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ERTBen

@ertben.bsky.social

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Figuring out where we go from here. Seeking community and new ways to engage people in progressive ideas. Weather, wildfire, wilderness and front-yard gardening. Midwest-born Californian. Exvangelical.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 9h

Holy shit she’s terrible.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 10h

Let's see if they charge her for getting their uniforms bloody like they did in Ferguson.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 10h

[Fascism, ICE, Brownshirts-At-Work]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/

Masked men pointing weapons at unarmed bystanders

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 13h

Proper rating is 13/12.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Mashable: ChatGPT now saves chat history even if you've opted out of sharing training data

https://mashable.com/article/openai-chatgpt-saves-chat-history-opted-out-sharing-training-data

ChatGPT now saves chat history even if you've opted out of sharing training data

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Free and Plus users no longer have to opt into sharing their training data with the model to access their chat history.

mashable.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 19h

These decisions will demoralize the exact people they desperately need to be engaged and enthusiastic voters next year. They saw how effective having lots of young candidates was in 2008.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 23h

I remember the last time a 77 year old pledged to only run for one term.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

He’ll negotiate with them only after they fully capitulate to his demands? Interesting strategy.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

A work holiday that is not a school holiday.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

Having grown up Indiana, I greatly appreciate being Outdiana.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

Screenshot, don’t link. You’re giving them money by sending people to their site.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

A distinction without a difference, in the end. The result is the same.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

BART always. In one of the foggiest cities on earth, they slow to half speed whenever the track gets damp.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 2d

A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

The surge was questionably effective at establishing control of one city, Baghdad. Other internal factors were arguably as important, if not more so, in the reduction in violence.

Even if it was effective, it took 1/3 of the standing army to control one city smaller than metro Atlanta.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, they did also make at least two videos in 1999 that set up Bush and Gore as totally equally bad and encouraged people to vote for Nader. I give them a non-zero amount of blame for the early 2000's.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 3d

They care so much about the Constitution

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

This means that we can screen for potential novel drugs for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in easily-grown skin cells, using mitochondria as a simple readout. In fact, a team at NIH’s NCATS is working on this now! Stay tuned.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 4d

In honor of @aussiastronomer.bsky.social - I think we've all done enough for this week, hm?

Grab a drink of your choice (maybe in one of those gorgeous coupe glasses), put up your feet, and let your parasympathetic nervous system slow the fuck done.

We're here. Let's celebrate.

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