Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

He really is too dumb to serve in Congress.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/james-comer-calls-ukraine-us-adversary?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77163

'54 Years Ago Apollo 11 Crew Walks on the Moon' image from the #NASA_App
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/history/jsc50/as11-40-5875.html

Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense

Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/once-again-the-us-public-says-nasa-should-prioritize-asteroid-defense/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Sanctions announced by the US government to inhibit access by #Russia "to products that support its military and war efforts; reduce Russia’s revenue from the metals and mining sector; undermine its future energy capabilities; degrade Russia’s access to the international financial system; and starve Russia of G7-produced technology needed for its technology, aerospace, and defense sectors." https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20230720

I really, really want to be pro-AI and pro the many positive things that AI can do for people and the world at large. But the executives deploying these systems are making it increasingly difficult to take this view because the execs keep making terrible unforced errors one after another.

The #House overwhelmingly approved a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (#FAA) for five years

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/341037

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-impeachment-expunge-promise-00107236 Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record
#DictatorTrump is angry that the speaker hasn’t endorsed his campaign. To placate him, McCarthy privately vowed to hold a vote to clear Trump’s impeachments. Now, that promise is coming due.
#SeditiousKevinMcCarthy told the #TraitorTrump team that he can’t back Trump, because he wants to look neutral while the House clears his name on impeachment.
Trump will only buy his BS for so long #MAGAfascists

Johnny Cash sings "Barbie Girl"

From "There I Ruined It"

#music #Country #pop #cover #AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfQVZHmArA

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednesday for the treatment of gay veterans, saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state."

https://apnews.com/article/uk-sunak-apology-lgbt-gay-veterans-cc9c5465da389d3481d5ea1f04e21ebc?SToverlay=2002c2d9-c344-4bbb-8610-e5794efcfa7d

#News #lgbtq #UK

Moon House Ruins
Cedar Mesa, Bears Ears National Monument UT

Continuing with my theme of ancient puebloan ruins for #ThrowbackThursday. Moon House is the most unique and best preserved of the ruins I've visited in SE Utah. It is halfway up a steep cliff in a narrow sandstone canyon.

The photo looks down a narrow common room. The wall on the right is on the outside. The back wall of the rooms on the left is the cliff itself. There are other structures on the ledge not pictured here.

The ruins are reachable via moderately strenuous trail; 3.2 miles roundtrip; after a very bumpy drive in a high clearance vehicle. PERMIT REQUITED from https://www.blm.gov/visit/kane-gulch-ranger-station

#AncientPuebloans #ruins #photo #Utah

Rep. Jamie Raskin destroys the GOP's 'Hunter Biden cover-up' malarkey.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/jamie-raskin-destroys-gop-s-hunter-biden?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77160

Why didn't the government see the Jan. 6 attack coming?
Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic were joined by Ryan Reilly to discuss a recent Congressional report that tried to understand the intelligence failures in the lead-up to Jan. 6 and where we go from here. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-congress-investigates-january-6-again

Apple will shut off iMessage, Facetime in UK if new law passes

Apple has said that it will not make changes to security features for one country that would weaken a product for all users. Elaborating on its point, Apple says that the law and changes that would have to be made to iMessage and FaceTime — and likely other products — "constitute a serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy" worldwide.

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/20/apple-will-shut-off-imessage-facetime-in-uk-if-new-law-passes/

On Fox and Friends, Chris Rufo echoed the increasingly common anti-trans idea that trans people are somehow destabilizing reality itself.

I wrote about whether it's possible to change a person's sex (sure, in theory, why not?), whether trans people are claiming it is (nah), and why conservatives create these grand fantastical narratives that cast their targeting of a vulnerable minority as some grand heroic battle for reality. #trans #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/chris-rufo-claims-trans-acceptance-threatens-reality-itself

Well my psychiatrist rang, he does not want to discharge me after all. He was slightly cautious about my eventual work trip to Australia and is going to speak to a specialist pharmacist and formulate a plan to minimise disruption to my sleep and medication so the risk of me spectacularly relapsing is reduced. He’s also going to write me a letter for my new university confirming my #bipolar diagnosis and treatment, so that I can get student disability support. I like that when he rings he introduces himself as “Firstname Lastname”, not “Dr Lastname”. He’s a good egg.

FROM THE PULLED Documentary of #desantis at Gitmo. He's a ghoul.

"the network said the episode contained allegations from “former detainees that he was present at force-feedings that were condemned as torture by the UN” raised the “role of Navy JAGs in the investigation of the detainee deaths.”

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/19/2023/how-paramount-buried-a-vice-documentary-on-ron-desantis-at-guantanamo-bay

Influential activist #LeonardLeo helped fund media campaign #lionizing #ClarenceThomas. Public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of #rightleaning #justices aftr helping them secure #lifetime appointments. It adds to emerging portrait of Leo as behind-the-scenes #benefactor, defending justices from public criticism and exalting their jurisprudence while tending to personal matters including private travel and a spouse’s employment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/

Wesleyan University Becomes Latest School to End Legacy Admissions

The liberal arts college in Connecticut's move is a direct response to the recent Supreme Court affirmative action ruling.
#News #USA

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a44588799/wesleyan-university-end-legacy-admissions/

Influential activist Leonard Leo helped fund media campaign lionizing Clarence Thomas https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/07/20/leonard-leo-clarence-thomas-paoletta/