I don’t know Ms Harp or believe her or any of the Mar-A-Lago women imprinted with Trump lies to be “templewhores” (a myth) but I know Religious Nationalist women who unquestioningly give cult-like abeyance to men in power regardless of truth or falsity. 👇
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/us/video/christian-nationalist-doug-wilson-women-pam-brown-vrtc
Trump seeks to allow logging in pristine national forests
I doubt he’s ever hiked or camped
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/117113882905387968
An excellent summary via r/australia:
"outsourcing sensitive disability data to a surveillance tech giant while legally shielding the AI's mistakes is peak dystopian government. deadass zero accountability just like Robodebt, but this time with privatized profit."
#Palantir #NDIS #disability #robodebt #AutomatingInequality
On Tuesday #ABCSuedTheFCC, “accusing the agency of infringing on its First Amendment rights. It asked a federal court to stop the FCC from pursuing aggressive regulatory moves that the network said posed an “existential threat” to its operations.”
RE: https://mastodon.mit.edu/@amsomniac/117113957359596534
An off switch for "AI" is not enough. *An off switch for "AI" is never enough.* The "AI" has to be actually physically removed from the binary. Any software project who believes "Artificial Intelligence" is a real thing does not have the institutional competence to implement an off switch
don't forget to turn off AI summaries if you update firefox mobile. I had the "AI killswitch" turned on and the latest update turned summaries on and turned the "killswitch" back off
American Airlines flight blows tires on landing at Chicago O'Hare Int'l Airport #UPI https://twp.ai/E5EDvh
“Lala #Hawaii The storm damaged 16 transmission lines on the island of Hawaii, known as the Big Island, which took the first hit from the storm, according to the utility, Hawaiian Electric. More than half of the utility’s customers on the island, which is largely rural, were without power on Sunday.
The damaged transmission lines include one that runs for 42 miles on the Big Island.
NYT
analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English w American accents..”
#Ecuador
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/americas/ecuador-fishing-boat-strikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5lA.nUhR.SkDMWVPDgxi0&smid=nytcore-ios-share
🙏Praying for #Hawaii #HurricaneLala
All these #illegallydeportedhumans
must be returned and Trump charged with crimes against humanity.
He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/magazine/deportation-immigrants-prison-eswatini.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5lA.sCro.BUo-y2ErWRHs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
UN urges support for Afghan women’s aid five years into Taliban rule https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/15/un-urges-support-for-afghan-womens-aid-five-years-into-taliban-rule?traffic_source=rss
Republican candidate busted for voting in two states #AlterNet https://twp.ai/E5EKL3
Oh for freaking pity’s sake
Trump’s hand-picked #KennedyCenterboard finds a workaround to get his name up on the building despite the ruling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/design/kennedy-center-closure-board-vote-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.JYKB.2fxhplmpgBU3&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Hey Fedi, is anyone else on here a survivor of severe Rh disease? I was born in late sixties, just before the rhogam could prevent the problem.
I was a third child, born premature and hypoxic and needed an immediate exchange transfusion.
I suspect it causes me memory and subtle coordination problems.
Never met anyone else with a similar background.
Yes, Joni. The Soviet Union was not a state dedicated to human progress, it was the Russian colonial Empire disguised as #socialism
Eastern European states are the ”proof in the pudding”: After #USSR collapsed, life expentancy in these states has up to doubled.
#Russia is a barrier on the way to progress. And even though the USA is imperial too, there is no logic there that lets Russia off the hook for what they have done.
Deadly India landslide kills at least seven in Mumbai https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/12/deadly-india-landslide-kills-at-least-seven-in-mumbai?traffic_source=rss