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  • A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech’s legal guardrails

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  • Exactly!

    Oh regulations would cut into your profits? Boo fucking hoo

  • What communities or instances do you have blocked to make your Lemmy experience more enjoyable?

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  • Lemmygrad.ml seems kinda obvious, but I have a completely naive question about lemmy.ml. Is it essentially the same? Why is it a controversial instance.

    Based on just the sidebar description it sounds like a cool instance: A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

    But I also see a lot of people saying they have it blocked

  • Slurs, 911 calls and a crossbow: Records detail neighborhood disputes before Jonathan Joss' killing

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  • Look dude, we have gotten so far from the actual point of my "wall of text," which you couldn't be bothered to read before arguing several more walls of text.

    So let me just put aside the fact that I believe it's a bad idea to set a precedent where we rely too much on the government making constitutional amendments to reflect changes in modern society (not that it is not sometimes necessary, but that constitutional amendments should not be the default for improving America, otherwise you risk bad actors attempting to modify or remove protections and benefits that already exist in the constitution).

    Let's also set aside that congress, currently controlled by Trump loyalists, want a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump to use the same strategy Vladimir Putin has used to make himself president for life and destroy democracy, and that this is exactly why I feel the way I do about constitutional amendments.

    In a world where those concerns don't exist, I still have to ask why not just have it codified into law instead?

    The short/uncomplicated answer for why Roe v Wade was never codified by something like the Women's health protection act, is because it didn't have enough support across both the house and Senate (bc once again, the issue used by the Heritage Foundation to create a false political division that didn't actually exist, has worked as intended. Yet most people are oblivious about who created that division, and the campaign they ran, that to this day, makes people feel so reactionary about things such as abortion. This is also the reason so many on the left worry they will lose moderate supporters, while taking their left base for granted, which they are now also beginning to lose due to voter apathy as a result of these people constantly trying to appease moderates.)

    Given that we couldn't even get enough support for that to be codified into law, and putting aside literally everything else, why would you think it would somehow alternatively be easier to get enough congressional support to pass a constitutional amendments for any issue being used to keep people divided?

  • Slurs, 911 calls and a crossbow: Records detail neighborhood disputes before Jonathan Joss' killing

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  • Thanks! I grew up southern Baptist and had no idea about any of that until very recently. Puts a very different spin on a lot of the things I grew up hearing.

    Crazy to think that article is from 2014, and still somehow most people don't know this information!

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    Just woke up vomiting, choking on vomit, not drunk or on drugs, heart beating slightly off. Is this ER worthy?

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  • Do you have any chest, arm or back pain? Do you have a pulse oximeter?

    Can you go to a minor ER? If you hadn't said your heartbeat was off, I would say not necessarily a big concern at this point, but this also sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine with an aortic dissection.

    She thought it was food poisoning at first, finally went to a minor med, they refused to treat her bc her and sent her to the ER ASAP. She ended up in the hospital for several weeks.

  • Slurs, 911 calls and a crossbow: Records detail neighborhood disputes before Jonathan Joss' killing

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  • Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

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  • More scientists and data, but research quality in China has been very poor for quite some time, hence a lot of questions and concerns regarding methods, data collection, and number of retracted articles.

    The entire idea of the "China virus" and the Trump/Republicans lab leak/attack on NIH funding to EcoHealth, and their collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, hinged on pointing out the lack of lab safety standards in China that wouldn't have allowed the research to occur here.

    On the flip side, now that Trump is in power, OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

    Kinda seems like a load of BS especially considering AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/9/china-wrestles-with-quantity-over-quality-in-generative-ai-patents

  • Trump signs orders to bolster US drone defenses, boost supersonic flight

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  • Right, but it seems like they're getting nervous people might actually be allowed to vote in the midterms

  • Slurs, 911 calls and a crossbow: Records detail neighborhood disputes before Jonathan Joss' killing

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  • You understand that this goes both ways? The more we accept constitutional amendments as the norm, the more we place our liberties and constitutional rights most people just kind of assume are always guaranteed, at risk.

    Look at how Trump handles executive orders. Imagine what he would do if people just accepted constitutional amendments no big deal.

