We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
#BREAKING: @jdvance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to WWI, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.”
Lawrence: “NO, they didn’t. WWII ended with ZERO negotiations. WWII ended the way Donald Trump claimed his war in #Iran was going to end—unconditional surrender. Japan and Germany each signed unconditional surrender documents. Adolf Hitler killed himself rather than submit Germany to the unconditional surrender that he knew was coming. Every vice president, everyone, prior to JD Vance has KNOWN that President FDR demanded the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan during WWII and when FDR died…his vice president, then elevated to the presidency, Harry Truman, accepted those unconditional surrenders without a word of negotiation with anyone about those surrenders. That kind of statement by JD Vance demonstrating a complete IGNORANCE of how WWII ended is the kind of thing that used to get you drummed out of American politics before Donald Trump’s DUMBING DOWN of the Republican Party and it tells you something about the quality of thinking that the vice president of the United States brings to his job.” 😳
Q: What's stopping Iran from down the road rebuilding and restarting their nuclear program?
JD VANCE: First of all, they would have to get a lot of money in order to rebuild their nuclear program
(The MOU gives Iran a lot of money!)
WHAT IRAN GOT:
•$300 billion
•Removed sanctions
•Control of Strait of Hormuz
•Maintains missile program
•No destruction of nuclear program
WHAT THE U.S. GOT
•Higher gas prices
•Billions spent
•No major objectives achieved
•Americans dead
We got fleeced.
We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.
America First.
Trump’s press conference was INSANE:
He confirmed that:
• Iran gets $300B + $100B unfrozen
• Iran has the RIGHT to ballistic missiles
• The U.S. was running out of oil
• A worldwide depression was coming
I was predicting all of this from the first week including that REPARATIONS were coming and got a lot of hate for it.
The sellout MAGA frauds are now going to change their entire life-philosophy and deeply held “principles” over night.
Trump is on his knees. This was ALWASY the ONLY way it was going to end. Even if he thinks he can start the war again. Iran will always win.
It’s check mate. Always has been.
Embarrassing.
Peter Doocy: “A wise man once said, in January 2020: ‘Iran has never won a war, but has never lost a negotiation.’”
President Trump: “Who said that?”
Reporter: “Donald Trump.”
Elon Musk donated $277 million to elect Trump.
Trump let him gut the IRS.
Elon’s SpaceX took a $1.9 billion tax break that they believed wouldn’t be allowed if the IRS audited them.
Your reminder that billionaire and corporate PAC donations are bribes.
https://t.co/FrgK2iiaqE
March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."
April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."
June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran. This could pay for:
— Student debt elimination for 7.6M Americans
— An end to homelessness in America
— Healthcare subsidies for 22M Americans for nearly a decade
— Medicaid coverage for 3.2M Americans for a decade
— Food assistance for 41M Americans for 3 years
— Federal cancer research for 40+ years
— Free school lunch for every kid in America for over 4 years
— Replacing every lead pipe in America
— Free pre-K for every child in America for over 7 years
BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?
JUDGE TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy. Justice Jackson--
BLUMENTHAL: It's 'political controversy' only because the president refuses to accept the results. I'm asking you as a matter of fact. Who won?
TRAYNOR: As Justice Jackson stated, it is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that
BLUMENTHAL: So you're going to use the same script that other nominees have used before this panel to avoid the question?
TRAYNOR: I think the precedent established by Justice Jackson ...
BLUMENTHAL: As a matter of fact, which presidential candidate got more votes in 2020?
TRAYNOR: As I stated before, this is an issue that Justice Jackson--
BLUMENTHAL: You're adopting a script that has been dictated to you by the White House
The Trump administration has waived 31 environmental laws to blast barriers and bulldoze roads in Big Bend National Park:
—Clean Air Act
—Endangered Species Act
—National Fish and Wildlife Act
—Safe Drinking Water Act
—Wilderness Act
—Federal Water Pollution Control Act
—Federal Land Policy and Management Act
—Eagle Protection Act
—Farmland Protection Policy Act
—Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
—National Historic Preservation Act
—Energy Independence and Security Act
—Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act
—National Park Service General Authorities Act
—Archaeological Resources Protection Act
—National Trails System Act
—Solid Waste Disposal Act
—Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
—Migratory Bird Conservation Act
—Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
—Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act
—Federal Cave Resources Protection Act
—Migratory Bird Treaty Act
—National Environmental Policy Act
—National Park Service Organic Act
—Noise Control Act
—Paleontological Resources Protection Act
—Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
—Antiquities Act
—Wild Horse and Burro Act
—Administrative Procedure Act
These are concentration camps.
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🚨BREAKING: Right-wing streamer Cam Higby was caught on video walking up to a group of protesters and pepper spraying multiple people, outside the Newark ICE Facility.
Then, as people reacted to being sprayed, an armed man pulled him away, telling him, “It’s not worth it… it’s time to go.”
Last time I checked… walking up to a group of people and spraying them with a chemical irritant is commonly charged as assault or battery.
And then, after spraying the crowd, the video show Higby, and the armed man, running into the ICE facility while agents allowed them inside.
Imagine the outrage if a left-wing activist walked up to a group of conservatives, pepper sprayed them, and then disappeared behind federal gates.
The headlines would never stop.
The law is supposed to apply equally to everyone.