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  • 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 9 16:42:40 2025
    LA immigration protests live updates: 700 Marines deployed to Los
    Angeles

    Tensions are escalating in Los Angeles after protests against
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement gripped the city on Sunday, with demonstrators clashing with law enforcement and setting vehicles on
    fire downtown.

    President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 National Guardsmen to "address
    the lawlessness," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
    But California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob
    Bonta are suing the Trump administration, saying they unlawfully
    "trampled over" California's sovereignty when they federalized the
    California National Guard.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/la-immigration-protests-live-updates-trump-deploys-2000/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jun 9 19:50:20 2025
    On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:42:40 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    LA immigration protests live updates: 700 Marines deployed to Los
    Angeles

    "What a field day from the heat. A thousand people in the street.
    Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh)
    Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (Ooh ooh ooh)"

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 9 20:41:42 2025
    LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist

    30 sec vid
    https://bsky.app/profile/luckytran.com/post/3lr5amqrwlc2j

    I think it was done intentionally.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 9 21:41:51 2025
    On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:50:20 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    "What a field day from the heat. A thousand people in the street.
    Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh)
    Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (Ooh ooh ooh)"

    AI Overview

    Buffalo Springfield

    The lines "What a field day for the heat. A thousand people in the
    street" are from the 1966 Buffalo Springfield song, "For What It's
    Worth". The song describes a youth protest or counterculture
    gathering, where a large number of people are out in the streets. The
    lyrics suggest a chaotic or tense atmosphere, with the police possibly intervening

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jun 14 09:28:24 2025
    On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:41:51 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 19:50:20 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    "What a field day from the heat. A thousand people in the street.
    Singing songs and they carrying signs (Ooh ooh ooh)
    Mostly say, "Hooray for our side" (Ooh ooh ooh)"

    I'm starting to think Gov Newson is less interested in whatever the F
    happens in Los Angeles, and more interested in using the events as
    talking points and a platform for building his now-obvious future
    presidential candidacy platform.

    I hope the Millennial and Z generations do away with this whole chapter
    and its two tired political parties*, and come up with something new.


    * PS Jill Stein/Green Party: you suck. You don't even count.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 14 11:29:03 2025
    On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:28:24 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I hope the Millennial and Z generations do away with this whole chapter
    and its two tired political parties*, and come up with something new.

    Their too busy with their Smartphones...

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Jun 14 18:15:50 2025
    JAB <[email protected]d> writes:

    On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:28:24 -0600, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    I hope the Millennial and Z generations do away with this whole chapter
    and its two tired political parties*, and come up with something new.

    Their too busy with their Smartphones...

    By 2028, someone will have created a completely synthetic AI persona
    whom you can watch, listen to and even talk to on your smartphone. No
    TV, no rallies, just on-line via a free app.

    There has to be a potential return on building those exabyte
    multi-$billion data centers that need a river for cooling and have
    their own dedicated nuclear power plants. Imagine that you can chat
    one on one with the presidential candidate! Imagine that Google
    legally owns the presidential candidate!

    SCOTUS will have to decide on an interpretation of "born". If a
    corporation can be a "person" and money is "speech", is a program a
    person and its output speech? Even if it's from his/her/its/their
    silicon untimely ripp'd?


    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 14 19:43:47 2025
    On 14 Jun 2025 18:15:50 -0300, Mike Spencer
    <[email protected]e> wrote:

    By 2028, someone will have created a completely synthetic AI persona
    whom you can watch, listen to and even talk to on your smartphone.

    Never followed this topic, but there are thousands plus who talk to
    some AI "thing"

    In earlier days, Chautauqua was a big deal in rural America

    "At the height of the Chautauqua Movement, around 1915, some 12,000
    communities had hosted a chautauqua. Many of the lecturers and
    performers were contracted by chautauqua agencies, the most notable of
    which was the Redpath Agency in Iowa. The quality of the offerings
    varied from Vassar-educated lecturers and Shakespeare to animal acts
    and vaudeville farce." https://www.chautauqua.com/2021/chautauqua-movement-history/

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