Lawmakers are skeptical of Zuckerberg’s commitment to free speech
https://www.theverge.com/news/646288/congress-zuckerberg-wynn-williams-careless-people
AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It
@VeroniqueB99
I recently read about how over half of the American population is at Level 1 Literacy (Grade 6 or lower). Together with how low the population is in some States, Trump and American political outcomes makes lots of sense in a dark #Absurdist way. As a retired Canadian teacher (English, Developmental Literacy, Media Literacy, & Special Ed), I am struck with pity, despair, and anger. #America is being barely held together with spit and baling wire. Just how is it still standing?
#Literacy #LiteracyLevels #LiteracyRates #LiteracyMatters #AmericanLiteracy #Reading #ReadingLevels #AmericanPolitics #AmericanPopulation
Absurdist Tuesday: Megalomania adds to the living angels hidden under this comparison
The results of the Tendai competition have been announced. Minister Singh will be the judge and host. Megalomania adds to the living angels hidden under this comparison. Thick saliva prevents tissue damage. We will give the current senryu to the commission of equality and hypocrisy.
#Art #DigitalArt #Photography #Dadaist #Dadaism #ProsePoem #Absurdist #AbsurdistTuesday #DadaistParables #WordCollage #AmericanPolitics #CanadianPolitics
7.3: They Sent Us to Camp: My Family's Experience of Internment During WWII
If you meet a Japanese American, it’s also a pretty good bet, they probably won’t spontaneously start talking about what they or their family went through, how they feel about it, and how they or their family recovered from the ordeal.
I (Christina) wanted to rectify that by sitting down with my old friend Chie Furuya, whose parents (as tiny children), grandparents, and other family members were “sent to camp”, to ask her about it. The answers and stories she had for me were both fascinating and unexpectedly heartening. Her people are a resilient, cheerful people and I feel like there are life lessons for all of us here, in terms of withstanding and recovering from severe injustice (and coming out on top).
Ariel’s addition to this episode description is to point out that Japanese internment occurred in Canada in the early 20th century as well. We (by which she means Canada, or perhaps so-called Canada, as she likes to call it) aren't some bastion of anti-racism and tolerant plurality (if we ever were). Check out our blog post for links for further edification if you are interested or want to know more about the Canadian side of the story.
When it’s time for struggle, #leftists and #liberals ask the people to sacrifice and to limit their enjoyment. The right asks the people to find joy in fighting their enemies. No wonder we lose and they win. #AmericanPolitics #socialism
Trump's agenda isn't "America first". It's Trump first, then Israel, then Russia, then America (but only American billionaires).
Elon Musk refers to people on benefits as "the parasite class", conveniently forgetting that as someone on the autism spectrum, he would probably be collecting disability checks if he hadn't been born rich.
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
@petergleick for those who wish to see how the other side thinks and also for some links that aren't behind paywalls: https://ground.news/article/senate-votes-to-confirm-robert-f-kennedy-jr-as-health-secretary_1ddc2a
#rfk #AmericanPolitics #medicine
Decline in EU renewables increases power prices and fossil fuel use https://www.bocvip.com/756746/decline-in-eu-renewables-increases-power-prices-and-fossil-fuel-use/ #America #AmericanNews #AmericanPolitics #breaking #energy #Europe #EuropeGasPrices #gas #Media #Mining #news #News&Media #OffshoreWindFarms #oil #RenewableEnergy #SocialMedia #SolarPower #StraightArrowNews #StraightFacts #UnbiasedNews #UnbiasedStraightFacts #UnitedKingdom #USA #WindEnergy #WindFarms
I've been in a fugue state since the last couple news dazes.
#ExcusesForForgetting
#HashTagGames
#AmericanPolitics #CanadianNews
Is #Trumpism a #political movement? Or is it more useful to think of it as a mystical offshoot of #American #Christianity?
#OpenDemocracy and #JeffSharlet (#author of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War) discuss this. See links to podcast
Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’
I put together this image.
You can get her on stuff and help me afford stuff by doing so:
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