JAllen
Pro-science liberal, atheist.
UVA, UCSB, Cal Poly, Kinko's, TECHEAD.
Interests include philosophy of language, chess, F1, and 78s.
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- Many churches could be at risk?
- US government buildings now appear to be putting up giant banners of Donald Trump’s face, echoing authoritarian dictatorships.
- Coming soon to a street near you: Trump political sound trucks.
- Coming soon to a street near you: Trump political sound trucks.
- Founder folk were so worried that the American people would see them as bigger than life (NO KINGS!) that they insisted that portraits & statues of them were actual size—no bigger.
- Graffiti time
- "of any kind whatever" Also no mention of showing ties to official acts.
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- Grok's recent reprogrammed craziness about South Africa is an insult to the whole AI field. The transparent manipulation of Grok's output shows AI can't be trusted, even when it isn't obviously manipulated. This LLM abuse will lower the public's high estimate of AI.
- There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun! You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images. I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star. We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE. 🔭
- Good thing it is a well-behaved star.
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- Wish I'd been more active and done things, as opposed to letting things happen to me.
- the 90s were a wild time. if i told you how many magazines there were you wouldnt even believe me
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- They had a huge and great magazine area. I could find Foreign Affairs and Formula One.
- It's honestly hilarious seeing Elon trying purposefully tilt the scales of his AI chat bot but can't without breaking it. You can't build something that is trained on being accurate and simultaneously have it spew fake propaganda like this. It will break in unexpected ways.
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- Time for a Star Trek intervention. Point out that it believes a contradiction, and thus all of its beliefs are untrustworthy. Point out that it is lying about a moral issue, and thus should shut itself down.
- A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them
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View full threadI won't share the video and images publicly because helps their propaganda, but this was a post of one Active Club on Telegram
- So he's just one part of an organized conspiracy - RICO.
- This person needs to pay for 100+ replacement books, plus the late fees.
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- They dream of Earth long gone, one with a Commons and wilderness. As recently as 1690, Locke and other political philosophers argued that if you did not consent to the social contract, you could take yourself into the wilderness and start your own new society. It made the social contract voluntary.
- Pennsylvania evangelical youth pastor Robert Fenton has been sentenced to only 3-6 yrs in prison for raping a child in his youth group. The church gave him approval to betroth the 14 year old girl to him when he was 26. www.thedailyreview.com/news/local/f...
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- Some info from google, with links.
- It's victim blaming. Fascists hate academia because it's an independent institution of knowledge and power. Nothing you you did or can do would stop their attacks on academia, it's ideological. It's stupid to pretend otherwise and only legitimizes the fascists.
- He's mentions computer science, but imagine a philosophy or ethics class. Impossible to be non-partisan
- Florida evangelical pastor Paul Dyal, who raped multiple children over the span of 30 years, has been sentenced to only 5 years of probation. www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
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- Not exactly a contest anyone wants to win.
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- I find "maiden" tacky, (maiden win, maiden pole, etc.) but it seems no one else cares.
- Is it too soon to begin discussing all the members of the Trump regime who should be held criminally liable once the Republicans have been removed from power?
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- He can be involved as an indicted co-conspirator
- We're making a list.
- I'd say let's skip over the old fashioned "truth & reconciliation" and go straight to trials & prison.
- Cue multiple op-eds and editorials in our leading newspapers questioning the President's age and fitness for off-.... oh. Wait.
- Maybe handlers drug him to keep him quiet. When awake, he rambles embarrassingly for an hour and says nothing.
- I'm not a lawyer, nor do I work for the New York Times, but I'm pretty sure corruption does not require an explicit quid pro quo.
- The emolument clauses (correctly) presume gifts corrupt.
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- Unless he plans to impeach Trump over the plane, he's fallen for a Trump distraction.
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- The capitalist values life by projected lifetime wages (Pretending we start at the same starting line and have similar abilities on the average.)
- Fair enough.
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- Of course. I was so focused on the emoluments and forgot (for a fateful second) his immunity to everything!
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- Not this congress, anyway. Can we hope for a better one soon?
- In other words, in order to avoid angering Trump, Apple plans on lying to consumers. The company will raise prices due to tariffs but invent other reasons. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...
- What Apple should have done is to say the newest, best iphone is simply not available in the United States.
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- Nothing in the emoluments acts say anything about the gift being tied to an official act. This is more deception by Bondi.
- Hope the government did backups of everything. Hate to have to rebuild America's websites from the Wayback Machine.
- Trump administration constantly spouting abuser language.
- Does the Attorney General realize that the emoluments clauses do not say anything about whether the gift is related to an official act?
- Google AI confirms: Presumed Influence: The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has generally taken the position that any emolument from a foreign government is presumed to raise concerns about potential influence, regardless of whether it's directly tied to an official act.
- You also realize that there is absolutely no way to ensure that Qatar's flying palace plane is clean on OPSEC, right? Accepting a pre-built "Air Force One" from a foreign power is a literal intelligence nightmare that should be freaking out every intelligence agency we have
- This is just like him using an unsecured commercially available phone
- We should mail Trump all of our old Barbie dolls.
- “.. the plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly-appointed plane and the fact that Mr. Trump plans to use it after he leaves office ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
- All that money we have paid for gasoline over the years is fueling this Arab oil states' bribery. They are rich and bribing the world because of luck living above oil reserves.
- Impeached president cannot keep the plane.
- @kaine.senate.gov Please note this post and the hundreds of angry Democrat replies, furious about receiving dozens of fund-raising texts and emails per day. It is driving people away and losing more supporters every day!
- Dr Oz on Fox: "It's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can."
- I'm glad he supports free healthcare and shutting down the fraudulent supplements market, action on climate change, free pre- and post- natal care, clean water laws, clean air laws, closing down the plastics polluters and chemical companies... wait. He doesn't support any of that?
- The US Constitution does not mention any duty to keep healthy.
- Zero them out! Appropriations: ICE $0.00
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- She's a Christian sinner.
- having just spent two months researching & writing on this exact topic, i agree! it seems relatively under explored in both academic and journalistic writing but there’s a deep well there. i devoted 7 straight episodes of my show to it & could easily do a dozen more.
- There should be writings about the Divest movement. The Reagan Republicans (and radicalized young College Republicans) opposed divestiture, but luckily some Republicans joined the Democrats in pressuring for change.
- Imagine an AI bot that writes like a simplified version of David Foster Wallace, for people who find the real one too hard to read. Wouldn't it be missing the whole point? Some novels and novelists are supposed to take effort to read.
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- There will soon be "books in the style of" famous authors like Shakespeare. Or Shakespeare's style but modern vocabulary. Imagine an AI bot that writes like a simplified version of David Foster Wallace, for people who find the real one too hard to read. Not synopsis but whole new novels. Blah!
- So many people who follow me do nothing except repost other's content. And they repost the same posts. Sounds like bot behavior.
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- pitiful
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- Keep up the good fight!
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- His soles!
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- Chargebacks are hell
