Remember that time when my favorite colors was...

Mike Kiss someone nice, or lick a rock, or both

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Clay Bennett

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cowards all....

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“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.”

— Edward Gibbon

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Garth German

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Bernie Sanders' New AI Bill Would Pay Americans $1,000 a Year

The senator is making the case that AI is a public resource that was built using the collective genius of humanity.

On Thursday, Senator Sanders—an Independent from Vermont—introduced a bill which, if passed, would create a sovereign wealth fund for the United States’ AI industry. The fund would be valued at roughly $7 trillion, a number derived from the current valuation of the country’s top AI labs, and would give the American public a 50% public stake in those companies. 

As a result, taxpayers would receive an annual payment of $1,000 through the fund. That amount “will probably go up as AI becomes more prosperous,” Senator Sanders told reporters in a press briefing on Thursday. The fund could also eventually funnel “significant amounts of money … into social programs, making sure that all Americans have healthcare, education, decent housing, and other basic necessities of life.”

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Eet - Regina Spektor🎶

[amoureuxdesplantes]

hi it’s 2026 and i am yearning for the “everything is gonna be alright”-ness of millennial optimism

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But where the bedside lamp had been is now emanating soft, soft green. Has it always been this way? Is it possible that all this magic went unnoticed? And maybe now things will start to change, and life will turn a better page, no more rage. Saying love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten, but I know I've been asked. And the answer's got to be love

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Regina Spektor

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“And yet, more than 20 years after the fact, Bush and his associates have never faced any serious penalties for their invasion of Iraq, or for the litany of human rights abuses they committed in the process. Bush himself continues to be treated as a respectable figure in mainstream American politics, often compared favorably to the more vulgar and erratic Trump. This year, Bush has written an op-ed for Bari Weiss’s Free Press in honor of America’s 250th anniversary, and is expected to attend the opening of Barack Obama’s presidential library in June. And because he never saw the inside of a tribunal courtroom, a standard of impunity was created. Whatever international law might say on paper, the de facto rule became that American presidents can invade Middle Eastern countries when it suits them, even commit blatant acts of torture, and get away with it. And so, just a few decades later, Trump has walked through the door that Bush left wide-open, secure in the expectation that he, too, is unlikely to ever face real consequences.”

— We’re at War with Iran Because We Never Punished Bush for Iraq

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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

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Republican priorities are a cancer on society.

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Andrew Beck (New Zealander, 1987) - Great White Egret (2024)