Choying Palmo
@cchoetso.bsky.social
Ordained Soto Zen Buddhist chaplain and lay minister working toward Beloved Community
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OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in allowing ChatGPT to draft, edit, and send texts on users' behalf, raising privacy questions about AI accessing message inboxes.
#AI #Apple #Chatgpt #Imessage #OpenAI #Privacy
#AI #Apple #Chatgpt #Imessage #OpenAI #Privacy
OpenAI Lets ChatGPT Read and Send iMessages via New Plug-in
OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in allowing ChatGPT to draft, edit, and send texts on users' behalf, raising privacy questions about AI accessing message inboxes.
pulseofnations.lol
August 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
blockclubchicago.org
August 22, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
Dad and my spouse were just yesterday discussing Dawkins's meatheadedness.
Reposting without the headline typo www.burnsnotice.com/richard-dawk...
Richard Dawkins' AI is Neither Conscious Nor a Woman
The exhausting atheist and evolutionary biologist is kind of brainless
It's been an ongoing joke on trans BlueSky for awhile now that AI is someday going to get full human rights before trans people ...
www.burnsnotice.com
May 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Dad and my spouse were just yesterday discussing Dawkins's meatheadedness.
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BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
April 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
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I know I'm far from the first to post this, but: man, the burning gall of paying one's taxes today, after being openly told exactly what kind of sicko genocidal schemes they will be used to fund. Really? You want me to tally up what I owe you right now?
April 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I know I'm far from the first to post this, but: man, the burning gall of paying one's taxes today, after being openly told exactly what kind of sicko genocidal schemes they will be used to fund. Really? You want me to tally up what I owe you right now?
FINALLY!!!
The César team is staging a comeback, with help from author Michael Lewis www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/30/c...
#cesarberkeley
The César team is staging a comeback, with help from author Michael Lewis www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/30/c...
#cesarberkeley
The César team is staging a comeback, with help from author Michael Lewis
The new restaurant, opening in Westbrae, is named Mesón and will be modeled after the cherished tapas bar that closed in 2022.
www.berkeleyside.org
April 7, 2026 at 2:31 AM
FINALLY!!!
The César team is staging a comeback, with help from author Michael Lewis www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/30/c...
#cesarberkeley
The César team is staging a comeback, with help from author Michael Lewis www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/30/c...
#cesarberkeley
What's really trippy is that my high school headmaster was #DonaldBarr, now infamous for his relationship with Epstein. Weird and trippy when I recall encounters with him. (He had been fired by the parents of St David's in Manhattan and ended upriver at my prep school. Guess they forgot to vet him.
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
What's really trippy is that my high school headmaster was #DonaldBarr, now infamous for his relationship with Epstein. Weird and trippy when I recall encounters with him. (He had been fired by the parents of St David's in Manhattan and ended upriver at my prep school. Guess they forgot to vet him.
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For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).
It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...
Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).
It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...
Clip HD | The Mortal Storm | Warner Archive
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:18 PM
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).
It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...
Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).
It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
This country's unbelievably pathological fetish with guns has absolutely got to stop. It's so, so very sick.
September 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This country's unbelievably pathological fetish with guns has absolutely got to stop. It's so, so very sick.
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Right wingers are really not prepared for an era where their own normalization of gun culture and gun violence might be used against them and not just the people they hate
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Right wingers are really not prepared for an era where their own normalization of gun culture and gun violence might be used against them and not just the people they hate
Remember: Trump’s administration deported 3.13 million people during his first term. In comparison, Obama deported 3.16 million, while Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021 and 2022.
July 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Remember: Trump’s administration deported 3.13 million people during his first term. In comparison, Obama deported 3.16 million, while Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021 and 2022.
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Does NY Times Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn Beat his Wife?
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
July 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Does NY Times Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn Beat his Wife?
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
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people vote their values, not their material interest. and conservative values of deference to the wealthy, refusing assistance to the poor, refusal to invest in public good naturally demand the destruction of their own poorer communities.
A rural hospital in a Nebraska county that voted 75-25 for the GOP Senator in November closed due to the Republican Party's impending Medicaid cuts. This is a harbinger of a bleak future to come for rural communities. www.splinter.com/rural-hospit...
Rural Hospital Closes Due to GOP’s Gargantuan Medicaid Cuts
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
people vote their values, not their material interest. and conservative values of deference to the wealthy, refusing assistance to the poor, refusal to invest in public good naturally demand the destruction of their own poorer communities.
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The NYT’s politics are about as hard to figure out as Elon’s.
June 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The NYT’s politics are about as hard to figure out as Elon’s.
Same.
I probably like Rand Paul right now more than any other elected Republican ... and I HATE Rand Paul.
Sen. Rand Paul: "I just never liked the idea of the parade because I grew up in the '70s and '80s and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades or North Korean parades...Then there's the cost, I mean we're $2 trillion in the hole. I'm not for it."
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Same.
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Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.
June 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.
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Over the past 60 years, consider all of the assassinations in the US of those politicians and social movement leaders. Then consider that almost all of those killed were left leaning leaders challenging the conservative order run by the rich and corporations.
June 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Over the past 60 years, consider all of the assassinations in the US of those politicians and social movement leaders. Then consider that almost all of those killed were left leaning leaders challenging the conservative order run by the rich and corporations.
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For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.
I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.
We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.
June 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.
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Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them
“If you throw a brick at one of our deputies we’re gonna be notifying your family of where to collect your remains because we will kill you, graveyard dead, we’re not gonna play.”
- the Brevard County Sheriff, in a live press conference.
These guys are foaming at the mouth to go full brownshirts.
- the Brevard County Sheriff, in a live press conference.
These guys are foaming at the mouth to go full brownshirts.
June 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them
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This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict
President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.
politi.co
June 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost
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i welcome a direct hit from an extinction-level asteroid
May 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i welcome a direct hit from an extinction-level asteroid
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.