I just shouted "you're in fucking TEXAS!!!"

And I get it, he's trying to find his voice. He just sounds really excited right now. Like, adrenaline jacked.

Huh. Okay.

He could pull it back a little, is all I'm saying.

Who is this chatterbox in the booth with Goldy? And can he stop? #goms

Matt Brash is just throwing wiffle balls tonight. Sheesh.

The premature ending of COVID restrictions in the USA was primarily because we were all starting to figure out how much of the pre-COVID way of doing things didn’t work and wasn’t necessary, and secondarily because fascists couldn’t stand that the solution to apocalypse was cooperation and empathy.

George W Bush did not choke on a pretzel in 2002. My guess is he was having a stroke or was drunk out of his mind. I mean, if they publicly said he choked on a pretzel, the real story has to be so much worse/dumber.

That is just an absurd catch.

InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

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Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Janet Jackson, a Heavy D verse, an expensive music video with costumes AND a Cab Calloway cameo!

Top notch alt text.

"Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return."

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Bluesky status report reading “We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos”

Mike D: only rock
all: JEANS
Mike D: never rock
all: CHINOS

Bluesky displaying nothing except a red banner with the word Forbidden

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!!!

Gil Scott-Heron, "We Almost Lost Detroit"

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This holding is part of a decision upholding a district court orderpreventing the State of Montana from enforcing policies that bar transgender people from obtaining accurate sex designations on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses.

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Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Love this! Cat-holicism wins! I'm feline that it's Cat-astrophic for Trump fur sure! 😏🐾

As bad as it is using faulty AI for theft detection, another issue is the scanners can fail to register items they scan.

Ruined one ex-olympian's life.

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screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Patty Griffin, "Don't Let Me Die in Florida."

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Oh this is awful. I'm so sorry.

Okay, first: Angel Studios???

Second: it’s a bold move to release a biopic about Hershey when you’re being attacked publicly by H.B. Reese's grandson for desecrating his family's candy legacy.

We are all forced to weigh which harms we’re willing to except and which harms are our hard lines.

It’s why I never judge people for where they shop. For every bad company we boycott there’s another bad company we use. This is true for EVERYONE and if you claim perfection you’re lying.

The fact is it’s impossible to exist in this world the way that we want to. If we boycott every company that’s bad for the world or for us our options require massive amounts of research to find and are narrowed to a handful

*none of this is advocacy for not trying, it’s simply a statement of fact

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

4) they often let you track you and wait to let you get enough so it's counted as a felony.

We found out several things during the wait. 1) target uses AI for theft prevention which often falsely targets people. 2) they purposly don't notify you if you don't scan all items in a self checkout lane. 3) if u hit the ok button on the self checkout and you miss an item they say thats stealing