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You must never try to appease the opinion of someone who chooses not to recognize the good that they themselves can do because that person is not trying to see the goodness in you.

the small acts of care i make through-out the day keep me sane

Lindsey Boylan asks the question everyone is asking: Why aren’t establishment Democrats behind Mamdani?

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...

Local man embraces fascism.

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...

wow

integrity

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

what teachers never stopped teaching you? what texts?

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As summer ends remember this—you were never meant to complete your life’s work in a single season and you’re certainly not going to give yourself a hard time for letting life interrupt a plan.

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests.

Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.

Really enjoyed this diagram from Camunda Modeler's Business Process Model Notation tutorial

I appreciate the positivity, but the whole point of the essay is that "The Cold Equations" raises false questions.

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There's a nice essay by Cory Doctorow along these lines, critiquing a trolley-problem like science fiction short story called "The Cold Equations" (and other science fiction - naturally resonates with AI) locusmag.com/2014/03/cory...

practice as sacred as you do it willingly

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

showing up is so much of it

“Calvinball” Enshrined in Jurisprudence-Speak If you ever wanted to appear smarter by referencing Supreme Court decisions in your conversations, you can now drop the word “Calvinball” and be fluent in American jurisprudence speak thanks to an dis...

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HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't:

- Restricted by capacity
- Has mats for people to sleep on overnight
- Is cleaned 3 times a day
- Provides hygiene supplies
- Offers free legal calls

District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.

BREAKING: District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order.

Judge Susan Illston provided a great example on Friday of how to deal with the current Supreme Court in an order that the Trump admin turn over its mass-firing plans.

New, at Law Dork:

While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).

The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense

Black men don't typically choose to go to prison. I want the liberation of all people from suffering, including men who rely on strip clubs and LLM's for their gratification

When we talk about the generalization here - Strip clubs (and other related sex work platforms like OnlyFans) are a major industry in the US. And men are the vast majority of the clientele. So the original grouping is legitimate. There's a legitimate question about this dynamic with sycophantic AI.