You know when you consider the alternative is fleeing to Hungary and getting paid to fluff an authoritarian dictator, reacting to your divorce by hitting on drunk secretaries at the bar at Applebees doesn’t seem so bad any more does it
Putting strict limits on the definition of treason and significant requirements for its proof was one of the smartest things the Founders did.
They did it. They’ve really finally recreated the experience of trying to enjoy superhero comics. This is the most expensive “[Ish #215 -Ed.]” ever brought to pass
The answer to that for any movie in the 1970s and into the 1980s is probably "cocaine".
I vaguely remember finding it entertaining as a kid, and it has good reviews, oddly.
Death (Marvel).
Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.
#dataviz
The FBI tried to drive MLK to suicide by sending him threatening letters along with illegally recorded tapes of his extramarital affairs.Though that’s sort of cheating b/c it’s not really a “theory,” just a well-documented historical fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory when you first hear it.
A cup of Jenever?
I'm thinking of that "How to make an Old Fashioned" video with what looks like a pint of whiskey. :D
A related point: concluding that we didn't need to teach computer literacy anymore because "everyone knows computers now" was a *terrible* thing.
I've been informed that *I'm* frothy by AI boosters and the anti-anti-AI crowd, but fuck them.
I'm not actually sure "the public" is all that frothy and toothy.
The word "bubble" gets overused, but the people I see in the Big Blue Room outside of social media have trouble telling the difference between "AI" and "anything else done with a computer."
(Marvin Minsky would be delighted...)
You will see some people quoting them, but the quoted bit will be blocked.
Dictator Perpetuo That understanding did not originate in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. It goes all the way back to Rome. Like America, Rome was a people consciously rooted in having overthrown a monarchy. In 44 BC, Julius Caesar had his portrait placed on the coinage of the Republic. It was a shocking statement. Roman coins had never before carried a living man’s portrait at the Rome mint. Much less one bearing his newly claimed, unprecedented title: dictator perpetuo, the dictator for life. To put your face on the money was to claim a status above that of a citizen, to assert that you were not first among equals but something closer to a sovereign. It was emblematic of his concentration of power, consolidating his rule into an open autocracy. Within weeks of issuing the “CAESAR DICT PERPETVO” coin, he was assassinated. Though the Roman Republic fell, the ideal survived. Public institutions exist apart from the men who lead them, and conflating the two is the hallmark of tyranny. That ideal profoundly shaped the generation that designed the American constitutional order. The Founders created a Senate, placed it on a “Capitol Hill,” and embraced neoclassical architecture. They modeled their concept of civic virtue on Cincinnatus, the farmer-general who, having defeated a foreign invader, relinquished his dictatorial powers after just 15 days and went home. The Federalist Papers were published under the pseudonym “Publius,” while others posed as “Cato” or “Brutus.” Washington’s voluntary departure from the presidency after two terms, and his earlier resignation of his military commission, were modeled on that Roman example.
When Congress debated the Coinage Act of 1792, an initial version of the bill called for the president’s portrait to appear on U.S. coins. Washington rejected the idea, and James Madison successfully had it removed, arguing that stamping the president’s head on the money was un-republican.
Happily Congress is not bound by SCOTUS’ understanding of “bribery” on which nothing qualifies unless you’re caught on video accepting a giant sack covered in dollar signs while hollering “THANK YOU FOR THIS CORRUPT QUID PRO QUO, I AM CURRENTLY DOING A CRIME”
I am of the quaint opinion that if you have new footage that is necessary to understand the story of your new movie, you should put that footage… in your new movie.
The public "widely perceived" that it was a good idea to re-elect Trump. What's to reconcile about the same people not seeing a difference between some coder doing unglamorous work in Texas and a CEO in Silicon Valley?
The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:
“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”
I see the weirdest stuff get auto-labeled, here.
an animator’s dream
look at those arcs
Kash Patel with his signature bulging eyes.
Kash Patel first learning what discovery is.
It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton
These days artists are expected to be thick-skinned, circumspect, non-reactive, non-political, non-controversial and completely inoffensive. And also sales people, promoters, etc. when many of us have massive anxiety issues and self-doubts. There's not much room left to be just fallibly human...
The irony, of course, is that Originalists used to be the ones banging on about this loudest: You needed a rigorous historically-anchored methodology to avoid the delegitimizing appearance that justices were just unelected superlegislators with life terms.
This, too is hype. "CEOs, if you aren't planning to fire scads of workers, you're not using AI enough and will be left behind!"
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal.
Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government.
Let's look at the data.
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If you were curious about Orbital Blues:
