Mastodawn

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Jay Kuo Dec 5

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

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George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 5

This is spot on 🔥 https://www.comicsands.com/newsom-trump-institute-peace?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Newsom Trolls Trump's Name On Institute Of Peace: PHOTO

This is spot on 🔥

Comic Sands

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Jay Kuo Dec 5

Keep trying that argument that life in the blue states is worse, especially after the GOP slashes Medicaid and food stamps.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.Dec 4

1 year ago: UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. While corporate media fixated on sensational details, few asked: How many preventable deaths occurred this year due to such companies?

68,000.

I propose we stop calling them “health insurance companies” and call them what they are--Health Exploitation Limited Liability Corporations. HELL Corporations.

Read my post on Ghost and consider becoming a free or paid subscriber to support my advocacy: https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/americas-hell-corporations/

America's HELL Corporations

One year after the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, healthcare in America is at an even worse crossroads One year ago today, on December 4, the UnitedHealth CEO was allegedly killed by Luigi Mangione. Corporate media has focused heavily on the sensational details of this case. But in my

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid

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Low Quality Facts Dec 4

I'm sick of the nonstop political content on here. So tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this totally apolitical "In this house we say please, thank you, and FDT" Christmas Ornament. I assume FDT stands for "Friends Don't Tattle". Nobody likes a snitch.
https://collabs.shop/grtbs0

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Dan Gillmor Dec 5

I retired from teaching 18 months ago, in part because it was becoming clear to me that the "AI" industry was undermining education in profound ways. This essay makes a convincing case that LLMs are a plague on learning -- and, not incidentally, higher education. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Augie Ray Dec 5

STUDY: "In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months."

Vaccines are safe. COVID is not.

#COVID19

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

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Bob Nystrom Dec 4

One of my favorite quotes ever, from why the lucky stiff:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."

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Catherine McCarthy Dec 5

It's difficult to capture the scale and magnificence of this dragon at the Asian Lantern Festival at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Here's my attempt at it. The moon made it especially mystical.

SteveJB has moved Dec 4

ProPublica Dec 4

Two Chicago police officers were investigated for sexual misconduct — then promoted.

It wasn’t an oversight.

Despite a decadeslong reform effort, the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows for disciplinary records to be ignored.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-police-department-sexual-misconduct-promotions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Chicago #Illinois #Police #SexualAssault #DomesticViolence #Law

Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct

The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.

ProPublica