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Brian Bruce
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Why should cops have to abide by such trivial things like the immutable laws of physics? Doesn't the universe know that they have a Very Important job to do like raiding medical clinics for no reason?

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What makes the death of Marcellus Williams at the hand of the state so disgusting is the reason for killing him seems to be “we can’t call the whole process into question because we had to admit we were wrong”. At that point you’re so upside-down morally that I don’t know how you get upright.

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This paper is only ‘controversial’ because people with vested interests misrepresented what it does and doesn’t say. You can see by the screaming hab-dabs that the usual suspects have been having, breaking the embargo to slag it off on X, that this is uncomfortable for those pushing other stories.

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That baseball had a family!

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It just seemed like news that Trump was raving in Nassau County about driving out people who came from "the Congo....Africa..the Middle East...Asia," and then it seemed even more like news that none of the coverage mentioned it defector.com/where-racism...

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The former and would-be future president continued: 

They're coming from the Congo, they're coming from Africa, they're coming from the Middle East, they're coming from all over the world—Asia! A lot of it coming from Asia. And what's happening to our country is we're just destroying the fabric of life in our country, and we're not going to take it any longer, and you got to get rid of these people. Give me a shot.

This was spectacularly racist, explicitly racist against the majority of all the nonwhite people on Earth, the most racist thing I'd seen a presidential candidate—Donald Trump included—say in my lifetime. It was a barrage straight out of a Ku Klux Klan rally: Congo! Africa! Middle East! Asia! We're not going to take it any longer! Get rid of these people!
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I would have said it was obviously shocking, except both shock and obviousness have become tenuous concepts in American politics. When I went to look up references to the quote after seeing it go by on social media, I began to worry that the original poster might have made it up for clout; I saw no mention of Trump talking about "the Congo" last night on Google News or in major reporters' Twitter accounts. 

But I went to C-SPAN and there Trump was, saying it. The Nassau County crowd—in what the New York Post recently reported that U.S. News had rated the safest community in the country—cheered as Trump vowed to drive out the immigrant crime menace. "November 5 will be your Liberation Day," he told them.
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1/ As people watch the ongoing success of Roberta (“Robbie”) Kaplan in litigation against former President Trump (representing E. Jean Carroll), there’s a subplot. Robbie Kaplan’s mentor at the Paul Weiss law firm was Marty London. Donald Trump’s first mento was the infamous lawyer Roy Cohn.

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No doubt all those "undecided" voters are quite disappointed.

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As a person who works n a computing-focused field, we hear way too much about the wonders of AI. But someone smart on here said that AI is a way of giving the wealthy access to skill without giving the skilled access to wealth and I can’t stop thinking about that.

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Like many pet owners, I've had to deal with them going missing. It never once occurred to me to wonder if my neighbors ate them.

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Along those lines, my biggest concern with AI isn't when it gets things hilariously wrong, but when it gives wrong but plausible responses.

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Brian Bruce
@brianvancebruce.bsky.social
If at first you don't succeed, grab a bigger hammer.
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