[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 33 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Comic Sands had some background on this and I think it explains a lot:

Self-described content creator "Danny Spud" is known for producing ragebait video content. He frequently uses Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses to covertly film his "pranks."

Spuds "prank" videos routinely show him harassing strangers until they're forced to react. No one was buying his support of anything other than self-promotion. Danny Spud doesn't support ICE or law enforcement. Danny Spud only supports Danny Spud.

Spud got exactly what he was hoping for, in other words. This was his plan, his plan worked, so he should be happy, right? I had felt like an "I Love ICE" sign, in this day and age, was pretty much incitement, and it turns out, it was exactly that. In a perfect world, there would be consequences for doing that.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 3 points 6 hours ago

These kinds of pictures go back years, and it's really, really easy to mis-label them or to cherry-pick them to provoke whichever reaction the poster is trying to provoke. They have traditionally been a right-wing tool, maybe because so much right-wing sentiment is driven by negative feelings like disgust.

The "Occupy Wall Street" movement included clean-up crews, they even arranged some media photo-ops with their clean-up crews, but trash and litter is what showed up in the media anyway.

So I'm skeptical that I'm learning anything when I see pictures like these. I think you should be skeptical, too.

Charlie Kirk was an out-and-proud racist, and his supporters loved that about him. We don't have to consider the litter to understand that his supporters are fundamentally opposed to the spirit of America itself.

Privilege used to be a real thing. It's still a real thing, but it used to be, too.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Babies born in a Texas concentration camp would technically be US citizens. Constitutional citizens.

I don't imagine that's going to work out in any kind of positive way, though, is it? Will CBP just ignore that, meaning that US citizens will literally be born into lawless captivity? Will they use their citizenship status as justification for separating babies and mothers? Forced adoptions?

ICE’s internal policy states that the agency “should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.

The rules aren't doing too much ruling these days.

Even a considered-opinion racist, even a loud "proud deplorable" right-wing extremist bigot, should be worried about this. Because among the many other problems with it, this is inevitably going to erode the meaning and protections of citizenship itself. It leans in the direction of making rights contingent on circumstances, of turning rights into privileges that the government can dole out at its discretion. Government of the mafia, by the mafia, and for the mafia, more or less.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And who else?

Everyone, actually:

Under current laws, many Americans need to present some form of identification to register to vote. The act would require Americans show additional documents that prove their citizenship, such as a passport or a birth certificate.

You just moved? This little errand, updating your voting registration, just got a little more complicated, a little more likely to be a problem. Or, a lot more likely to be a problem, if you lost your birth certificate in the move somehow. Or maybe even quite a big problem, if you don't have the kind of settled life where you've got a file cabinet for these documents the government expects you to curate on their behalf.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 18 points 2 days ago

It would be very helpful for my understanding to be able to see this content.

I can understand being curious, I'm curious too.

But it's hard to imagine any circumstance that would make TikTok support's responses seem reasonable in context. They're claiming a right to remix your stuff (where "you" are a paying customer mind you) without your knowledge or consent, and then to disseminate that remix at their discretion.

The specifics of how they altered this ad are almost incidental by comparison.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago

What are the cultural imperatives and protocols when your roommate dies? Do you host a wake for him, in the apartment you're about to be evicted from, since his name was on the lease?

Imagine suddenly being forced to move, at the tender age of 69, when you're poor enough to require a roommate.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 7 points 2 days ago

Married white women, perhaps? Surely not all married women?

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks. Rumor has it, I have experience in this area also.

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Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn argues that the future of newspapers is stories researched by humans, but written by AIs:

Like many students we’ve spoken with in the past year, this one had been told repeatedly by professors that AI is bad ... That’s backwards — and it seriously handicaps them as they begin their careers. I’ve written extensively about how we use AI to do more and better work. It has quickly become critical to everything we do, and to our success.

By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week. They’re spending it on the street — doing in-person interviews, meeting sources for coffee. That’s where real stories emerge, and they’re returning with more ideas than we can handle.

Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It’s the future of them. It already allows us to be faster, more thorough and more comprehensible. It frees time for what matters most: gathering facts and developing stories to serve you.

Anyone entering this field should be immersing themselves in AI.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by WesternInfidels@feddit.online to c/cleveland@lemmy.world

Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn argues that the future of newspapers is stories researched by humans, but written by AIs:

Like many students we’ve spoken with in the past year, this one had been told repeatedly by professors that AI is bad ... That’s backwards — and it seriously handicaps them as they begin their careers. I’ve written extensively about how we use AI to do more and better work. It has quickly become critical to everything we do, and to our success.

By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week. They’re spending it on the street — doing in-person interviews, meeting sources for coffee. That’s where real stories emerge, and they’re returning with more ideas than we can handle.

Artificial intelligence is not bad for newsrooms. It’s the future of them. It already allows us to be faster, more thorough and more comprehensible. It frees time for what matters most: gathering facts and developing stories to serve you.

Anyone entering this field should be immersing themselves in AI.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 19 points 3 days ago

Gen X will have paid into the SSA all their lives, and they'll get nothing for it.

Gen X will spend their declining years working, to pay for the SSA benefits for the Boomers.

I know, I know what you're saying: "Gen who now?" And that's right, you've got it, that's exactly how it is.

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Tells a more coherent and currently-relevant story than you'd have any reason to expect, really.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 58 points 5 days ago

We've all heard the crack, right? "You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does."

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 28 points 5 days ago

Talarico's big bombshell: Talking about Christianity. The "Christian Nationalists" don't want him doing that. He's talking about the wrong kind of Christianity.

"Deep State Censors Texas Christian" would be the headline we need to reach the people who could benefit from his message.

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Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments, told the union it planned to offshore most work at its Eastlake, Ohio, plant to China by the end of June 2026, eliminating 150 jobs.

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Conn Selmer, the largest US manufacturer of brass and orchestra instruments, told the union it planned to offshore most work at its Eastlake, Ohio, plant to China by the end of June 2026, eliminating 150 jobs.

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I baked some rosemary-infused sourdough from the Hungry Ghost Bread Cookbook.

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It's a pretty basic sourdough, with some olive oil and a gigantic amount of rosemary mixed right in.

  • White bread flour
  • 75% water
  • 14.4% dried rosemary
  • 12% starter
  • 7% olive oil
  • 3% salt

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Starting with the as-written 840g of flour, 14.4% comes to 121g of rosemary. Dried rosemary. Which is more powerful, gram for gram, than fresh rosemary.

I failed to consider just how much rosemary this was when I started mixing up the dough. All the rosemary I had in the house, dried and fresh, came to just 20 grams or so. And I put it all in. The resulting loaf was, by my lights, powerfully rosemary scented and flavored. I can't fathom what it would be like to actually include a whopping 120 grams of rosemary. At grocery-store prices, 120g of rosemary would cost me $15 or more. I actually wonder if the 120g in the book was an error. But the book's fennel flavored bread recipe is similarly extravagant with the fennel.

I got the book as a holiday gift and I've enjoyed it. This loaf was among the best I've made. My family gobbled it up. I'm hoping to try some of the other ideas in the book: The fennel bread, the fig and sage bread, etc.

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