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Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5B Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax....

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Somehow I doubt he has 1.5B in personal assets. And will be happy when he is pennyless, and separated from infowars, as well.

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How about an e-GMP version?

https://www.kei-trucks.com/collections/all

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And did your parents pay $35 for the experience?

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I know one of those kids, early teen, has moved into cooking most of the family's meals. I loved to cook as a kid, and still do. :-)

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Speculators will speculate. It's just too easy these days to simply look up the guy, see a pic, and determine truth or falsehood of his claims. This should never have even come to our attention, if the staff at the hospital was sharp.

Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than expected in southeast Louisiana (apnews.com)

Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....

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The journal link is not yet active.
"Coming Soon
This document has not been published in final form. Upon final publication, this link will be active."

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Is this more confirmation of the Lead Crime Hypothesis? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)

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Turns out we already have some clear data, and don't need to speculate.

What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/

City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods associated with drop in crime
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-city-funded-housing-low-income-neighborhoods-crime.pdf

The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html

VERIFY: Does affordable housing bring more crime? (note, the answer as usual is no.)
https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-does-affordable-housing-bring-more-crime/93-560002876

Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1233440910/cash-aid-guaranteed-basic-income-social-safety-net-poverty

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I was curious,too. So I put a more or less direct quote of your question in DDG. :-D

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Pretty sure it wasn't formal.

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It's sort of cute when Roman's lawyers appear on face to have no idea why these charges were brought. I can't wait for discovery, when they find out. You may have seen that XKCD comic about how wonderful it is to be the person to learn a new thing, something that nearly everyone in the entire country, if not the world already knows. Enjoy your new found knowledge, Mr. Altman.

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I should totes have that on speed dial. I use it at least monthly.

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I've been watching the Aptera progress for years. I hope they can get to a saleable product. So efficient!

Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)

A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...

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I'm thinking Toyota Hi-Lux EV.

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Hmmm....

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I got tickets for them this weekend! Can't wait!

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Circumhorizontal Arc is fine for it's accuracy, and Fire Rainbow is a whole lot more catchy. I mean, a Pineapple is neither Pine, nor Apple, and we're ok with that.

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Oh Honey!

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

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MBIN FTW. KBIN has been "We are working on resolving the issues" for some days now. I hope Ernest is ok.

I have a login for lemmy.ml, as I have several from when I was switching over from Reddit. I'm thinking from what I'm reading here, that it's not an instance I want to associate with.

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Dude's a superhero, and needn't be a 'lone ranger'. Agreed. As the Fediverse expands, it will be the work of many; it just has to be that way.

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Agreed! And yeah, still down, I just checked.

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It was her all along!

A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation through ETS2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07501-1

Abstract

Increasing rates of autoimmune and inflammatory disease present a burgeoning threat to human health1. This is compounded by the limited efficacy of available treatments1 and high failure rates during drug development2, highlighting an urgent need to better understand disease mechanisms. Here we show how functional genomics could address this challenge. By investigating an intergenic haplotype on chr21q22—which has been independently linked to inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and Takayasu’s arteritis3,4,5,6—we identify that the causal gene, ETS2, is a central regulator of human inflammatory macrophages and delineate the shared disease mechanism that amplifies ETS2 expression. Genes regulated by ETS2 were prominently expressed in diseased tissues and more enriched for inflammatory bowel disease GWAS hits than most previously described pathways. Overexpressing ETS2 in resting macrophages reproduced the inflammatory state observed in chr21q22-associated diseases, with upregulation of multiple drug targets, including TNF and IL-23. Using a database of cellular signatures7, we identified drugs that might modulate this pathway and validated the potent anti-inflammatory activity of one class of small molecules in vitro and ex vivo. Together, this illustrates the power of functional genomics, applied directly in primary human cells, to identify immune-mediated disease mechanisms and potential therapeutic opportunities.

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From the abstract: "By investigating an intergenic haplotype on chr21q22—which has been independently linked to inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and Takayasu’s arteritis3,4,5,6—we identify that the causal gene, ETS2, is a central regulator of human inflammatory macrophages and delineate the shared disease mechanism that amplifies ETS2 expression. "

I guess you owe me five bucks.

