@gringoathome @DavidAFrench You know what else is used as weapons by all governments, gangs, etc? Guns. The first and second amendments are equally sacrosanct .
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Me. Leftish, Gen-X, Vaguely southern, Neurodivergent, Sober, Chotic Good, Player of infinite games, enjoying every sandwich. https://t.co/U0LU2qYecp
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These platforms are being used as weapons by all governments, organized crime, gangs, etc., to create false narratives, recruit, defame, defraud, you name it.
The ability to target by very specific demographic criteria is very, very dangerous for host of reasons.
Many adults are not safe casually putzing around on Facebook, etc., to say nothing of the children.
And freedom of speech was fine prior to 2005.
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I am alarmed by the negative influence of smartphones and social media on children. All of us should be.
I am also worried that in our zeal to protect children from those negative influences that we will violate the Constitution and undermine free speech. nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opi…
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@gringoathome @DavidAFrench What was it Ben Franklin said about sacrificing liberty for security?
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@cypherhat @davidclowery "Implementation" makes me think of Platonic forms. Expression is communication.
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@davidclowery omg.
Now you are arguing that the word "implementation" is sufficiently distinct from the word "expression" so as to be able to be ignored?
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Copyright is not a monopoly on ideas. It secures human expression. Go back to your law school textbooks on expression vs ideas. If it did grant a monopoly on ideas that would be bad. But it does not. You should and I suspect do know better but you are operating in bad faith. Also I’ve attached the historic Anglo-American law dictionary definition of property. No mention of property being physical.
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@georgejohnson @davidclowery Copyright is state-granted monopoly on the implementation of a set of ideas. It is not real physical property.
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@Noahpinion @HansMahncke I think it is worse: I do believe we are seeing the start of an early “organ market” opening up. There will be money made here … and more and more people in need of help are going to be euthanized instead.
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The purpose of MAID is not to let people die with dignity. The purpose of MAID is to save the government money.
They will keep pushing death on everyone they can push it on, in order to save the government money.
Kentucky Girl@Notwokenow
Canada is now ADVERTISING government approved medically assisted su*cide. Advertising it. Making su*cide look romantic and spiritual. Dear God. Canada is lost.
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@Marxmao1312 @Publius981 @amconmag It's like people have seen the downfall meme but not the original.
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@Publius981 @amconmag Soviet union won the war. expelled the invading nazis and then invaded their capital and chased hitler to south america. america dropped 1 nuke and killed a bunch of innocent people. you are dumb
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Joe Rogan says there are “a lot of dorks” in MAGA:
“That phrase sucks. America is great. Make America greater? I’m down. But MAGA, and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of dorks? A lot of them are these really weird, f-cking uninteresting, unintelligent people.”
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@Publius981 @amconmag We didn't enter the war until Perl Harbor because we were selling weapons to both sides. By the end, most of Europe's and nearly all of Japan's industrial base was obliterated. That left the US as the world's lone exporter of manufactured goods. That was over by the 70s.
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@amconmag America was great during WWII. Our industrial might won the war. We've lost that and allowed China, an adversary, to replace us. That's what Trump is talking about when he says MAGA.
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Why, just fifty years ago, we would have thought UFOs were alien beings, or perhaps swamp gas or weather balloons. But nowadays we know that they are demons - or perhaps a toad or a small dwarf living in the clouds
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NEW - U.S. Vice President Vance on UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons."
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It's an impulse control disorder akin to compulsive gambling or sex addiction. It's definitely not the same as chemical dependency.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
“As for social media ‘addiction’ there literally is no such thing. No diagnosis for that. Social media is not remotely the same as alcohol, nicotine, or heroin. There is no such thing as ‘dopamine hits’ which is merely pseudo-science sounding garnish on a load of served-up crap” grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/the-meta-tri…
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@davidclowery AI is like Phish. It only appeals to people who have made the conscious decision to like it. They think there's more of them because if you say you don't like it, you're going to be stuck listening to a 30 minute Tweezer or watching video of a cat yodeling.
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This is dumb. Yes there are deep learning tools like, stem spitters, instrument replacement, artificial vocals etc (largely trained on licensed music). But thats not “AI” the way Suno is, where you are completely outsourcing creativity and expression to a statistical algorithm trained on unlicensed music. That is not widely embraced. In fact it is frowned upon.
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
AI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic More: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
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@travisakers @booklady2002 What about kids with an immediate family member in hospice care? It would suck to not get to say goodbye due to a control freak teacher. Are flip phones with just one saved number OK?
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@booklady2002 We have medial exemptions and are well aware of which students have them.
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Text your kid all you want. They’re not going to see it during my class though, because if they’re on their phone, it’s getting confiscated and you can come pick it up from the principal after school.
Entitled and enabling parents are as much of the problem as the system itself.
