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[anon15383236]

Fuck Today, Continued

The way this situation is described is disturbing. Starting with Oakland and leaning into narratives about lack of community support for the police sounds like victim blaming: “Communities that are especially impacted by gun violence believe that the police are ineffective or indifferent, and as a result, they’re less willing to cooperate and provide information the police need to have successful investigations,” says Cook, who has several research articles on the topic coming out. “It is un…

[HMSGoose]

Rather than regulate guns, Texas seeks to teach battlefield trauma care beginning in the third grade

Even if we were to set aside the basic obscenity of the proposal, it isn’t very likely to be successful. Among adults who have had stop the bleed trainings, correct application of different types of tourniquets (beyond the CAT ones used in the original training) is pretty low, in lab settings. Effectiveness of the American College of Surgeons Bleeding Control Basic Training Among Laypeople Applying Different Tourniquet Types - PMC The existing trainings use guides like inches and finger widths,…

[Sally_Mahoney]

AI translation puts asylum seekers in jeopardy

And this is how “AI” destroys society - not by becoming a tyrant super-intelligence, but by humans adopting stupid tools they know don’t work, but pretending they do, causing an increase in the stupidity of human-run systems (or, worse, handing over those systems to unintelligent computer systems entirely).

[Bunbain]

You can call me AI

Time to start Yet Another Hypertext Online Organizer. It would have to be manually curated from what scraps remain of “content” that are not in walled gardens; just the “good stuff” created by humans who had something intelligent or creative to say to the world. Maybe we could even distribute some server tools to make it easy for people to put up sites on their internet-connected computers. Oh wait, that sounds too much like a publicly minded academic exercise that doesn’t lend itse…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Louisiana man shoots 14-year-old neighbor in head after she strays into his yard playing hide-and-seek with other kids

Jesus said to him “Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will die by the sword.” He replied to Jesus, “What about responsible sword owners? If good guys put our swords back then only bad guys will have swords.” And verily, Jesus did slap his own forehead.

[VeronicaConnor]

Anderson Cooper defends CNN's Donald Trump "town hall" and it ain't good

“Do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?” What an idiotic justification. Exposing a room already bathed in klieg lights to sunlight offers no value in terms of disinfection. CNN did no-one a service by giving a platform to a known liar and fascist.

[TornPaperNapkin]

Democrat wins Jacksonville, Florida mayor race in "major upset"

Democrat Donna Deegan decidedly defeats defiant dumb dude Daniel Davis despite district’s DeSantis dominance!

Boinger’s brilliant banter brightens bbs.

[anon15383236]

Bada bing bada boom!

[Sally_Mahoney]

Target to remove LGBTQ-themed merchandise from stores to appease conservatives

Weird how the “for the safety of staff” bullshit is because of threats by the fucking fascists in the first place. Most people here on the threads are white, and straight. You probably have no real idea how tiring this all is to queer people. How draining. How desperate it makes us feel, constantly. Every day, another “request” for us to be hidden, another threat, another assualt, another rule, another lie, another law, another murder, EVERY FUCKING DAY. Then there’s a little glimmer as some…

[Sally_Mahoney]

State lawmakers want children to work in bars on school nights to fill "labor shortage" caused by people refusing to work for a pittance

They are the party of child workers because they refuse to be the party of fair wages for hard working adults. They are the party of children birthing children because they refuse to be the party of a woman’s right to healthcare choices, including abortion. They are the party of children being slaughtered in their schools because they refuse to be the party of sensible laws that reduce gun violence. They are the party of death and destruction because they refuse to be the party of science, of…

[anon94804983]

The Ongoing Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 3)

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Ron DeSantis supports pastor who says gay people should be "put to death"

There are no moderate Republicans. There are no centrist positions. We have a right wing which openly embraces fascism, terrorism and genocide and then everybody else. EVERY Republican endorses this garbage or at best is too chickenshit to oppose and call out those who do.

[VeronicaConnor]

A perfect and concise summary of why purely objective journalism is easy to want but impossible to have:

CNN fires CEO Chris Licht after a pretty bad, Trump-friendly year

Fact: a lot of cities are covered in smoke right now. Fact: a lot of cities are covered in smoke right now because the boreal forest is on fire. Fact: a lot of cities are covered in smoke right now because the boreal forest is on fire, thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures. Fact: a lot of cities are covered in smoke right now because the boreal forest is on fire, thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures that anthropogenic warming has made normal. Fact: a lot of cities are covered in smoke…

[anon94804983]

Federal charges for Donald Trump

Instead of masks, we’ll all don bad yellow wigs and spray tans. Don’t stand there and tarry on 6th January Remember the Qnuts mad plot. I give no affection to Chump’s insurrection and never will it be forgot.

[Sally_Mahoney]

The rise and fall of the "Anti-Woke" industrial complex

I’m currently woke but it’s Sunday, it’s raining, and we don’t have to work so about noon I’ll be anti woke on the couch.

[anon94804983]

GOP congressmen Clay Higgins and Andy Biggs call for violence

You know you’re in a cult when, if presented with a mountain of evidence your cult leader committed crimes, you cant accept it, and decide to just destroy everything.

[anon94804983]

Outraged Republicans try — but fail — to expel a Democratic lawmaker for hiding the Bible in Arizona House

I like how Mike Lee’s excuse for having a weirdo-extremist version of the Constitution was that he carries “many versions” - So, how many are we talking here? A Constitution in a shoulder-holster under each arm? That plus a “back-up piece” Constitution strapped to his ankle and another two Constitutions on spring-loaded launchers up his sleeves, Travis Bickle style? Does he pause on his way out the house every day to open a secret panel in his hallway and chose which versions he’s going to stra…

[anon61221983]

Scientists study why people do not believe in scientific studies

Hard disagree on this. And this is my every fucking day life. There are certainly lefty science deniers, but they were never militant, threatening, personally offended science deniers, they were more along the lines of gnostic, secret knowledge types. The right wing took the pre-existing fascist tendencies in their disciples and empowered them to impose their beliefs on others, by force if necessary. (And, of course, it is always necessary.) Their jam is not the typical lefty “I am going t…

[anon29537550]

[Sally_Mahoney]

MAGA fan outside indictment proves boxes are not really in Donald Trump's bathroom (video)

Little boxes in the bathroom Little boxes made of cardboard Little boxes, little boxes Little boxes all the same There’s a white one and another white one And a scuffed one and a pristine one And they’re all full of secret stuff And they all look just the same And the papers in the boxes All went walkies from secure locations And they all get put in boxes Little boxes all the same And there’s valets and there’s lawyers And a body man And they all handle all the boxes And they all …