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KnitWit

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  • Tennessee Congressman calls for Zohran Mamdani to be deported.

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  • I wonder with today’s SC ruling if they actually are going to try and deport him. From what I understand that would now be an actual option, fucked up as it is.

  • At Hugging Face, a former journalist helps make AI more accessible

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  • What is your favorite corner of the internet?

    That rare, quiet part of the internet that actually makes you smarter without making you feel behind. For me, it’s a mix.

    LinkedIn surprised me. I used to think of it as stiff and self-promotional, but it’s become where I exchange ideas with people wrestling with the same big questions: What’s AI doing to journalism? What’s worth building?

    X] is still very relevant for everything related to AI news. It’s where I get pulled into weird, fascinating rabbit holes. Someone posts a half-broken agent demo or a wild paper, and suddenly I have 12 tabs open. It’s chaotic in the best way.

    That seemed like a good place to stop reading this article or anything he has to say haha.

  • MAGA Enters Racist Meltdown Mode Over Zohran Mamdani’s New York Win

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  • Andy Ogle (R-TN), of ‘had his cell phone seized by the fbi shortly before the election in relation to $320k campaign filing disclosure discrepancies that magically disappeared with the new admin’ fame, has already pushed to have him denaturalized. I’m not linking to racist trash, but you can look it up or I’m sure it’ll be on Lemmy.

  • Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor’s ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN

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  • No, if he runs it will be as an independent, and he would have to meet whatever requirements NYC has for getting in the ballot as a third party/unaffiliated candidate. Theoretically he could even win as a write-in candidate without ever even qualifying for the ballot as that’s really just to keep ballots from being potentially ginormous. It’s only shitty because it’s him haha. The main thing is that by winning the primary Mamdani has secured access to the democrats party infrastructure while denying it to Cuomo. That’s not to say that the insiders in the party won’t be in the tank for Cuomo, but as far as party resources go it should all be Zohran.

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  • Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking freshly fertilized paddlefish eggs at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.

    Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.

  • Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message

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  • I’m definitely pessimistic about all of this as well. I think we’re on the same page on a lot of things, or at least in the same chapter. The tearing down is absolutely an issue, and one I am afraid is never going to be solved. I think some of that stems from the fact that the democratic party is comprised of two groups that really don’t want the same thing. So while they both agree that they are against what the conservatives are doing, they are constantly taking potshots at each other.

    This gets exacerbated by the fact that the upper levels of the DNC are fully removed from even the liberal side of the party, and are fully captured by the moneyed interests. This means that while the Republican party can move forward as a monolith, on the other side you never get a true fortified position on anything. Which is further degraded because there are always enough captured dems to reach across the aisle when it serves the moneyed interests. This also works the other way, and stops any real progressive momentum so that even if the left succeeds, they will be hamstrung by their own party. Look for this to happen to Zoran Mamdani if NYC succeeds in electing him.

    It all gets amplified by the media, who are fully corporate here. Kind of going back to your point in the first post about liberals also being an echo chamber, I definitely see it as well. You’ll get your ‘watch this space’ folks who fall into the same trap, an example to me is all this TACO nonsense. He doesn’t chicken out, he’s a bullshitter and there is a huge difference. And when you call a narcissist a chicken while he’s deciding whether or not he should start an international conflict for now reason, well maybe you are part of the problem. (Obviously not you haha, just the general ‘you’). I do believe that this group is a big reason we can’t have nice things though, because they are also the one’s who will see that Bill Clinton endorsed Cuomo and somehow thing all of that is a good thing.

    As for the ‘joe rogan of the left’ I keep hearing about, that’s a pass for me. My problem with him is not that he is conservative. It’s that he is a piece of shit that will push anything to make a dollar. And the money will absolutely pay a POS to spread their propaganda. Anyone on the left doing so will absolutely fall into that trap, it just may take longer for everyone to catch on. And to get to that level of market saturation, you absolutely need the money to be pushing you.

