NBC Knoxville asked Sexton why he didn't pay his property bills and why he took tens of thousands of dollars in per diems intended for members who live more than 50 miles from Nashville when he has a house 6 miles away.
@CSexton25@twitter.com declined to comment.
@atatassault @SrRochardBunson Yeah, but they are "officials" so they get special velvet glove treatment, unlike ordinary citizens.
When they tell us who they are - believe them.
Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers”
@ai6yr It's all fake anyway because the earth is flat.
@cpoliticditto Haha. I avoid doing that because it's almost guaranteed to trigger the person, causing them to write multiple lengthy responses and unwittingly embarrass themselves in public. Have to show some kindness, you know.
85 years ago.
In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.
He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.
85 years ago.
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/qj.49706427503
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The fallacious argument that I call a Specious Appeal to Fairness.
In Texas, the Republicans won't rest until enough Democratic voters are disqualified from voting, or their votes nullified, to ensure absolute control for Republicans for decades to come.
This is happening nationwide where Republicans control things. It's a national issue.
Yet Big Journalism, apart from sporadic coverage that consistently misses the forest for the trees, continues to miss the emergency represented by that this accelerating attack on democracy.
It's interesting that a completely nonprofit social media protocol with 11,000,000 users is being deemed a "failure" by some tech media pundits. But also, they make their bones by reporting on corporate drama, stock moves, creeping dark patterns, surveillance, etc.
So, actually, of course they're uninterested in a smallish, boring, mostly-just-working social media project.
@tylervu @tess @donmelton Sure, they can profit from it. They just can't do it by manipulating outcomes. They haven't yet learned how to function on a platform where you can't cheat.
Web LLM runs the vicuna-7b Large Language Model entirely in your browser, and it’s very impressive - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/16/web-llm/ "I think the browser is actually a really great place to run an LLM, because it provides a secure sandbox." #LLMs #ai
Donald Trump and his sons spent 4 years promising they didn't engage in international business while he was president.
They lied.
A @CREWcrew analysis of his taxes found that he made up to $160 million from international business dealings as president. https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-made-up-to-160-million-from-foreign-countries-as-president/
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