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Left that bird app and never going back STEM PhD

  1. NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history.

    According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

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  2. 🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

    When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

    In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing
"Police" vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained.
According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members.
"I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they're family, and they're just ripping them away," the firefighter told the Times. "And this is what he said: 'You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I'm gonna make you leave.'"
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  3. And this is why I think the AI industry is going to have a grand closing from lawsuits soon. You think the authors are going to bankrupt the industry? No, this is what will do it. And they know this happens to vulnerable people and they don't care.

    WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

    “Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

    A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

    “Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

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  4. Periodic reminder that Obama tried in his administration to build a network of solar and wind energy projects that would have been enough to curb emissions. If the US and China had both been compliant with the clean energy goals the world would literally be a better place.

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    A collection of clips from MSNBC of multiple Republicans getting booed at town halls this week.

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  6. Heard an anti-extremism researcher say themselves they approach their work in the way a “standard” conservative would so they don’t come off too wacky and “woke” so yeah I’m going to be skeptical of the whole “actually racism is just there to be edgy” take.

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