@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?

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1888434…

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.

@elliott_downing Speaking of men with all of the money ...

Below is something that I just posted in reply to one of Eliott's bleats, brought over here through the magic of cut and paste.

I'm done recommending Bluesky, probably permanently. @elliott_downing

@bluesky I guess that some of your mods decided to celebrate that birthday by making Bluesky just a little bit whiter

I'm going to cut and paste something that I just shared with the well-intentioned man who persuaded me to give your site a try. He's cool, but as it turns out, you aren't @bluesky

@Ghostface_Chilr @Industrial_GC @EndWokeness "It’s the fruits and veggies that will be harder to come by."

Briefly, at most. There is no shortage of people desperate for work in this country. There hasn't been for a long time.

Instead of hiring illegals, offer jobs to people in the inner city neighborhoods. @Ghostface_Chilr @Industrial_GC @EndWokeness People didn't stop working in them because they didn't want work. They stopped because they couldn't find work, and eventually lost hope.

This is Society's chance to give some of that hope back to them. Would you be opposed to that?

@TheeeeChad @Wilddeplorable @Trump_Regrets @realDonaldTrump Have some talking points memorized, Chad?

In real life, that program has been used to bring in cheap labor, while skilled engineers and scientists with experience have been laid off. @TheeeeChad @Wilddeplorable @Trump_Regrets @realDonaldTrump STEM graduates coming out of their degree programs with sterling credentials have found themselves trapped in the "no experience, no job" cycle for years, decades, even.

@batsandcupcakes Not sure my handful of stories makes me a writer, but for what it's worth, I'm still here. I'm also on Bluesky



and am about to set up accounts on Mastodon, Minds and Gab. Not sure about Threads.bsky.app/profile/microb… @batsandcupcakes Eggs, baskets ... if Musk does manage to drive Twitter into bankruptcy, I'll still have established (and known) presences elsewhere, and my followers should have no trouble finding me.

Also, Bluesky has a much better blocking function.