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Programmer and Airplane Enthusiast.
"You just don't know how AI works" earns you a block.
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The devil himself... ( media.kbin.social )
Jon Stewart on Israel - Palestine | The Daily Show ( www.youtube.com )
Jon Stewart weighs in on the war in Gaza and offers up a solution for ending the conflict.
"The Myth of Frontier Individualism" from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 1941-06: Vol 22 Iss 1 ( archive.org )
Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says ( www.businessinsider.com )
A future-of-work expert said Gen Zers didn't have the "promise of stability" at work, so they're putting their personal lives and well-being first.
Order for scentences that have multiple subjects and/or objects and/or verbs and how to order indirect objects in scentences
I can read and make scentences in japanese provided I know the words and particle usage but it gets complicated for me once more than one subject or object or verb is used in a scentence...
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads ( kbin.social )
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Liz Cheney weighs third-party US presidential run, says Trump threatens democracy ( www.reuters.com )
U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024.
On Day One of Gaza cease-fire, Hamas and Israel carry out first swap of hostages and prisoners ( apnews.com )
On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.
[News] House passes a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown ( www.nbcnews.com )
The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.
Senate confirms top Navy, Air Force picks as Tuberville feud intensifies ( www.politico.com )
The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.
RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll ( thehill.com )
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…
[News] Mike Johnson elected House speaker, ending 22 days of GOP stalemate ( www.axios.com )
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) won the floor vote for the House speaker gavel on Wednesday, ending the weeks of stalemate and failed nominations that followed the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
House GOP speaker race balloons to nine candidates ( www.axios.com )
House Republicans will hear Monday from nine lawmakers vying to be the next speaker of the House, with a candidate forum that ushers in a grueling day of voting Tuesday.
The House GOP Didn’t Just Reject Jim Jordan, They Made Him Squirm ( www.thedailybeast.com )
For once, the center actually held and Team Normal beat Team MAGA in the fight to find a new House Speaker.
[News] Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker and will try to unite before a floor vote ( apnews.com )
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Wednesday nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker and will now try to unite around the conservative in a floor vote to elect him after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the post....
[News] McCarthy says he won’t give Democrats anything in exchange for support as Speaker ( thehill.com )
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
[News] Dianne Feinstein, longest serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90 ( www.npr.org )
Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.
[News] Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision ( apnews.com )
With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.
Mastodon is getting text search ( oisaur.com )
Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉 It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time. We plan to deploy it to...
[News] House Judiciary Committee expected to launch inquiry into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis ( www.cnn.com )
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is expected to open a congressional investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis as soon as Thursday, a source tells CNN – the same day former President Donald Trump is slated to surrender at the county jail after being charged for participating in schemes to...
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When you block a user on kbin and they're so butthurt, they ban you from their "magazines." ( media.kbin.social )
[News] Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights ( apnews.com )
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide...
News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to build a new agency to police Big Tech ( www.theverge.com )
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), would create a new agency called the Digital Consumer Protection Commission that would be empowered to go after giant tech firms for a slew of anti-competitive behaviors and failing to protect consumer privacy.
Hateforking alreading happening for Fireffish ( bungle.online )
"i'm not having another plush.city moment so here's the fucking screenshots, read for yourself the outright hostility and bad faithb no alt text sorry i do not have the time, some other kind soul can do it or i'll do it at a later date (📎5) RE: holy shit contributors to iceshrimp are definitively hostile to firefish i had a...
[Analysis] 'People are hungry for more choices': Inside the Green Party's push for 2024 ( abcnews.go.com )
Full article text:...
Analysis: Democrats eye Wisconsin high court's new liberal majority to win abortion and redistricting rulings ( apnews.com )
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will flip from majority conservative to liberal control in August and Democrats have high hopes the change will lead to the state’s abortion ban being overturned and its maps redrawn to weaken GOP control of the Legislature and congressional districts.
"Sounds like Rudy flipped": Giuliani evades Jan. 6 target letter after meeting with prosecutors ( www.salon.com )
Former President Donald Trump received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith in the January 6 investigation but his former attorney, ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, evaded a similar fate after meeting with prosecutors....
Donald Trump brands US a ‘third -world hellhole’ run by ‘perverts’ and ‘thugs’ ( www.independent.co.uk )
Former president claimed American dream ‘dead’ under Joe Biden during Turning Point Action Conference speech
This pine tree in my yard partially collapsed. Probably have to take the rest down. Can I make anything out of it? ( media.kbin.social )