RRB @rrb@qoto.org

14th Amendment, Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector of President and Vice-President, ... or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who ... shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same,

UNLESS

Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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Microsoft AI recommends Canadian charitable food bank for tourist meals - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/

@mattias @billwixted @GottaLaff Yes, it's bad. But over here hundreds if not thousands are drowning every year in the desperate attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea to find a better life in Europe. And the fact that most of us don't pretend to be pious Christians any more, doesn't make the prevailing indifference in the face of this tragedy any better.

The proposed UN Cybercrime Convention needs strong human rights protections against police cross-border surveillance and data access powers. Our digital future is at stake. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/proposed-cybercrime-treatys-international-cooperation-provisions-could-let-tyrants

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#anarchism #quote #bot

There’s more: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278237263.html #journalism #Kansas

It's not militant to request proof; put up or shut up!

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@rrb @RickiTarr @swordplay cheese! Just like a chili one. Dipped in batter & covered in sauce. Beautiful

In this world it doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor, as long as you have lots of money.

@JAWG @rrb @RickiTarr oh, sauerkraut! where I grew we had fermented cabbage cold and crunchy(sometimes with carrots, or cranberries, or bell pepper, or sour apples). When I first came to Germany and tried actual sauerkraut: cooked, soft and served warm - it seemed the weirdest thing to me. It seems, totally new products often feel rather exotic, but what often feels actually weird is a familiar product with some twist, some shift in taste paradigm

@rrb @RickiTarr

I want it now!

Actually, I really do. Out for a bit. 👋

Few things fill me with dread like the current organized censorship of literature, history, access to knowledge

Then I learn they’re consulting ChatGPT like some computational divining rod because no one can be bothered to read books before banning them.

I’m impossibly tired!

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

@StillIRise1963

Fuck Joe Manchin.