Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

This is why I do my podcast.

Hitler didn’t build the path to the Holocaust alone – ordinary people were active participants

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/27/adolf-hitler-holocaust-atrocities #holocaust

Dragons that hoard treasure & wantonly destroy swathes of human beings to protect & grow their fortunes…
The billionaires of folklore?

Did any of the sci-fi authors come up with “AI will colonize human culture by digesting all of past human culture and vomiting it back at such infinite scale no human can find another human”?

So, the ChatGPT business model is going to be about selling tools that can detect its own output.

In terms of knowledge, veracity and the entire concept of truth, they’ve built a robot that is going to shit everywhere, and then sell you a dowsing rod that might let to navigate that shit without stepping in it. I’m sure the first time you use it, it will be very affordable.

It’s amazing how many people are lining up to be 10x or 100x shit-producers.

Are we ready to talk about how police dressing in riot gear and acting, well, like cops, makes crowds more likely to riot? No? OK then. Proceed.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong

@pivoinebleue Can we please disbar this worthless scumbag? #DisbarBarr

“"In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory. It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don’t shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren’t damaged; they’re strengthened, matured, humbled. US needs to do same re slavery. Not that complicated.”
Siggy Rose.

Here we go.

The Georgia governor declares a state of emergency. 1,000 National Guard troops are activated to protect a militarized police force

…with the taxpayer to pick up the check if there are any civil suits.

Ugh. I don’t understand why Trump is still walking around free. I also don’t know why William Barr hasn’t lost his attorney license?? 😡 https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nyt-barr-durham-russia-investigation-20230126-uw7fl7ftabcuxanbhu3qoab33a-story.html

The abandoned Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church

Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/our-lady-of-the-rosary

Domestic terrorist Tyler W. Massengill has been charged with using an explosive to set a Peoria Planned Parenthood on fire

This “pro-life” republican didn’t check to see if the building was empty before setting it ablaze

Ready for his motive?

The criminal complaint states his then-girlfriend had an abortion three years ago and it upset him.

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The Rich are Not Like You and Me; Chapter Covid.

@gregggonsalves on the incredible hypocrisy of the rich and powerful protecting themselves from Covid while downplaying the risks to the hoi polloi. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/orwellian-white-house-covid-policy/?custno=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%201.26.2023&utm_term=daily

The “both-sides" reporting on the debt ceiling by the mainstream media is preposterous.

This fight is being waged solely by the Republican Party.

When Trump was in power, Republicans voted to increase the debt limit three times. Now they refuse.

The GOP owns this crisis.

Tinpot MAGA #fascist Ron DeSantis, who should be driven out of national politics by a roaring tsunami of outrage, wants to make reading illegal for Florida children. #books #GOP #USpol #politics https://www.salon.com/2023/01/25/sorry-twitter-but-floridas-on-books-is-no-joke--ron-desantis-wants-to-keep-kids-from-reading/

How bad are the details when the 5 Memphis cops who murdered Tyre Nichols are fired, charged, and named

…even before the body cam footage is released?

UPDATE: Former President Donald Trump appeals a federal court decision that ruled he is not immune from a lawsuit from the @NAACP_LDF@twitter.com alleging that he, his campaign and the RNC engaged in efforts to disenfranchise Black voters during the 2020 election.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/district-of-columbia-black-voter-disenfranchisement/

To survive
in this imperfect world
we are all of us forced
to make compromises
we wish it was otherwise
alas, it is how it is
and in the moment
even the best option
is rarely good enough
but it is one thing to try
and still have to compromise
and quite another
to just stop trying.

You can assign news reporters to dig into a congressional candidate's background before an election.
Or you can assign opinion writers to write dozens of op-eds about that congressman's ridiculous lies after the election.

Scenes from "Literacy Week" in a Second Grade classroom in Manatee County, Florida.

All the books in the classroom library are boxed up to comply with new mandates imposed by @GovRonDeSantis@twitter.com