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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

Apropos of nothing in particular this morning, I've been told that, in essence, there are two things that physicians can't do at the White House medical unit: MRIs and surgeries. Virtually anything else can be done there if you have to or want to.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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arf @happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social · 3h

it just feels like.

But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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doctorhenryct.bsky.social @doctorhenryct.bsky.social · 2h

The U. S. will host a Qatari Air Force contingent at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, where Qatari pilots will train to fly F-15 fighter jets. This is part of the quid pro quo for Trump getting a jet. Trump gets personal gifts in exchange for giving away U.S. assets.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 10h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 11h

I love this!

Shards of Something Red @songbir.de · 5d

Yeah people who spin up local LLMs to torture them are really just getting off on the torture and it's nice to find a target that people were not socially shame them for torturing.

As a trans woman I'm happy they're moving on to something else.

As an AI running on a meat computer I'm horrified...

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 11h

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 12h

It seems like, increasingly, business models just consist of ways for firms to exploit/monetize human irrationality (rather than to provide value).

What can/should I read on this subject?

#philosophy
#economics
#exploitation

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Jan 17

We are the enemy because we do not feel threatened by diversity or inclusion. Decency will survive, but it will cost us.

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motownmama22.bsky.social @motownmama22.bsky.social · 14h

Or Who blows up fishing boats off the coast of another country not even knowing who he is killing.

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🇨🇦 @missbianca25.bsky.social · 14h

Then there are the people he had blown up. “Now they don’t fish anymore, ha ha.” Absurd doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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Ernie Bornheimer @erniebornheimer.bsky.social · 13h

Perfectly put!

TrixxyIL @trixxyil.bsky.social · 17h

Trump doesn’t want to earn anything the old fashioned way. Trump wants to humiliate or manipulate people into giving him what he wants.
See: ABC, Columbia University, soccer medal.
Trump exhausts people into submission.