“Because of the contract’s low price tag (about $12,000 per year), it appears to have eluded public discussion. It only needed to be signed off by a state clerk, circumventing the typical approval process for major contracts that require sign-off from the governor, Secretary of State,” and the AG.
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So I’ll disagree. Most judges, the large majority, are doing their jobs well when confronted with cases of govt abuse. Not all.
To clarify, Greater Israel—formerly a fringe goal, now those fringe people run the country—is what's now Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. (Even rightwing nuts in Israel don't look to Lebanon or other parts of the region.)
To give credit to judges: A great many of them have acted fearlessly, doing their job in cases involving the Trump Administration.
Yes, and we've gotten out of the habit of amending the thing. There were 11 amendments added from 1909 to 1971, so an average of one every six years. We almost got rid of the Electoral College toward the end of that spree. Then, nothing.
Paul Noth.
Thank you. That's a great refutation of what I was saying about the law. I still personally disagree with the assumption that we couldn't have a nice internet if YouTube was responsible for not pushing ISIS videos to teenage boys.
Section 230 provides “Good Samaritan” protection for the removal of harmful material; the original intent was not to protect the promotion of that material. Then the law says that platforms are not “publishers;” courts have said in effect this makes them immune.
Yes, and right now there are no penalties to strengthen. We have no national privacy laws, and they are shielded by Section 230. It's as though there were high lead levels in our food, but no food-safety laws.
Explainer: Section 230 says Meta, etc., basically run unmonitored bulletin boards, and so they have no legal responsibility for the content. BUT, platforms control the content, pushing neo-nazi propaganda to many folks, #thinspo to others and, yes, kittens to many. That's not a bulletin board.
I'm a tech journalist, and I think you have this wrong. If social media algorithms are speech (and I don't necessarily agree), then Section 230 shouldn't apply to what the media platforms do. But the platforms insist they, uniquely among products, are legally immune when their products are harmful.
Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began"
"We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created"
"This is insanity"
One of the big mistakes was making it much too hard to amend. With so many small states dominated by one party, there's no way we'll be able to reform the structure of the Senate.
This is galling: Mail-in ballots are the first ballots cast, not the latest, but some states deliberately create the false impression that they change the result late on election night (see Pa.). Mail-ins should be counted early, and the results announced the second the polls close.
This is insanely bad. He says "it wasn't a good feature," like people did engage with it enough. Zero admission that it was immoral. Like, what if 50 million people a day used it....that would have been EVEN WORSE.
It's the classic Peter Thiel/Silicon Valley, tech overlord vibe.
Hyperscale data centers can use as much electricity and water as a city, driving up bills, and NDAs are the norm.
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Wait, you mean NONE of these songs won a Grammy?!?!
That's crazy.
The (hawkish) Prime Minister of Israel was Ariel Sharon. He opposed the war, and argued to Bush that it would strengthen Iran. He told Bush was the result would be...not a good one.
Note that Netanyahu was a private citizen at the time, a darling of rightwing Americans but not of Israelis.
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon told Bush that removing Saddam Hussein, Iran's big adversary, would strengthen Iran in its drive for regional dominance. Israeli intelligence agreed. They opposed the war. (Netanyahu, a private citizen, supported the war. Idiot.)
One source: forward.com/opinion/2183...
They are doing this purely to intimidate journalists and activists. They want these stories to get out because they want us to be scared.
And they are also doing it because they take pleasure in it, and do it and much worse to many more people in these concentration camps.
When the war goes well, rightists can say it was Trump. When the war goes badly, rightists can say it was the Jews.
Closest to the truth is probably that Trump is obsessed with Iran, and with oil, and with military aggression. And Netanyahu told him some things he was begging to be told.
Like Hitchhiker's Guide and some other series, after a couple of volumes the books bog down and the authors don't quite know how to stay fresh and advance the story.
And....you should definitely read it!
How easy it is to turn an LLM to evil with just 6,000 bad inputs (and heady implications for human beings, too):
Gift article:
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finished embroidering my jacket :)
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Yes, the war was launched with anti-ICE anger at its peak, and with Trump being thwarted on DHS funding by Congress. It started right before primary elections for the midterms. And, yes, right after Bill Clinton's testimony put presidents-who-know-Epstein at the top of newsfeeds.
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
