Abe & Eddie

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Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level. Big Tech's AI Power-Grab

Top Palantir and OpenAI executives are funding a new AI industry Super PAC, which has already amassed $100M to spend on the 2026 midterms.

They want to stop anyone who supports guardrails on AI from being elected.

We must not let them win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

One more reason, if one were needed, to keep reading and writing
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Fascism does not start with concentration camps.
It ends with them...

Wishing you the very best of luck. It can be such a dispiriting exercise.

‘We feel kinda bad when a solo bird shows up’: Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there? Birdwatchers flock to Montréal for rare sighting of ‘vagrant’ bird that has made its home during a bitterly cold winter

Canada sees its first European robin
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I have my FIRST review for The Honeymaker's Daughter & I'm doing the Happy Author Dance, LOL! 😍😍

The Honeymaker's Daughter paperback: mybook.to/honeymakerbr...
The Honeymaker's Daugher Kindle: mybook.to/honeymakerbr...

#yafantasy #firstreview #readers

The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and giving up a dream career?

The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers and retraining
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My first novel was published in 2015 and is now out of print - but of course you can still get the ebook! At just over a fiver, it’s a great read… a classic coming-of-age story. #booksky

A lovely city

These two hilarious Rob Gotobed books, ‘The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed's Overactive Mind’ and ‘I Feel Like A Carp On A Chopping Board!’, are now available to read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!!

#KindleUnlimited #Free #Kindle

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Trump is in awe of Putin & will not stand in his way.

Agent Krasnov.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

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The Adulteration of Sweetness Emilia wove each daisy with such patient care that the little chain soon appeared as perfect as anything nature herself had fashioned. She…

Here's my latest dark and tragic Victorian short story.

It's taken me a long while to find the strength to finish this, so I hope you like it. 🩶

#Victorian #lesbian #sapphic #lgbtqia #women #feminism #history #shortstories #fiction #goth #gothic #PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈

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Democracy dies in tax cuts

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

How #Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters.
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As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks

“What Bezos did for Melania while gutting his own newspaper will come to be seen as the most glaring symptom of cultural collapse in a democracy hanging on to truth by the barest of threads” - Simon Schama
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On the Schoolreadinglist.co.uk site, you can choose where to purchase your books from, and there's no pressure to buy big packs that might have titles you don't want or need. ✅ It's all about choice. ✅ There's no subscription. ✅ New books are added every day.

Machiavelli would be proud of this evil manipulator

This looks incredible!!

I'm #currentlyreading DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz. I'm loving it from the first pages. So relatable! Now it's a movie

in my opinion
one of the coolest/kindest thing you can do for a fellow artist/creator etc is recommend them to others
💗

Thanks Carla. And to you too.
And thanks for the repost as well. Much appreciated.

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign
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My consultant of choice: Dr Alice, specialist in wonders

Hi Carla
Thanks for the repost

A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him | CNN Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.

His son died because he was his sole caregiver and was detained by ICE. Now they won't even let the father attend to his son's funeral for a last farewell. This is hideous cruelty.

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Sun sets on Lake Geneva. Heading home tomorrow

I was reading recently that YouTube content provided most of the source material for Google AI Overview, while ChatGPT uses Grokpedia for much of its information. If the US Transportation Dept follows the same pattern, God help America

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.