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All right I feel like crap this morning but I guess we're doing this: a thread on my thoughts on immigration.
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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 🇮🇱🇺🇦
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I stand with Ukraine. Always.
Beigetreten Ekim 2010
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These drones were most likely China’s.
Ari Schulman@AriSchulman
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. Barksdale is the HQ for our B52 nuclear bombers, it's where Bush sheltered on 9/11, and the drones are reported as "far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine ... and well beyond Iranian capabilities."
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when I was a kid, adults worked really hard to make sure I could identify reliable sources of information. they made a big deal about not citing wikipedia etc. but they didn't drive home that a lot of the people talking about politics are just mentally ill and you shouldn't listen to anything they say.
the older I've gotten, the more I've seen people I know get depressed and then start talking like this. they blame their mental state on the state of the world, but the causation clearly goes the other way.
rosey🌹@thechosenberg
Seething at the miracle of birth
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Wow just wow, they are literally sacrificing girls for the sake of diversity.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Youth centre did not report 16-year-old girl's rape to authorities because 'Muslim boys are already under enough police scrutiny', German media claims trib.al/m7VDrCa
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@asymmetricinfo IME AI really is "garbage in garbage out"
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Things I don't do with it: go into a chat with an AI without my thesis already strongly developed, have it outline or write, accept anything the AI says. ("Please provide linked sources" should be in every prompt).
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I use AI to do research (i.e., find things to read, explain parts of academic papers I find ambiguous or confusing), transcribe interviews, generate pushback on my column thesis, suggest trims when I'm over my word count, sharpen podcast interview questions, and perform a final fact check on columns and editorials. But mostly it's compressing the ancillary tasks to the main job: reading, thinking, and writing.
Matthew Cole@mattbencole
This is literally what my students say when they get busted using AI. “I didn’t use it to write my paper just for brainstorming, outlining, and editing.” Yeah that’s most of what writing is.
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“Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021” and stole a place from a woman who could have and should have been there.
Let’s get to the real reason they are up in arms.
Let’s say zero men pretending to be women ever even qualified.
The assertion - the correct one - that women’s Olympic sport is not open to “trans women” is an admission (again a correct one) that “trans women” (ie men pretending to be women” - are not women.
That’s why they object. It’s far less to do with impact (why do you care? You’re not affected by it? Etc) - and everything to do with their house of cards falling down.
If “trans women” are not women when it comes to sport, and that’s because of real and important differences between the sexes… then they aren’t women in any scenario.
Which is true. They are men.
I might also say to Nikki “but what about “trans men””
Yeah there’s a reason you’re not mentioning women pretending to be women isn’t there? You know men pretending to be women have an unfair physical advantage in sport *because they are men*.
You know, I know, I know you know - and I know why all the trans activists are up in arms about it.
They can’t admit that even sometimes “trans women” (ie men) are not women or their entire ideology and basis for arguing ANY special privileges falls over in a heap of its own nonsense and contradictions.
Pop Base@PopBase
Nikki Hiltz, a transgender & non-binary Olympian, speaks out against the event’s new anti-trans policy: “I don't know who needs to hear this but ZERO trans women competed in the Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021 and she did not win a medal. Can we please stop obsessing over trans people? And idk maybe focus our time, energy, and resources into real problems women's sports face?”
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Thanks, you guys, for caring about a lil ol peep with a big ol problem. I thought no one would. Thanks for proving me wrong. gofundme.com/f/help-me-heal…
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Drone swarms shut down one of the largest and most national security sensitive @usairforce bases in the United States during a major war. And we’re told the Air Force was powerless to stop it. These drones were “superior” to anything in Ukraine. Why is this not a major story?:
“The electronic countermeasures failed to work.”
Ari Schulman@AriSchulman
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The platypus is one of the most unusual animals: it is a mammal that lays eggs, with a duck-like bill, beaver-like tail, otter-like feet, and is venomous.
It uses electroreceptors to find prey, has eyes with double cones, lacks a functional stomach, and has 26 pairs of chromosomes. It is also fluorescent and glows under UV light.
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Yeah where did they get that idea
Terry Moran 🇺🇸@TerryMoran
The thing about AI memes produced by Trump groupies is that he is always portrayed as vigorous and agile and dashing. But every time we see the real Trump, he is sagging and decrepit and barely able to stay awake. The contrast is hilarious, actually.
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For such a crime, Rome overthrew a king.
For such a crime, Boudicca burnt a city.
For such a crime, Spain killed the victim.
Ada Lluch@AdaLluch
Her name is Noelia Castillo and tomorrow she will be the first person to receive euthanasia for depression in Spain. She was living in a supervised center with unaccompanied minors when she was gang raped by them. Afterwards, she tried to unalive herself by jumping from a fifth floor. But she became paraplegic instead. She’s 25 years old and today is her last day alive. Praying she can feel Jesus love before tomorrow and changes her mind. 🙏🏻
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What scares me is a hypothetical Skynet does not even need to become self-aware or sentient to do something really destructive.
Sci-Fi World Museum@hollywoodscifi
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If people think AI won’t have biases, they have another thing coming.
Breitbart News@BreitbartNews
A marketing expert revealed that the ChatGPT platform displayed safety warnings for links to Republican fundraising websites while not showing similar alerts for Democrat fundraising sites. trib.al/qOX6O9x
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In-state tuition at Florida‘s state universities has not increased at all since 2019.
Barefoot Student@BarefootStudent
College tuition has increased 914% since 1983, outpacing all other household expenses, per CNBC.
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I really hope that Trump 2.0 is accepting Ukraine's help on how to defend against drone warfare. I assume that our military is as on top of this issue as they can be, but there is no substitute for first hand experience in combat.
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I don't know if he succeeds. But neutralizing Iran as a threat to its neighbors (not just Israel, by any means) would be a massive gain for everyone.
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Every democratic country needs to have a substantial number of "volunteers" fighting in Ukrainian units, so that they know how to fight a modern war.
SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre@StratcomCentre
Confronted with absolutely staggering losses, Russia's military blogosphere continues its descent into deep depression as the meat waves roll on.
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People who think Russia would win a war with the United States because of their manly recruiting videos are no longer the dumbest motherfuckers alive
.@LBGamestips
Iran 🇮🇷 just released this emotional video I don’t think they are stopping until all their objectives have been met
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The thing is, a whole generation didn’t hate the Star Wars prequels.
I was 18 when Phantom Menace came out, saw it opening night with a few friends from student res, and then rewatched it at least three or four times in the theatre over the next month or so.
Pretty much everyone saw this movie (and EpII & III). Guys and girls. Nerds and casuals. Many went multiple times (the box office numbers prove this).
The merch sold through the roof, every magazine featured cover stories with the cast, most casual fans thought Jar Jar was funny while the Star Wars nerds were obsessed with the tech behind the character. Girls loved Padme’s fashion while straight guys loved Portman.
The online fandom was hyperactive with fan theories, fan art, etc with a very clear even split between the male/female demos.
Fan and general public reaction was insanely positive.
This particular scene became ICONIC.
98% of the negativity came from the professional film critics. TPM wasn’t perfect by any means but the media definitely tried to push the message that it was a disaster, Jake Lloyd sucked, and that Jar Jar was offensive and racist.
This weird gaslighting that it was the fans who were negative and toxic is just current media trying to do damage control for just how negative they were at the time.
Best of Star Wars@bestofstarwar
“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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@Shuttlecock And the song Duel of the Fates was *everywhere.*
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