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Pitched battles in the streets of Paris.
#Paris, scènes de chaos la police est sous les projectiles, charges et matraquage. #1erMai #fetedutravail #ReformeDesRetraites #manifs1ermai #manifestation #manifestations #manif1ermai
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If only someone had written a book -- or maybe a whole literary genre -- warning about the dangers of technology breaking free of human control.
Your daily dystopia update:
“It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Dr. Hinton
said.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/techn…
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All subjects of King Charles III across the globe have been invited to shout “Look behind you!” and “Oh no it isn’t!” at appropriate points during the coronation, and the palace has promised that boiled sweets will be tossed in the direction of every participant, however distant.
My first year of law school, we read a case that made no sense. The professor said there was an easy answer. For the whole class students tried to reconcile the case with the law but nobody was successful.
In the end the professor explained that the judge was on the take. -C.W.
Another SCOTUS scandal, per @LeverNews.
Justice Clarence Thomas voted to end federal tenant protections that his billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow’s company says threatened its real estate profit margins.
And another case is coming soon!
levernews.com/thomas-helped-…
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The rice cooker has been perfect since 1955. At a time when Big Tech is obsessed with “disruption” and all its gadgets are infuriating, I explore the greatest appliance’s elegance, humility, and fascinating history for @TheAtlantic
theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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worth saying that one of the more useful ways to think of the ideological project of the conservatives on the roberts court is that they seek to vastly expand the power of the court itself over governance. one step toward that goal would be ending chevron deference.
#SCOTUS grants review in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which it has been asked to consider overruling its 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natl Resources Defense Council, on deference to administrative agencies. Justice Jackson is recused from the case.
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Can wind power push the shipping industry—one of the dirtiest on the planet—forward? nyer.cm/X3x5GAu
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The 3 smallest bones in the human body--malleus, incus, and stapes--are located in the middle ear. At 3 x 5 mm in size, the stapes is the smallest bone in the human body. All 3 bones are essential for hearing
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Sinclair replacing local TV news with national propaganda. Very bad.
Sinclair laying off entire newsrooms in Oregon, Ohio, replacing local news with "The National Desk" thedesk.net/2023/04/wnwo-new… tip @mediagazer
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when i think of what he-man has enough excess testosterone to share with mere mortal men who are coming up short Hawley is always the one who comes to mind
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"To be without knowledge of past history is to be permanently burdened with a lack of perspective, empathy and wisdom." Michael Higgins
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Opinion | No one could have predicted that an erratic narcissistic sociopath with limited technical knowledge would turn out to be the wrong person to lead Twitter.
by Jack Dorsey
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Societal gender panic level: attacking cis women for wearing a bow tie
@NancyMace - I have known you for a longtime. But your recent anti-life statements & positions are very concerning.
Further, as our culture continues to undermine women by celebrating men who pretend to be them — why would you choose to wear a tux to the WHCD?
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Of course, nobody can ever predict with certainty the outcome of a trial. But it seems that Trump’s lawyer Tacopina is making the fatal mistake of arguing his case in a manner that makes his client happy, rather than trying to persuade a jury. Not usually a winning formula.
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If written human expression weren't as banal, toneless, and cliche it is these days, AI would never work as well as it does. ChatBots would never fly in the 19th C because people had a more attentive eye to the subtleties of language. Just much more thought put into writing.