    I live in Louisiana, and I'm watching this happen right now with my governor and the state constitution. The amendments were worded in a very confusing way, and even legal experts agreed that it was unclear what the repercussions of the amendments passing would be.

    In a surprising outcome, the state shot down all 4 of the proposed constitutional amendments, because people are recognizing this guy is a tyrant trying to abuse his executive power.

    Pretty clear that people don't want those amendments right? Cool, so problem solved let's move on. Nope, he's making us vote again on the same amendments because he's, hoping that he can word it just right, and pad it with enough things that will please his voter base, so eventually voter apathy will kick in for the opposition and allow his amendments to pass.

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  • What?

    The mistake was giving supreme court justices appointments for life, but the government should definitely not be given easier access to make amendments to the constitution.

    The point about Roe v Wade is that people need to understand history, and how they have been used to further an agenda. They need to know that many of these issues, were never actually issues most Americans were divided over.

    They were turned into divisive issues by wealthy shadow men controlling the narrative, and treating government issues like advertisement campaigns.

    I had no idea until very recently that before the Heritage Foundation used it as an opportunistic platform, the southern Baptist leadership actually had a favorable viewpoint regarding Roe v Wade...

    I grew up in the southern Baptist church, and I didn't know that because barely anybody in this country knows that, and absolutely nobody in the southern Baptist church fucking knows that.

    You want to get people to wake up, and stop falling for whatever the next "issue" is (whether it's DEI, immigration, govt bureaucracy, AI regulations), you need them to understand the history and reality of who is actually creating the narrative and manipulating them.

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  • Roe v Wade was the original example and how segregationists gained control of a large chunk of American voters just in time for Reagan to be president. Same sex marriage came later.

    It's explained in the wall of text, but bottom line is you can thank the Heritage Foundation.

  • Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

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  • I feel like we're going to end up with more laws protecting robots and surveillance cameras than our own civil liberties.

    Wonder where all those angry white guys with tiki torches and khaki shorts are now? The ones that thought the Jews were trying to replace them? 🤔

  • National Academies Seeking Ways to Cut Red Tape in Research

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  • "This could be a game-changer for a time when many in the research community are feeling all sticks and no carrots,” said National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt at the kickoff meeting. “This is a chance to actually deliver a win for them.”

    🤣 I'm sorry, do y'all think she actually believes this? Or just hoping a good plug might keep her from being replaced?

  • Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages

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  • I mean apparently they're partnering with a private robotics company. The picture is an actual model of the company's robot. Whether or not they actually end up implementing this, they're allegedly currently training the robots.

    Presumably, if nothing else, Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs to attempt this and further the current administration's agenda to beat "Gyna" in the science and tech race. Except unlike Gyna, the U.S. is firing all of their scientists (which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China) bc they think AI can replace them too.

    So now, they're just handing all the resources to the kind of technocratic "elites" who are used to just purchasing their good ideas, rather than actually creating anything. This is also why they seem to genuinely believe something like Amazon humanoids is a sound investment, "durr, we don't need people bcuz we haz robots."

    Fun fact, just learned they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots too. There was a meeting about it yesterday:

    For all we know they made the futuristic robot exoskeleton, took some fancy pictures of it holding a package, and that's all she wrote. The end result is just some rich assholes are slightly richer at the expense of the tax payer, and we should be grateful. 'Merica! 🇺🇲

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  • The thing is, even if you give up and say, ok things will never change, I'm leaving my home bc I've accepted I don't belong here, it spreads. The goal is to shape America into the reality they want. If you don't stop it, it's not contained to TX, or LA, or the south, or the fly-over states, or the suburbs/rural areas.

    Look at Roe v Wade. That didn't just happen overnight. State level policies spread from within and then eventually paralyzed a federal protection for the entire country.

    The only reason that even happened was bc the same people that wanted segregated schools also wanted to maintain federal tax exemption, so they saw Roe v. Wade as an opportunity to gain support for their movement. It had nothing to do with being morally opposed to abortion.

    The Real Origins of the Religious Right

    In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.”

    When the Roe decision was handed down, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas—also one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century—was pleased: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” he said, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”

    6 years after Roe v. Wade, in 1979, the Heritage Foundation co-founder and political activist Paul Weyrich used abortion as a platform to deny Jimmy Carter a second term bc he knew it would be easier to get people on board regarding Roe v. Wade rather than getting people to support their movement protecting segregated schools.