Alice Anahata@AliceBetwixt
There’s no law that a parent can’t text their child dude. You are a teacher not a dictator. These people are forced to come to school to listen to you teach whatever your state tells you to teach, if you’re in public schools. There’s no law that parents aren’t allowed to communicate with their child or send a text during any certain set hours. Thank God. Scolding parents like you’re the warden of their children is a truly gross look. Find something better to complain about. Parents being in touch with their kids?? No. Schools, teachers, and systems telling parents they don’t have purview over their own children is part of what facilitated MK Ultra, GATE programs and ***Epstein-esque lists***, etc. There are plenty of legit and timely “best interest of children” soap boxes to hop on and you’re sidestepping ALLLLLLLLL of them here.
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@reesetheone1 Reagan had Baker, Meese, Deaver and Nancy's astrologist as puppet masters. Nancy's astrologist would be better than Miller, Hegseth, etc.
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It would be nice if Wnite folks gave dems more support you know…….
Latinos too.
Black folks, we are on vacation.
Trump isn’t worse than Reagan and this isn’t the first time we lived through war or high gas prices.
We will be alright.
Cliston Brown@ClistonBrown
One of the big problems I have with much of today’s Democratic Party is the fact that many Democrats think it is more important to ensure everyone gets a slot than it is to keep Republicans from winning. What good does it do any of these demographics to have a MAGA governor?
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@alekhines_gun @JPBillingsgate @mattyglesias He regularly stared that he liked her a lot but her war vote made her unelectable.
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@JPBillingsgate @mattyglesias Thank you for proving his point. Moore loved Sanders and hated Clinton, so therefore predicted Trump would win. It’s that simple. That he ended up being correct doesn’t mean his analytical method was sound. That’s literally the point of the tweet.
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When Trump won in 2016, most sensible people were surprised because he was down in the polls and "the candidate who is up in the polls will probably win" is a sound forecasting principle.
But people who "got it right" (i.e., used bad methods) gained prestige as a result.
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@roanoke_gal @Noahpinion It's hardware vs software. Some people are born with software preinstalled that's not completely compatible with their hardware.
I find it ironic that religious conservatives have such a hard time accepting mind/body dualism.
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isn't gender a chosen identity by definition? else there's not much to distinguish between "gender" and "sex". socy 101, learned that back in the 90s.
the bigger questions [where people actually differ] are: should people be allowed to express their gender if it's different from their birth sex, and should people be allowed to publicly switch their gender?
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@simon_ugoc44071 @CNN A private company was paying us to build them. Now we're refunding what they were paying with penalties for breech of contract.
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@CNN finally some common sense in energy policy. Those wind farms were gonna cost a fortune and barely keep the lights on when the wind dips. Pay 'em to pivot to real reliable power like oil and gas, America's got the resources, let's use 'em instead of chasing fairy dust.
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The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. cnn.it/4uM0NXV
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@Noahpinion Progressives are 21st century hippies. The left. Next generation 60s Campus radicals. There was no transformation. The internet just made us impossible to silence.
DSA is a direct continuation of NAM, SDS, and DSOC.
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The transformation of liberals into "progressives" since 2013 has seriously been the worst thing to happen to American culture in my lifetime. Just absolutely gutted so much of what was good about this country. End of a golden age.
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@RadioFreeTom Has a president ever been reelected with inflation as high as it was under Biden? Republicans could have run miniature schnauzer and beaten Biden after that.
He lost the second he decided to run. Harris lost the second she refused to say what she'd do differently.
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We could argue that Trump 1 was a one-off, a freak occurrence. But electing him *twice*? Raises reasonable questions about what kind of electorate would do that.
Ramez Naam@ramez
The drop in global perceptions of the US is 100% because of Donald Trump. Clear as day.
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@mattyglesias Someone who under-performs in a Senate but wins is like the guy who graduates last in his class at medical school. You call them "doctor" and "Senator."
As a country, we're sick of grown up student council kids being the only ones allowed to run for office.
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@NilesGApol Normal people have bad days, say stupid shit, and do things that make them cringe years later. They have one night stands, get DUIs, and bad tatoos. People are sick of grown up student council kids running this country. This is what people mean by "why can't Democrats be normal?"
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I seriously need to know who/what is behind this guy’s rollout and all the money he’s been raising. Truly one of the worst swing-state Senate candidates I’ve seen in a long time and I live the state that almost sent Herschel Walker to the Senate.
Vet your damn candidate people
David Weigel@daveweigel
Platner up w a response ad to Mills attack in #MESen. “Maine, I’m asking you not to judge me for the worst thing I said on the internet on my worst day 14 years.” He’s putting more points on air this week; Mills buy is $87k in Portland market, Pratner at $350k in Portland.
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Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.
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