Politico—The #Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign.
Anti-Anti-Trump Conservatives Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism
Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
@tzimmer_history A key tool that magnifies the effectiveness trumpists have had in painting liberals as the real danger is the “boomerang attack”, whereby all criticism against 45 is kept out of the conservative partisan press, especially TV, allowing 45 to appropriate the criticism against him, changing the target of the criticism to a person or group on the left and launch it back. Thus, criticism of trump becomes his ammunition.
Copyright is a deeply flawed weapon to use against the generative "AI" companies. But the tech industry's arrogant vacuuming up of everything in sight -- ingesting what others created so it can re-sell it to us -- is moving us quickly toward the worst possible Internet, a pay-per-view system that ruins what we've collectively built.
What is clear, meanwhile, it that Big Tech -- including Big AI -- should be broken up, period.
Seeing these law-enforcement officials stand behind a guy who led the Capitol attack, then praised the attackers, is actually chilling. Wanna know how nations crumble and authoritarians rise? This is your lesson plan. Right here. #Trump
45 isn't spending enough time in court these days, apparently. Now he's suing his partners at Truth Social so he can keep more of whatever peanuts it winds up being worth.
Say it with me: Everything out of their mouths is a lie and/or projection/confession.
“A judge ruled that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted 9 times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence”
@GottaLaff Breaking out the "projection" category of attack, there is a sub-category of attack that I call a "boomerang" attack, whereby the R's repurpose the criticism leveraged against them and throw them back at the opposition, as if it was a novel attack.
@jeffjarvis The potential impact of a Chinese-made car can be complex when one considers the critical devices that have to integrate with a car, such as an ignition interlock device. The IID manufacturers might as well be making their devices in China, too, if we're going to allow Chinese cars on the roads.
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
@GottaLaff A few years ago, republicans tried to belittle Jorge Ramos by labeling him an "advocate" and not a real journalist, but I ask you, what is the republican party now? They are advocates and not a real political party. Katie Britt's SOTU response is the latest evidence. Real politicians and real political parties work with facts, not lies.
There's 1 and only 1 way to make sure Lara Trump doesn't celebrate a first anniversary as head of the RNC: vote for Biden for President in November and say no to fascism!
100 mental health professionals have signed petition that Trump is showing clear signs of dementia. I don't think it's gonna make any difference - firstly, mental health experts have been writing warning books about him for eight years now and it didn't have much of an impact which brings me to my second point - his level of dementia is tightly correlated to that of his base, so when he speaks to them, it's like farting into a sewer..
The Education Department will impose a record $14 million fine on Liberty University, department officials announced Tuesday, for violations of federal law on campus safety - WaPo
@dangillmor ok, didn't know that. I was thinking of San Antonio, which is printed in Houston for the last few years, but I'm sure they're doing the same everywhere.
Ok, I caved and bought that $32 “instant” digital camera that prints on thermal paper.
It’s a weird and wonderful shitty camera. The printer is pretty good, using error diffusion dithering but a bit slow. It’s apparently a 12MP camera that can also do 1080p video on the included 32GB SD card. Obs targeted at kids with the built in filters but there’s something about the immediateness that’s fun about it. Wonder how hackable it is?
@paulrickards Looks nice, but I'd probably go with this Kodak, just because it's for adults at the same price point without being much more fragile than the kids version.
Anyone got a #PixelPhone and have tips for making the camera give a more accurate color space? Shots look good, very bright, but colors aren't quite right.
My lights are "soft white", slightly orange, but shots look like I've got 100% 0xFFFFFF white lights. Soot looks more orange than black, which is wrong, and Parker looks blonde instead of a redder orange.