    Weyrich's goal was to always gain power and ground for conservative values to dominate the entire country. He wrote about the need to dismantle the federal government decades before anyone heard of RAGE or DOGE.

    They use federal bureaucracy as a talking point now for the same reasons they seized Roe v. Wade back then. Bc it's a lot easier to get people on your side and convince them your goal is to get rid of unnecessary and "harmful" federal policy, rather than admitting your true goal is be allowed to steamroll federal protections with zero consequence.

    May 21, 2025: Justice Department ends police reform agreements and halts investigations into major departments

    In court filings Wednesday morning, the Justice Department asked judges in Minnesota and Kentucky to dismiss the consent decrees reached with the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.

    “After an extensive review by current Department of Justice and Civil Rights Division leadership, the United States no longer believes that the proposed consent decree would be in the public interest,” the DOJ said of the Minneapolis agreement.

    The Civil Rights Division is also closing investigations into local police departments in Phoenix; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis, Tennessee; Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and the Louisiana State Police.

    Jim Pasco, the longtime Executive Director of the Fraternal Order of Police, said that consent decrees are ineffective and “do not make any material positive difference in the relationship between police departments and the cities they serve.”

    “In fact, to the contrary, it exacerbates the problem because it validates thinking in urban areas that the police are their enemy,” he said.

    So the entire U.S. believes that? Across all those cities and states? Or does a select group of people seem to be speaking for the entire U.S. and making some very concerning policy decisions regarding federal protections?

  • Slurs, 911 calls and a crossbow: Records detail neighborhood disputes before Jonathan Joss' killing

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  • Police records obtained by NBC News and interviews with Kern de Gonzales and the pair’s neighbors paint a complicated picture of what led up to Joss' death.

    So it's a fact he went on to Joss' property to confront him, and then ended up shooting him in the head...? On his own property? And then calling him a slur after he shot him?

    Regardless of history, if it happened on Joss' property, it really doesn't seem complicated. It seems like a pretty deliberate decision, and if he put the dog skull on their property it actually kinda seems pre-meditated. Like he was hoping for a confrontation.

    I've had some awful neighbors in the past, and it sucks. Sometimes you just can't get along with people. Even the worst of the worst neighbors I've had, I can't imagine ever going on to someone else's property to confront them, killing them, and then expecting anyone to believe I might have been in the right.

    It's one thing to defend your own home, but it's not your job to confront your neighbor on private property with a lethal weapon, just bc they had previously been walking around the neighborhood with a pitchfork. Wtf?

  • Musk shares footage of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein as feud intensifies

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  • Isn't this all footage that we've known about for a long time?

    Just to be clear, I felt like we shouldn't be electing a creepy rapist that hung out with Epstein even before he got elected the first time. I never thought we would somehow do it twice, especially after he almost killed us all the first time around, but c'est la vie, I guess.

    Just wonder how much of this is just a reality TV/wrestlemania style distraction IRL. Like what does it really change that Elon is reposting information we already knew?

    Like there is other big shit going on with Israel, Gaza, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and the EU going on right now but nobody is really talking about it bc we are paying attention to Elon re-screening videos of Trump/Epstein that we've already seen.

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    Opposition to the butchery in Gaza

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  • I replied to your original comment before you added the additional information, and apologize if I misunderstood. Just going by your shorter original comment though, it seemed like you were arguing that OP pointing out the fact that ignoring/taking a neutral stance/downplaying or denying that what is happening right now is psychopathic, is somehow itself an extremist stance to take.

    Just to be 100% clear, absolutely fuck antisemitism, but OP's post doesn't say anything remotely antisemitic.

    The argument is simply that regardless of politics, identity, history, or anything else, as humans, knowing what is happening to other humans in Gaza right now in this moment, we can't acknowledge reality and pretend that it's anything other than genocide.

    That shouldn't be an extreme opinion, but somehow people will repeatedly argue that it is.

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    Opposition to the butchery in Gaza

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  • I'm including a link from a news report released yesterday at the bottom of this comment.

