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Raw Story:
Book ban "zealots" were blasted by a Florida newspaper Monday for crippling the state's schools with crusades it said barely anybody supports.

The Tampa Bay Times editorial hit out after its own investigation showed just two people accounted for 600 of the 1,100 book removal requests made in the state...

Those two have been “wasting untold hours of school employee time and the taxpayer dollars..."
https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-2664897222/

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Florida #DeSantis

Matt Gaetz Promotes Marijuana Reform as Guest-Host on Newsmax https://www.mediaite.com/tv/matt-gaetz-promotes-marijuana-reform-as-guest-host-on-newsmax/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The GENOCIDE of the YANOMAMI and the DEATH of NATURE for Gold and Diamond Merchandise – The ART of GREENWASHING by the MERCHANTS of GOLD – in their …

Cartier shops have been selling their signature luxury gold and diamond jewelry, watches and accessories since 1847 – photo: Cartier “Things have … The GENOCIDE of the YANOMAMI and the DEATH of NATURE for Gold and Diamond Merchandise – The ART of GREENWASHING by the MERCHANTS of GOLD – in their …

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/09/04/the-genocide-of-the-yanomami-and-the-death-of-nature-for-gold-and-diamond-merchandise-the-art-of-greenwashing-by-the-merchants-of-gold-in-their-4/

How Stalin Hid Ukraine's Famine From the World
In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe.
By Anne Applebaum https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/red-famine-anne-applebaum-ukraine-soviet-union/542610/

A lot of innocent people plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit. They are charged with a serious crime, held in jail on a cash bond they can't post, and face decades in prison.
The prosecutor then makes a plea offer that will result in a felony conviction, probation, and immediate release from jail, which the innocent person then accepts to get out of the awful, overcrowded, violent jail.
The result is a life-ruining conviction that produces generational poverty and loss of opportunity.

Lenat was working on the core problem of ChatGPT and other LLMs decades before they even existed: A lack of a basic understanding of the world. He also inspired many other AGI and NLU researchers and hobbyists, including myself.

The New York Times: Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make A.I. More Human, Dies at 72
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/technology/douglas-lenat-dead.html

I need a dragon.

Listening to NA 1587...

Wait, Trump has some Mob connections?

He was a real estate developer in NY, I can't believe that Trump had any Mob connections!

🤔

🤣 😂

[thread] Ginni Thomas

Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power & the Supreme Court
https://persagen.com/docs/frontline-2023-05-09-clarence_and_ginni_thomas.html

https://persagen.com >> search: "ginni thomas"
"ginni thomas" AND "heritage foundation"
"ginni thomas" AND "leonard leo"
"ginni thomas" AND Groundswell
"ginni thomas" AND "tea party"
"ginni thomas" AND "liberty central"
"ginni thomas" AND "National Association of Scholars"

#GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #neofascism #FarRight #PoliticalOperatives #HeritageFoundation #LibertyCentral

Addendum 1
[thread] Ginni Thomas

Filings Reveal Luxury Trips & Payments to Ginni Thomas
Amended disclosures reveal Ginni Thomas paid $700,000 (2003-2007) by The Heritage Foundation
https://truthout.org/articles/new-filings-reveal-more-luxury-trips-and-payments-to-ginni-thomas

Pacific Legal Foundation
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110929730282751177

National Association of Scholars
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110588912808816794

#GinniThomas #ClarenceThomas #neofascism #FarRight #lobbyists #PoliticalOperatives #Trumpism #DarkMoney #HeritageFoundation #LibertyCentral #Crowdsourcers #LeonardLeo #TeaParty

The Russian fascist invaders conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the areas of Novoyehorivka and Bilohorivka in Luhansk region.

During the day, they carried out airstrikes on Bilohorivka in Luhansk region and Yampolivka and Spirne in Donetsk region.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 18:00 on 4 September 2023 regarding the Russian invasion

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Teachers harrassed in S Korea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/south-korean-teachers-stage-walkout-over-harrassment-by-parents-and-students

Businesses all over the U.S. that depend on #tourism are getting clobbered by extreme weather due to #ClimateChange. I bet Ron DeSantis is grateful that #Florida doesn't depend on tourism -- oh, wait... https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/small-biz-reliant-summer-tourism-extreme-weather-new-102891842

29 states and Washington, D.C., have enacted a total of 70 laws expanding voting rights this year, while 16 states have enacted 29 laws to restrict voting, according to data and analysis by the nonprofit Voting Rights Lab (VRL). https://t.co/kyqhJb9Qm1

Biden Bashes ‘Real Estate Developer’ Trump For Not Building ‘A Damn Thing’ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-bashes-trump-not-building-infrastructure_n_64f606f2e4b08f6e30e9a207?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Labor Movement: the folks that brought you The Weekend! (and so much more)

Poster & card available here - 25% off today and tomorrow with code "EDUCATE" in the cart: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/labor-movement

#HappyLaborDay!

#MastoArt #Union #LaborMovement #1u #LaborDay

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/personal-history-my-father-and-joe?utm_campaign=post #HappyLaborDay. Mr. and Mrs. Reich,” one of them spoke gravely, “we’ve come to inform you that South Salem is a Christian community.”

There was a long pause. I could see my father redden.

“So, we’re not welcome here?” His voice was tight.

“Legally, you have a right to be here, of course,” the speaker said. (New York state had just enacted a law prohibiting homeowners from including “restrictive covenants” in their deeds that barred sales to “Negroes or Hebrews.”) “But we don’t think you and your family will be happy here.”

“Thank you for coming by,” my father said flatly, opening the front door for them. Then he exploded: “Now get the hell out of my house!”

Now I'm really done with Clapton

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/eric-clapton-to-headline-beverly-hills-gala-for-rfk-jr/

Reading this article — full of such good quotes from many different climate scientists that picking just one was hard — and having a hard time not being a doomer:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate

“Climate science’s projections are pretty robust over the last decades. Unfortunately, humanity’s stubbornness to spew out ever-higher amounts of greenhouse gases has also been pretty robust,” said Prof Malte Meinshausen.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency