Centers For Disease Control Ex Mortis.
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Can someone tell me how the fix the problem that when I try to print any of my flyer pages in Safari (e.g.) it shows up blank in the print dialog? Most of the time, hitting cancel and then print again makes it show up, but not always, so something's racing. I even tried perversions like adding a busy-wait in window.onbeforeprint.
The problem does not seem to occur in Chrome and Firefox.
I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. [...]
I do understand: you want permission. There's a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don't look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn't notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don't need me to believe it's useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life. AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.
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It is useful and important to look at this question not through the lens of persuasion but the lens of power. Your engagement and your work, not unlike your vote, is a form of power, something you can choose to grant to others. Those others, particularly organizations and companies, accrue that power to use as they see fit. [...]
[Substack] has done a good job creating tools that make it easy to publish. A number of well-regarded journalists use those tools and have built their personal brands by doing so. [...] But they have done so while sharing that growth with Substack, a company that intentionally provides a voice to white nationalist and Nazi propaganda. They have transferred their power to a company that has used it to promote toxic rhetoric in the guise of "having a debate." [...]
Even if they worked perfectly, Substack and Twitter/X only accrue power over the long term for Substack and X. If one of Substack's most popular authors were to be abducted by aliens tomorrow, Substack retains the value she created on the company's behalf. It benefits institutionally from her using the platform. She helped build its institutional power -- which it currently uses, in small part, to ensure Nazis a voice in the discussion.
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*[The bully] needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about. It's not about NATO or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy.*
I think the bully already understands that, but he wants to do away with democracy.
US citizens: call on Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins to protect access to abortion care for all veterans.
US citizens: tell Costco’s Board of Directors and CEO Ron Vachris: Don’t cave to extremists. Allow your pharmacies to carry mifepristone nationwide now.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for why that issue matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort for the result of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious) software.
US citizens: call on politicians to stop taking AIPAC money: demand your representatives reject AIPAC's right-wing billionaire brand of politics.
Earlier this week, officers painted the rainbow stripes into stark black and white. Citizens repainted them. Road crews erased them again. The back-and-forth has escalated to the point where the state has now deployed as many as six police squad cars to guard asphalt, their sole mission to prevent the reemergence of rainbow colors at the site of one of the worst anti-LGBTQ+ massacres in U.S. history.
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*Danish zoo asks pet owners to donate rabbits and horses (that need to be euthanized) to feed its predators.* Many predators can't eat much of anything except meat. Normally they eat the meat of animals that were raised only for that. It is less wasteful if they eat animals that llved for some other purpose and had to be euthanized for other reasons.
The ACLU accuses the US of keeping reported Mario Guevara in jail to silence him.
The US is tracking financial payments to find people to deport. The deportation thugs could do this with bank card payments, too. (The bully's henchmen can disregard and flatten privacy laws.) The targets do not have to be limited to people who entered the US without authorization. They could apply it also to people like Mahmoud Khalil, who are in the US lawfully but committed the "crime" of criticizing Israel's war crimes, or El Supremo himself.
It was first predicted in the 1970s that a widely used trackable digital payment system would be a tool for repression and tyranny. Nowadays we can see this in practice in China. The bully's order for all federal government departments to give all their personal data to the DOPE, and to Palantir, is preparing to use data mining to find anything the bully disapproves of, even if lawful or constitutionally protected, to generate an excuse to persecute.
The basic grass-roots way to resist this is to pay cash.
Proposing solar power satellites again. In the 1980s, I was part of the L-5 Sociey, which campaigned for solar power satellites. It is too bad they were not built.
*Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine.* This is an amazing surprise. If Greene pushes for this alongside Sanders, it could make a big difference to the chance of convincing the persecutor. Alas, on the even more important issue of whether the US will have arbitrary rule or rule by democratic laws, Greene is still on the wrong side.
