Harry Hop
@harrythop.bsky.social
People don't eat in the long run, they eat every day
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No doubt Gaza has BECOME the predominant explanation for Biden opposition among his haters, but all the polling evidence suggests most of those people already opposed him before.
January 18, 2024 at 10:45 PM
No doubt Gaza has BECOME the predominant explanation for Biden opposition among his haters, but all the polling evidence suggests most of those people already opposed him before.
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Gorsuch 'borrows', with examples cited as 'sloppy', and definitely keeps his job, while Claudine Gay 'plagiarizes' and is forced out. The differential treatment of Gorsuch compared to Gay, and the ultimate consequences, are so ridiculously obvious. www.politico.com/story/2017/0...
January 3, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Gorsuch 'borrows', with examples cited as 'sloppy', and definitely keeps his job, while Claudine Gay 'plagiarizes' and is forced out. The differential treatment of Gorsuch compared to Gay, and the ultimate consequences, are so ridiculously obvious. www.politico.com/story/2017/0...
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just an ongoing, unannounced work slowdown/strike by cops in many cities bsky.app/profile/ones...
January 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM
just an ongoing, unannounced work slowdown/strike by cops in many cities bsky.app/profile/ones...
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The real John Brown was smart enough to understand electoral politics and propaganda. He killed slavers in Kansas because there was an election to win and they were interfering in it.
January 10, 2024 at 6:36 AM
The real John Brown was smart enough to understand electoral politics and propaganda. He killed slavers in Kansas because there was an election to win and they were interfering in it.
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The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative.
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The Biden Administration Has Reached Conservation Records in 2023
After three years in office, it is clear that the Biden administration is safeguarding public lands at a record rate; in the coming year, it must continue its conservation progress through community-l...
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January 8, 2024 at 4:05 PM
The Biden-Harris administration has been by far the best in terms of climate change, endangered species conservation, and science-based environmental management decisions. It’s not close. As a conservation policy scientist, I’d be strongly supporting them even if Trump wasn’t the alternative.
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
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Friday newsletter, free to all. Jamie Raskin, through sheer grit, proved what we all knew: Trump was accepting payments from foreign governments his entire presidency. But House leaders and Senate Dems seem uninterested in building on his work.
Jamie Raskin Uncovers Proof Of Trump's Foreign Bribes
Let this be a wakeup call to the rest of the party: digging for dirt is worth it
www.offmessage.net
January 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Friday newsletter, free to all. Jamie Raskin, through sheer grit, proved what we all knew: Trump was accepting payments from foreign governments his entire presidency. But House leaders and Senate Dems seem uninterested in building on his work.
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seems like most of this would go away if Israel would just STOP www.politico.com/news/2024/01...
The war in Gaza may widen. The Biden admin is getting ready for it.
That could put President Joe Biden in the center of a messy Middle East conflict in the midst of a bruising re-election campaign.
www.politico.com
January 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM
seems like most of this would go away if Israel would just STOP www.politico.com/news/2024/01...
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One lesson Dems learned from Roe: Lock in your gains. Got the Respect for Marriage Act signed like 10 minutes before the GOP House took over
January 4, 2024 at 3:18 AM
One lesson Dems learned from Roe: Lock in your gains. Got the Respect for Marriage Act signed like 10 minutes before the GOP House took over
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the thing that gets me about these tankies is that I knew more global history in first grade than they do at 40
I remember someone On Here claiming that Russia wasn't as bad as the US because only the US had 'turned whole cities and regions to rubble'--and I'm just like... Aleppo? Mariupol? Grozny?
The breadth of atrocity denial from some folks is truly astonishing.
The breadth of atrocity denial from some folks is truly astonishing.
January 3, 2024 at 11:02 PM
the thing that gets me about these tankies is that I knew more global history in first grade than they do at 40
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“You condemn my side’s war crimes, guess you support my enemies’ war crimes then” no bitch dats a whole new sentence
January 3, 2024 at 11:05 PM
“You condemn my side’s war crimes, guess you support my enemies’ war crimes then” no bitch dats a whole new sentence
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I like to periodically re-assert how I approve of no war crimes whatsoever regardless of who does them, just so I can block all the shitlords who pop up to try to argue with me about it
January 3, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I like to periodically re-assert how I approve of no war crimes whatsoever regardless of who does them, just so I can block all the shitlords who pop up to try to argue with me about it
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when I say the law doesn’t matter, I want to be clear that I mean that pretty literally. you can’t legislate or litigate your way out of this. they’ll take a word and just pretend it means the opposite if that fits their policy preferences.
BREAKING: Fifth Circuit unanimously holds that federal emergency room protections (EMTALA) do not mandate that physicians provide abortions when that is the "stabilizing treatment" needed, upholding a lower-court injunction issued in a lawsuit brought by Texas against the Biden admin. More to come:
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January 2, 2024 at 10:05 PM
when I say the law doesn’t matter, I want to be clear that I mean that pretty literally. you can’t legislate or litigate your way out of this. they’ll take a word and just pretend it means the opposite if that fits their policy preferences.
