"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

We offer endless fun here at River Side Casino. It will never stop. You will have fun forever whether you like it or not.

What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________

And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."

Brb going to scream.

I frequently think of this scene from the Witcher 3 whenever the urban/rural divide comes up

And as we build new institutions in the coming years, as we must, we can prioritize blurring the distinction that academia built up like a plaque between learning and the world. And then you won’t be outside at all.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

with the iranians slamming the media cdns you guys better git gud at writing alt text

alt text you’re all we’ve got now

anticipatory futures newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...

apparition in the sky

good idea

Procedurally generated image.

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#ProceduralArt #generative

Holy shiitake. The DOJ just announced an indictment of the @splcenter.org

Nega-Buddha says: "get attached to everything. develop attachments to whatever you see that are so profound you go insane"

I've long been an admirer of @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy's 'mechanical techno', and his new album 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘯 (on @jollies.bandcamp.com) might just be the most realised version of this concept yet. I reviewed it for @thequietus.com.

wake up babe they discovered the mechanism behind the joint popping sound

i'm smoking on that shit that put the extra Rs in strawberry. i'm smoking that premium unstablecoin opeansea AFK NFT za-za that made bankman-fried do all that. i put an LLM in your toaster. bitch. i'm meeting KPIs you couldn't imagine in fiscal quarters you've never even fucken heard of

product image from amazon where one of the answers is "to be fully transparent as an AI"

Help I found this journal on amazon and the prompts in the image were clearly filled out by AI

A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.

I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

U.S. Navy destroyer repeatedly warned an Iranian-flagged cargo ship to stop over a six-hour period on Sunday before firing on the ship's engine room, disabling the Iran-bound vessel to allow helicopter-borne Marines to board and seize it, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. When the crew of the Touska, the Iranian ship, ignored the American warnings, a destroyer fired its MK 45 gun into the cargo ship's engine room, Central Command said. On Sunday, Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit were conducting a search of the vessel, which is now in American custody. 1 hour ago

One of the most blatant examples of sane-washing I've ever seen from the NYT.

This was an unarmed cargo vessel in international waters, crewed by noncombatants!

If it starts getting easier to find an electrician who will show up for a small job, then we are deep in the shit.

himbo

browsing bsky with screen facing half the coffee shop == dangerous

want to hear some bumping grooves and soaring melodies? of course you don't. that's aesthetically imperialist brainwashing. you want to hear what sounds like to be spaghettified as your body passes over an event horizon

dwarf planets are much more interesting anyway

4x4 grid of pale blue - orange - white - black shots out of a moving train over a river in winter, with composer and title: paul hembree, textures / drones

wondering about the album title. I'm a bit over naming things like Apocryphal Chrysopoeia or (m)UTTERANCE(s). I want to manage expectations, considering that I also have a chiptunes album and a few hybrid orchestra game OSTs

A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to ‘Restore Pluto to a Planet,’ and NASA’s chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

"No way. Fuck off."

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you