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Would love not be gaslit. Left Twitter for here. Breath of fresh air. Despise neoliberalism. Climate change will kill us all :(
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Of course she does. And yet the legacy media keeps calling these fascist thugs "concerned parents."

"Florida Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Proud Boy Links"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-mom-behind-amanda-gorman-book-ban-has-proud-boy-links

#fascism #momsforliberty #censorship #gop

Florida Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Proud Boy Links

Daily Salinas attended multiple rallies with members of the far-right group prior to her activism against school library books.

The Daily Beast
Right-wing U.S. Supreme Court delivers 'catastrophic loss for water protections'

This is a breaking story… Please check back for possible updates...The U.S. Supreme Court's right-wing majority on Thursday severely curtailed protections for "waters of the United States."The decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is "unanimous in result but very split in reas...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

The fact that modern AI is basically “show the computer a bunch of examples then it learns to do similar things” means it will be inherently biased because many fields don’t have unbiased data.

This is the fundamental flaw of how the field has marketed itself. AIs inherit the flaws of their training data but with a veneer of objectivity because it’s branded artificial intelligence.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases

‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases

The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI. But after decades working with technology companies, she knows all too much about discrimination

The Guardian
Going through the library.
Working for a computer rather than a human leads to greater job satisfaction, higher income and increased overall levels of happiness, according to the results of an online survey tabulated by a computer.

We’re trying to raise $1500 for a formerly imprisoned woman that’s suffered abuse, 400+ has been raised. Please consider helping us reach our goal for our dear comrade that was a Jailhouse Lawyer (JL) inside. Mutual aid to JL over next several days will go toward this drive.

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The Bee Guy shares some home truths about saving the bees

"If you really want to help native wild bees:

Don’t keep hives, keep flowers. Wildflowers. This will mean you will ultimately keep native wild bees.

... Don’t spray poisons on your patch and forget neat and tidy – it’s so last century."

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/bees-saving-bees-6071187-May2023

#WorldBeeDay #Bees #Nature #Bumblebees #SolitaryBees

Biodiversity: The Bee Guy shares some home truths about saving the bees

Paul Handrick of the Bee Sanctuary is taking issue with the direction of the ‘save the bees’ narrative.

TheJournal.ie
The longer those on the right of the Tories make clear what they really think, the more people are going to appreciate just how much these Tories dislike them. And people don't vote for people who dislike them. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/05/21/you-do-not-have-to-hate-this-country-to-be-a-tory-now-but-it-most-certainly-helps/
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

UK government’s anti-migrant rhetoric is ‘feeding’ the far right, claims campaign group

That’s partly why they are doing it #fascism #racism #divisive

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/21/uk-governments-anti-migrant-rhetoric-is-feeding-the-far-right-claims-campaign-group

UK government’s anti-migrant rhetoric is ‘feeding’ the far right, claims campaign group

Hope not Hate analysis has pinpointed spikes in hostility whenever ministers speak negatively about refugees

The Guardian

“I had a lovely time,” I tell my date.

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man,” Nietzsche replies.