@AlbinoSqrl @friqqin @freer_mind_ @MattWalshBlog "I am sure there are black people who see this all clearly"

That depends on how one defines "Black," I suppose. I know of more than a few Rwandan, Nigerian and Ethiopian immigrants who see things very clearly, but their cultures are nothing like Black inner city culture. @AlbinoSqrl @friqqin @freer_mind_ @MattWalshBlog The Black people who are descended from the slaves of the Confederacy can be seen objecting to the idea of referring to African immigrants as "Black" people, and most of the African immigrants seem happy to be left out of that category.

@friqqin @freer_mind_ @AlbinoSqrl @MattWalshBlog "the fact of his childishness makes him a victim."

No, it doesn't. He is reported to have been ten, not five. That is well above the age of reason, even for a child of modest intelligence. More than old enough to be sent to juvenile detention for what he was doing. @friqqin @freer_mind_ @AlbinoSqrl @MattWalshBlog "that crackhead has no business reserving so much anger for a child"

Reserving? Do you even know what that word means, ajia? Unless you can show me footage of her letting somebody else off the hook for doing the same thing, you clearly don't.

@NotTheHelp @BiffShackleford @moment_mirthful @CollinRugg "Nah, your history is bunk."

Says the "man" who is about to post some Afrocentric revisionist nonsense that sounds like something from the Black Hebrew Israelites.

"In the 1st place, we are Israelites,"

See? And no, you are not. This is beyond rational debate. @NotTheHelp @BiffShackleford @moment_mirthful @CollinRugg Egypt has no shortage of well-preserved, mummified bodies. The ancient Egyptians (and their neighbors to the northeast) were not, for the most part, Black, and even the relatively few who were, weren't closely related to your West African ancestors.

@SomeBitchIIKnow To clear up a bit of confusion that arose in last night's chat, as my Midwesterness became suspect 😄 ... maybe this is one of those male-vs-female things?

Or maybe this is just a "me" thing, under the circumstances. @SomeBitchIIKnow The circumstances being that a lot of people in the chat (almost all of them male) have seemed awfully eager to grab onto any excuse to argue with me in the chat that they can find.

@Kovnah @bennyjohnson The future might not be looking as bright for you as you'd hope. Sounds like you want to be a drone.

Such males exist in nature, but you might notice that they don't live long and are quickly discarded (or consumed). @Kovnah @bennyjohnson Not that humans are spiders or bees, but I'm thinking that you might find yourself all too disposable.

@BigWalt187 @Alex_Jones_2028 @CollinRugg @EdtheGreatX "I never said that,"

You implied it, and you know it.

"you’re reaching."

Hardly.

"I will toss you an easy question, what do you think happened prior that could’ve justified what we saw?"

You want me to psychically tell you what happened in the footage that I didn't see? @BigWalt187 @Alex_Jones_2028 @CollinRugg @EdtheGreatX That's not merely not an easy question, it's not even a sane one. You're asking me to do as you have done, and just assume my facts into existence. That's your style, but it's not mine.

Absent the evidence, I don't know, and I'll refrain from pretending otherwise.

@Marie1357891314 @Alex_Jones_2028 @BigWalt187 @CollinRugg @EdtheGreatX "No we don’t"

Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. "Blue eyed devils" - ring any bells?

If you want to say that not all Black people are bigots, I will agree with you. If you want to say that none of them are racists, having lived in the city of Chicago, I won't take you seriously @Marie1357891314 @Alex_Jones_2028 @BigWalt187 @CollinRugg @EdtheGreatX "I’m glade the LAW is charging her with a HATE CRIME"

The law is what is written down. It is not simply whatever somebody in a position of power wants it to be.

The first amendment is unambiguous on this point. One can't be imprisoned for hurting somebody else's feelings.

@EdtheGreatX @CollinRugg For what? For appearing to be an awful person, when viewed in a video in which context is absent? What happened before the video starts with the allegedly verbally abused woman standing over the car of her alleged abuser?

We only have the accuser's word on that. @EdtheGreatX @CollinRugg We don't really know. For all we know, the Black woman could be lying, and could have instigated this.

But what we do know is that there is no law that would survive under any sort of honest constitutional scrutiny under which she could be charged.

@NeoNietzschean @nimayi3 @romanhelmetguy General AI is, itself, a bad idea for reasons that others have already explained before.

Bad enough to justify doing whatever has to be done to stop it. Up to and including the initiation of a thermonuclear war.

As bad as that would be, a true general AI would be so much worse. @NeoNietzschean @nimayi3 @romanhelmetguy In the face of a more than global existential threat, all moral bets are off, and all things become permissible.

