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#altText Audrey Denney sporting sunglasses and her own campaign T-shirt with rolled-up sleeves, greeting friends and voters at Chicoās downtown plaza.
I told my kids sheās been running in opposition to the late Doug LaMalfa for years, and unlike the guy from the bay who wants to represent our new gerrymandered (for lake of a better word) district, she actually lives here.
Spotted yesterday at the #ChicoCA #NoKings rally: @audreyforcongress.bsky.social greeting and hugging people who will hopefully become constituents.
I see people on here disappointed by the news of Bluesky accepting more crypto VC money and not sharing that with the community until after the former CEO stepped down. Tough place to be for a community.
I might delete this app. I hear itās run by cryptobros. Find me on Mastodon: hachyderm.io/@devlord
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIPā a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passportā both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
If UBI was a coup for billionaires and corporations, we'd have gotten it decades ago. They don't want us to have the power UBI provides. They want us to have no choice but to work for them, for as little as they can legally get away with.
UBI = POWER TO THE PEOPLE
widerquist.com/basic-income...
Another update: She has updated her goal to $2400 (up from $1800) due to additional bills, if anyone can spare. But the $1800 donated thus far will go a huge way towards solving the immediate problem! Many thanks to everyone who has donated.
Iām utterly uninterested in ādebatesā about whether AI can do things well. I wouldnāt care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I donāt teach āwithā Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?
Thereās a genuine gaslighting element to forcing faculty to debate whether to teach with AI. If someone broke into my house & stole from me, my employer wouldnāt ask me to work with them. But thatās what AI did. So, no.
āBut what about the need to teach students to be literate in AI?ā In 33 yrs of journalism & 15 of teaching, Iāve learned that there are any number of lawyers, doctors, politicians, generals, & CEOsā& yes āeliteā studentsāwho are only semiliterate in their native tongue. Letās worry about that.
America is praying for Austin.
But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem we're not willing to solve ourselves.
God moves and works through us. God has no other hands but our hands.
We must act.
After a few years of "code rest", I updated my #dotnet Utilities #NuGet package. I split off two packages, one for mail utils, and one for Google Maps, as I don't think these features are needed by most users. And I removed deprecated encryption stuff. #FOSS www.nuget.org/packages/Dev...
They also tased and tackled him for no reason. He said "Sorry" and couldn't speak English. He was holding 2 shower curtain rods as walking sticks.
He spent 15 months in jail only to be released to die alone in the cold.
You should be livid after reading this.
They killed him bc they could.
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
I am thinking tonight of the trans people in Kansas who will wake up tomorrow morning with no valid ID. I am thinking of the thousands and thousands of trans people fleeing their homes in red states. I am thinking about how the government is making trans people refugees in their own country.
Itās time to make Citizens United history. Montana ā and now California āĀ can lead the way. Here's how.
robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neu...
JD Vance: "Our social safety net will disappear unless we take fraud more seriously. So what I'm most worried about is that unless we preserve these programs for the next generation, they will disappear."
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
UPDATE: My #trans friend who was fired under circumstances that look suspiciously like transphobia has her fundraiser STALLED around $100 (currently $120). She is at risk of homelessness. If you can donate, please do! If not, please reskeet.
gogetfunding.com/urgent-need-...
bsky.app/profile/moxi...
"Data show over and over again that when one provides people with basic income or guaranteed income, they spend it on food, rent, child care, medical bills and car payments⦠Participants shared that this was breathing space ā immediately, so much less stress.ā
FFS, can we please just start UBI now?
Al Green, American hero
What is math
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:
Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:
Because it doesn't actually matter? Because that's how I screencapped it? Because the point is that he probably shouldn't be boosting Hanania? Idk, man, I've thrown up several times today and have been in bed.