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A little chortle now and then. Keeps things from getting to 'heavy'.

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This is exactly why I'm not a gambler. ;-) I really prefer it when people say things like, "wow, thanks, here have a fiver."

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Piped Link: https://piped.video/watch?v=qmxzQJt80XI

Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020 (apnews.com)

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020....

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Schaden-hahahahahaha

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So, basically one of the best for a residence, then?

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It's the Beagle Battalion! Forget about Boston Dynamics.

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

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PIxelfed has no ads (https://pixelfed.org/) - Since we're over here building the Fediverse, I just wanted to mention there ARE options.

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Sheldon Adelson's widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from . The wikipedia pic of her shows solemnly placing the medal around her neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson

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Opting out is easy. Come to Pixelfed, they sure as hell aren't IG.

https://pixelfed.org/servers

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Georgia, the country. Not that it's any better that this bill became law.

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Yes, but that's another discussion entirely. And it's why they are so much fun to hang with. Little Five Points FTW!!

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Both Georgia the country, and Georgia the state of the United States are located on planet Earth. I wanted to make clarification to save people trouble. Is that not ok, with you?

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That's right friends, those Sea-monkeys (https://www.sea-monkeys.com/) you raised as children, it's a fact that this is a major part of Barbie's diet.

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Smae!!! LoL

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I was about to say, there's this thing called PIXELFED!! Thanks for beating me to it! Like with other Federated services there are numerous PIxelfed instances:

https://pixelfed.org/servers

and a mobile app for iOS and Android

https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

As well as 3rd Party Apps - Pixeldroid and Fedilab on the Android side

Tusker ( I thought that was beer) for iOS.

And it all works on Mastodon (and related apps) as well

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You mispelled 42 minutes of doomscrolling. ;-)

Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" (www.salon.com)

“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”

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Right!?! Doesn't this smack of simple jealousy that the professors can't have as much fun as their students? Their lives must be so empty, which explains why others living their best lives, with lovers, friends, and community is so offensive.

Does Trump being found guilty actually matter?

Since he can still run for office and become president while in prison, is this actually going to do anything to stop him from being president? Obviously it’s not gonna sway anyone who’s gonna vote for him, so is there any actual way this keeps him from office, or at least has some positive effect for us? I wanna join the...

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Literally 300,000 dead US citizens from 45's policies regarding COVID-19 pandemic.

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And there are no ongoing studies, clinical trials, etc regarding the existence or non-existence of god. And of course this IS a "shitpost".

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Thank You, BotM! I migrated here from the corporate social medias as soon as I was aware. I'm still transferring my OC over from IG (not an easy task) to Pixelfed. And I use similar talking points to inform people, often about the very existence of a non-comercial social media. Very few people, maybe 2, since July '23 have even heard of the Fediverse. We shall persist!

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I signed on to https://social.photo/. And I'm sure I had darned good reasons for doing so at the time. LoL With federation, I'm not really sure it matters which instance one signs onto, as long as it's not some tankie/nazi crap, of course. And of course one could self host one's own instance.

It appears to me that, because of the absence of advertising, it is incumbent upon individuals to 'evangelize' and spread the fedi-gospel. :-D

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"Eugene V. Debs ran, but didn't win.", Captain Obvious. May the next person to run from jail have similar results.

Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential election. Two years earlier, Debs, a labor leader, had spoken out against America’s involvement in World War I. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, after the prosecution argued that his antiwar speech obstructed military enrollment. The 1920 loss didn’t come as a surprise to Debs, who had run four times before. His fifth and final run, promoted with a campaign button that read “For President Convict No. 9653,” brought him nearly one million votes, says Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. President Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/run-president-prison-ask-smithsonian-180974594/

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Damn, I forgot that part! Does that mean we get 6 more weeks of Judge A. Cannon? If so, I apologize.

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It's only Piracy if it comes from one of the Seven Seas, yar!

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