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please don't miss that the link goes to a site that gives you AI-generated cliffs notes of the books so you don't have to actually read them!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
please don't miss that the link goes to a site that gives you AI-generated cliffs notes of the books so you don't have to actually read them!!
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The EU’s Digital Omnibus could roll back key parts of the GDPR, AI Act, and ePrivacy rules — laws that set global standards for privacy and AI. Leaked drafts suggest companies could get more leeway on data use and slower enforcement, reports Ramsha Jahangir (@ramshajahangir.bsky.social):
EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press
The draft Digital Omnibus could weaken core data protections and give tech companies more leeway in using European data, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
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There is a body under each of these crosses. These American service men gave their lives to save Europe from itself. Now the American government desecrates their memory. It is very painful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There is a body under each of these crosses. These American service men gave their lives to save Europe from itself. Now the American government desecrates their memory. It is very painful.
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GOP Chair, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth).
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
GOP Chair, Tarrant County, Texas (Fort Worth).
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"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."
By moi at @theunpopulist.net: Trump has consolidated more power in a shorter amount of time compared to other authoritarians because his brazen motto is that unless stopped, he'll act lawlessly. He has no interest in staying within the law.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
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November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."
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I did some googling and Spain and Japan both had 50-year mortgages at the height of their property bubbles
The idea was you could pass your mortgage down to your kids or grandkids
Both of their housing markets crashed disastrously and the people who took them out were often ruined
The idea was you could pass your mortgage down to your kids or grandkids
Both of their housing markets crashed disastrously and the people who took them out were often ruined
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I did some googling and Spain and Japan both had 50-year mortgages at the height of their property bubbles
The idea was you could pass your mortgage down to your kids or grandkids
Both of their housing markets crashed disastrously and the people who took them out were often ruined
The idea was you could pass your mortgage down to your kids or grandkids
Both of their housing markets crashed disastrously and the people who took them out were often ruined
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Trump pardoned two GOP officials convicted of defrauding taxpayers—one month after sentencing. Law and order for you, get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends.
Trump can't stop pardoning corrupt Republicans
President Donald Trump added to his growing list of shady pardons after it was announced on Friday that he granted the honor to two Republicans convicted for fraud.
Trump pardoned Glen Casada , ...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Trump pardoned two GOP officials convicted of defrauding taxpayers—one month after sentencing. Law and order for you, get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends.
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It was like two days ago where Bovino and other agents were found to have lied in a deposition about him being assaulted. Video showed the situation was entirely the opposite.
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It was like two days ago where Bovino and other agents were found to have lied in a deposition about him being assaulted. Video showed the situation was entirely the opposite.
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I already pointed out the futility of comparing one use of resources to another; don’t make me tap the sign again.
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The argument here is basically “Since air travel pollutes way more than cars, I doesn’t matter if I buy a giant pickup truck that gets 5 miles per gallon.”
Which is more about assuaging guilt for using something with a known negative impact.
“Doesn’t matter if I use ChatGPT if people eat beef!”
Which is more about assuaging guilt for using something with a known negative impact.
“Doesn’t matter if I use ChatGPT if people eat beef!”
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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James A Garfield, who fell to an assassin's bullet (or more accurately, to medical malpractice) in 1881, is regularly reckoned by historians as one of America's greatest presidents, yet few know his name. This short series tells the remarkable story of the Garfield seven-month presidency.
Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
James A Garfield, who fell to an assassin's bullet (or more accurately, to medical malpractice) in 1881, is regularly reckoned by historians as one of America's greatest presidents, yet few know his name. This short series tells the remarkable story of the Garfield seven-month presidency.
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Altman says AI is too big to fail and "the government ends up as the insurer of last resort."
So, they jack up our water and electricity rates, ruin the internet, destroy our environment... and we're supposed to fork over taxpayer dollars to bail them out when it all goes to shit???
So, they jack up our water and electricity rates, ruin the internet, destroy our environment... and we're supposed to fork over taxpayer dollars to bail them out when it all goes to shit???
"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Altman says AI is too big to fail and "the government ends up as the insurer of last resort."
So, they jack up our water and electricity rates, ruin the internet, destroy our environment... and we're supposed to fork over taxpayer dollars to bail them out when it all goes to shit???
So, they jack up our water and electricity rates, ruin the internet, destroy our environment... and we're supposed to fork over taxpayer dollars to bail them out when it all goes to shit???
Yeah.
I want to briefly elaborate on this. A few know of what I’m going to write. Between 2017 & 2023 I leveraged every senior level contact - including one of the most who is an institution unto himself & great mentor - to try to get picked up where I could be of use. 1/
And some research institutions that can actually help drive things forward while also doing damage control or better yet prevention. Because the ones we’ve got are largely useless & part of how we got into this mess.
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yeah.
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"We power ICE," Karp said on Monday.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'
Palantir sees "accelerating and otherworldly growth" as CEO Alex Karp highlights working with ICE and supporting Israel on an earnings call.
www.businessinsider.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"We power ICE," Karp said on Monday.
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Trump and Orbán will meet at the White House today. David Pressman, former US Ambassador to the UN Security Council and Hungary, explains what Orbán is doing in Washington, and offers a very strong take on what Trump and Orban really have in common. BTW who funds the Heritage Foundation? Orbán does
Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump’s Attacks on Independence
Independence is "fundamental to the health of any democracy—and it has been systematically dismantled in Hungary."
time.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump and Orbán will meet at the White House today. David Pressman, former US Ambassador to the UN Security Council and Hungary, explains what Orbán is doing in Washington, and offers a very strong take on what Trump and Orban really have in common. BTW who funds the Heritage Foundation? Orbán does
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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A Colonel has come forward to say that the U.S. government investigated Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing by an Israeli soldier, and determined that the soldier likely knew he was shooting a journalist. But that finding was whitewashed and covered up by the Biden administration.
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A Colonel has come forward to say that the U.S. government investigated Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing by an Israeli soldier, and determined that the soldier likely knew he was shooting a journalist. But that finding was whitewashed and covered up by the Biden administration.
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Richest nation in human history
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Richest nation in human history
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So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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The AP does exactly what professional journalists are supposed to do: identify and describe some of the 60 plus persons summarily executed by Trump and Hegseth. One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The AP does exactly what professional journalists are supposed to do: identify and describe some of the 60 plus persons summarily executed by Trump and Hegseth. One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
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Am watching this now and it’s fantastic. The casting is perfect.
I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
Death by Lightning Series-Premiere Recap: A Man Can Be Anyone
Two very different sorts of narcissist — the 20th U.S. president and the man who shot him — set off on a crash course for the history books.
www.vulture.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Am watching this now and it’s fantastic. The casting is perfect.