Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
@clacke Hahaha. That's true.
Of course, I'm really old. I'm just old enough to have caught the tail end of the newsreel era. (in black and white, of course.)
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Being poor is not a moral failing as the ruling class would have you believe, but hoarding absurd amounts of wealth while there's people going hungry sure as hell is.
@MnemosyneSinger I'm originally from Los Angeles. Living now for many years in West Virginia has been an education. A lot of poor people here. Most of them believe that poverty results from stupidity. They believe that rich people are, by definition, good people, hard working, honest, and blessed by God. If you drive up in a nice car wearing a suit, they'll believe anything to tell them.
I'm sure this is the same in Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.
This is a huge problem that has to be fixed, but I have no idea how. I frequently disabuse people of these utterly wrong beliefs, but I'm just one person and there are millions of them.
@freemo I'll be watching this thread. I've de-Googled myself almost completely. One of the problem areas is Calendar, where I maintain calendars that are shared with up to 20 people, most of whom are not computer people and barely know how to use a smartphone.
@susankayequinn @cynblogger @breadandcircuses Yes. Good thing we have scientific notation, huh?
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Merrick Garland had made the claim that the Dept of Justice was not going to be political However he appointed a partisan right-wing political activist as special counsel who was appointed by Trump to investigate #POTUS classified documents while finding Biden did nothing wrong he went on to diagnose the president as being old and mental nevertheless not a single word from AG Garland condemning the prosecutor for inappropriate behavior.HE MUST BE FIRED and democrats needs to call this out now.
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US FCC says AI-generated voices in robocalls are now illegal. https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-confirms-tcpa-applies-ai-technologies-generate-human-voices
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"Both seek to subvert confidence in democratic systems—most especially in elections. And both seek to stoke feelings of persecution and existential danger in their followers."
Put this story together with the current finding that 74% of Republicans are salivating for a Trump dictatorship, and you can only conclue that America — and the whole world — are in serious danger.
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Tucker Carlson is not a useful idiot. Not precisely. The term implies naïveté, but he seems to know exactly what he’s doing. …
For the past several years, Carlson’s project has been consonant with Putin’s. Both seek to sow division in the United States. Both seek to flood the zone with s— so that people won’t know what to believe or whom to trust. Both seek to undermine confidence in institutions."
~ Mona Charen
#TuckerCarlson #Putin #Trump
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https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/tucker-carlsons-fatal-attraction
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AI got heavy investment in 2018 by murderous despots like Mohammed bin Salman.
AI investors are desperate to launch it in time to disrupt the 2024 elections & make a buck off the anti-democracy billionaires buying Trump a throne.
Bernie Marcus
#KochNetwork
Robert & Rebekah Mercer
Dick Uihlein
Peter Thiel
Omeed Malik
Larry Ellison
Elon Musk
Be prepared for an onslaught of AI generated BS in the prelude to the November elections.
They got Trump elected and prolonged a pandemic.
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2/ Via Acyn:
Kennedy: I don't see how anybody could look at this bill and confidently predict it would have been an improvement.
MacCallum: The chief of the border patrol just said exactly that. #ClusterFox
@karlauerbach Good point. Ahem.
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You know what the coolest feature about the Web is?
(It's none of the things that have been added to it in the last 30 years.)
The coolest feature of the World Wide Web is that a fucking HTML page from like 1993 still renders perfectly fine today.
It's not often you see "heavy snow" and "San Diego" in the same sentence.
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Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.
Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024
"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."
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.@jrpsaki: "Are you concerned about your own personal security?"
Colorado Sec. of State @jenagriswold: "I've been concerned about my safety since 2021 when the threats started to roll in. When this case was filed back in September, within 3 weeks... I had 64 death threats."
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Two things mustn't be allowed to happen:
1. #Russia mustn't be allowed to redraw #Ukraine's borders.
2. #Israel mustn't be allowed to take #Gaza / #Palestine or expel the Palestinians from their lands.
If the US/West fail to stop these 2 things, then the right of conquest, which became illegal after the end of WW2 according to UN intl law, will be normalized again. And if that happens, then the world will head towards WW3. It'll encourage copycats to do the same thing.
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🇷🇺 Some Russian banks appear to have maneuvered around a ban on shipping dollars and euros to the country by trading gold in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, according to research from a financial-intelligence company.
The report:
https://sayari.com/resources/rpt-russian-banks-cash-for-gold/
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‘Audience of One’: Alina Habba Gets Super Nasty and Tells E. Jean Carroll Not to Buy Anything Expensive https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/02/audience-of-one-alina-habba-gets-super-nasty-and-tells-e-jean-carroll-not-to-buy-anything-expensive/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
