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rexiA weirdly beneficial potential #AI upside for society's hard pressed bottom rung, if we could provide it:
#AI #bankruptcy legal assistants.
The daunting effort of this process without a lawyer versed in a state's sometimes insanely convoluted bankruptcy law is now digitally achievable in seconds.
With a very patient explainer of what, why and how.
Print ready to sign and file with the court, theoretically.
rexihttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/retirees-volunteering-election-democracy-study-health/
The DNA of people who volunteered the equivalent of one to four hours a week showed distinctive biomarkers associated with decelerated epigenetic aging, with the most pronounced effects among retired people.
“People might do better, physically, psychologically, socially, if they have a role that they think is important and they identify with,” said Cal J. Halvorsen, a gerontological social work scholar at Washington University in St. Louis.
rexihttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/why-evangelicals-couldnt-care-less-about-trumps-epstein-scandal/
True believers are convinced Christ will return to earth not to establish a #ConstitutionalDemocracy but an absolute #theocraticmonarchy in which the ruler can never be questioned. In the end, this both explains what we are witnessing in the #evangelical dismissal of the #Epstein scandal and encapsulates the gravest danger we face as Americans.
rexihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002#cite_note-U.S._Government_Printing_Office-9
I had a bad feeling in my gut about this back when W. signed it into law in the paranoid wake of 9/11
How it got turned around to be a tool of an #authoritarianregime: no mystery.
The original compartmentalized nature of many smaller agencies also gave it a different kind of strength, it turns out.
Those inherent checks and balances are now more than absent, they are turned on their head.
rexiHere's to hoping Europeans will never need to return the favor.
But, God bless them, and God speed if they ever have to.
(meant spiritually, not religiously, of course)
rexiThe dis-reality of this dystopian moment almost obviates the need to explain that this is not a real magazine. Yet.
First Issue.
New issues in thread.
#ScienceUnderground
rexiSad* math.
There's just one way to avoid #PlanetEarth's looming #massextinctionevent: we need #energy at scales unreachable by any other means.
No #fusionenergy=no future
#NoFusionNoFuture
*(sad because the incentive to achieve it is wholly incommensurate with that essential effort heretofore.)
(beyond our diminishingly small happenstantial survival chance in recognizable form, no other ‘solution’ exists at this time.)
#research #fusion #carboncapture