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  Most innovations in information technology got adopted by young people first, by their own choice, then older folks get on board later, after the tech was established. This is the first I can think of where older, more powerful people embraced a new tech innovation and had to force it on the youth. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mzdiwtyeqk24

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  "I am confident that Iran's cause, like Russia's, is a just cause" -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, yesterday Rubbing it in our faces. Dog walking the US president for all to see. And still Trump kisses up to Russia, apes their propaganda, and tries to help their aggression succeed. Lavrov backs Iran after Trump ...

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  The leader of the Republican Party supports murderous anti-American war criminal Vladimir Putin. Will Republican candidates be repeatedly asked if they denounce Putin? The Republican Party's biggest donor also boosts a German Neo-Nazi party. Will Republican candidates be asked if they denounce AfD?

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  Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:43fdk46qa5gsokzygzildsaq/post/3mxugojbh752q

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  Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

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  Downside: The US now has government goon squads, and deploys them to try to intimidate voters into voting the way the president wants. Upside: They don’t have nearly enough goons. Not even close. They’re hoping fear will make up for that big shortfall, but it won’t. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3mxaa7cea6t2a

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  AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/post/3mx2oktgvbk2c

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  Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jbvnehrrdqoulco4rf5gxg5r/post/3mwsfjrqzys2n

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  “Hang together or we shall all hang separately” said Ben Franklin, signing the Declaration. “But if I appease first,” went some law firms, universities, media orgs, and businesses after Trump’s 2nd election, “that’ll spare me.” Backwards. As Trump’s weak whines about recent press solidarity shows. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2amnkge5a6hplfwyesmxqkfl/post/3mwgadoqknk2n

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  Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.

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  Trump’s Iran War Is a Rolling Disaster With No End in Sight The conflict is expanding, cutting off more oil supply routes—and the president has no idea what to do except lie In @theunpopulist.net@bsky.brid.gy: Trump’s Iran War Is a Rolling ...

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  The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xpgujbkkrjevueb53vpgnetz/post/3mvpvatta6c2o

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  There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mod67y6i5h2mxit7xahnvguz/post/3mvovss33us25

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  No matter what you think of AfD, it’s weird for the US president to publicly comment on a subnational election in Germany, and cheer for a party getting a plurality. The specifics—neo-Nazis, transnational fascist solidarity—make it extra bad. But it’s not normal, and shows where his priorities lie. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mv273a7vxs2f

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  Fresh off failing to end the Iran war, secure any concessions, or even make US surrender stick, and riding on the apparent, deepening failure of their Gaza plan, Jared and Steve head to Moscow to resume their failing effort to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin and reward Russia for its aggression. Trump envoys arrive in Moscow ...

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  Destroying American landmarks and building monuments to himself is an abomination. Not the single worst thing, but emblematic of the whole problem. I feel this too. People have always cared about symbols, many care a lot about symbolism today, and there's virtually no national voice channeling that. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7umvpuxe2vbrc3zrzuquzniu/post/3murkispq3k2u

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  Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwbpna4jtw66gj6c3pksbiad/post/3mun2bfcxgg2a

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  Look, I know the fact that the entire economy didn't totally collapse in the spring means a lot of people think I was wrong when I said the global supply crunch from blocking Hormuz is a big deal and the Iran war will end up crashing the economy, but I still think I'm right. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3mukfvgdt7s26

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  Samuel Alito is corrupt, accepting gifts from people with business before the court, and holding stocks directly impacted by cases he rules on. Those financial conflicts of interest and refusal to accept basic judicial ethics, on their own, warrant impeachment and removal. If the US had standards. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5masqigebv6augvgz62uko5i/post/3muf3fbmw4c2x

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  So cruel. Unnecessary and cruel. And harms the community and country too. I’m having trouble finding the right words. Ones that come to mind are “pogrom” and “the yellow badge.” Which aren’t exact, but the general thrust, the societal impulse, is awfully similar. Every aspect of this is wrong. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wjxe3knvzsjn5lluhxj5v33v/post/3msoorg4gcc27

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  A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won. Judge Pained as He Grants Dism...

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  Your standards for spending time on a website must be: -maximum user growth -seeing many things you find unpleasant or uninteresting -frequent harassment The fact that anyone wants to chat, express themselves, and laugh—ie seeking community, not arena combat or world domination—breaks some brains. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4pxxjie2356nqxd3cwf6hbpk/post/3msap4zqgfc2y

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  REMINDER: A main argument against US aid to Ukraine is the US badly needed to husband missiles and air-defense for the possibility of war with China. Then the US used that and more on war with Iran. And the supposed China hawks said nothing, confirming that they were Russia sympathizers all along.

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  Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.

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  The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eivqo2tskdfn4dbrm3dv2mku/post/3mruogpzj3s2k

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  One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

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  GOP Senator: Dr. Fauci, you prioritized factual evidence and the results of scientifically robust, peer-reviewed public health research, rather than this made up, frequently debunked conspiracy theory I like, didn't you? Fauci: Uh... GOP Senator: Aha, he admits it!

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  US bombing: Iran, Iraq Iran bombing: Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Gulf ships Saudis bombing: Iraq, Yemen Israel bombing: Lebanon, Gaza Houthis bombing: Saudi Arabia, Red Sea ships Hezbollah bombing: Israel Iraqi militias bombing: Saudi Arabia Regional war. Not max intensity, but no end in sight.

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  Iran still blocking Strait of Hormuz. A ship trying to run the strait this weekend hit a sea mine and blew up. US still blockading Iranian shipping. Houthi-Saudi escalation disrupting Red Sea exports. Ukraine hit more Russian oil facilities. Oil prices fell and stocks rose on the news.

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  I don't think the main issue with the president taking a $400 million bribe from a foreign state is that his acceptance of the valuable gift in blatant violation of the Constitution was "rushed." But maybe that's just me.