175607/kevin-mccarthy-once-again-lost-control
#KevinMcCarthyControl #RadicalRight #GovernmentShutdown #PowerlessMcCarthy #LostControl #ShutDownLikely #Politics #News
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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
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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.
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Fox panel is desperate to put a happy face on fallout from Dobbs.
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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.
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Galaxy Group Hickson 90
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive, Oliver Czernetz
#nature #space #astrophotography
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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
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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...
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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
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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.
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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. . 🤔
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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
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'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
#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
