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Just a person trying to figure themselves out in an increasingly hostile world.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.This article will not make you feel good & it does not promise everything will be all right. Because with Project 2025, we are beyond mere arrival of fascism in America—we are on the cusp of full blown fascism.
What is Project 2025 & why should we care? Here’s what you need to know:
https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/project-2025-invites-fascism-to-america
"Would you rather have a moist cake, or a damp cake?"
Never understood people's aversion to the word "moist."
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
In 2020, Swedish neuroscientists put 30 trans and 30 cis research subjects into a brain scanner and showed them pictures of their bodies. Then they showed them images where their body had been morphed to look more masculine or more feminine. The results support the natural order of gender identity.
https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/tiktok-which-gender-does-the-trans-brain-resemble
#Transgender #Trans #LGBTQ #Neuroscience #GenderIdentity #Gender #Equality #Science #Research #DrBenRein #Brain
NiléaneI feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:
• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.
• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.
• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.
Monday I published this article asking if Israel recognizes Palestine’s right to exist?
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/honest-question-does-israel-recognize?r=fyvxf&utm_medium=ios
Hateful emails called me “antisemitic” for doubting Israel’s support of a 2 state solution
Netanyahu today: “A two state solution would be a reward for terrorists.”😐
I don’t need any apologies. I just need my tax dollars to stop funding this atrocity.
@wkfry Catan actually almost made me turn away from board games. It was the first hand pulled out at a board game party, and I was miserable the whole time. Then I played Dragon's Gold, and had an absolute blast.
VoronYeah, it’s really not #trans people that are a danger to kids
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“A #police youth program that has been running for decades has been linked to nearly 200 allegations of sex abuse and misconduct across the country”
Police youth program faces nearly 200 allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct
A police youth program that has been running for decades has been linked to nearly 200 allegations of sex abuse and misconduct across the country. Law enforcement personnel are accused of grooming, sexually abusing, or engaging with teens and young adults enrolled in the Explorer program.
Cory DoctorowWhen it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand
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@TheUrbanDragon some,not dinner. Stupid autocorrect.