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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 19h

Diane Keaton died and "Father of the Bride" and "First Wives Club" are the films they pick for the headline?

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 1d

Schools have been using computer algorithms to grade papers since long before Chat GPT came along, unfortunately.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 1d

The only social media app of any significant size that is singularly owned by a billionaire, so far as I know, is ExTwitter, which is rapidly dying on its own.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I didn't want to sound like I'm defending Trump. I'm just saying Obama's peace prize was BS.

Giving one to Trump would be insane, but I've given up on predicting what kind of stupid shit the world's going to throw at me.

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 2d

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of thought Obama killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians by continuing Bush's "war on terror" had already made his peace prize meaningless.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 2d

The thing is, the Supreme Court was RIGHT to strike down Biden's power grabs. He had no right to (for example) implement mass forgiveness of student loans.

The problem lies in SCOTUS adopting a policy of "it is fine so long as a right-winger is doing it". No principle there.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 2d

I was raised by an English teacher (who became a tech writer) and a primary school teacher.

(or is that "primm-ary" school teacher?)

This is the first I'm hearing about "primmer". Sounds like a load of hooey to me.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 2d

I understand the sentiment.

But I wish people would stop saying that Trump is "not above the law", because it implies that there exists some institution that will step in and constrain him. There is no such institution.

Trump *should not be* above the law. But so far as I can tell -- he is.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

I guess Trump supporters could try arguing that he has killed fewer innocent civilians than the last US president to win the peace prize, but that still isn't much of a qualification.

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

Why am I living in a timeline when Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Taylor Greene is the voice of reason in the Republican Party.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

Setting aside the concerns over actually having free elections in 2026 and 2028 -- that argument only applies if you assume the SCOTUS will consistently apply the precedent to a Democratic administration. I think a quick look at the last few years is enough to know that it won't.

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget Shkia Dalhmia at The Unpopulist.

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

Most libertarians are pro-choice.

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 3d

Didn't they just hear testimony from one of their pet Nazi sympathizers that Antifa dates back to Weimar Germany?

Just how old IS this girlfriend?

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 5d

Does it matter what the law says? Trump is ignoring the law as written; I don't see grounds for believing he would have obeyed a reformed version of the law.

Especially since lately he's just been declaring his own laws, e.g. the one-year penalty for flag-burning.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 5d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 8d

Right? I was legitimately shocked to learn how young she is.

Dan Bongard @danbongard.bsky.social · 8d

The academy award for Best Actress is voted on by actors.

Human actors are not going to vote for a corporate-owned non-sentient computer program over one of their human peers. You don't even have to delve into the ethics of AI use to know that much.

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