Kari Lake REFERRED for CRIMINAL PROSECUTION in Arizona https://youtu.be/SmFsst3DxP8
@TonyStark People don’t realize that the holocaust didn’t happen overnight. Erasing a people, their culture and their identity is a crime. It’s called #EthnicCleansing. This is precisely what ALEC and their ilk are trying to do to United States history. This is not okay, this is the road down to #authoritarianism and a racist society. This makes my stomach churn.
A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/
No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.
Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...
... the *algae* is producing the electrons.
Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8
Convert Plain English To Commands Using GPT-3 Powered Shell Genie
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/02/convert-plain-english-to-commands-using.html
#Linux #Shell #AI #GPT3
I'm not sure where that came from, because it takes longer to say than "July 4th", but for some reason that one particuly holiday has been called the Fourth of July as long as I can remember. Typically Americans have liked to shorten things but there is also this thing about tradition, and in that case I suspect tradition wone out.
@TonyStark Sometimes I wonder how they convince people to vote against their own self interest… oh yeah. I forgot.
Cartoon by Ward Sutton
Police are almost always totally unaccountable professionally, criminally, and civilly. It gives them a sense of limitless authority, which they often execute with impunity.
It’s past time we moved on from policing as it presently exists and to a different model. Police abolition isn’t about letting criminals get away with crimes. It is about replacing this corrupt and broken institution with community/civil protection units that have specialized skills, which can be deployed as and where needed.
How the Supreme Court Protects Police Officers-
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/police-misconduct-consequences-qualified-immunity/672899/
The College Board has rolled over and scrubbed its AP African American History curriculum of CRT content deemed "offensive" by Ron DeSantis. And, might I add, right at the start of Black History Month.
Who believes blue states should boycott this for-profit and for-DeSantis company?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html
#DeSantis #DeathSantis #RonDeSantis #Florida #politics #uspol #blackhistorymonth #uspolitics
The legal recruiting work of Jane Roberts, wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, involved officials whose agencies had cases before the Supreme Court, according to testimony related to a lawsuit filed by a former business colleague of hers.
#Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Will Finally Bring Wayland Support.
https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-20-desktop-environment-will-finally-bring-wayland-support
Financial Times Sets Up Mastodon Server, Realizes Laws Exist (Which It Was Already Subject To), Pulls Down Mastodon Server https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/financial-times-sets-up-mastodon-server-realizes-laws-exist-which-it-was-already-subject-to-pulls-down-mastodon-server/
Advocates are worried a new bill in Massachusetts could coerce prisoners into giving up body parts to reduce their sentences.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p8k5/lawmakers-want-prisoners-to-trade-their-organs-and-bone-marrow-for-freedom
#Technews #Massachusetts #prison #jail #Transplant #organs
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James says Donald #Trump and three of his adult children lied to the court in the answers they submitted in response to James' $250M lawsuit accusing them and the Trump Organization of large-scale financial fraud.
I had a disturbing encounter in a retail store yesterday. A masked sales associate approached me with friendly greeting & then dissolved into tears.
Me: Are you OK?
SA: Just tears of relief; I approached you because you were wearing a #mask, so I knew you wouldn't say anything nasty to me about wearing mine.
I can't afford to get #Covid, I just finished my cancer treatment.
Everyday she receives jaw-dropping, stomach-turning anti-mask comments. 🥺
Another new low for an investor-owned utility that can't manage to send an accurate bill if it tried, threatening to shut off a customer in western New York, in February, because they didn't cough up 5 cents.
https://bird.makeup/users/WHEC_JLewke/statuses/1620845380287205376
The Fed raises interest rates for the eighth time in a year, but slows its pace to a quarter of a point in a nod to an improved inflation outlook https://cnn.it/3XUH4Vj
New House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has vowed to use his position to investigate “waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement” in federal COVID loans. But if that’s the case, he might actually find himself looking into his own role in that program—as well as his brother’s. #ppploans #GOPcorruption #GOPhypocrisy #VoteOutRepubliCONS
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-chair-james-comer-wants-to-probe-ppp-programhe-might-start-at-home