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rayckeith

@rayckeith@techhub.social

writer, software developer, fan of "star (trek|gate|wars)", he/him, married, Esperantisto

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Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn
https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn

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Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head | The New Republic

"What’s appealing about Birds Aren’t Real and QAnon, McIndoe has suggested, isn’t the promise of truth so much as the feeling of community. “We have to consider that conspiracy theorists are not just joining these groups for no reason,” he argued last year. “They’re getting rewards out of these, things that we are all looking for.” Identity, purpose, meaning, a sense of agency and recognition and solidarity. The rise of conspiracism and misinformation is not a crisis of belief, observe the bird truthers, but belonging."
https://newrepublic.com/article/181241/birds-arent-real-prank-conspiracy-theory-misinformation-spreads

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"This is the founding fiction of modern liberalism as well as its tragic flaw. We know that human beings are not rational in reality, but wouldn’t it be better if they were? In every national election cycle since the explosion of the Tea Party, Democratic leaders and voters alike have found this to be the most natural and comfortable response to the extreme right. It’s satisfying to believe that the right-wing “fever” will eventually break, that being the adults in the room is enough, that being a good citizen means erasing our feelings and returning to a lost era of rational deliberation. But it’s all a mirage, and not a helpful one. In fact, we have always been, as DeLillo had it, “fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts,” doing our level best to reason together about what we feel most strongly."

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New Yorkers Are Using This New Law For Better Representation - Democracy Docket

"Using its federal counterpart as inspiration, New York’s 2022 voting rights law establishes a “pre-clearance” regime that requires certain towns, counties and cities with histories of discriminatory voting practices to get approval from the New York attorney general’s Civil Rights Bureau before new voting changes go into effect. In addition, the law creates what is known as a private right of action, which allows individual voters to file lawsuits challenging perceived violations of the law. A separate part of the law — which requires local jurisdictions to provide language assistance and translated voting materials in order to improve access to voters with limited English proficiency — will take effect in 2025."
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/new-yorkers-are-using-this-new-law-for-better-representation/

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"If a voter thinks their village, town or county is violating the NYVRA, they must send a notification letter to the clerk or governing body, which then has 50 days to respond.

Within 50 days, local governments must:

Declare their intent to enact and implement a remedy for the NYVRA violation,
State the steps they will take to facilitate approving and implementing the remedy and
Make clear their schedule for enacting and implementing the remedy.
If the local government does not respond within 50 days or if the town responds, but does not enact a remedy within 90 days, the voter can then file a lawsuit."

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"hey if you live in the usa i am on my knees begging you to go to benefits.gov and take their quiz to see if you qualify for literally any government benefits at all. the income requirements for some stuff (i.e. SNAP) are actually not quite as low as one might think! the quiz is really straightforward and only took me around 5 minutes to complete. i do recommend a computer over a phone but it works ok on mobile too. it will share so many great resources for you and will show you things even if you only technically meet one eligibility requirement"
https://www.tumblr.com/ethanrayne/751773862899974144

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Still working my way through Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Sometimes it gets slow but it is so much better than the Netflix version. Especially if you read the book(s). #scifi

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@jadugar63 @Nonya_Bidniss Amazon Prime video, last time I looked

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“I’m a Leninist,” Steve Bannon said. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”*

https://x.com/bidenhq/status/1795508402811981882?s=46&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

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Is Trump’s Business Generating Revenue From Flying Around Secret Service Agents?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/05/25/donald-trump-is-making-money-flying-secret-service/

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EXCLUSIVE: Florida educators trained to teach students Christian nationalism

"Amanda Tyler, the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and an expert in Christian nationalism, reviewed the entire presentation at Popular Information's request. Tyler said that the "focus on the mythological founding of the country as a Christian nation, this use of cherry-picked history… is very much a marker of Christian nationalism." According to Tyler, the aim of the presentation is "to solidify this ideology that equates being American to being Christian." Tyler noted that the presentation does not address why, if religion was so essential to the structure of the government, the Constitution does not mention God at all."
https://popular.info/p/exclusive-florida-educators-trained

fanjo, to random Esperanto
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En 2011 mi ŝanĝis mian fakon de komputila inĝenierado al elektronika, ĉar mi kredis, ke mi ne povas programi. En 2022 esperantista programisto konvinkis min, ke mi ja povas programi kaj serioze eklernis programadon. Hodiaŭ mia unua tirpeto al vera deponejo estis kunfandita. Nekredeble 🥲

rayckeith,
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@fanjo scienca artikolo diras, ke kapablo programi komputilojn rilatas pli proksime al lingvaj kapabloj, ol al matematikaj kapabloj.

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video: how to fix dystopia

5 minutes of feel-good pablum and this one conclusion: choose technologies that bring people together in healthy ways.

