It's dire, but this is indicative of why it's possible for Ukraine to hold out to victory.
"Russian forces took only 23 square kilometers of territory in March. At that pace, Russia would finish conquering Ukraine in 1,775 years."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...
And I glossed when I said AI, mea culpa.
We really need to separate "machine learning", where limited datasets are mined for limited purpose; which is really useful, from LLM's and the idea of an artificial intelligence; capable of independent thought.
Manages to get through a call for focusing on teaching and civic purpose without even glancing toward contingency and adjunctification of faculty as perhaps a factor in the problem. A call to change without examining the structures that control higher ed is performative B.S. at this point.
“more than 70 women…[are] shot &killed *every month* in the US due to domestic violence. & we find that DV shootings often overlap w/other types of shootings…a history of DV is a big predictor for committing a mass shooting. & we also find that DV & suicide…often overlap”🧪🛟 @meganranney.bsky.social
If "AI" were were really intelligent... it wouldn't need to be "trained" to do languages outside the parent scraping; because it could derive the grammar, and meanings, from what's out there.
The internet is FULL of Rosetta Stones.
But AI is just glorified Mad Libs.
I realised something else was going on in the second stanza, and in the 4th the penny dropped all the way.
Non-academic jobs for PhDs saves the academic jobs for PhDs.
And any academic who looks down on non-academic PhDs jobs should just be dismissed out of hand for either being deeply insecure or repulsively snobby.
I'd add, it's suicidal for departments not to WILDLY embrace this idea.
We ALL know that the number of academic jobs can never support the number grad students departments want.
If you want students to want PhDs, you should be actively finding ways for them to ... you know ... USE them.
Built in 1932 for the president of General Motors of Canada, this is one of the last Madame X Cadillacs to be sold. The "Series 452" referred to the displacement of the mighty V-16 OHV engine in cubic inches.
#carsky #oldcarBS #weirdcarBS
carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2026/04/1932...
Those are some of the dorkiest things.
Why would this iteration of a thing which has been failing for nigh on twenty years be the one to take off?
The niche they fill doesn't compensate for the stigma they (rightly) earn.
People hung up on plot devices from SF as "the way to live".
We are looking at a green and blue dragon in a lead who cannot believe that we don’t know our left from our right.
Also St Liphardus is clearly on the left.
This is most certainly a dragon - not a 6th century lawyer, hermit and abbot.
Room in bookstore covered in shelves in slightly distorted panoramic photo with woman singing at far left, holding a mic, and man playing guitar next to her. Audience sitting in chairs watch from left of center to far right.
Big bummer for Seattle: Ada’s Technical Books is shutting down in June. mailchi.mp/d1ef4cc6e7f2... Such a great store, such great owners. The kind of bookstore I suggested meeting any visitor to the city at or suggested they stop by in their travels.
This is really good.
Took me a moment to see where it was going, but then... it took off like a Nantucket sleigh-ride.
Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?
Give it time, they will.
reminder that last year lexie and i wrote the game OSR claims to be
The same way his “charity” was nothing but a piggy bank, so to his library (and presumably ballroom), as the money is given to him, not actually a separate entity.
The four deuce was heavy support that could keep up.
In it's day the Warthog was all that and 2 bags o' chips.
It's day (hard as it to admit) is past.
and... when faced with disaster people instinctively help each other.
It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”
Sometimes when I talk about how much masks improve my life, people mistakenly think I still want to be living in mid-2020.
No! That sucked! It was stressful and sad!
A main reason I wear & love N95s in crowded places is that I get to opt out getting sick while skipping the bad parts of that time!
Some...
if you survive.
The spasms can break legs, and spines.
There are no words for my fury at the very idea.
If the second Trump administration consisted of DOGE and nothing else it would still be one of the very worst in American history:
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/they...
Ukraine is in a much better position than Washington seems willing to accept.
mickryan.substack.com/p/turning-th...
Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
NEW: Iran plans blockade of American blockade of Iranian blockade www.duffelblog.com/iran-plans-b...
Take classes in the things (like Bass, singing,aikido) that my other interests/money, keep me from focusing on enough to get better than so-so at.
While working on technique for what I am good at.
No publication of photographs would be hard.