SerBlankSl8
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Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead - reuters.com/sustainability…
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Please also watch the interview before this moment. It was about Trump calling the press the enemy of the people, etc. (as Jamie Raskin rightly pointed out).
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth
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@FoxSportsRadio @ohrnberger @jaredsmithbets @TheNoeShow @BetMGM lol shut up fboy. Imagine being a younger staff/player and having to respect anything Vrabel stands on. Not even mentioning Bellichick’s recent shortcomings
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📺@ohrnberger, @jaredsmithbets & @TheNoeShow break down whether Mike Vrabel’s future with the Patriots is in jeopardy amid the growing Dianna Russini controversy
Countdown presented by @BetMGM 🎰
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@adamscochran I just don’t understand how to consistently read anything you have to say. The cognitive dissonance between your bag bias and your stated beliefs is impossibly obvious no matter how hard you try to pretend no causation.
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Marandi is one of the more interesting follows from the Iranian side in news flow.
Part of the negotiation team, in part due to his fluency in English, deeply familiar with the US, and not part of the official government.
While every participant has an agenda, his takes have been fairly candid compared to even those coming from the current Iranian regime.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi
In my opinion, the White House and US media are lying about direct negotiation plans between Iran and the Trump regime - so they can later dishonestly claim Iran broke its promises, helping "justify" further aggression to the American people. The Islamic Republic is prepared.
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@YVindman @farnsjennifer Well in absolute 0 support of Trump’s decisions, if you think China needs any help at this they’re definitely not following Zachary Cohen from CNN.
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If you don’t think Xi Jinping is watching our munitions stocks, you’re dead wrong.
Zachary Cohen@ZcohenCNN
New: The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during war with Iran & created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in next few years, per experts & 3 people familiar w/ recent internal Pentagon assessments. cnn.com/2026/04/21/pol…
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SerBlankSl8 retweetledi
Military analysts say that the terms of the ceasefire in Iran represent a colossal defeat for the US. A guy who beats his girlfriends and drinks five gin-and-tonics by 11 am says it's a great victory, guided by Jesus. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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@DCinvestor The reality is this is the reality you work yourself into in an effort to absolve yourself from ever definitively picking a side in public discourse due to fear of a bruised ego.
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the reality a lot of people won't want to hear is there is a non-zero chance that if we had gotten Kamala, she'd be doing this war too
most won't remember, but there was a 60 Minutes interview where she was asked who the greatest adversary to the US was, and she answered Iran
at the time, i thought it was a completely stupid answer when you could make better arguments for both Russia or China. while Iran was certainly a threat to many US interests, really no one could call it our "greatest adversary," but it was a signal that she'd fall in line and "do the needful" to whomever the message was intended
i do think she'd likely have prosecuted the war in a way which was less retarded and perhaps diminished our global standing less than Trump has, but it's still an interesting counterfactual to think through that we might have been destined for this point no matter what
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@deanwball Industry becomes government in a lot dog these scenarios so while your argument holds some merit it crumbles on future implications.
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Pause AI rhetoric is predicated on the notion that the AI companies are recklessly racing toward dangerous tech and that a government controlled pause button is therefore necessary, but this seems really hard to reconcile with the fact that government is attempting to destroy an AI company because *the government* is racing toward plausibly dangerous AI uses (Sec. Hegseth has stated in official directives that he wants to deploy AI into critical systems regardless of whether it is aligned, for example) and *the company* is pushing back.
The roles are totally reversed from the logic that Pause AI and frankly other AI safety advocates confidently assumed for years. It is *industry* that is in favor of alignment and at least somewhat measured deployment risks, and government whose actions seem much closer to reckless.
I predicted this for years. I said, in particular, that pauses and bans and licensing regimes gave government a dangerously high degree of control over AI, and that the incentives of government are much more dangerous than those of private industry with competitive market incentives.
I believe the events of the last month are good evidence in favor of my view. At this point if you are an AI safety advocate whose policy proposals do not wrestle seriously with the brutal political economic reality of the state and AI, I don’t take you seriously.
It gives me no pleasure to have been right about this, by the way. The state has an incredibly strong structural incentive to centralize power using AI, and we are, all of us, not so empowered to stop it. I am quite concerned about this.
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
I think if you pushed them for five minutes they'd agree that putting the federal government...right now... the same one that did the Anthropic stuff...in charge of approving AI products before deployment is an insane idea
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some of you won't want to read this, but what keeps Ethereum and Bitcoin relevant
is that they have highly ideologically-motivated roots, with intelligent and capable adherents, who come off to many as "cult members" because they have such faith in a stringent philosophy around the core principles which power the chain
they are not tourists. they are consistent, over years and decades
if your chain doesn't have ideological adherents, then it's not important. it will never be important
you're participating in a database which will eventually be replaced by a faster database
public blockchains are meant to have core principles and ultimately derive relevance from the social consensus they create based on those principles. they're meant to stand forever
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With the DJ Moore acquisition the Bills are likely out of the FA market at WR and likely won’t be using a high asset on WR in the draft as they have significant holes along the IOL and on defense. … The double dip is likely Brandin Cooks or a 4th rounder … for a 29 year old WR2
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fuck just uncovered one last shiddy hat that wasn’t given away at alphonso knudsens time share extravaganza. if you’re in the states and want it, throw a comment in and will do an idiotic wheel spin tomorrow. so fucking back.
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CTs obsession with being perceived as knowledgeable on every fking “current thing” while simultaneously having some of the least knowledgeable, yet still financially successful people on the planet will be studied for millennia
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The least legal-knowledgeable person you know is actively trying to explain to you the major questions doctrine and overall SCOTUS tariff decision
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Hey guys. When you bring in 20 million unvetted people, its not pretty to get rid of them. You guys probably shouldnt have done that as people dont want that. Now you reap the consequences, retards.
Jason Bassler@JasonBassler1
Let me get this straight: –Trump greenlit a Palantir “master database” –8 new "mega‑detention centers" are being built –CBP just bought access to Clearview’s 60B‑image facial ID system –DHS is now demanding names of social media users critical of ICE -ICE agents on our streets threatening to put people in a "domestic terrorist" database And no one sees where this is going?
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@MysterySolvents How embarrassing. Grown men choreographing an image to look like their having fun while they're protecting a pedophile
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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@DCinvestor While I appreciate your vulnerability on the matter, this seems a bit extreme. You can question everything while still having a baseline that’s routed in facts (aka BASED)
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i am guilty of not having had the grotesque imagination needed
to realize that we are ruled, publicly and privately, by a dark and twisted transnational pedo class
who believe they are above every rule, and in order to prove it to each other, they partake in the most extreme and most reprehensible of behaviors
it is only being exposed now because people can communicate freely over the internet. and it was buried for decades because they control the traditional media
i will never reflexively dismiss any “conspiracy theory” ever again
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