During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of prominent scientists challenged the prevailing government approach to lockdowns. The Lockdown Dissidents tells the story of researchers who say they were censored when they questioned the public health consensus. on.wsj.com/3QyWXCd

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

This is being mocked, but in a way it is the most intellectually consistent version of moralized liberalism: we simply cannot read anything from before the Awokening. Most liberal intellectuals are less consistent: they selectively dismiss the moral “problems” of the authors they like as inessential to the author’s thought (Jefferson is a favorite candidate for this treatment), while claiming that the moral “problems” of the authors they dislike are disqualifying.

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel. Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone. No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life. thenation.com/article/politi…

Dear Followers on Twitter/X: Although my hacked account has been restored to me, I gather that there are many of you who still have a spurious/likely malware-ridden invitation to "Vote" for me in you Chat Inbox. Please delete or ignore that. Do not click on it. There is a pattern: My own hacking was (I believe) the result of my clicking on someone else's plea to vote for her. PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

That said, a defamation trial might be brutal for Pangram. Justice Potter and I (or one of the Village People) may disagree on whether something is porn, but we'd probably see why someone else might think so. And sure, some AI slop is obvious. But whatever got these papers... 1/