Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the names and addresses of immigrants and non-Christians. ( newrepublic.com )
I am genuinely confused by hexbear's opinion on the Ukraine war ( lemmygrad.ml )
What I have learned:...
Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions ( mbin.grits.dev )
Credit to @bontchev
Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be ( www.inquirer.com )
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.
Humanity making progress like it always does
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." ( pluralistic.net )
Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship ( www.kyivpost.com )
A New York Times reporter was asked why they consistently frame things as bad for Biden but never bad for Trump. ( old.reddit.com )
"I think what you're reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn't necessarily compare the two."...
IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent ( edition.cnn.com )
Blinken tells CNN the US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming US elections ( www.cnn.com )
Mark Robinson's Bizarre Ramble: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote' ( www.huffpost.com )
Do you support sending weapons to Israel?
Humor me for a second. Quick poll. You can just write "Yes" or "No" in the comments.
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) ( pluralistic.net )
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane ( prospect.org )
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF ( littlegreenfootballs.com )
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it ( sneak.berlin )
Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...
Today Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would have created a federal right to contraception access ( joycevance.substack.com )
Would young Americans really vote for Trump today? ( gelliottmorris.substack.com )
Why I’m skeptical of some puzzling polls
Giuliani doesn’t want to sue Trump for $2m. His creditors might make him do it anyway ( www.independent.co.uk )
Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us. ( jacobin.com )
Claude 3 notices when a sentence about pizza toppings doesn't fit with its surrounding text. Whole internet including Tim Sweeney and Margaret Mitchell concludes that it's probably self-aware now. ( arstechnica.com )
Under Biden, U.S. economic growth becomes the ‘envy of the world’ ( www.msnbc.com )
Israel requests to convene the Security Council, in the face of "a flagrant violation" of "sovereignty, of international law" "a concrete threat to the peace and security of the entire region." ( diasp.org )
Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession ( fox59.com )
Fascinating little window...
