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Austin Goss retweeted
Since publicly announcing that I would vote for Doeden in the runoff, I have been: 1) Compared to Germans reporting their neighbors to the Gestapo during the Holocaust 2) Accused of "jumping ship", being a "traitor" and a "sleeper agent" by people who claimed to be my friends 3) Sent personal insults over text message by state legislative candidates I took time out of my very busy schedule to help with their campaigns People desperately need to find Christ. This is not normal nor rational behavior.
The amount of pearl clutching I’ve seen on Facebook over certain Hansen supporters now supporting Doeden is unreal. Sorry that we’re voting for the most conservative person in the race and not illegally writing in a candidate who was eliminated. What do you want us to do?
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Consider for a moment, the absolute cruelty and crassness of this statement.
Rep. Crockett: "Black women live in agony every day that I promise the Metcalfs had never lived through"
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The British being unprepared to perform on American soil has been a tradition since 1776
England players face the impact of playing in the Florida heat 🥵
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Total Hoosier dominance. IU just opened up a capital campus in Washington D.C. It will serve as a “centralized location for students, faculty researchers and alumni to engage directly with the decision-makers shaping national and international affairs,” according to an IU press release.
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It really bothers me that people will just be like “yeah the woke era was crazy but it’s whatever”. Like no this guy ignited a harassment campaign against a teenage girl because she wore a dress. He deserves some kind of punishment for that
Eight years ago this month, a defining brouhaha of the Great Awokening broke out: An 18-year-old high school senior posted her prom pictures, in which she wore a qipao, a type of Chinese dress. Thousands of Twitter users attacked and condemned her for "cultural appropriation."
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun wants to eliminate property taxes for seniors and those who have paid off their mortgage. This is the same state government that removed tax relief for first time homeowners in a property tax bill last year because it would have allegedly harmed local schools. Yet under this proposal, Braun would pay zero dollars in property taxes on his huge, nearly 10,000 square foot home with hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer-funded improvements. The hypocrisy & hatred of young adults here is insane. It’s incredibly anti-family.
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Populist candidates like @SpeakerHansen who are willing to stand up for American families are the future of the Republican party! Watch @Schilling1776 make this point on CNN:
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South Dakotans deserve a governor who will stand firm against the cultural left and put parents and kids first. @SpeakerHansen is that leader. Catch APP’s 30-second ad, airing statewide below:
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Huge endorsement for @SpeakerHansen! This endorsement speaks to the work that Jon has done for the conservative movement over the years, he will continue that same good work as governor.
BREAKING: @approject just endorsed pro-family conservative JON HANSEN for governor in South Dakota. ADS ON AIR NOW! THE RACE IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL!!
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The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It is produced by a currently deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; it could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development.
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Pope Leo XIV on AI: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
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JUST IN: Vatican releases Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e… On Transhumanism and Posthumanism, Pope Leo XIV writes: “If the human being is treated as something to be perfected or surpassed, it becomes easier to accept that some lives are less useful, less desirable or less worthy. In the name of progress, ‘necessary sacrifices’ may begin to be justified, placing the burden on the most vulnerable in pursuit of a supposed optimization of the species. … For this reason, a clear distinction must be made. It is one thing to integrate technology within a human-centered, relational vision; it is quite another to be guided by an outlook that devalues human limits and promises a purely technical form of ‘salvation.’” Read the encyclical here: vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the “Teddy Bridgewater Act” into law on Friday, per @AP, meaning high school coaches in the state will now be able to use their own money to help their players with expenses such as food, transportation, physical therapy and rehabilitation services.
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As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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Not only is @DustyJohnson duplicitous in pretending he isn’t behind negative ads--he's being funded by the exact corporate interests he's always served: carbon pipeline backers, open primary activists, and liberal megadonors trying to buy control of SD. thedakotascout.com/p/attack-…
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Hey kids, things are pretty bad right now, and we're doing our best to build a technology that will make them worse as fast as we can. You can't escape it, it will be everywhere. You must learn to love this thing if you want to survive. Congrats!
I attended the University of Arizona commencement ceremony, where Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt faced boos throughout his speech. If you don’t know how young graduates feel about AI, this post is for you. The message is clear: it reflects growing skepticism toward AI narratives coming out of Silicon Valley. I keep coming back to one question for anyone building AI: are you building for humans? Build responsible and ethical AI. AI governance and compliance matter. (Speech excerpt.)
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Data centers poll badly because nobody wants to live near noise & nobody likes their electricity bills going up, especially if those negative consequences also enrich tech oligarchs, kill off jobs, ruin kids' brains & produce stupid Internet videos. This isn't hard to understand.
A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them. Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. wapo.st/48ZtSpE
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Big Tech companies are sprinting forward, building data centers as fast as they can, sometimes using eminent domain to seize the land by force, making their AI more and more powerful, expanding the technology at lightening speed with no guardrails of any kind at all. Yet none of these tech gurus or any of their apologists have even attempted to explain what exactly all of the millions of people who lose their jobs, and the increasing numbers who lose their homes, all sacrificed on the AI altar, are supposed to do. How does society support millions of unemployed and displaced people? What becomes of a society where algorithms and machines do everything, and a few people become trillionaires while millions more lose everything? There is no answer to any of this. They aren’t even attempting to answer it. Instead we’re simply told that China exists and we have to “beat them” in some unspecified way, in order to achieve some unspecified goal. We’re going to obliterate entire industries, entire categories of jobs all at once, and the only justification anyone can give is “China.” It’s madness.
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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) complains, "I don't know when Republicans quit being interested in killing communists," likens Ukraine to Britain in World War II, and declares his confidence that both Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise understand the Ukraine war funding must continue
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