@DeptofDefense @CVN70 @USSHARRYSTRUMAN @CENTCOM It looks quite impressive, for now. But please tell me, after @elonmusk, the current head of DOGE, manages to force entire generations of scientists and engineers to abandon the United States, who will design your hardware in the years that follow?

The Chinese? @DeptofDefense @CVN70 @USSHARRYSTRUMAN @CENTCOM @elonmusk He is throwing us out of work in the government laboratories, so work in the Public sector won't be an option. He's also pushing for the elimination of intellectual property rights.

If he succeeds in this, the Private sector won't be an option, either.

@melissajcave @Devon_Eriksen_ Was it, though? Let's take a look at this passage ... @melissajcave @Devon_Eriksen_ "Sure, I can imagine a world where all those tedious technological patents and scientific copyrights disappear so that massive companies like X and whatever Jack Dorsey's in charge of can then iterate on other people's work freely."

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@Riley_Gaines_ There's something that I've noticed ever since Luigi Mangione was arrested: both his "defenders" and "detractors" just assumed that he was the shooter, even though he really didn't look like the man in that photograph of a "person of interest" that had been released earlier. @Riley_Gaines_ Both had dark hair and dark eyes and a skin tone that can be found throughout the Mediterranean basin and into parts of Southern Asia. That was where the resemblance ended, but those commenting didn't seem to care, when I lurked during social media discussions of the case.

@strawhatguy @walterkirn "However, if it can be shown that IP law does not"

Translation: "If somebody can come up with a superficially plausible sounding rationalization ..."

Remember "trade is a technology," that scam? @strawhatguy @walterkirn The STEM communities are just now emerging from the harm done when the masses carelessly accepted that one without really thinking about it, because as nonsensical as it was, it sounded nice.

It sounded nice until the hunger it induced reached them.

@maxkeiser Glib pseudo-mystical bulls--t. My ideas come from me, from inside my own head. You do not have any sort of ethical right to help yourself to them.

@Jack is scum, and so is @elonmusk. We've always known it, but I guess they were determined to eliminate any doubt. @maxkeiser @jack @elonmusk A world without IP protections is a world in which creators don't have to be paid for their work.

@TheQuartering @gofundme The rationale, itself, is an admission of corruption. In real life, public defenders are overworked, and are infamous for not going a great job of defending their clients. @TheQuartering @gofundme To block fundraisers for those accused of violent crimes is to interfere with the ability of those so accused to get fair trials.

The company should not be at liberty to do that, period.

@centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow We're all going to be a little grumpy around here for a bit, I think. We've been crying over somebody who just died from a heart attack. He was in the hospital with a blood clot and things went horribly wrong. @centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow In chat, we were drinking toasts to his memory, all night, until each of us went to sleep. He will be missed.

@daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 "Exactly how would you propose taking back the land from the aggressor?"

Reality check: The mighty Russian army has failed to overwhelm the Ukrainian army for a few years, now. If NATO put boots on the ground, it could obviously crush the Russian army. @daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 Nobody sane person seriously maintains that the Ukrainian army, even with the outside funding and supplies, comes close to being as powerful as the US army. Or as powerful as would be the army of a fully re-armed Germany, which at this point is looking like a very good idea.

@Flickr Hi. I was going to get an account on your site, but then I found out that this would have been a bad idea.

archive.is/xzAHV

short-stories.deadjournal.com/738.html

Live and learn, right? Having just read the post, I'll give you all a condensed version of the story. @Flickr Writer gets Flickr account. He's going to do mixed media work, combining contemporary urban realist fiction with digital art. He writes a bio in which talks about his creative choices and the thinking behind them.

@flickrfdn Flickr and Free Speech - two things that I wouldn't expect to hear mentioned in the same breath. Probably because I just read this post

archive.is/xzAHV

short-stories.deadjournal.com/738.html

from one of Flickr's most recent victims. They've really gone insane. @flickrfdn It's a long, angry piece and I can see why the guy is angry. For anybody who wants a shorter version, I posted one somewhere else.

@ztisdale Even less this. @ztisdale This, on the other hand, looks fairly inviting.



What good is an empire or a superpower, if hardly anybody or anything is left standing in it, when the smoke clears? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prag…

@threadreaderapp Hi. What is this?

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This is what I got in response to this unroll request

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Your bot missed all but the first tweet. It even missed the tweet that I linked to in the unroll request.

A swing and a near-total miss on your part. @threadreaderapp This was completely useless. Are you going to fix this?

Or are you just going to play make-believe, pretend that you're offering a real service, and decide that's good enough? I ask this, because I've seen people do that, before.