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peterbutler

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CNET editor. Totally serious. No candy.

#Biking #Vegan #PingPong #LGBTAlly #Software #DiscGolf #IndieRock #BoardGames #JigsawPuzzles #Cats #PublicSchool #Parenting #Berkeley #Books #Writing #Horror #ScienceFiction #Sustainability #EconomicJustice #EndHomelessness #Libraries

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PatrickoftheG, to random
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There's the cosmic microwave background radiation, and there's the opening theme to The Rockford Files. It's always stuck in my mind. It's always a banger.

Worse things I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zYNrsx9Pw

peterbutler,
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@PatrickoftheG Rockford Files, Barney Miller and Taxi are my holy trinity of TV themes

peterbutler, to random
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“Jesus, take the wheel”

…

“No, no, not like that!!"

futurebird, to random
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Have you ever stopped listening to or trusting a person who posts information in media, or online because of a "red flag" ?

That is are there certain topics, habits, actions etc. that instantly decrease your trust in a person you might have otherwise listened to on a podcast, article, or video?

Are there any "green flags" that build trust?

peterbutler,
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@futurebird Biggest “green flag” for me is taking special effort to make sure everyone is included or considered

Also (as others have said) admitting that they were wrong, providing sources for claims, and good humor (i.e. genuinely funny jokes)

ArpComics, to lies
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So ‘Liberty’ is their code for ‘Being Christian’, and their nonsense makes WAAAAAY more sense now.

https://mastodon.online/@jackmjenkins/112541538019575062

peterbutler,
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@ArpComics In the same way that “freedom” = “banning public presentation of certain colors”

Biggest Doublespeak shit I’ve seen yet, and of course, it’s always the right-wing fascists claiming that a world where everyone is accepted and cared for would be 1984

Truly Orwellian

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/locals-defy-desantis-pride-light

br00t4c, to random
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"Nearly Ludicrous": Sheldon Whitehouse Isn't Buying John Roberts's Defense of the Supreme Court

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/sheldon-whitehouse-john-roberts-samuel-alito-supreme-court

peterbutler,
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@br00t4c It’s amazing that most of us weren’t nearly cynical enough about the Supreme Court

peterbutler,
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@br00t4c I think what’s shocking is the open corruption

Of course he’s fash-adjacent if not straight out fascist. But I did not expect him to be so obvious about it or hold regular communications with GOP leadership, and I think that’s what’s happening

scott, to random
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The A's are leaving Oakland, so now Oakland has the B's... and turns out they're solidly pro-bike! https://oaklandside.org/2024/04/30/ride-to-raimondi-the-oakland-ballers-want-you-to-walk-and-bike-to-games/

peterbutler,
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@scott This is awesome. I’m only a 15-20m bike ride away — I used to bike past there on Mandela all the time. I had not been paying attention!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X4ReGOjE0g

fernnfaun, to random
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Do I like AI? No. Do I like Google? Definitely not. But I love the fact that NotebookLM allows me to ask questions from my own source materials and get answers back.I have never been able to ask a book to clarify something before... But now I can. And when I can do that with dense and lengthy philosophy books to help solidfy concepts that flew over my head, it feels like an amazing superpower.

peterbutler,
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@fernnfaun Could you give an example of when it was really helpful for you?

If you’re using the source material to explain itself, mightn’t the explanation be just as dense and confusing?

Or is it additional supporting material for the original texts that makes things clearer?

That does sound cool, regardless. Like “please explain more, book"

peterbutler, to random
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We don’t know yet how Trump’s conviction will impact the November election

We can be pretty sure of 2 things, though

  1. Tomorrow, the RNC will report Trump’s biggest fundraising day ever, the media will run with that story, and no one will follow up if/when official election filings contradict it

  2. A GOP-sponsored poll will show that Trump's conviction will not lose him any votes, and the media will run with that too

peterbutler,
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@TCatInReality I would probably agree with that

peterbutler,
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@artemesia Right on cue ...

peterbutler,
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-2024-fundraising_n_652c8f57e4b03b213b065e28

peterbutler,
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here we go:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-campaign-donations-record.html

peterbutler,
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and 2:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/guilty-or-not-guilty-trump-verdict-wont-sway-most-voters-poll-shows

peterbutler, to SanFrancisco
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I used to watch Supreme Master TV every time I ate at Golden Era in San Francisco

It seemed culty, of course, but fairly innocuous

I had no idea it had gotten redpilled!!

