Ya know, spending billions of dollars and thousands of lives just to fail to get a deal the previous guy got for free might explain the six bankruptcies and the lifelong reliance on fraud and misrepresentation.
Or maybe it's the other way around. At any rate, Trump is a shitty negotiator.
Overheard on the couch:
Her side: "How many of your students do you suppose were high today?"
His side: "About the same number who usually are, only moreso."
The appeal of AI-"assisted" search is much like that of MAGA: instant, effortless answers. That they're often inaccurate or hallucinatory isn't important; they act like magic, dissipating cognitive dissonance in a puff of overconfidence.
To say that AI "writing" is "good" is to admit that you have no idea what good writing is.
I know Johann Strauss II said it was a beautiful, blue Danube, but I've seen it, and man, it's a muddy brown and maybe a 6 on a good day, a 7 if you're from the Midwest.
Yeah, man, like, that Picasso guy ought to be careful when he talks about matters of cubism, I think.
I'm not a fan of simple answers to complex questions, but I keep coming back to this: everything we're seeing from Trump--Iran, his beef with the Pope, even the Epstein thing--can be explained by his narcissism, the deep need for attention of his life-distorting black hole of a soul.
I long ago gave up on the idea that most people have my best interests in mind. But what's been astounding to learn is how few people have their own best interests in mind, opting instead to merely react out of anger and fear.
So let's see if I'm interpreting today's headline right: "Jealous of Iran's Protection Racket in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump Begins His Own"?
So, would Melania pass the Turing test?
#justasking
If we really want to crank out workplace ready graduates, we need to teach them how to fix the crap that AI breaks.
The "survivor" vs. "victim" language is interesting. When I was training mental health peer support workers, we discussed trauma "survivor" terms as ways to reframe and discover/reconnect with strengths.
I respect people's choices here, and would be interested in why people choose the term they do.
While resilience can be important for use as individuals, it's not a substitute for justice.
While Lindsey Graham's recent public drunkenness is a lot for him, it's low in the larger scheme of things, registering barely 1/2 a Yeltsin (roughly 2/3 a Pirro).
I was under the impression that you were supposed to declare victory and go home before you put the enemy in a better strategic position than they had before, but I may be wrong about that.
Drove my 34 year old 940 Volvo project car to work today. In Kansas. Where there's wind. Serious wind.
Just a reminder that it has the drag coefficient of a barn door.
#VolvoProblems
Follow up to a conversation with @painttherosesred.bsky.social
Interesting discussion including one author of the Colorado law addressed in the Chiles decision.
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Interesting! Thanks.
On this, as someone on the couch called it, "TACO Tuesday," what do you bet Trump demands the Nobel Peace Prize for not nuking Iran?
So what, in your estimation, does it do the ability of states to regulate clearly damaging therapeutic practice?
The other day, I incorrectly wrote that Donald Trump refuses to learn. He has learned one thing: that no matter what he does, no matter how outrageous or illegal or immoral or bad, he can get away with it.
Because he always has.
I'm going to go way out on a limb an say threatening war crimes isn't the mark of a master negotiator.
#ArtOfTheDeal
AI is not coming for our jobs for the same reason Chinese workers weren't. The decision to replace us will be made by men in C-suites who have been looking for the excuse for a long time, who view human workers and our salary and benefit requirements with contempt.
Been screaming this as the way to go and into the void for years now.
Looks like the void is echoing back . . .
So, let's review: leader who refuses to learn appoints unqualified and possibly inebriated man to wage war without a strategy, end-game, or notion of what success looks like and then is unable to find a satisfactory solution to the resulting mess.
And not for the first time in the last 70 years.
Just thinking about RFK, Jr. and wondering what wine you serve with roadkill bear cub.
You know the old adage, "Die old, orange, and demented, and leave an ugly ballroom."
Pretty sure that's how that goes.
While it's true the US needs structural change, we also need to acknowledge the cultural barriers: Americans are bigoted in ways that polls don't show but that elections do.
The Chiles v. Salazar ruling threatens to redefine all talk therapy as "just" speech, which has implications not just for the medical model of mental health (for better or worse) but for medical billing and malpractice as well. Is it only "treatment" if a provider physically does things to you?
Seriously: the pundits and the pollsters and the high dollar consultants do not have our best interests in mind. They understand that a permanent Republican majority keeps them in business.