André "Normal" Alessi

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Exclusive | Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal Investors in the social-media platform’s U.S. business agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources said.

this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward

holy shit you guys

UAE charges 21 people with cybercrimes for filming and sharing missile strike footage Twenty-one people, including a 60-year-old British tourist, have been charged under the United Arab Emirates' cybercrime laws for filming and sharing videos of Iranian missile and drone attacks.

Some folks are finding out the hard way that living in a country where you don't have rights only privileges is bad, actually.

The likely next PM of Israel, Naftali Bennett, said that Israel must not "turn a blind eye" to Turkey and that "We [Israel] must act in different ways, but simultaneously against the threat from Tehran and against the hostility from Ankara.”.

Why is it then conspiratorial for Turkey to think this?

Look, I'm sure the book is fine, and there's a few good things in the interview, but there's no need to couch practical advice about living a good life and avoiding bad things in terms that are, in this context, pseudoscientific. Just say, "Spend more time with the people you love!"

Banging the same drum I have been for half a decade: neurotransmitters like dopamine are not "linked to" or "responsible for" our feelings, they are our feelings. You can't untangle the physical substrates of mental states from those states anymore than you can untangle water from "having a shower."

Dopamine is a tool for parents, and it's time we 'take it back' The tech and food industries have been exploiting this brain chemical for decades, says ex-phone addict and author.

Once again, I am begging journalists to think at least a little critically about the scientific authority of the people they platform. Being a chemist doesn't give someone special knowledge about human psychology or behaviour!

Oh, so she's normal normal.

I can think my neighbours are awful and annoying and still want them to have a permanent place to live. That's how socialism works!

I wondered why I hadn't heard my neighbours over the back fence recently, they used to have regular screaming matches and a barking dog. Realized this morning it's because their flat has been turned into an AirBNB. I don't like that.

I've always been antiwar, but I'm starting to rethink my position.

🎶 Stumptown Scud 🎶
🎶 She's been living in her Stumptown flood 🎶
🎶 I bet she's never had a Portland guy 🎶
🎶 I bet her mamma never told her why 🎶

the dumbest people in the world are about to learn what “speech act” means whether or not they hear the actual term

Oh my god

I tend to think Islamophobia is functionally just racism in the American context since Muslims are on the whole pretty clearly racialized and almost all of the rhetoric about Muslims are completely unrelated to Islam as such.

Trump says white South Africans are persecuted; some are returning to a better life — Reuters Andrew Veitch left South Africa after being held up at gunpoint in his car. But now he feels there are greater threats in the United States, ​he said, citing mass shootings in public places as well as...

South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...

big dick energy as a concept is ableist, Anglophobic, and anti-American.

What I want to know is, what happens when facetuning to 100 is no longer enough to counter her dysphoria? Is she going to switch to AI selfies?

Engaging critically with other people's arguments is hard intellectual work, but it's the best way to end up with a better understanding of the world. Thinking about your own beliefs critically is a close second to that. Throwing everything into ChatGPT and slapping your name on it does neither.

How to turn me into John Wick:

Step 1 -

My whole (academic) thing is "we rely on each other for a lot of our knowledge", and this approach is poisonous to that. Not only does it mean we stop trusting our peers, but postgrad education is about making connections with people who know things you don't. AI cheats isolate themselves from that.

Lots of folks have pointed out all of the banana pants stuff about this tweet, but I guess my question would be, "and then what?" You can research & write your dissertation super fast, then what? What is the destination you're trying to get to? A job? Good luck with that. A book? Ok...? Then what?

Cats do this too, but it's ok for them.

And don't get me started on what a nightmare Te Rapa, and especially The Base, is for pedestrians and public transport users. I'm still waiting for a journalist to call me so I can complain about it.

The reason there's so many "vagrants" (yikes) in the area is because everyone's broke! The reason there are so many empty stores is because everyone's broke!

Parking, dirt and empty shops: Why this city’s CBD is becoming a ‘ghost town’ The mayor campaigned on a promise to reinstate two hours of free parking in the central city.

I live in Hamilton, and the idea that the reason for the downturn in business in the CBD is because of a lack of 2 hour parking specifically is so stupid. Everybody's broke!

it's honestly really handy that whenever anyone wants to ask if annie jacobson is credible i can just link the wikipedia synopsis of one of her early books

Wizard, no!