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New Jersey bill seeking to restrict media use of AI draws sharp criticism Media outlets using AI to generate content without a disclaimer would be fined $10,000 for the first offense under a bill sponsored by three NJ Dems.

Media outlets using AI to generate content without a disclaimer would be fined $10,000 for the first offense under a bill sponsored by three NJ Dems.

Gen Z is trolling the pollsters now lol

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

Pranksters vs. Autocrats by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A. McClennen | eBook | Cornell University Press The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations....

For what comes next, I recommend the nonviolent resistance methods practiced and taught by Srdja Popovic.

Right now, you can download a free copy of one of his books from the Cornell University Press website:

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Zionists Tried to Make NYC Race About Israel. Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Give In. Mamdani was badgered at nearly every turn about his stance on Israel — in a race for the mayor of New York City.

Zohran Mamdani secured a landslide victory in the New York City mayoral primary despite media and his opposition being intent on trying to drum up controversy over his views on Israel and Palestine, even to the point of sweeping aside candidates’ stances on issues that affect the city.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Trump’s administration is ramping up deportations, targeting students, threatening journalists, and using Supreme Court rulings to restrict rights. To push this agenda, it’s leaning on the U.S. surveillance state—and may expand it.

Now’s the time to lock down your digital life.

‘The Right to Vote Is Not Absolute’: GOP Bid to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court Election Heard by Court of Appeals Read more here.

A North Carolina appeals court heard losing state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin's (R) bid to retroactively change election rules and throw out 65,000 ballots.

Dozens of dead geese found in N.J. town’s parks test positive for bird flu, officials say The H5N1 virus, which has devastated poultry farms across the U.S., is now keeping people away from several parks in Allentown, Monmouth County.

You can add this one to the list. The town closed the parks and spent $6k to remove the dead wild geese. Those costs are real: www.nj.com/monmouth/202...

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I have mixed feelings because this is the whole point of Project 2025 break all the government services and pay private vendors for the services. Sell all the federal real estate to private investors to lease the property back to the government. So taxpayer money has to ensure shareholders profit.

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YouTube video by Palak Treco What do you think of the truck? (not mine)

To sing at the Tesla protests, a little song called "The Dumbest Thing on Wheels"

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Morristown mayor gets council to withdraw his ordinance to prosecute the homeless for sleeping on town property | Morristown Green

UPDATE: "Responding to a public backlash, Morristown Mayor Tim Dougherty said Friday that the council president, at his request, has agreed to withdraw a proposed ordinance that would have exposed homeless people to fines and jail time for sleeping on public property."

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Council vote is on Feb 25th.

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Citing downtown rise of homeless people, Morristown council introduces law to ban sleeping on public property | Morristown Green

Morristown is trying to criminalize homelessness. There are ways to deal with the recent rise in people living without shelter. This is not it!

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?

In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...

As if I needed another reason not to watch the superbowl. I'll be watching your thing instead.

Forget Chrome—Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 10 Days Be warned—2025 is the year of being tracked. Here’s what to know.

What can we do to protect our privacy?! Or do we just have to accept that we live in a post-privacy era?

Well, you know what they say: People who live in glass houses walk around naked.

This wasn't some mistake. This is a direct result of Trump's anti-DEI EO. This is what you get when you create a culture of fear. We have the attorney general talking about criminal penalties for promoting DEI. What do you expect?

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

Call your Republican Reps and remind them that Musk now has all of their personal/banking information too.

Ask why someone without a Security Clearance, without a confirmed role and from a made-up committee stole all our data.