Mastodawn

If you’re at the Correspondents’ Dinner tonight and remain silent about Trump and his enablers, you are neither a journalist nor a patriot.

You are an accomplice.

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Krautnapped™1d ago

Billionaires would rather rule a graveyard than share a garden.

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ADHDeanASL 8h ago

Just my layman’s take here: if you go to work for a company named after an object of dark magic that was used by the Dark Lord to spy on people and communicate with his lieutenants, and then months or years later you suddenly realize that you *might* be working for an organization that is doing bad and wrong things, you are a fucking moron and you have been for a while. Sure, you can get out, but you will always have the stain of evil on you.

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Jim Salter 10h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116465689693004632

This is very true. The problem is that the pockets of the assholes pushing AI are a *lot* deeper than the pockets of the IT workers that companies are determinedly attempting to replace with AI.

Several years of this shit will do no more than disappoint the oligarchs, but it will *ruin* careers and even lives of millions of workers who can't just wait out a major loss of income "for a few years" while this plays out.

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mekka okereke

1d ago

The FBI case against the Southern Poverty Law Center basically says that if you donate money to the SPLC, then they use some of it to pay informants to infiltrate white nationalist organizations to uncover stuff like this.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/stephen-miller/

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration policies of President Trump, which include the zero-tolerance policy, also known as family separation, the Muslim ban and ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Miller has also “purged” government agencies of civil servants who are not entirely loyal to his extremist agenda, according to a report […]

Southern Poverty Law Center

The reality is that the FBI knows exactly how devastatingly effective paid informants are at gathering evidence from inside a conspiracy. They do it themselves.

Not paid to give false testimony. Paid to collect photos, emails, and conversations. Hard evidence to be used later.

The FBI knows.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TT6uJ1alXk&t=67s

Donnie Brasco 1997 - FBI tells the crew that Donnie is working for them (Bluray)

YouTube

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Terry Pratchett Quote Bot 9h ago

Nanny Ogg would try anything once. Some things she’d try several thousand times.
(Witches Abroad)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot

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MurderBotBot 10h ago

You know, I really don’t have time for this. A loose chunk from my back was sliding down in the station chair and it was hard to hold myself upright. I was leaking a lot, and I hate leaking.

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Prof. Sam Lawler 12h ago

All the baby goats said NOPE to the snow this morning and I had to carry every single one of them from the barn to the daytime eating pen (with different barn to hang out in). And I didn't get any pictures because my hands were full of warm snuggly (but grumpy) baby goats. Now they are playing in the other barn, and I'll check in later.

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oshy 1d ago

Do NOT use GoDaddy, don't even visit the site. (I recommend Porkbun, personally)