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Lawyer living in Augusta, GA. Not your lawyer.
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about to press the build button on the best update I think we've ever had Hashtags, mute words, share integration on mobile, an update to the header on the desktop web app, and a new feature where posts show their real authors (wow!)

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Not only does Fulton County routinely use cell phone tower evidence, but in a 2022 case, they successfully argued that it was so persuasive, despite the lack of an eyewitness to the shooting, that any error in improperly admitting evidence of another shooting was harmless.

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SAimanisthere.bsky.social

By Noor Hindi

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“Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying,” by Noor Hindi:
“Colonizers write about flowers./
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli/
tanks/
seconds before becoming daisies./
I want to be like those poets who care about the/
moon./
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and/
prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon./
They’re so beautiful, the flowers./
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad./
He watches Al Jazeera all day./
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy/ Ramadan./
I know I’m American because when I walk into a/
room something dies./
Metaphors about death are for poets who think/
ghosts care about sound./
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever./
One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own/
them./
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WOnytimes.wtf

[standing atop a mountain like the Grinch, upset that Whoville isn't wallowing in sorrow]

The New Work Times
The U.S. Seems to Be Dodging a Recession. What Could Still Go Wrong?
Economists have become increasingly optimistic about the odds of a soft landing. But as 2024 begins to unfold, risks remain.
6 MIN READ
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TFthomasfuchs.at

Petition to bring back the term "Cybercrud" for what's happening right now with "AI" (from "Computer Lib", 1974)

Cybercrud takes numerous forms. All of them, however, share the patina of "science" that computers have for the layman.
1a) COMPUTER AS MAGIC WORD
The most delicate, and seemingly innocent, technique is the practice of naming things so as spuriously to suggest that they involve computers.
Thus there is a manufacturer of pot-pipes with
"Data" in its name, and apparently a pornography house with a "Cyber-",
1b) COMPUTER AS MAGIC INGREDIENT
The above seems silly, but it is no less silly than talking about "computer predictions" and
"computer studies" of things. The mere fact that a computer is involved in something has no bearing on its character or validity. The way things are done with computers affects their character and validity, just like the way things are done without computers. (Indeed, merely using a computer often has no bearing on the way things are done.)
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EBedburmila.bsky.social

I know our major media outlets are busy doing 10 stories per day about Ivy League campus intrigue but I feel like the fact that 215 bodies were discovered in a pit behind a jail in Jackson MS earlier this year probably merited a mention or two. Maybe even a few follow up questions.

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MHmichaelhobbes.bsky.social

There are numerous AI chatbots closer to self-awareness than this

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LOknilirabaj.bsky.social

Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 3, 1968. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

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MSmommunism.bsky.social

Only quote I ever feel like sharing on MLK Day is this one

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;

Martin Luther King Jr Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963
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Lawyer living in Augusta, GA. Not your lawyer.
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