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My fav line in a good thread. "As attorney general/congressman/whatever I will go after the scammers stealing from people and making your phone unusable." Somebody try it, it'll work
Like if you couldn't physically walk out of your house without being harassed by an endless stream of criminal gangs trying to extort you we would recognize that as a disaster but somehow because that's instead happening on the electronic device that people spend most of their day on it's fine?
January 3, 2024 at 12:55 AM
My fav line in a good thread. "As attorney general/congressman/whatever I will go after the scammers stealing from people and making your phone unusable." Somebody try it, it'll work
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This phenomenon where we've basically given scammers free reign over the entire internet/major telecom systems, damaging society on a spectrum from "constant nuisance" all the way up to madness like "kidnap yourself," is a global problem that no one is doing enough about imho
Missing exchange student found cold and scared after what police call a ‘cyber-kidnapping’ | CNN
Utah police say they found a teenage Chinese exchange student alone and cold in a tent after he was a victim of what they’re calling a “cyber-kidnapping.”
www.cnn.com
January 2, 2024 at 7:01 PM
This phenomenon where we've basically given scammers free reign over the entire internet/major telecom systems, damaging society on a spectrum from "constant nuisance" all the way up to madness like "kidnap yourself," is a global problem that no one is doing enough about imho
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I still think that making this a major party plank would be an easy win for Democrats
This phenomenon where we've basically given scammers free reign over the entire internet/major telecom systems, damaging society on a spectrum from "constant nuisance" all the way up to madness like "kidnap yourself," is a global problem that no one is doing enough about imho
Missing exchange student found cold and scared after what police call a ‘cyber-kidnapping’ | CNN
Utah police say they found a teenage Chinese exchange student alone and cold in a tent after he was a victim of what they’re calling a “cyber-kidnapping.”
www.cnn.com
January 3, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I still think that making this a major party plank would be an easy win for Democrats
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chappelle has an advanced case of rich guy and transphobia brain worms. has completely destroyed his ability to be funny or even transgressive in an interesting way. it’s pure, oppositional, “i’m doing this because someone asked me not to”
Cancelled into another multimillion dollar special, this is bad even for Chappelle. Something tells me Netflix wrote their "omg we didn't realize this was hurtful" press release before they even signed the check this time.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
![The Dreamer plays more like a traditional comedy special than 2021’s ultra-controversial The Closer — which was criticized for being hyper-focused on the trans community and Chappelle defensively responding to his critics — yet the comedian still targets marginalized groups, such as the disabled. One lengthy bit in the new special is about paraplegic former North Carolina Republican representative Madison Cawthorn, who famously alleged he was invited to Washington sex parties. “I don’t doubt they do this shit in Washington [but] who the fuck invites a paraplegic to an orgy?” Chappelle wondered, and, at one point, declared: “I love punching down!”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4jfgpnpcxd2be2hekn5iocf/bafkreicpbrxsoktcdq7kavwzixauvfg6arz6z35bckprev43luntpba6fy@jpeg)
December 31, 2023 at 9:41 PM
chappelle has an advanced case of rich guy and transphobia brain worms. has completely destroyed his ability to be funny or even transgressive in an interesting way. it’s pure, oppositional, “i’m doing this because someone asked me not to”
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When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.
January 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM
When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.
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Yep. That means any hope of ending the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court depends on holding the Senate in 2024.
I hope everyone gets that if Democrats don't hold the Senate this year, it will likely be the GOP's to lose for the rest of our lives.
January 1, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Yep. That means any hope of ending the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court depends on holding the Senate in 2024.
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I hope everyone gets that if Democrats don't hold the Senate this year, it will likely be the GOP's to lose for the rest of our lives.
January 1, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I hope everyone gets that if Democrats don't hold the Senate this year, it will likely be the GOP's to lose for the rest of our lives.
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Love not being able to take my kids to the library on Sundays anymore for this
Adams claims migrants are bankrupting NYC. Meanwhile, overtime for subway cops is up 3875% in one year. No, that's not a typo: 3875%. gothamist.com/news/nypd-ov...
NYPD overtime pay in the subway went from $4 million to $155 million this year
Subway crime is down slightly. Fare evasion tickets and arrests are way up.
gothamist.com
December 22, 2023 at 1:36 PM
Love not being able to take my kids to the library on Sundays anymore for this
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If your argument is that we need to endlessly prop up The Nazi Store because it's a moral imperative that everyone be supplied the opportunity to relitigate whether nazis are bad you're not making a free speech/marketplace of ideas argument you're just saying we need subsidies for nazis
December 22, 2023 at 7:13 PM
If your argument is that we need to endlessly prop up The Nazi Store because it's a moral imperative that everyone be supplied the opportunity to relitigate whether nazis are bad you're not making a free speech/marketplace of ideas argument you're just saying we need subsidies for nazis