Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

And the disappearance of the headphone jack. Fuck you, Tim Cook

The next edition of the DSM needs to include “writing a personal essay for New York Magazine” as a diagnostic criterion for _something_, certainly

Garfield w/ text bubble: the one thing I hate more than Mondays is the grief follows me like a shadow

Logging on, gm

Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

If he thought he could use our money to buy himself a private jet just imagine what's on his phone records he doesn't want us to see.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Laura Stone from the Globe on X: #BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is selling its $28.9 million private jet, a senior government source tells The Globe. The purchase set off a firestorm of criticism when the Star revealed it last week. with critics calling it "the gravy plane."

We did it! We stopped the Gravy Plane! Let’s keep fighting to save our waterfront from jets. #onpoli #topoli

This is another one of those ‘Oh, look at the robot dog doing backflips, isn’t it cute and a marvel of technology’ stories, meanwhile we all know these things are being built to hand them guns so they can be used as troops and cops.

The plot to enslave America. The plot to enslave humanity. They are announcing it because they think we can no longer stop them

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democracy.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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If I am Max Scherzer I am visiting Jeff Hoffman in his nightmares tonight, you know he has that power

My grandparents always sang it "high road to Jericho" instead of "hi ho the dairy-o" and that always messed me up

Baseball is stupid

Well that's not the right lesson at all

So people learn best by doing (it wrong)

Calico Kahlia waves to the camera from her cat bed

Happy #Caturday everyone!

I ❤️spending 10 hours on a Friday staring at a computer screen

Lmao

Last month in The Onion:

Dear lord

Listen, all I know is I can't afford beef anymore

I do not care what the numbers say. I want to be able to afford beef. This is not an unreasonable stance, nor is it an ignorant one.

Assuming everyone gets healthy the way they're supposed to, I'm pretty sure the Jays are going to have a great season and I'm going to hate every fucking second of it.

Important

this is one of my favorite Deaf stories.

humans are extraordinary creatures, each of us with gifts no one else possesses. we don't value our differences enough, celebrate our singular strengths enough.

the Gaulledett Eleven could handle their shit better than the brawniest man's man astronaut.

“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy

Jen Pawol, the first woman to umpire an MLB game, is working third base tonight at the Orioles game