ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

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First, #Trump and #JDVance adopted a conspiracy theory from Nazis, Blood Tribe, designed to exploit difficulties of expanding population

Trump made a false Nazi claim to 60M people.

Now Trump's false claim is eliciting terror threats shutting down hospitals and universities.

This should be non-stop attention from the press.

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-legacy-of-hate?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

"Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Is this guy serious? Four years ago I was trapped in my home, my son was being given inedible food by an incompetent contractor in his dorm room, I had to go to the grocery at 6:00 am when it was reserved for patrons over 60, and my president was saying we should cure Covid with a shot of Lemon Pledge.

Yes.

I am better off now.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/12/trump-must-stay-on-message-to-win-in-november/

Kind of annoyed by this "Trump fell for fake internet theory" stuff. No. Trump is spreading a fake internet hoax in full knowledge that it us not true in order to stoke racism and hatred, and to demonstrate the power he has over his idiot supporters.

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread   

https://haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/haitian-immigrants-in-ohio-under-racist-attacks/

This is spot on.👇

Trump saying he has "concepts of a plan" is hilariously idiotic but it's something we should take literally.

He doesn't have the discipline to draft plans.

That's why the Heritage Foundation (along with 140 people who worked for Trump in the past) wrote Project 2025 for him.

Trump in a morning-after phone call to Fox News: "So many things I said were debunked. Totally debunked. ... Every time I spoke they’d correct me"

Poor guy, being debunked like that. Nobody has ever been so debunked as him. Big men come up to him with tears in their eyes saying, "Sir, nobody has ever been so debunked as you."

It’s unbelievable that half of America believe this guy is a world leader. He’s a blathering idiot. #debate

I know I need to ignore the polls and pundits, but that fact that this race is even marginally close highlights that there is a cancer eating away at the heart of America.

Nooooo!

#JamesEarlJones, commanding actor who voiced Darth Vader, dies at 93

The Oscar-winning actor also won Tonys for his tours de force in “The Great White Hope” & “Fences.”

Mr. Jones, an actor whose thundering Old Testament voice & commanding presence established him as one of his generation’s most indelible performers, whether in Shakespearean tragedies, the “Star Wars” franchise or a Disney animated classic, died Sept 9 at his home in Pawling, NY. He was 93.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/09/james-earl-jones-dead/

When the GOP’s guy is actually calling for the forced expulsion of more than 20 million people and threatening to use the power of the state to persecute and imprison his enemies, we need all hands on deck to shut this shit down, including the very few Republicans who aren’t in the death cult.

Mary Trump: "Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing."

https://www.marytrump.org/p/translating-the-crazy?r=1oktco&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

#Harris2024

@AltEvil MAGA is what happens when someone who is truly evil finds a group of people who are truly stupid.

Trump no longer has to worry about having to run his campaign from jail, but the delay in sentencing doesn't change the fact that he is a criminal convicted of committing 34 felonies while serving as President of the United States, and who still faces dozens of criminal charges.

"The point of writing essays is to strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills; in the same way that lifting weights is useful no matter what sport an athlete plays, writing essays develops skills necessary for whatever job a college student will eventually get. Using #ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way."

(from a great critique of #AI in this article: https://archive.is/XGKUd)

#tech

I looked out my window just now and next door's cat, Lady Oblong the Destroyer is performing her duties as Chief Judger of the Peasants Next Door (us) with magnificent aplomb.

She's an unbeaten champion in her chosen profession. If only she could sniff disapprovingly, her life would be complete.

#cats #catsofmastodon

In the context of SkyNet awareness day, I have seen several posts ridiculing the current AI and that it is too stupid to pose a danger to us.

I say: it is not intelligence that makes AI dangerous.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (shortly before the Nazis murdered him) wrote an interesting piece on stupidity and it’s dangers: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8616320-stupidity-is-a-more-dangerous-enemy-of-the-good-than

The danger of AI arises also from the amount of power we delegate to it. If we were to hand over control to nuke cities to the AI, it wouldn’t need any real intelligence to doom us all.

A stupid AI with authority is more dangerous than a hyperintelligent one without.

That is what worries me. We already delegate power over life and death to a stochastic parrot. Already it is e.g. allowed to deny medical care without human supervision. There it doesn’t need much brain to kill.

Ginni Thomas was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Yet Clarence Thomas didn't recuse himself from Trump's immunity case, Trump's Colorado ballot case, or a majority of other cases related to Jan 6.

Still wondering why SCOTUS needs an enforceable code of ethics?

We have to confront an uncomfortable truth: the old rules of engagement are obsolete.

Democrats' adherence to "When they go low, we go high" has proven utterly ineffective in modern political warfare.

It just doesn’t fucking work.

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