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β™² @wistquotes@friendica.world:
A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
[Γ€ mesure qu’on creuse plus avant dans le caractΓ¨re national des AmΓ©ricains, on voit qu’ils n’ont cherchΓ© la valeur de toutes les choses de ce monde que dans la rΓ©ponse Γ  cette seule question : combien cela rapporte-t-il d’argent?]


Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Letter (1831-06-09) to Ernest de Chabrol [tr. Toupin/Boesche (1985)]


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CBS interviewed a 25 year police veteran and use of force expert who clearly states the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota by ICE last week was unlawful and unjustified.

Then they buried it. Just like they did the CECOT interview.

While Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance cruelly labeled Renee Good a β€œdomestic terrorist,” the video evidence is clear.

Watch the full video as I react in real time and break down exactly what the footage shows.

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#medicaireforall #universalhealthcare



#uspol


People are still too focused on Trump as the source of the current disaster; he is but a bit player. He is just the hired chaos monkey of global billionaire class. If he was gone today, they'd hire another stooge (JD?). America must face that it's failing democracy has lost the ability to restrain the rich from absolute and corrupt power.




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#Trump is just a symptom of a (last?) powerful push by the #greedy, #whitesupremacist, #racist, #misogynistic, #homophobic #rightwing. Their unbridled greed for dominance of all economic and political power is the greatest #evil in our world.




Nearly 40,000 cases of tater tots recalled, FDA says


Hopefully this won't expand to Aldi brand, as I practically live on those.

wtvy.com/2026/01/10/nearly-400…

#recall #food






#greenfuture

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The magic word of the day is Schadenfreude

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized


Move over, Ship of Theseus β€” there’s a new paradoxical thought experiment in town.
Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools β€” especially image-generating ones β€” that they now feel entitled to the specific prompts they use to churn out slop, as if the entire technology wasn’t based on the work of human artists that had been ingested without consent.
Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed β€œAI educator” and β€œambassador” for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were β€œplagiarizing” her unique AI prompts.
β€œβ€˜Make your own prompts’ isn’t advice. It’s basic integrity,” Zairi wrote, using syntax that reads suspiciously like text generated by ChatGPT. β€œI’m honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn’t make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.”
β€œAnd no, this isn’t about one or two people, and it didn’t happen once!!!!” Zairi continued. β€œCreating your own prompts is actually easier than copying someone else’s work! Try it.”
#AiSlop #AI
Futurism







Northridge community holds candlelight vigil for man fatally shot by DHS agent on New Year's Eve - CBS Los Angeles


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#restinpower



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πŸ”΄ πŸ‘ - AOC: β€œI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.”

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#Scottish #airports should not be complicit in Trump's agenda


Given what's happening in the #US at the moment, we need to be really aware as to how Scotland is being used to further that agenda in other places

We can see what #Trump's got at the moment around #Greenland. We don't want to be complicit in that.

β€œIf we're not asking the questions about what they're doing when they come through #Wick, we should be asking the questions.

In the space of a week, the US administration has #kidnapped the Venezuelan president, suggested it could take Greenland next by force, and seized an oil tanker in Scottish waters.

thenational.scot/news/25754154…

#USAggression #Imperialism #violence #tyrant #dictator #fascism #DementiaDon #DictatorTrump



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