John Marsh

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Sounds like something from The Onion

I played around in the mud pit, yesterday. I blogged about it on my swamp blog ( mudlover.com/theswamp/?p=... )

Apparently Rep Greg Murphy (R) of NC can't say "sea level rise" or "climate change" when talking about houses in his district that are washing into the ocean.

His answer is re-nourishing the beaches, which has been done multiple times in the past 10 yrs. Might as well throw jellybeans at a T-rex.

‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability …

I've consulted for researchers who are working on extending life [for people who can afford it]. Dedicating resources to extending life for people who can afford it, while taking basic health care from the rest of us disgusts me.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The age old question of cause and effect

🔥 I LOVE Jameela Jamil for giving this devastating critique of liberals - from her view as a fellow liberal. 🤍

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

I'm not getting my hopes up, but we need to make it abundantly clear to everyone that this may be their last chance to make their vote count. We need overwhelming numbers to make challenges unsuccessful.

Even a broken watch is right twice a day. 😁

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment.

Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out.

This young woman makes too much sense and gives me hope for the future of this country.

#FuckMAGA #FuckRacists #FucktRump #Pinks

Highly suspicious 🤔

Robert Reich Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

Feeling hopeless?

Here are 5 things you can do this week to fight fascism. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared

This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.

I have a friend who does this with flashlights

Why fear the tote bag-wielding, matcha-drinking ‘performative male’? At least he makes an effort | Rachel Connolly So-called experts are warning women about men who try too hard to look like feminists. There are worse red flags than that, says writer Rachel Connolly

Thank you, Rachel, for injecting some perspective into these alarmist dating trends that keep us isolated ...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What body odour reveals about your health We emit a barrage of whiffy chemicals through our pores and in our breath. Some are a sign that we might be getting ill – and could be used to diagnose diseases up to years in advance.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

This is reprehensible. I would advise anyone using FB or IG for their business to have a backup. Legally, Meta owns their on-line properties and they can do whatever they want.
It might help if, once a social media site reached some level of market dominance, it was regulated as a public utility.

While the nation has plenty of real problems to deal with, Trump is ignoring them to manufacture fake emergencies.

Why?

He wants more power — and he wants to distract from his unpopular agenda.

It should be clear that America’s actual national emergency is Donald J. Trump.

Trump hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn’t want the public to know what’s really happening.

Trump has destroyed the credibility of the BLS — an extraordinarily important source of information. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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The real tragedy is that there are young women being born every day who will never have the chance to meet Jeffry Epstein. Have you maniacs considered that? 😱🤣😂

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