I am not feeling the 4th of July this year. It is hard to celebrate America while women’s rights are being wiped out and SCOTUS is elevating a convicted rapist above the law. — Does anyone else feel this way?
for me, a defining virtue of America is a rejection of the rule of men, and an establishment of the rule of law. i still get chills of awe every time i read Article VI of the United States Constitution:
Gov. Gavin Newsom in Michigan on his meeting with Pres #Biden:
"I left last night from the White House … had the opportunity to talk to the President for an hour, hour and a half — could have gone two-three hours. And I mean this with absolute conviction: That was the Joe Biden I remember from two weeks ago. That was the Joe Biden that I remember from two years ago. That's the Joe Biden that I'm looking forward to re-electing President of the United States."
@Wearepatriots2@GottaLaff Fun fact. One candidate may need to sleep more. The other needs immunity, won't take a drug test and wants to pillage like his bestie Putin..
#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!
*Thinks … “should I tease UK Peeps about today?”
*Thinks … “No best not I’ll be de-nutted! “
So it’s Thursday today we have nearly made it GentlePeeps!
Happy 4th July to the US Peeps!
UK Peeps - hold your noses , you know what will ensure the safety of our Nation!
Be under no illusion the current incumbents will stop at nothing to feck this up for us so let’s not play their game hey ?
I want a good clean fight today Peeps, vids of violence out in the open without a CW on my TL will be viewed very dimly. Persistent offenders will be blocked.
Comic / slapstick violence in all its glorious forms is totally allowed of course (As are actual news stories obviously) so go nuts & get those AIs working hard !
Be imaginative, let us laugh at them & mock them , not be them!
@alainamartin They don't want companies selling their data, posts, etc. Or using it to train AI.
Though, there's over 25,000 Fediverse instances, so make no mistake, this place IS fully public and there's no way to tell who is reading your public posts at any time. If you want something to stay relatively "private" then set your post to followers only or just don't post it on Fedi.
Servers that use Cloudflare for protection, like mine, have the option to have Cloudflare automatically block all AI bots. I have it enabled.
Cloudflare has written how some AI companies attempt to look like the Google bot, and others, so as to get around the blocks, but that they aren't fooling Cloudflare and they do get blocked.
I don't know what other instances are doing to deal with this.
People use the "square cube law" to feel like there can't possibly be giant ants... but they just ignore all the giant crabs the size of army duffle bags.
The barriers to huge ants are not as robust as you think, and they can be overcome!
... really ants the size of apples would be enough of an improvement to give us a run for our money. Especially factoring in the increase in intelligence given the larger number of mushroom bodies in an hymenopteran style brain of that size.
The brains of eusocial insects are mysterious for their small size, they do more than seems possible with so few cells. So what happens when an ant has a brain the size of a mouse? But with ant architecture?
To clear our heads, Mr. Laffy and I took Hammy to a nearby spot in Port Moody called Rocky Point (my #Canada pals know it well), a gorgeous park/forest/water area.
We stopped at an ice cream stand and saw this sign in the window, which made us even happier that we moved here. 🇨🇦
“Don’t leave your child in the car while you gamble at the casino.”
“Your daughter is not your date.”
“Please store your firearms safely to prevent suicide.”
Uhhhhhh um America?
Hey there. Hey. Um.
You Ok? … or nah?
#Albo needs to take a step back & look at the total #clusterfuck his Prime Ministership has become.
2023 Labor National Conference: Labor’s position is that Israel and Palestine should exist “as two states within their own secure and recognised borders”.
@DropBear@RaymondPierreL3@Alpha1Nine it's a telling report. My dad was part of the Palestine Peace Keeping Force prior to WW2 - he was in the British Army and posted to Palestine in about 1936 I think. He was firmly of the opinion that the Zionists were cruel and dangerous terrorists.
History has proved your father oh, so right @smitjo
I rather like that "Jews are a religion and not a nation". Zionists have proved to be yet something else.
🚨 ⚠️ Please read this ⬇️ article and see my pinned post that addresses how to identify these👇
"Deepfakes Will Break Democracy
The fragmenting of shared reality is fuelling political extremism and dysfunction"
"The era of the deepfake campaign has already begun... Rather than stoke outrage, tribalism, and conspiratorial thinking among voters, these new digital tools might soon breed something arguably much worse: apathy."
And note that only ONE side utilizes deepfake campaign tactics. This is not, never has been, and never will be a whataboutism issue. The"great divide" in this country isn't because of both sides. The divisiveness comes entirely from one side. For those who don't believe that, read the Project 2025 manifesto.
We would have to address it at a Legislative level. The old Fairness Doctrine was a firewall that kept the current shit show at bay for something like 50 years...
Hopelessly antiquated in the era of TilTok. But, there is no grassroots power that can counter the money behind a 24-hour, for profit, cable news ecosystem that is actively seeking to destroy us.