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collin grasley 🇨🇦
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artist | designer - cats, music, classic film, spooky things, science. https://www.mode23.ca/ On a Lake, Upper Canada 🇨🇦
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It costs about $9 billion per month to fund SNAP benefits

That $40 billion for Argentina would feed 42 million Americans for nearly 4 1/2 months

The $75 billion for ICE would cover the other 8 months

But Trump is more interested in helping dictators and terrorizing immigrants

Oh-and the ballroom
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The cats are doing spells. I'm sure it's fine.
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NHC 5 pm Melissa update for Jamaica:

"Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside."

Winds "may cause total structural failure."

Wind speeds are now at *175 mph*.
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Exxon says it can't reveal how much pollution it makes because doing so would force it to “serve as a mouthpiece for ideas with which it disagrees.”

Which is just the "homework is against my religion" excuse, if the student saying it killed 8 million people a year.
Exxon sues California over climate laws, alleging free speech violations
Oil firm asks court to block enforcement of laws that would require disclosure of planet-heating carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
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the great irony is they're probably using AI trained on Wikipedia then editing each entry piecemeal as they get irrationally butthurt over whatever the latest daily grievance is that rustled their perpetual victimization complex
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reality is very upsetting to the right wing so they are spending a ton of time and money building an alternate reality safe space to delude themselves into believing they aren't unpopular assholes
New: Elon Musk appears to have just launched "Grokipedia," billed as a more right-leaning rival to Wikipedia: grokipedia.com

Story to come. If you try it out, I'd be interested to hear what you find.
Grokipedia
grokipedia.com
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54% of U.S. adults operate at or below a 6th grade reading level
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"he favors weightlifting and strength training" (X) doubt
Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
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Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds
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The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.
Interesting cover from NY Post
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me: i feel great

my doctor: and your tests are perfect, youre in great health

me: i know, thank you doctor

my doctor: want an mri?

me: fuck it, yea why not
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I wrote a piece last week about how the Far Right since Trump/Brexit have normalised discussing in public previously unacceptable things.

Tonight’s Peston show: “Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black and Asian people a racist or realist?”
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But what of duck…men?
Ducks are masters of land, sea, and air, truly fearsome
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I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.
As the Atlantic Ocean warms, climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa's ferocity
Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm due to warming oceans linked to climate change.
apnews.com
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'There are less smuts in London then when I was here last.'
'You haven't been to Soho then.' #TheFilmCrowd #CountDracula