*UK Lawyers for Israel accused of sending "vexatious and legally baseless" letters to silence support for Palestine.*
When Rosa asked about his wife's medical care, the agent cited HIPAA laws as a barrier to knowing her health issues. Taken aback, Rosa pointed out that doctors can share medical information with law enforcement when a patient is in custody, which is specifically outlined in HIPAA.
"He said a very disgusting joke after that," Rosa recalled.
"He said, 'We'll notify next of kin if she dies.' And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans."
"I knew I was dealing with someone that is sick in the head, and this was the person who made the decision to incarcerate her," Rosa said.
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Peter is a technology entrepreneur and investor who has spent much of his career writing and speaking about how his Christian faith informs his understanding of the world. His remarks will be anchored on science and technology, and will comment on the theology, history, literature, and politics of the Antichrist.
These lectures are off-the-record.
The lectures are designed as a cohesive series, with each session building on the last. To support continuity and community, tickets are only available for the full four-part program.
This event is organized by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit called "ACTS 17 Collective: Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society".
I can't tell how much they were charging to attend this Amway meeting because it's sold out.
And, as noted, "off the record".
Gotta spread the Good Word, but not too far!
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Newsom is at his most cartoon-evil-villain when it comes to the rights and dignity of the most at-risk Americans. In March, he had notorious rightwinger Charlie Kirk on his podcast in order to throw trans teenagers under the bus, and earlier this summer, he repeated worries about trans teen athletes stealing "opportunities" from cis teen athletes -- on, you guessed it, another podcast. (As an aside, you should not have time to have your own fucking podcast if you're the governor of the fourth-largest economy in the world.)
But Newsom's favorite vulnerable demographic to stick it to is the homeless. Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that jurisdictions can criminalize sleeping outside, he's doubled down on efforts to clear homeless encampments across the state, bragging that 16,000 such communities have been demolished -- and gleefully participated in destroying some himself. He's been personally involved in eliminating such encampments for years (see the above photo, which is from 2021), including Oakland's Wood Street camp in 2022. [...]
Newsom's success as a politician thus far (and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible) is due to his adoption of whichever policies or perspectives will get him attention and, in his calculus, win him support -- that's what he's doing with the Trump-y tweets, and with the gerrymandered congressional district map he approved yesterday. Both moves illustrate what is appealing about Newsom to broad swathes of the Democratic base: a sociopath opportunist on their side willing to take on the sociopath opportunist in the White House. And while I famously agree that the Democratic Party needs leadership that is willing to challenge Trump's brownshirt administration, I'm not sure we need it from someone who hates queer and/or poor people as much as Trump and his friends.
An ICE facility in South Portland has resurfaced as a hotbed where activists have been clashing with federal enforcement officers for months. [...] But as the protests have grown, so have the amount of weapons used against them. And the surrounding neighborhoods are suffering as a result.
Situated just a block from the complex, the Cottonwood School decided to abandon its longtime campus in a 4-2 vote, citing concerns around students' health. "We have been impacted mostly by chemical weapons that are being used against protesters in the vicinity of our school," Laura Cartwright, Cottonwood's interim executive director, explained of the decision to local news. "Daily, we were finding that [sic] munitions on our play yard, we were getting footage in the evening of green gases, and gases were being used near our gardens and enveloping our area." [...]
Local residents have also expressed concern amid the growing crackdowns. "I'm at home," one mother tells KGW News in June. "Why are you shooting at me at my home? What if my baby was on the balcony?" Another told Koin 6 about the long-term effects of tear gas. "I've got friends who also live in these buildings, and they can't open their windows."
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Moderna says it will manufacture vaccine doses for the Canadian market in its new facility in Laval, Quebec and syringes will be filled in Cambridge, Ontario. Both Pfizer's vaccine -- called Comirnaty -- and Moderna's shot -- called Spikevax -- are approved for adults and children six months of age and older.
Update: Welp. Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine 'Within Months'.
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