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Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and disrupt the general election. 1/ #LawFedi
Die @tagesschau berichtet ausgiebig über ein Mini-Demo gegen Einwanderung von 50.000 Menschen in Madrid. Jede #Prüf-Demo um die Ecke ist größer, wird aber verschwiegen.
"A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way that society is doomed,” one said"
These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ As the Threat. | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-09-03/these-generals-fought-israel-now-they-see-jewish-terrorism-threat
These posters annoy the tripe out of me. They want to close *one block* of Anderson St... *to cars*. The shops will stay open and maybe even be nicer to visit.
@RickiTarr My dad graduated from high school, the extent of his education. He was--like me--a practicing and well-functioning alcoholic.
He knew Fitzgerald's "translation" of Omar Khayyam's "Rubaiyat" by heart. We would go fishing w/a camper, and after we ran the (illegal) trot-lines, we'd swing a coleman lantern up in a tree, and talk--mostly argument, which he loved--and drink, and play chess.
And he would recite his favorite quatrains from the Rubaiyat.
As you can imagine, I adored him.
@GeePawHill @RickiTarr Sounds lovely.
I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.
Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.
I even made an #ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.
I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI
One issue is, I talk slow and deliberate because I have to get the words out and some phrases are slower than others and AI customer support is too impatient to wait and moves on mid-sentence, not understanding my request
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/reports-rfk-jr-ordered-measles-deaths-deletion-cdc-still-secretly-counts-them/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
ok, i really want to read Paul Piff's paper now
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/03/ig-nobel-prize-awards-2026-winners
ed. it's at https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
Georgia just audited its voter rolls — and debunked Trump’s election lies…The list of states undermining Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voter fraud grew Tuesday, when a Georgia audit found the state’s voter rolls were 99.9% accurate and had no evidence of malicious manipulation. #Elections #Election2026 #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.ms.now/opinion/georgia-audit-voter-rolls-debunked-trumps-election-lies
wait that AI slop of RFK feeding vance is *from* RFK's twitter?
i thought for sure it was from some vote blue account lol
Imagine using cute goats, sheep and cattle to munch and stomp their way through vegetation that could fuel dangerous wildfires.
It’s called targeted grazing, and it works. So why isn’t it used more widely?
Our piece republished by LATimes:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-09-02/livestock-public-lands-grazing-wildfire-risk
@TheConversationUS The original story, because LA Times is paywalled.
'if you force muslims to register, we will all register as muslims.' - gloria steinem in 2017 at the women's march, showing us all how feminism must be intersectional.
#gloriaSteinem #feminism
The Trump regime routinely ignores and/or breaks laws it doesn't care for. Republicans in Congress routinely approve of the lawbreaking. Judges often say no, but don't enforce their rulings. And the press says "So interesting how they break the law..." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/trump-triumphal-arch-plans-approval.html
@RickiTarr People joke about men not crying. They describe the (awful) plight of a poor woman of color, and laugh at man-flu, and marvel about the faux-stoicism and the emotionally unreachable men they know.
And I get it, I do.
But I think they don't understand how many men have already heard "I'll give you something to cry about." Before age 7.
And a good part of the reason the AI shysters need such huge data centres is that their code is shit.
A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559992
#HackerNews #kidneydisease #Texas #health #news #CKDu #mystery
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