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Zedstrian

@ Zedstrian @sopuli.xyz

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    🚨 BREAKING: Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital Opens Applications for National Security Fund Finance Program

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  • Anything from the Department of Defense at the moment is fascist propaganda; better to post a news article reporting on it with an objective perspective.

  • Don't paste the AI.

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  • They're definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that's in large part because people aren't generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

    Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

  • Don't paste the AI.

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  • Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they're a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

    In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

  • Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.

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  • The AI industry is actively telling companies that they can become 'more efficient' (i.e. fire workers) with AI; that's more than a mere 'messaging problem'.

    It has a financial interest in companies firing their workers and raising prices to make room for it.

  • Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

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  • Even a 5% fee is 5% too high; letting Apple tax all sales on iOS merely because they control the operating system is monopolistic.

  • Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections

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  • Blanche: Congress has already approved White House ballroom project

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  • Trump blames Reflecting Pool ‘vandals’ for dead grass where July 4 celebrations held

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  • I have relatives who honestly think the reflecting pool was vandalized after hearing people on Newsmax and other far-right platforms parroting Trump. People like that believe anything Trump says at face value.

  • Democrats officially set their 2028 primary calendar, with South Carolina going first

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  • You keep using vague terms....

    There's nothing 'vague' about it; you posted a quote of the DNC chair communicating the national Democratic Party's strategy for the type of candidate they would prefer to be chosen for the 2028 presidential election, and I replied how that preference elevates the interests of predominantly xenophobic rural voters over those of progressives. Choosing conservative South Carolina as the bellwether for the primary season indicates that they want another compromise candidate that will draw center-right voters away from MAGA. This effort is also clearly visible in how the Democratic Party adjusts its platform in swing states to cater to right-wing voters.

    In a two-party system where the Democratic Party is the only viable platform for progressive policies at the national level, primary voters must reject this effort by the DNC and instead choose a progressive that will not only undo all of the shit Trump has unleashed upon the country, but push for progressive reforms as well. The same effort must be made for congressional elections as well, or much of Trump's legacy will be allowed to remain.

  • Democrats officially set their 2028 primary calendar, with South Carolina going first

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  • The Democratic Party has consistently shown that it is willing to bend on issues such as immigration to attract center-right voters to its platform. Leading Ohio Democrats have committed to anti-trans legislation for the same reason; what guarantee is there that the broader Democratic Party won't try the same in an attempt to draw votes away from MAGA?

  • Democrats officially set their 2028 primary calendar, with South Carolina going first

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  • Setting the goal at earning the support of "every region, every demographic, every generation" implies that the party will bend its platform to suit the xenophobic and transphobic interests of right-wing voters who might vote for a Democrat willing to vote right-wing on key issues, such as passing anti-trans legislation, avoiding any criticism of Israel, and supporting the continued existence of ICE. This is most evident when looking at the platforms of Democrats from swing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.

  • Massive Trump merchandise store goes out of business - because nobody is shopping

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  • What I've seen are people driving around in large Trump-themed buses, parking in different towns from one day to the next, propping up tents and selling Trump merch. MAGA truly is a cult.

  • Democrats officially set their 2028 primary calendar, with South Carolina going first

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  • Embarrassing that 270toWin is putting Kalshi odds on their website.

  • Democrats officially set their 2028 primary calendar, with South Carolina going first

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  • His argument is essentially a "big tent" middle finger to progressives. It's impossible to earn the support of progressives and MAGA simultaneously.

  • DNC votes to back eliminating ICE as Trump expands deportations

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  • with members backing a measure urging lawmakers to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while also more strongly approving a separate proposal calling for reforms to the agency.

    Approving a proposal to reform ICE demonstrates that the vote to abolish it is merely theatre to appease progressives.

  • Trump cancels Biden-era bid to speed power line construction

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  • Convenient that they are only interested in speeding up infrastructure construction that harms the environment.

  • A.O.C. Said ‘Woke 1.0 Was Crazy.’ But What Is It?

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  • Though the word "woke" itself originated in Black slang and had been around for decades in grass roots movements, in recent years it has been used pejoratively by some Republicans and moderate Democrats as a way to describe policies they view as out of touch.

    No Democrat using the word 'woke' in the same manner as Republicans is a moderate.

  • A.O.C. Said ‘Woke 1.0 Was Crazy.’ But What Is It?

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  • And some public officials, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, have walked back their calls to defund the police.

    Using terms like 'defund the police' leads to bad faith assumptions that it means getting rid of the police entirely, rather than reappropriating funding used for military-grade weaponry for better purposes. Instead, emphasizing how those resources could be better used—such as the expanded use of mental health support in place of police intervention in many cases—might be more effective.

  • ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words

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  • Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.