<sarcasm> thanks </sarcasm>

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"Killer whales are known to play with other objects or animals in their environment to the point of damaging them (in the southern resident killer whale population of Washington, USA, which feed on salmon, individuals will ‘play’ with harbour porpoises to the point of killing them, which may be a similar escalation of an initially less harmful interaction), so this behaviour seems on that spectrum," the scientists wrote.

"The animals are known to be sensitive to trends, with scientists having observed odd new behaviors spreading through a pod like a TikTok challenge, only to be forgotten just as quickly. Perhaps most famously, in 1987, a female orca in the Pacific Ocean near Puget Sound was observed carrying a dead salmon on her head; within two months, killer whales from her pod and two others were also wearing 'fish hats.' But it was all a fad."
https://mastodon.social/@lizzard/112520880386406468

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"Jim Boyle & @JimGBoyle

To show how far off the rails Republicans are about the Second Amendment, Plank 19(a) of the Texas GOP Platform says that the Gun Control Act of 1968 must be repealed. The Act requires machine guns, hand grenades, and bazookas to be registered. It also forbids the sale of such destructive devices to felons, unlawful users of narcotics and the "mentally defective"
*
11:11 AM • 5/28/24 From Earth • 12K Views"

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"John Fugelsang • @JohnFugelsang
Since Donald Trump is taking credit again for the Veterans Choice act, here's a picture of him signing it into law in 2014."

(Picture of Obama signing the act.)

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"Democrats To Hold Virtual Roll Call To Place Biden on Ohio’s Ballot
May 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will officially nominate President Joe Biden as its candidate for the 2024 election earlier than planned, in order to ensure he appears on the Ohio ballot."
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-to-hold-virtual-roll-call-to-place-biden-on-ohios-ballot/

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"According to the Columbus Dispatch, the DNC will virtually meet before the Aug. 7 deadline to officially nominate Biden as the party’s presidential nominee. “Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement to the Ohio newspaper. “But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own. Through a virtual roll call, we will ensure that Republicans can’t chip away at our democracy through incompetence or partisan tricks and that Ohioans can exercise their right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice.”"

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"STEINGLASS: Once AMI purchased stories on a candidate's behalf and in coordination with the campaign, those purchases became unlawful campaign contributions.

I suggest to you that the value of this corrupt bargain at the Trump Tower meeting cannot be overstated. It turned out to be one of the most valuable contributions ever made….

“This scheme, cooked up by these men…could very well be what got President Trump elected…”"
https://x.com/katiephang/status/1795530754119655524?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

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The Republican Nominee to Lead Oregon Elections Wants to Stop All Mail Voting | Bolts

"Election observers also commonly warn that individuals gaining a platform to spread false narratives about election integrity has an insidious effect on people’s confidence in democracy.

“The challenge our system faces in the U.S. is not the reality of election fraud, or weakened election integrity, but the belief that voters have,” said Gronke, the professor and researcher.

He added, of Linthicum, “Having someone with the bully pulpit like that can exacerbate that level of distrust.”

While calling on conservative activists to help prove election fraud, Linthicum has also directly embedded himself within that corps. He was the only sitting elected official to put their name on the lawsuit against vote-by-mail"
https://boltsmag.org/oregon-secretary-of-state-election-linthicum-read/

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"She Seandlork Clue
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POLITICAL MEMO
Trump Leans Into an Outlaw Image as His Criminal Trial Concludes
Preparing for a potential verdict in Manhattan, the former president has increasingly aligned himself with fellow defendants and people convicted of crimes.
5:44 AM • 5/28/24 From Earth • 267K Views"

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My Favorite Bit: Robert J. Sawyer talks about THE DOWNLOADED – Mary Robinette Kowal

"My favorite bit is the part that’s getting me all the bad reviews for The Downloaded—and I’m not used to getting bad reviews. Oh, sure, every author gets some one-star bombs now and again, but after thirty-four years as a published novelist, and with twenty-five novels out, science-fiction readers know Robert J. Sawyer is that bleeding-heart left-wing liberal Canadian . . . and they either buy my books because they like that, or they don’t buy them because that’s not to their taste. All of which is perfectly fine."
https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-robert-j-sawyer-talks-about-the-downloaded/

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Review: I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons – Peter S. Beagle – Liminal Fiction

"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes a new novel with equal amounts of power and whimsy in which a loveable cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come together to take their fates into their own hands."
https://www.limfic.com/2024/05/14/review-im-afraid-youve-got-dragons-peter-s-beagle/

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@pelielios

"I think Peter Beagle might have been the first person to imply to me that my transition is a gift to others. That living my life fully and honestly is a way of gifting others with something precious and good, something that they can appreciate and remember for decades later."

https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/751693014430318592

rayckeith,
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@pelielios I don't remember that.

I recommend his "A Fine and Private Place"

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