Is Golden Era now showing Trump on its TVs?! (I have not been there in years)

https://suprememastertv.com/en1/v/234322965552.html

#SanFrancisco #GoldenEra #Vegan #Trump #Redpilled #SupremeMasterTV

pluralistic, to random
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I, a total stranger, was thinking of befriending your kid, but before I did, I thought I'd ask you, are they a boring, selfish jerk?

It's fine if they are, I'm just really trying to find quality people to be friends with, so I thought I'd ask you, is your kid a dick?

Wait, don't get offended! How are people supposed to know whether to hang out with your kid if you can't answer a simple question?!

peterbutler,
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@pluralistic The self-entitlement here is rather astounding. I’m not sure if I’m offended or impressed

GreenFire, to random
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Okay, the trial is now over. Can we please talk about some of the other damn issues that we face.

Have you heard about Erik Prince's WhatsApp messages to Nazis that just broke today?
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash

peterbutler,
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@GreenFire This part:

>> he said he didn’t favor a politically driven kangaroo court but envisioned a scrupulously fair judicial process that “truly enables our country to move forward,” which could be ensured by establishing panels with impartial experts such as journalist Matt Taibbi, psychologist and commentator Jordan Peterson, and others of similarly “high integrity” to help determine who would be prosecuted

🙃

peterbutler, to random
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The Treasury Dept and IRS are making the new free Direct File program permanent and inviting all 50 states and Washington DC to participate

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/taxes/irs-will-expand-free-tax-filing-program-to-all-50-states-what-you-need-to-know/

#IRS #Taxes #DirectFile

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Democracy Docket:

NEW: In a new brief, nine Republican secretaries of state are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up an election case out of and reconsider the independent state legislature theory, a radical legal theory that could upend American .

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/republican-election-officials-support-radical-theory-to-upend-american-elections/

peterbutler,
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@GottaLaff Could someone explain how this is different than Moore vs. Harper?

paninid, to Seinfeld
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All had to do was not say anything.

And he just could. not. resist.

You steal one guy’s idea to make a show about nothing and your inability to be a character actor and live long enough to project all your insecurities.

peterbutler,
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@ramsey @angiebaby @paninid Heckle him about the chauvinist comments and get kicked out. You’ll be internet famous

Nonilex, to Law
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Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵 continue

Justice says he believes that the wants him to repeat a significant portion of the .

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

peterbutler,
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@Nonilex

>> Trump is now a

So … does this mean he cannot vote in Florida?

Whatever his sentence, it’s highly unlikely it will be completed by November

peterbutler,
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@Nonilex Pretty easy for any real journalist to refute that nonsense, but Fox is propaganda

"Bragg's office said in a court filing last November that it had brought 437 cases including a felony charge for falsifying business records in the decade before Trump was indicted in March 2023.”

"at least four defendants who pleaded guilty to that charge during that period were sentenced to a year or less behind bars”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trumps-false-records-charges-prison-is-rare-not-unprecedented-2024-05-30/

Snoro, to Florida
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The GOP wants to accelerate climate change, while Democratic centrists are content with slowly embracing it. As hurricane season approaches, shouldn’t we be choosing life?

https://kashmirtimes.com/on-climate-change-centrism-means-a-slow-death/

peterbutler,
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@Snoro Good argument

>> If the climate is to be a battleground for the GOP’s culture wars, and if Democrats are going to face the wrath of oil and gas companies for the most modest of limits on greenhouse gas emissions, why not go all in, and actually wage their own culture and policy war to save the climate?

Good question

dannotdaniel, (edited ) to random
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AC/DC voice: when pigs fly is just turkey bacon

peterbutler,
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@dannotdaniel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHiBhzdBCjg

Nonilex, to vexillology
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Justice tells he will NOT from related cases

Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wed that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down flew at his home in the weeks after the… [].


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/supreme-court-alito-recuse-flag-jan-6/

peterbutler,
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@alexlubertozzi @Nonilex

Not positive, but I think I was right

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24706080-2024-05-30-cjr-letter-to-chairman-durbin-and-senator-whitehouse

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