Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

When a “conservative”’tells you they want to protect the America I grew-up in, i remember that America:

Black men were lynched.
Wives were raped by their husbands and it was legal.
Women couldn’t have credit cards.
Gay men were sent to prison.
Marijuana possession was punishable by life in prison.
Teenagers were drafted and sent to die in far-away lands.
Birth control was illegal.
Clergy raped children with impunity.

I am only 65-years-old. I don’t want to go back to the good old days.

Kalief Browder was 100% innocent. He was a good student and had never been arrested. He was accused of stealing a backpack, even though no backpack was found on him or anywhere near him when he was arrested. There was literally zero evidence. But they sent him to Rikers for 3 years, hoping he would confess to something that everyone knew he didn't do. He never confessed. And it broke him.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kv6gSl4JcFA

If he had paid the $3,000 for bail, the prosecutors would have dropped the case.

This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it
Here’s what we can learn from it
Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.

I don't think this is the pivotal issue or "Biden's Problem"

Biden's problem is that the Democrats decided that it would be "safer" not to have a primary after he said that he would only serve for one term when running and that's not sitting well with many.

Republicans have made a worse decision:letting Trump run at all. Both decisions were driven by cowardice.

If we want to talk about why Biden's poll number are poor we need to talk about the fact there isn't a real primary.

They Tried to Expose #Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored #Prisoners' Petitions.
No One Listened.
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The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted.

Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard.

#CriminalJustice #Courts #Judges #Crime #News #Prisons

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-judges-ignored-prisoners-petitions-without-review-fifth-circuit?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

CNBC, owned by Comcast, is marking the #cop28 talks by shutting down its climate desk and firing the reporters. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/catclifford_for-13-years-running-i-have-continued-a-activity-7132409726738276355-pITl/
#climate

Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Western Scottish Highlands and another example of being in the right place at the right time to catch a burst of autumnal sunshine, highlighting the colours of the season. Sometimes, luck is on your side!

#Scotland #highlands #autumn #landscape #photography

On Election Day, Biden will be 29,936 days old.

Trump will be 28,634 days old.

Biden will be ~4% older than Trump.

Is Biden at least 4% more honest?
4% more intelligent?
4% more experienced?
4% more stable?
4% more qualified to be president?

Many, many times that, folks.

Trends in November #Arctic sea ice thickness over the last four decades. Unsurprisingly, ice is thinning across the entire Arctic Ocean.

Simulated data from PIOMAS. For more information: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0436.1

"Thanksgiving" is an annual celebration of settler colonialism, manifest destiny, and white supremacy, on which white European-American Christians give thanks to their god for having "given" them territorial control and ideological hegemony over a continent inhabited by other people with other ideas, and reify the myth that the Puritans (violently intolerant religious fundamentalists) were seeking "religious freedom" rather than seeking an opportunity to impose their control and beliefs.

It would be a totally different story if the 81 year old was bad at his job because of his age. In fact, I think his age has been a PLUS in a very complicated time. He's gotten A LOT of things done. I'm not on board with all his choices, but SO FUCKING WHAT. OVERALL, he's done very well. He's a BRIDGE to the future. The future WE HAVE TO CHANGE TOGETHER. So, save the bullshit, juvenile take that someone is only good if they do EVERYTHING YOU think is right in this moment in time.

Bernie: “The blank check approach must end. The US must make clear that while we are friends of Israel, there are conditions to that friendship & that we cannot be complicit in actions that violate international law & our own sense of decency.”calls for end to indiscriminate bombing, the right of displaced Gazans to return; no long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza; an end to West Bank settler violence & a freeze on expansion; commitment to talks for 2-state solution. #gift https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/bernie-sanders-israel-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AU0.OBHq.vOardFzlLFX5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

""The whining, the snowflakery coming from the Trump people," Scarborough added. "I mean, a snowflake falls on their shoulders, and they're victimized. They're victimized by history books on Hank Aaron, they're victimized by kids' books on Roberto Clemente. They're victimized by tweets – you name it, they are victimized by everything. They are such weak snowflakes, and they're using that victimization to justify violence against their opponents."

https://www.rawstory.com/is-donald-trump-a-fascist/

"The war is only serving Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu. As the war goes on, he will get support from our politicians and from world leaders, this is his strategy."

~ Maoz Inon, whose parents were killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israelis

#Israel #Hamas #Palestinians #ceasefire #Netanyahu

https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-victims-family-calls-for-ceasefire-war-is-only-serving-hamas-and-netanyahu

"Safety teams within the company pushed to slow things down. These teams worked to refine ChatGPT to refuse certain types of abusive requests and to respond to other queries with more appropriate answers. But they struggled to build features such as an automated function that would ban users who repeatedly abused ChatGPT. In contrast, the company’s product side wanted to build on the momentum and double down on commercialization."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt-chaos/676050/

Who wants to bet the AI is working exactly as United designed it to work

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/amp/

Excellent expose (with photos) of Alberta Canada’s horrifying oil sands.

Climate killing carbon pollution the equivalent of burning 90 BILLION POUNDS OF COAL.
Every year.

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilsands-photos/
#ClimateChange #Energy #FossilFuels

Hey!
Second round of #free, delivered-to-you COVID #tests. Get yours, and test everyone before partying during the holidays. Few things would suck more than giving everyone there #COVID that you didn’t know you had.

https://www.covid.gov/tests