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When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations.
Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.
Most importantly, we need people in America, every morning, when the day in Europe is already moving toward evening, to really see what is happening. To see the truth.
From a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum. (3/3)
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This is a strange story. California woman finds a man, apparently drunk, sleeping on her front lawn early in the morning, sends her father out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the father, who shoots him
Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez
#BREAKING An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting an elderly man and his daughter at a home in Fresno.
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Every Republican in every red state is convinced that their state is run by a secret cabal of democrats who are the source of all wrong and that they must reelect the incumbent republicans to get rid of that cabal, which they did not do in their previous term
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how it started: how it’s going:
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“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,”
If you’re not American and curious why everything is going to shit this quote generally sums up what’s wrong with this country.
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AI is finally taking over economist's job. It's all over.
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ ft.trib.al/KxRXFO6
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BREAKING: The US "almost started a war" against China, nearly launching an operation against a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring, in the midst of the Iran war, after an AI-generated intelligence report falsely identified the vessel as carrying nuclear weapons components, with armed US personnel preparing to board and military aircraft already in the air before officials found the report had been produced with a chatbot, per CNN.
A special operations command analyst had used a chatbot to fuse open-source material with classified signals intelligence, then used AI again to package the result into a standard intelligence report and circulated it across the US military.
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BREAKING: Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed until Trump and Netanyahu are removed from power, setting a new condition for reopening the Strait, per Zolqadr, advisor to the Supreme Leader.
"Our fighters will not open the Strait of Hormuz until the criminal Trump and the bloodthirsty Netanyahu are pulled down from the throne of power," Zolqadr says, calling it "the first stage of the Iranian people's revenge."
In August a senior adviser to Iran's chief negotiator said Iran would keep Hormuz closed until Trump's term ends on January 20, 2029. The condition has now moved from a date to Trump's removal from office.
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"You want me to be fair? Heh, listen kid, the world isn't fair, if it was, I'd be a professor instead of a teacher at some crummy elementary school."
"...the world isn't fair? Gosh, that's awful! We need to fix that, Mr. Soyski!"
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The funny thing about the 'takers and makers' paradigm is that rural conservative areas are overwhelmingly dependent on government handouts while liberal cities fund the country.
Our great national tragedy:
"Today, most U.S. counties depend on a level of government transfer income that was once reserved only for the most distressed places. In 1970, not even 1 percent of counties derived a quarter or more of their total personal income from transfers. In 2000, just 10.4 percent did. But by 2022, 53 percent of counties were receiving a quarter or more of their income from transfers."
- @InnovateEconomy
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A big factor in being left-wing is just having a working memory.
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It's really impressive how Americans are capable believing that:
- all Chinese media is Chinese propaganda
- all Russian media is Russian propaganda
- all US media is objective, independent reporting without a political agenda
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i feel deeply for this teacher
deep down he knows his students will most likely condemned to a lifetime of poverty because they were (systematically) neither taught to read nor write
i cannot imagine the soul-crushing feeling of helplessness of the teacher in the clip must feel and assessing his own culpability given his employment by the same system
i can’t find the words to express my anger over the status quo, so i’ll have to borrow from john steinbeck:
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.”
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The scare tactics worked, the projections and science were 100% correct, and tens of billions of dollars were invested into protecting the reef from pollution leading to a different outcome.
The worst part of solving climate crises is not getting the credit
New data for Great Barrier Reef: Last five years best on record
Yet, media wrote its obituary in 2014
Research told us it would be almost gone in 2022
Not all scare stories are true
aims.gov.au/monitoring-great…
xitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/20…
theguardian.com/environment/…
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.12…
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Instant disqualification.
Vance should not be president with that asinine statement
JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply.
Keep that in mind the next time you order a $20 burrito on door dash.
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Right now, more than 5,000 sailors and Marines are stuck aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the ninth month of a deployment that was supposed to last seven, supporting military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized.
Their families are begging someone to listen.
Moldy showers, broken toilets, no hot water for weeks, meals that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas.
A ship’s store out of soap, deodorant, and toothpaste.
Sailors so worn down that, according to one family member, the ship’s own doctor warned they need to reach port soon or people are going to start losing their minds.
Back in April, when families first raised the alarm, Pete Hegseth dismissed the reports as fake news. These are the people we ask to serve in one of the most dangerous workplaces on Earth, the flight deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
They, and their families, deserve answers. ms.now/news/conditions-safet…
