Meryem Fuat

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Hi! I live in the Catskills, NY. I am retired, an active Democrat in a 2A-fanatic area. Grandmother, family historian, horse rider, traveler, Muslim with Catholic foundation. In awe of people's passions and expertise, which is why I'm here.
#genealogy #genealogist #FamilyHistory #FamilyTreeMaker #FTM #WikiTree #ResistanceGenealogy #Ancestry
#neurodivergent #neurodiversity
#Catskills #Scotland #Ireland #Cyprus #Turkey
#Sufism
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I truly hate the fact that the “news” is full of stories about billionaire donors getting excited about Harris (although some are also saying they’re on the fence or whatever) but I’m buoyed up by the idea of lots of small dollar donations coming in.

I’d love to make the big donors thinking they control us irrelevant.

Imagine finding out you have special powers and that it's jump rope dancing
@davew I quit cable because of my disgust with cable news. I use streaming with a firestick that gets me my morning local news. I don't miss being manipulated for their ratings. I'm a life long Dem and will use my vote to secure democracy for my grandchildren. I've watched Trump for decades and I wouldn't trust him with a pet rat.
Here’s the deal: We stop pretending there is any kind of separation of church and state here. Tax them. Tax them hard.
I spoke with Taoiseach Harris of Ireland today to congratulate him on his election and to deepen U.S.-Ireland cooperation.

We also discussed the importance of cybersecurity, the need to increase aid in Gaza, and preserving the gains of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
I'm scared how misunderstood LLMs and GenAI truly are; they are so far from a genuine intelligence it's not even funny. They are statistical models for language, trained on a lot of words and sentences, representing the statistical likelihood of words following other words, sentences following other sentences, just with a lot of data and samples to pull from. That's it. There's no intelligence, there's no path to intelligence; it's simply statistics chaining words and symbols together.

As Greg Olear notes, many of us may look at the blastocyst in the test tube and have trouble seeing the baby in the test tube — looking at you, Alabama Supremes. But that does not stop Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and Robert P. George, a hard-right Catholic closely aligned with Leo, from their determination to impose on all of us by force of law the assertion that a blastocyst is a person.

#abortion #FetalPersonhood #embryo #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/blastocysts-are-people-too

Blastocysts Are People, Too

The reactionary right believe that "fetal personhood" is a thing. Trump would make it so in a second term, thus criminalizing ALL abortions everywhere in the United States.

PREVAIL by Greg Olear
Me everytime I try to explain what is Mastodon

'"It was Trump who ripped away the rights of women in America.

It was a political deal to get rid of Roe, a political deal Trump made with the evangelical base of the Republican Party to look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe."

~ President Joe Biden

#Biden #Trump #abortion #women #Republicans #evangelicals
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/biden-roasts-trump-for-selling-his

Biden Roasts Trump for Selling His Own Version of The Bible

Joe wants to know “what the hell” is in it

The Dworkin Report

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#CollaborativeGenealogy