    I'll save you from actually clicking on it and watching this horrific video, and just let you know, it's a 5 yo girl in Gaza trapped in a burning building after it was bombed by the Israeli army. The building is a former school the girl had been sheltering in along with her parents, younger sibling, and several others.

    She screams in pain as she desperately tries to escape from the flames, and people outside scream for help as they watch her running around inside. Luckily a fireman was able to help her escape, but she was horribly burned and lost her entire family. The reporter later finds her in a hospital several weeks later, trying to recover and crying out for her mother.

    If you still feel from that description that ignoring what is happening right now is acceptable or you're pretending it can somehow be justified in any context, you should make yourself watch the video. Keep in mind this is one of countless stories like it.

    It's extremely disturbing because what's happening is literally extreme and should make any human capable of empathy uncomfortable. It's easier to ignore it and pretend it's not happening, but that's always the case with genocide.

    If watching the video and knowing all of this still changes nothing for you, then you should also know you are literally showing callous and unemotional traits associated with psychopathy. That's not BS, it's a fact of reality.

    https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010207629/gaza-israeli-strike-palestinian-girl-silhouette-fire.html

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    LA DOGE member wants to allow military to seize private land

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    Trump’s early agenda dismantles Civil Rights Act, advances Project 2025, activists say

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/2025/05/04/trump-100-days-civil-rights-protections-setback/83331594007/
  • technology @hexbear.net
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    Inside OSTP’s ‘promote’ and ‘protect’ science and tech strategy

    www.nextgov.com /emerging-tech/2025/05/inside-ostps-promote-and-protect-science-and-tech-strategy/405063/
  • Fediverse vs Disinformation @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Inside OSTP’s ‘promote’ and ‘protect’ science and tech strategy

    www.nextgov.com /emerging-tech/2025/05/inside-ostps-promote-and-protect-science-and-tech-strategy/405063/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Inside OSTP’s ‘promote’ and ‘protect’ science and tech strategy

    www.nextgov.com /emerging-tech/2025/05/inside-ostps-promote-and-protect-science-and-tech-strategy/405063/
  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Why you should stay informed and always vote on every issue

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    LA DOGE secret meeting about gov accountability violated public transparency laws. Told on themselves by posting a pic of secret meeting to FB 🤦‍♀️

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    LA DOGE secret meeting about gov accountability violated public transparency laws. Told on themselves by posting a pic of secret meeting to FB 🤦‍♀️

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Mike Johnson says he's not on Signal and jokes that his texts are 'monitored by the Russians'

    www.businessinsider.com /mike-johnson-signal-russians-monitor-texts-2025-4
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    Russian state media claims Marco Rubio may attend Putin's victory parade

    www.newsweek.com /russian-state-media-claims-marco-rubio-may-attend-putins-victory-parade-2066654
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    The ‘Recklessness Itself Sends a Message’: 35 Legal Experts Assess Trump’s Return

    www.nytimes.com /2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html
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    Donald Trump went after one of America's top law firms. Its decision to fight back took just two hours

    www.businessinsider.com /donald-trump-big-law-executive-orders-decisions-damage-2025-4
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    Secret Trump Memo Tells ICE to Break into Homes Without Warrants

    www.thedailybeast.com /leaked-memo-donald-trumps-ice-breaking-into-homes-without-warrant/
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    Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted

    apnews.com /article/civil-rights-homeland-security-trump-immigration-6b31e8f21737c36b632f2a2095e57f04
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    ICE is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the US

    www.seattletimes.com /nation-world/nation/ice-is-reversing-termination-of-legal-status-for-international-students-around-us-lawyer-says/
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    China, Russia and Iran jointly discuss Iran's nuclear programme with IAEA, reports Xinhua

    www.reuters.com /world/china-russia-iran-jointly-discuss-irans-nuclear-programme-with-iaea-reports-2025-04-24/
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    Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/25/michael-alexander-gloss-cia-russia
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    The Latest Supreme Court case targeting the ACA comes from a longtime anti-gay activist

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2025/04/kennedy-braidwood-steven-hotze-jonathan-mitchell-obamacare/
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    Why does he look like an alternate universe Trump?

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    "You capture the Soviet Union --I'm going to capture the states."-Thomas Roe to fellow Heritage Foundation member Robert Krieble