There's something about diaspora micro-hegemonies that is so interesting
Went to Eden Center for Tet a few years back. Solid blue NoVa
But within the confines of that little strip mall I saw old men in ARVN uniforms raise a South Vietnam flag 50 years after Hanoi won & folks canvasing for MAGA
Someone who isn't a white man like me should write something about how the Trump Administration perhaps disproportionately includes members of very particular diaspora communities (Arab Christians, Cuban exiles, South Vietnamese refugees) linked to the history of US empire
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.
Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.
Yet only one is considered a "power grab."
Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
Someone's in charge?
HAHAHA! That response killed me. And it's so damn true.
USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product TWITTER: likes are now florps USERS: what TWITTER: timeline goes sideways
h/t to the original classic by the great @actioncookbook.com
news Exclusive: Microsoft Moving All GitHub Copilot Subscribers To Token-Based Billing In June Ed Zitron Apr 22, 2026 2 min read Executive Summary: Internal documents reveal Microsoft’s planned rollout for token-based billing for all GitHub Copilot customers starting in June. Copilot Business Customers will pay $19 per-user-per-month and receive $30 of pooled AI credits. Copilot Enterprise customers will pay $39 per-user-per-month and receive $70 of pooled AI credits. It is unclear what will happen to individual subscribers. The company is expected to make the announcement on 4/23.
Exclusive: Microsoft is shifting GitHub Copilot subscribers to token-Based Billing In June, with business users paying either $19-a-month for $30 or $39-a-month for $70 of pooled AI credits billed at token rates. It's unclear what happens to individual accounts.
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Based on the complaints I’m seeing about the new rate limits, I think the GitHub copilot subreddit may actually go to war tomorrow once this gets announced
In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer apologizes to the people he ate ...
You're too kind.
But then I always say that.
I think the way this is phrased is a tad hyperbolic, but it might provide a way to reconcile classical physics with quantum.
New study bridges the worlds of classical and quantum physics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology share.google/uHNN8p81mcf0...
It was a long time ago, and the cousins who were with her most have come to this understanding of her, and what time I spent with her when it was just the two of us comports with it, so I think I have to respect her devotion, even if I think it might have been misplaced.
I know, right?
I would watch a reverse heist movie where people stole from a rich guy's hypersecuritized mansion and gave the artwork to a public university's special collections
Anyway, I am a museum enthusiast and stealing from public institutions then selling those historic works of art to evil, rich people who will stash them away where no one can see them makes me very angry
Talking about how heists are inherently cool and sexy is really not helping you beat the “a core problem of our age is that too many people think movies are real” charges, tbh
So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.
I thought you'd appreciate that reflection.
She committed suicide a few years later, and the only thing that anyone thought was, "welp, she's decided she's done waiting."
She was not a complicated person, she knew what she wanted, and she brooked no compromise.
Look, I'm NGL. When I found out she watched that shit (this is mid '80s), I was concerned for her mental health.
Turned out she just missed boning granddad. She was just trying to fill the hours.
Which, OK, fair.
I hate to say this, but I would, were I making decisions for Ukraine, do everything I can to make Trump turn on Putin. Hookers. Promises of grand monuments. Anything.
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Every.
Fucking.
Time.
Carter Page was a legitimate target for surveillance.
If an American who has been on U.S. intelligence’s radar before is seen in Moscow telling people he has a special in with a major U.S. party presidential candidate and can sell access, that’s something U.S. counterintelligence should look into.
What's funny about my comment is it's me surrendering to the part of me that most identifies with my paternal grandmother – the one who watched professional wrestling unabashedly – to show through.
This is, by far, the most telling of Trump's actions so far: allowing the fellow whose actions facilitated his rise with Russian assistance to escape accountability.
Carter Page wasn’t charged or arrested, only surveilled.
The surveillance was for exactly the sort of thing counterintelligence is supposed to look into.
His complaints went nowhere in court.
Blatant corruption. Nothing more than the president taking taxpayer money and giving it to his friend.
From this perspective you can see that the Milankovitch cycle trending to an ice age was actually starting when we started burning fossil fuels at a meaningful scale.
We'd want to continue that, but only once we've escaped the current foolishness and restored a balance.
I'd watch that.
Starbucks: Screw you, Seattle. All our unionizing woes will be over once we leave you for Tennessee.
Tennessee:
I'm curious what you've been critical of them for? (This is the first I've heard of you, whereas the wife and I donate to them, so this is an honest question.)
