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2024 election results mega thread for reference. It will be updated as more studies of the 2024 election become available. Includes some comparisons to the 2020 election as well to help illustrate some points about the real world impacts of the electoral college and how Harris did vs Biden.
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Sounds like we need smarter executives who aren't so lazy.
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sounds like we need smarter executives who aren't so lazy.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
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Guess this is going to turn into one of those posts that I have to repost every few months now as the United States government is fully rebuilding itself as a white power institution and setting the stage for mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
“Remigration” is a word that only exists in this context as a white identity movement concept. The word itself was literally created by fascists and white identity groups to call for the forced removal and destruction of “ethnically non white” citizens within their country. It’s literally fascism
Trump is now redefining deportation as “remigration”
Next he’s going to start referring to denaturalization as “realienation”
Next he’s going to start referring to denaturalization as “realienation”
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Guess this is going to turn into one of those posts that I have to repost every few months now as the United States government is fully rebuilding itself as a white power institution and setting the stage for mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Mind you, most of the Latin Americans these pigs are kidnapping are or have ancestry Indigenous to the Americas. We are way more American than Stephen Miller or Kristi Gnome or JD Vance.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Mind you, most of the Latin Americans these pigs are kidnapping are or have ancestry Indigenous to the Americas. We are way more American than Stephen Miller or Kristi Gnome or JD Vance.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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after hours of burning the scaffolding is still standing—the netting is toast. this is due to cutting corners re: fire retardant netting and other materials but it isn’t the bamboo
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
after hours of burning the scaffolding is still standing—the netting is toast. this is due to cutting corners re: fire retardant netting and other materials but it isn’t the bamboo
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For the third time, Israeli Jews crossed further into occupied Syria, past the Israeli-occupied Golan into the rest of Israeli occupied Syria, and attempted to establish a settlement.
Settler activists cross into Syria, are returned by IDF after brief pursuit | The Times of Israel
www.timesofisrael.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
For the third time, Israeli Jews crossed further into occupied Syria, past the Israeli-occupied Golan into the rest of Israeli occupied Syria, and attempted to establish a settlement.
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Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
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Truly bonkers stats that should give us pause
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Truly bonkers stats that should give us pause
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"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
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Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
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Just posted this on Monday. As the sirens and helicopters sound off in the distance, I'm thinking about the young part-time soldiers I was just talking to.
We must continue to insist—even more forcefully today—that this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.
We must continue to insist—even more forcefully today—that this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.
Talked to some National Guard kids from West Virginia on the street near my office. They don't have leave to go home for Thanksgiving this week.
They can't see their families, because the president wants to use them as political props. No doubt, though, there'll be a feast at Mar-a-Lago Thursday.
They can't see their families, because the president wants to use them as political props. No doubt, though, there'll be a feast at Mar-a-Lago Thursday.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just posted this on Monday. As the sirens and helicopters sound off in the distance, I'm thinking about the young part-time soldiers I was just talking to.
We must continue to insist—even more forcefully today—that this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.
We must continue to insist—even more forcefully today—that this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.
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If nearly everyone had an STD, I’d still want people to disclose that shit.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If nearly everyone had an STD, I’d still want people to disclose that shit.
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I know if my family member was shot and killed because you wanted to drag the military on a civil rights violation tour to cities with black mayors you felt were too uppity, you would see me in court.
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know if my family member was shot and killed because you wanted to drag the military on a civil rights violation tour to cities with black mayors you felt were too uppity, you would see me in court.
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"the animal". Ah yes, this dehumanizing language has been directed at a lot of groups, particularly by fascists.
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"the animal". Ah yes, this dehumanizing language has been directed at a lot of groups, particularly by fascists.
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Suspect in custody so we’ll see who they decide to blame.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Suspect in custody so we’ll see who they decide to blame.
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Yeah, one of the real flaws with Bluesky is that if you make a post whose message is basically "hey, do the losers at this place still have a stick up their ass about my machine that steals their writing?" it attracts negative responses.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yeah, one of the real flaws with Bluesky is that if you make a post whose message is basically "hey, do the losers at this place still have a stick up their ass about my machine that steals their writing?" it attracts negative responses.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
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I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.
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From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
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Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun
www.wired.com/story/amazon...
www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun
www.wired.com/story/amazon...
www.wired.com/story/amazon...
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nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck