hmm why wouldn't a free speech zealot want people interviewing his students about how they like their peterson academy coursework? slate.com/life/2024/10...
My fellow students were achingly sincere. But what, exactly, were we learning?
a friend reshared some AI slop of children with cute animals they found on IG. it was innocent enough, but i had to point it out to them that "this is not real, it's computer generated". why bother? because it pervades this other kind of malicious use. you gotta squash AI slop everywhere.
it would be great to see all the online casino and sports betting advertisements just... go away?
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters is looking to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. Out of 2,900 Bibles, only one fits Walters’ criteria: The Trump Bible.
Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.
The legal max an individual can donate to a politician is $3300. But somehow, the 5 largest political donors gave $441.2M to elect Republicans so far this year, to push their billionaire-first, working class-last agenda. This is what rigged campaign finance laws look like.
Biden administration can move forward with student loan forgiveness, federal judge rules
A federal judge will let expire a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration's sweeping new student loan forgiveness plan.
New from me: House Republicans got negative three things done during this congress, including the removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker on this day last year. And they have the nerve — THE AUDACITY — to try to say they deserve another two years as the majority
GOP members of Congress are trying to pitch voters on another term in the majority. There's not much for them to sell.
Yes. Perhaps conservatives are more likely to have content taken down… because they are more likely to spread falsehoods. Fascinating new research that shows *even Republican laypeople* rate the content shared by the right as less truthful. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
i guess that "civil war" movie is kind of like this, but i always wondered why no one has made a movie or dramatization of what that day (and the current day) would be like if J6 was a success. simply telling people what that world would be like doesn't work. people need to see it to understand
Project 2025 is already swinging into operational mode.
The Heritage Foundation is deluging the government with FOIA requests meant to identify employees who have said words like "climate change" in emails and chats so they can be purged when Trump takes office www.propublica.org/article/have...
The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration woul...