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Let’s see, what’s going to happen first? An assault weapons ban? Or a supreme court ethics policy?

Oh, never mind.

@froomkin

The original sin of Fox is the simple genius of the “fair and balanced” marketing ploy. By making the claim, anyone questioning it can immediately be dismissed as biased. It’s been the favorite tactic of the right ever since. 

Why expand the Supreme Court? How about getting rid of the people that shouldn’t be there?

Clarence Thomas is our latest outrage du jour. Wouldn't it be nice if we could stop finding new indignities, and start doing something about the ones we already have?

@ryansingel

I would FAR prefer a 1 minute chatGPT summary of the Trump indictment to 72 hours of nauseating cable news dreck pretending to be more than an infomercial for that Lumedeo lady that demonstrates the way she applies her deodorant cream.

@fonecokid

If we close all the McDonald’s, they won’t be able to get their happy meals and they’ll go home. Violence problem solved.

@iuculano

Did he make a doo doo? Did he make a doo doo? I can’t wait to hear what he has for lunch!!

@TomWellborn

“Peter?”

“Yes lord”

“I think I can see your house from up here”

“History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you even better because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us.” -Joe Madison

#BlackMastodon #Mastodon #history #usa

I am, very sadly, in full agreement with @owillis: "There is no hope left here. The mainstream press isn’t going to have a moment of reflection or shame when they realize what they have collectively done to wound America’s legacy."
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The Media Isn't Liberal, And It Hasn't Learned Anything From Trump Or Iraq oliverwillis.substack.com/p/th
twitter.com/owillis/status/164

@Andrew@federated.press @SpinozasHeresy @BenjaminHan @jeffjarvis

@andrew @SpinozasHeresy @BenjaminHan @jeffjarvis

For more on the difficulties of the AI question, John Searles’ “Chinese Box” thought experiment is instructive. /2

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chines

@Andrew@federated.press @SpinozasHeresy @BenjaminHan @jeffjarvis

@andrew @SpinozasHeresy @BenjaminHan @jeffjarvis

I don’t have the space here, but Wikipedia is a good place to understand the difficulties with the definition of mind. /1

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind

@nerthos

8 percent. Again, do thy will is the whole of the law. Vote.

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