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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Bernie Sanders introduces bill to permanently ban AI that exceeds human intelligence.

Violators would face up to 20 years in prison.

[Biff #SARSisAirborne 🍉 @Biff234523]

Unfortunately, it’s starting to look like this “worst case scenario” might be the new reality. There’s more and more smoke surrounding this date, as Sanofi reps are now relaying to HCPs that distribution will begin on 9/21. For chain pharmacies with larger contracts, it’s still entirely possibly to see availability sooner, but it’s starting to look less likely.

@sanofiUS @sanofi you are not a serious company, this is embarrassing.

@Novavax why exactly did you feel the need to license your product to a company that can’t distribute the product any better than you did?

[cozy @bimbotheory]

Like one thing Dolly was always very adamant about is that no one besides her family ever saw what she really looked like behind the wig, clothes, and makeup—what a violation

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

Since disappearing from public view on June 11, Mitch McConnell has received 5 paychecks.

That means he’s been paid $36,250 for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Brendan Fraser did his own stunts across three Mummy movies that made $1.2 billion. The bill came due as a laminectomy on his spine, a partial knee replacement and a vocal cord repair, seven years in and out of hospitals. By the third film he described himself as held together with tape and ice.

Then, in the summer of 2003, a former president of the group that hands out the Golden Globes reached around and groped him at a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

His reps asked for a written apology. What came back admitted nothing. The organization's silence after that, in his words, was deafening, and he started to wonder whether he'd been blacklisted. He never went public. He blamed himself instead, got reclusive, and the leading roles quietly dried up.

His marriage ended in that stretch too. By 2013 he was in court asking a judge to reduce the $900,000 a year he owed in alimony and child support, because the work that paid for it no longer existed.

He finally told the story to GQ in 2018. His mother had died days before he sat down for the interview.

Darren Aronofsky said he cast The Whale by looking for an actor who hadn't been seen in a while. Venice gave that actor a six-minute standing ovation. He tried to walk off the stage and the room refused to let him.

The Golden Globes came around in January 2023 and he declined to show up, saying his mother didn't raise a hypocrite. Ten weeks later he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Now he's playing Eisenhower, and he's the one on the carpet making sure a stranger gets the picture.

Hollywood spent twenty years figuring out what kind of man it had thrown away. The fan figured it out in ten seconds.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Aw hell no, Adidas.

[El Mago @AtlantisFell]

That Haitian kid killed himself because of the mental and material impact of being forced to wear an ankle monitor as if he committed a crime. He was simply an immigrant <-- That is a blatant example of systemic racism, an intentional design, and the outcome.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

He publicly admitted he swung the election to Trump on Twitter. Trump also admitted this publicly multiple times. And we couldn’t get a single Democrat to publicly demand an audit of swing state votes OR an investigation into what he actually did. It’s incomprehensible.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Haley Stevens just called Bernie Sanders a jihadi against Jews. He's Jewish, she's not. This is one of my favorite predictions, I said that by the end of the 2020 campaign, they'd call Bernie an antisemite. And, of course, they did. Because that pony only has one trick.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Kamala Harris swooped in to endorse centrist Chris Pappas for NH Senate over his opponent Karishma Manzur, a Bangladeshi immigrant who is pro-Medicare for All and for cutting off weapons to Israel. She calls Gaza a genocide.

So much for "electing women".

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Women’s rights activists Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92.

She was most known as a nationally recognised leader of second-wave feminism in the U.S.

[Cee 💄🌟 (Formerly C7andr7) @TheProjectC7]

Science practice: when you read articles like this, pause about the headline.

Scientists are saying that we are going to have to mitigate increased global warming conditions (e.g. hotter temperatures, more weather issues), but we can reverse it this century.

[sarah lugor! @sarahlugor]

stop letting people tell you it’s over, earth is very resilient and adaptive.

every time we think it’s the end she shows us something else. miracles happen every day if you believe they can— let’s have some faith

[🎨Artsy M*rxist 🎨 (commissions closed) @ArtsyMarx1st]

do not give in to defeatism yall, they want us to resign ourselves to no future rather than have us hold accountable those responsible, who are very much still alive.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

"The fastest way to trigger neuroplasticity isn't playing brain games or reading research papers.

It's forcing your brain to fail repeatedly at something you have zero natural talent for. high frustration is the literal chemical signal that forces synaptic rewiring."

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”

-Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

[Alexander Lacherbauer @lacherbauer]

A bridge crew not knowing that high temperatures can make the structure expand enough that it may not close is a good example of lost tacit knowledge. When that knowledge disappears, the institution may remain, but the competence that made it work does not.

[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

Rep. Thomas Massie just dropped the Flock-Off Act (H.R. 10221).

It doesn’t ban Flock cameras — Congress can’t do that. It cuts off federal money so cities and police departments can’t use YOUR tax dollars to buy, install, run, or upgrade these warrantless license plate spy cameras that track every car, every trip, every law-abiding American.

No more federal grants funding a 1984 surveillance grid. If your local government wants to put Flock cameras on every pole in Kentucky, they can pay for it themselves.

Call your congressman. Tell them to co-sponsor H.R. 10221!

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

🚨 No more sugarcoating. The UN just confirmed the 1.5°C climate limit is effectively dead. We will breach it within years, not decades. We are officially entering a dangerous "overshoot" era. Current policies track us to a lethal 2.6°C.

What does crossing 1.5°C actually mean? It means a massive surge in compounding weather disasters. We aren't just talking about hotter days, as we are looking at abrupt, unpredictable severe droughts, collapsing ice sheets, and extreme floods happening all at once.

It gets worse. Rising sea levels will trigger permanent coastal submersion, threatening to completely swallow island nations. Simultaneously, brutal severe droughts will collapse global crop yields, causing skyrocketing food prices and widespread shortages.

We are completely unprepared.

[Softboy @softboywin]

The World Health Organization has announced that we will start running out of clean water (drinking, showering, laundry, dishes) in the next FEW YEARS. We are officially entering water bankruptcy. This is a direct result of AI. Please stop using it now!!!