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Sist av alla kommenterar jag den där undersökningen om att unga blivit mindre toleranta mot HBTQ-personer.

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This is how you write a goddamn headline.

What he says 👇

When AI Goes to War The U.S. government is trying to strong-arm the AI industry into using its technology for warfare, and Big Tech is split on whether to bend the knee.

The U.S. government is trying to strong-arm the AI industry into using its technology for warfare, and Big Tech is split on whether to bend the knee.

Colorado governor signals he may free election denier Tina Peters Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold previously told Democracy Docket that Governor Jared Polis should not pardon Tina Peters.

Colorado's governor signaled he may grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters, who’s serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in the 2020 election.

The move comes after the state’s top election chief said she should not be pardoned and should continue to be held accountable.

Of course. The Israeli government's aim is clearly to do to Lebanon what they already did to Gaza.

Starseeds, government plots and an alien mantis: Inside New Age spirituality's new age Thousands converged in Los Angeles for the Conscious Life Expo, where influencers and cultural shifts are fueling cosmic belief systems often featuring extraterrestrials.

Thousands converged in Los Angeles for the Conscious Life Expo, where influencers and cultural shifts are fueling cosmic belief systems often featuring extraterrestrials.
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BREAKING: Trump Axes His Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, partly for a very silly reason. The department will remain under the control of Stephen Miller.

"Donald Trump has fired Kristi Noem – his monstrous Homeland Security secretary – for what may be the stupidest reason possible."

Check out @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social on the firing of Kristi Noem.

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Noem deserved to be fired. That is a win for the forces of the Constitution.

But the fact that Trump launched a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and then days into it fired his Homeland Security secretary is a level of reckless incompetence that should get him fired too.

Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and baby Hans, welcome to The War on Cars.

Alternate headline: Childish Parents Leave Helpless Kids Exposed to Deadly Virus

While they’re spending $1 billion a day on this new war.

Two things. I’ve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals.

And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody won’t allow it because it’s such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.

Captain,

Dr. Crusher has ordered me to inform you that I am too sick to work today. I have now completed the task she has assigned me. I will be at my post as usual.

Worf

Folded and cut pink sheet of paper with lots of hearts cut into it.

Happy Valentine’s Weekend
The extant of my celebration is cutting paper.

Photo of a Book “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch” by Gwen Fisher and Roger Antonsen, World Scientific, with a QR code.

Text about the book and information about the two authors.

I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.”

This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms for making pixel art.

*being lowered into a vat to be studied by scientists* Yassified Laura Roslin Jumpscare

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Minneapolis residents who pay immigrant neighbors’ rent ask city to delay evictions A council committee voted to temporarily extend eviction notice filings from 30 to 60 days; the full council will vote again.

Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.

Racking up the war crimes!

We are all morally exhausted. Most people who respond in this way are good people who are expressing their fatigue and despair. Believe me, I get it. (Over on Threads some are just assholes. I generally block them.) But the fact remains that this kind of thing is what "normalizing" these monsters actually looks like in everyday terms. One of the commitments I have made in this hideous crisis is that I will persistently, faithfully defend the norms that are necessary for a moral and just multiracial democracy to thrive and I will consistently demand accountability and consequences when these vandals, mobsters and lunatics violate those principles. The particular way I go about doing that is a reflection of how I'm put together and obviously not for everyone. The world would be a pretty boring place if everyone were like me. I am not policing language here. Let your furious flag fly. But I do want people to recognize what all the fatalism and cynicism and "Don't you realize nothing will happen" does, particularly in response to efforts to elevate and defend democratic norms. Those sentiments are the operationalization of normalization. Be part of the chorus that refuses to treat these depredations as normal rather than the chorus that is singing them into a new normal.

Here's the second half.

People have used the word "normalize" for years to criticize the media and describe the erosion of democratic norms under this orange menace. I want folks to consider what everyday normalization in action looks like. I posted yesterday about the whistleblower evidence that Kash Patel betrayed his office by spiking the investigation of Renee Good's murder for political reasons and the need for severe consequences if this proves true. As always happens in such situations, a good number of the commenters replied with some version of "Nothing will happen." Some struck a fatalistic, commiserating tone while others turned the sentiment into an insult about how clueless and naive anyone must be to treat the depredations of these people as worthy of comment much less to demand accountability. (The latter happens much more on Threads where I also have a platform, rarely here.) That is normalization in action. Fatalism, world-weary cynicism and aggressive sanctimony are direct assaults on the strengthening of norms and the spotlighting of corruption, misconduct and crimes. It is the equivalent on an individual level of media platforms reporting on these depredations like they are ordinary exercises of public policy and executive discretion.

With permission I'm sharing a post from The Other Place by my friend Tobias, who's a constitutional law professor, because it touches on this question of how we tell the story and what the consequences of that are.

Lawsuit dismissed after Trump admin quietly restored tens of millions to Planned Parenthood Progressive groups dropped their case against HHS over the withheld family planning funds, but other challenges continue.

People also so readily latch onto all-or-nothing stories and, well, while we don't always win, we don't always lose, and the truth is at the very least in shades of gray or maybe full color.

Trump administration releases billions it withheld from schools Lawmakers of both parties had lobbied to release the funding, which supports English-language-learning programs, teacher training and academic enrichment.

And that could convince readers that the courts are powerless and resistance is futile. It's not hard to find cases in which it has in fact obeyed the courts, including ones in which it has released funds.

This seems like the kind of article that feeds cynicism/defeatism (which when you're a NYT reader gets cast as sophistication). There are a lot of cases in which the administration has obeyed the courts. This story on times when it has not seems like it could convince readers it never does.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Miller thinks it’s common sense to throw water on to a fire to extinguish it, but this isn’t common crime and he doesn’t understand that drug prohibition acts as a price support for traffickers. He’s basically throwing water on to a grease fire. He’s amplifying their motivational feedback loop.♻️

Here’s a piece I wrote in 2007 about how an over-reliance on militarized drug war tactics has basically thinned out the herd and ensured only the most efficient and adaptive operations survived. We’ve been selectively breeding highly evolved supertraffickers for decades. Sit this one out, Stephen.