Poems and Stuff

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Ethics experts are calling President Donald Trump’s so-called “anti-weaponization” fund a corrupt scheme unlike anything that has been seen in American history. But to an attorney representing hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants, the $1.8 billion looks a lot like “relief.”

“This is a stigma that’s been put on all these people,” said Peter Ticktin, a Florida-based lawyer who plans to pursue claims for as many as 400 clients. “For some, it’s literally going to be a lifesaver.” 

Trump has been rewriting the history of the insurrection since the day it happened, and on his first day of office last year he granted clemency to nearly 1,600 supporters who were charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. But the prospect of compensating participants through a new slush fund ― administered by Trump’s Justice Department, for supposed victims of “weaponization and lawfare” ― has even made some Republican allies squirm. 

For Ticktin, a high school classmate of the president who describes the 2020 insurrection as a leftist conspiracy, the rioters Trump pardoned after retaking the White House are exactly the people the new fund should be rewarding. His firm has been filing lawsuits against the government seeking damages for their clients’ prosecutions, and he sees the fund as a potential way to resolve those claims outside of court.

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Here. Don't look this up. Don't put it in the comments if you know. Read this and tell me what movie it describes:

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.

Got a guess?

You're locked in?

You're sure?

You don't want a genre hint?

Okay. You're probably gonna feel really silly in a minute, just as a word of warning.

This is a real summary written by Rick Polito.

It was used by Turner Classic Movies in 1998 and was printed in TVGuide. If you're too young to know what that means, it was a staple in most households--if TVGuide said it, you could be pretty sure it was accurate.

Did you guess The Wizard of Oz?

Yeah, I told you it was misleading. Technically it's true, but it misses everything the movie is about.