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Tom Ancona
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UChicago alum (twice!), New England native, Chicago educated, & Bowdoin Common Good supporter. RTs & likes are not endorsements
Portland, ME Katılım Temmuz 2010
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@kristinsinsin @crousselle Part of the assumption here would be that the US (and maybe Canada, if they'd like) would move away from doing time changes.
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@tancona1023 @crousselle You guys know that we also have DST in the Atlantic provinces, though, right?
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at this point just move New England to the Atlantic time zone because this DST stuff is ridiculous
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@ScottJenningsKY Make standard time permanent but move New England one hour forward to Atlantic Time.
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Bringing this up on the radio today - the debate over Daylight Savings Time (DST) vs Standard Time vs do nothing. What do you think? Vote and comment!
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Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas
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THE POPE CAN COMMENT ON ANYTHING HE WANTS AND DOING SO IS ABSOLUTELY PART OF HIS ROLE
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
BARTIROMO: The Pope said AI could make civilization 'less human.' Why is the Pope commenting on AI right now? BURGUM: I didn't know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being Pope
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I don't really care if the security guard was an ignorant anti-Semite or that the leaders of this particular Mosque have a history of embracing extremism. There were kids inside, so I am thankful he acted to stop the shooters.
This targeted attack was an act of terrorism. Something we can't accept in America.
It was wrong when an Islamist extremist targeted a synagogue/school in Michigan a few months ago, and just as wrong today when these two lunatics targeted a Mosque/school.
Parents shouldn't fear that kids going to school or families going to worship might not come home. Such places shouldn't need constant security. The normalization of such evil and hate only ensures further violence.
Everything else is a different discussion.
Niqab Nancy 🍉🍗@NiqabNancy
From the Facebook page of Amin Abdullah, the security guard killed in the mosque shooting today
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I love Texas, but my god the Dallas skyline is an aesthetic abomination.
Worldwide skyline rankings:
1. Chicago
2. 4000-way tie of also-rans
Giancarlo Sopo@GiancarloSopo
Dallas is a great American city. Its architects owe it an apology.
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USA 🇺🇸
A new poll by Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos has found:
• 90% of Catholics and Protestants have a negative view of Trump's AI Jesus image
• 57% of all voters have negative view of Trump's false claims about Pope Leo XIV supporting Iran getting a nuclear weapon
• Catholic approval of Trump has fallen 10 points to 38%
• Leo XIV still popular with Americans
• 69% have a negative view of Pete Hegseth's comments on 'overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy'
• 66% of all voters have positive view of Leo XIV asking people to contact politicians to seek peace
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If the Holy Father visits Silicon Valley, it would be the most important visit of a Pope anywhere since at least St John Paul II's visit to Poland in 1979. And perhaps even more important than that.
Jonathan Liedl@JLLiedl
With all the focus on Trump and +Leo's words on Iran, little attention is paid to an area of perhaps even greater tension: Regulating AI. Here's what @BrianBurchUSA just said about the subject--and why he thinks Pope Leo should visit Silicon Valley. ncregister.com/news/050526-bu…
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“We’re trying to make sure we build no houses? Like, I don’t get it, people live in houses.”
Jonathan Berk@berkie1
On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.
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I've never found it credible that he didn't know what that tattoo meant. I've never in my life met a Marine or soldier or any person in general who couldn't precisely describe in exquisite detail each tattoo and why they got it.
Mike Nelson@mikenelson586
Guys, stop with the Platner apologism. He referred to his tattoo as a "totenkopf" in 2019. He knew was it was. You're being disingenuous (h/t @KFILE ) cnn.com/2025/10/24/pol…
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@dilanesper I can certainly make a case for Orban as an autocrat, even by the M-W definition, but him losing an election is a big strike against that. I think academia's tendency to take normie terms (autocracy, fascism, white supremacy) and redefine them has been a huge problem.
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@dilanesper I actually think your first point is incorrect, precisely because of those same people in point 2. Most normies are probably assuming the M-W definition of autocrat (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aut…), while those academics have redefined it to something much broader.
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2 things are true:
1. Orban was an autocrat, and losing an election doesn't prove otherwise.
2. A lot of "democratic backsliding political science" is just academics trying to transmogrify their left-liberal political commitments into a scientific-sounding theory.
Robert E Kelly@Robert_E_Kelly
Douthat has spent 11 years publicly talking himself into a permission structure to vote for Trump, even though he knows better & despite J6. It’s depressing He clearly hasn’t spent much time in the democratic backsliding political science. He blithely dismisses 20 years of theory & data - including Trump & Orban cases - with one counter-datapoint (the recent Hungarian election) to protect what really matters: his cherished ideological prior that it’s morally acceptable to vote for Trump
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@daniel_fidler Great Glass Elevator is a bananas book! Who would be the best filmmaker to adapt that...
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@27gunfighterz @eigenrobot Sure - but that's not what's being referred to in the said tweet. The Pope's statements today were not a response to Trump at all and were given to a bunch of people in Cameroon who have been dealing with a pretty appalling war of their own.
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obviously leo can do what he likes but personally i think it will be "undermine the dignity of the office" and "represent poor stewardship" if he spends the first twitter-based pontificate engaging in slapfights with trump
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🔴 Pope Leo in apparent response to Trump: 'Woe to those who manipulate religion for their own military, economic, and political gain'
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