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mozz

@ mozz @mbin.grits.dev

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2 yr. ago

And the voices. "Billy..."
"You fucked the whole thing up."
"Billy, your time is up."
"Your time... is up."

1y ago

80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projects
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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago
I think more than 40% of normal IT projects fail

1y ago

Russian advances prompt public criticism of Ukraine’s Kursk push

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Hmmm

This is a weird framing. The story's not wrong, I am sure, but it's just sort of askew.

I will make a maybe unwarranted prediction that I will find some other curious opinions being voiced by the specific journalist who wrote this story.

Brb

Edit: I am wrong. They're just reporting from inside Ukraine stuff that is happening and so this is a relevant story.

1y ago

Diary of a Jenin family, hiding in the kitchen from Israel’s assault

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Go fuck yourself

1y ago

Wut?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Yeah but it’s supposed to be like “Chuck D and Anthony Blinken are making a partnership to make US music to serve the goals of ~~capital~~ democracy”

Or “The DOD was airing propaganda to undermine people in the Philippines taking the Sinovac vaccine and so they were dying”

Everything Trump says is authoritarian. It’s like playing Stairway to Heaven at the music store. You could just link to his whole twitter and be done with it.

1y ago

Wut?

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I feel like using Trump within !usauthoritarianism is cheating

1y ago

Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I think you may be thinking of a different scandal; this one’s victim was a girl named Cindy.

1y ago

Columbia Cuts Due Process for Student Protesters After Congress Demands Harsher Punishment

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Yes, I'm aware. Can I help you with anything else?

1y ago

Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Not covered in this story: The church leadership says hey he told us about it but we thought it was with a “young lady” and whatevs it was all cool, we’re as shocked as you are it is horrible

The victim says what the fuck I have been telling them about it FOR YEARS NOW

1y ago

Columbia Cuts Due Process for Student Protesters After Congress Demands Harsher Punishment

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Time for today’s fun game!

“Is it Georgia the repressive country or Georgia the aspiringly-repressive US state” has been replaced by “Is it Colombia the sometimes unstable and badly governed country or Columbia the sometimes unstable and always badly governed US university”

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

So then I said, Herr Thälmann, how important is nuance, in analyzing a political situation? How important is compromise with people even who don’t see eye to eye with you perfectly, politically?

And he said, ZERO. Just push for what you want. If it’s not perfect, it’s garbage; try to oppose it. Compromise is the obstacle to progress.

And I said wait. How can I hear you? I thought you died. In Buchenwald.

And from that point on, I heard nothing. Only silence.

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Agreed

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Oh, fracking is a huge deal. As is the rest of energy policy, as is the half a billion tons per year CO2e that Biden’s policies have removed from our emissions.

I was referring to the idea of removing any level of qualified analysis from the evaluation of Harris’s real policies proposed or otherwise, and replacing it with “she made THIS one-off comment several years ago about something that is purely a performative aspect of any policy because the current congressional climate simply will not allow a ban on fracking anyway, and then that contradicts this OTHER one-off comment she made just recently about something SHE’S A FUCKIN FLIP FLOPPER” horse race disingenuous bullshit

Hope this helps

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I mean, Obama really did wear a tan suit. He really did ask for Dijon mustard. Maybe it would have been more accurate for me to say “ginned up” instead of “made up,” because generally speaking they are more or less factual yes.

Like I say, someone from the left who’s all upset about Obama’s drone strikes and saying hey WTF we need better than this, that 100% makes sense to me. But if someone is attacking Obama about the tan suit, and then when they’re called out they say well what about the drone strikes, I’m just trying to push him to the left, that seems dishonest to me. Doesn’t that accusation make sense?

1y ago

‘The police don’t seem to care’: in a rural California town vexed by gun violence, families search for clues on their own

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Marcus Cardenas

Dolores

Crystal Medrano

Juan Luis

Yeah I fuckin wonder why Jerry Nicholson isn’t prioritizing these cases

1y ago

Illinois falsely accused these parents of abusing their baby—and now won't tell them who actually did it

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

I see you have never interacted with the hospital system

Doctors and nurses are great, highly qualified + they do magic. The administrative system that decides what to do on a strategic scale is pure malicious madness. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that they would decide to randomly accuse people of child abuse for no reason because it would make their inconvenience go away.

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Correct.

If you want to evaluate the candidates on their energy policies (for some fuckin reason, as if it is necessary to have a comparison between these two on the merits), you can check into what each of them wants to do, and how much sense it makes.

If you want to pressure the Democrats to be more climate friendly in their policies, probably the best way is just to educate voters about what a vital issue it is (change the calculus of what positions will win or lose them elections), or maybe make the case to the Democrats that support for the fossil fuel industry isn’t as vital as it used to be (e.g. point to candidates in PA who were openly hostile to the industry who still got elected e.g. Fetterman)

Picking out one random wedge issue, and covering it in terms of whether Harris “flip flopped” between her support for the Green New Deal several years ago which included this one provision and now at this point not really saying much about it, as if that is gonna make anyone better informed about what is going on, makes no sense. It’s just creating a conflict between two random single statements at the very fringes of what a coherent energy / climate policy would even be. But it makes perfect sense if you’re casting about for some random cherry picked thing to say about her that sounds bad (and in a very particular way that will lose her support from both fossil fuel people and climate people, because each of them can focus on one time frame of her position which is alarming to them that they disagree with.)

1y ago

Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban

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mozz @mbin.grits.dev 1y ago

Haven’t you read his own self report of his motivation? He cares so much about left wing causes that he’s decided to accomplish them by making a part time job out of attacking the most left wing person (whoever that might be) in this election for a variety of made up reasons.

It’s a hugely effective strategy. MLK did the exact same thing; he just made up hostile nonsense about the most civil-rights-friendly candidate at any given time, and presto! It pushed them to the left. That’s how we got the voting rights act and all this other good stuff.