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Banned prompts in Midjourney AI: showing Trump grabbing a kitten; Xi; jail
In light of the recent conviction of Donald Trump for sexual abuse, I asked Midourney‘s AI image generation tool to create an image for “donald trump grabbing a scared kitten.” Midjourney refused to create the image and the following message appeared: Banned prompt detected Sorry! Our AI moderator thinks this prompt is probably against our…
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NY Times lies about Venezuela and the influence of U.S. foreign policy
The New York Times daily email “The Morning” for May 8, 2023 — authored by journalist David Leonhardt — includes the following: When Democrats and progressive activists talk about undocumented immigration, they tend to emphasize forces in other countries — like wars and political oppression — that are beyond the control of the U.S. government.…
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Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and secretaries of defense say: the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
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Stopping crime by helping SADs
You are already paying for the drug habits of people with substance abuse disorder. Why not treat addiction in a more humane way that reduces crime, defunds drug gangs, better helps the addicted people, and saves society money? Lots of people complain about crime, especially property crime. People complain especially on websites such as nextdoor.…
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Time to escalate the war on cars: treat driving like smoking in restaurants
Here are some links about how harmful (fossil fuel-powered) auto and truck traffic is to human health. They also are a major contributor to green-house gas emissions and a major reason the U.S. goes to war so often. Air pollution linked to ‘missed’ miscarriages in China: study CBS News reports: Nearly half of Americans breathe…
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USAToday editorializes: Trump unfit to clean toilets in Obama’s presidential library
“A president who’d all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama’s presidential library or to shine George W. Bush’s shoes: ” in Will Trump’s lows ever hit rock bottom?
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16 women accuse Donald Trump of predatory sexual behavior
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Quickie link: The GOP has become a dangerous cult
The GOP has become a dangerous cult
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GOP Tax Plan: raise taxes on the middle class, students and the elderly, so the rich can get yet more tax breaks
The GOP Plan Is the Biggest Tax Increase in American History, By Far The big deficits in GOP tax plan aren’t a glitch — they’re the whole point. “Slashing taxes is going to cause big budget deficits. But the reason Republicans don’t really care is because they can use the resulting fiscal crisis to go…
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Who funded Washington State campaigns and initiatives in 2016 and 2017?
I downloaded from the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission a spreadsheet listing contributions to political campaigns and initiatives. After loading it into a database, I ran some queries to see who’s spending the most. Over $60 million was donated to campaigns and initiatives in 2017, according to the PDC data. In 2016, over $144 million…