    So, where do we go from here? Personally, I’m a doomer. I do my best not to tear things down or spread ‘thought-terminating cliches’ when all of this horror shows up, but I honestly don’t see a way forward from this. More and more I’m coming to realize this is what people want. Obviously not all of them, but like with the brainwashing thing, these people are doing it to themselves. While options may be limited, no one is actually forcing anyone to consume all of this. So why do we do it? (Hopefully all of that didn’t bounce around too much)

  • Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message

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  • When the tariffs first started up a few months ago, I heard multiple conservatives who had never met each claim that ‘yeah these tariffs hurt, but it’s about respect, and the world needs to learn to respect us again.’ So no, I do not think they are more informed than me, just that they learn talking points through rote memorization and repetition (the only thing taught by our US education system these days).

    Does it get oversimplified, sure. But most of that is because I don’t feel like writing an entire essay explaining the nuance of how these people think that they are actually saving our economy by removing all of these ‘freeloaders and jobstealers’ while in reality they are being fucking racists.

    Those top comments linking to posts are the talking points being disseminated. That’s the response you’ll get whenever you try to push against their narrative. If you look into most of them, they are just grievance politics and often rely on partial information to force the wrong conclusion. If you ever manage to get past these talking points with real people, that’s when the conversation ends.

    These people cannot be changed. I am tired of engaging with them or about them as n the premise that ‘we just need to figure out where they are coming from.’ They may not realize they are bigots, but that sure as fuck is what motivates them.

  • Trump floats regime change in Iran, muddying the administration’s message

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  • It’s because they are all being brainwashed by conservative media. Seeds get planted early so that when the time comes, they can think to themselves ‘this has been a long time coming.’ Traveling all around the country and interacting with conservatives is wild. People three thousand miles apart will go through the exact same talking points like its lockstep for them. I think people really underestimate how much conservative media drills itself into the thought-space of people who consume it.

  • Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary

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  • I swear, this country has one party of ‘no regerts’ and one party of ‘in hindsight it was the wrong choice.’ Really great that you see the mistake, but you keep making it.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Americans 'Have Been Brainwashed' By Fox News, New York Post As She Opposes U.S. Entering Israel-Iran War

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  • "You know when you go into an apartment building and you smell the other people's cooking on each floor and you go 'What are they cookin'?' That, plus crap!" - Fat Bastard

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  • ‘Cal, I just farted’

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  • Although it wasn’t actually Herzog who said it, that quote about americans waking up to the fact that 1/3 of the population wants to kill another third, while the other third watches feels mighty true. I think what really woke me up to that sentiment was back during the 2016 primaries when my sister, a middle of the road democrat, told me ‘but I like my health insurance from work’ when we were discussing medicare for all. She didn’t even have particularly good insurance at the time.

  • Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news

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  • Oh no, sounds like I should avoid this reddit you speak of. Any suggestions for alternatives?

  • Wikipedia Pauses an Experiment That Showed Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.

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  • I canceled my recurring over this about a week ago, explaining that this was the reason. One of their people sent me a lengthy response that I appreciated. Still going to wait a year before I reinstate it, hopefully they fully move on from this idea by then. It sounded a lot like this though, kinda wishy washy.

  • Trump Says FEMA Phaseout to Begin After Hurricane Season

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  • They are going to replace it with a worse version and call it TRUMPEMA and it’ll just be the worst.

  • Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated article summaries to Wikipedia

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  • Never thought I’d cancel my recurring donation for them, but just sent the email. I hope they change their mind on this, but as I told them, I will not support this.

  • Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced

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  • Chuck Schumer already working in the background on a coalition to help push it through.

  • Jon Stewart on CNN’s Biden book: ‘Selling you a book about news they should have told you’

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  • My thoughts exactly. Lost a ton of respect for him over that.

  • The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up

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  • Yeah, repeating the 5 previous mass extinctions.