#accidentalrennaissance

Scoot through 3: 26 points on 67% FT, 71% from 2, and 57% from 3

Early days, but playoff Scoot is looking a lot like the Scoot that was promised

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Slightly disagree. The defense is “he didn’t mean what he said, he only meant it as an empty threat to coerce Iran’s government to negotiate.”

Now, that’s not actually defensible conduct at all, so Stefani et al have to make the extra leap to “he slipped,” but that fig leaf is fooling no one

a man with a beard and a fur coat is standing next to a woman . ALT: a man with a beard and a fur coat is standing next to a woman .

It’s really hard to convey tone in text, you know

Peace be upon your stock exchange

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

The Aristocrats

I would not have guessed that anti-semitism would be the thing that cut Trump off from the America First crowd (I’d bet on immigration protections for farm workers) and I’m not here for the conflation of Israel = Epstein

But I don’t mind watching a slap fight between bumptious jerks, so have at

Anyone want to buy a “lightly used” GPU from AWS? It ran 24/7 for a year, so they’ll knock 20% off the retail!

So to extend the metaphor it’s as if
a) cars got 15% better MPG every year and
b) these people drove their cars like they were stolen

It’s worse than most depreciation though, isn’t it? Because old fashioned depreciation assumes a secondary market which doesn’t seem to exist here.

Periodic reminder that “If these tech bubble numbers are accurate this is an economic disaster” DOES NOT mean that the numbers have to be wrong

“Couldn’t sell two copies
If you pressed a double album”

There’s a reason that we usually invite the State Department along when conducting affairs of state

There's a reason why important agreements of all kinds are written down and signed.

In case it's not clear from the context (it's not), this was in response to a question about Iran's right to enrich nuclear material. It's one of the most confusing analogies ever that, at the same time, is really revealing as to how much of a controlling jerk Vance is

The Pakistani Prime Minister who was the intermediary for the ceasefire tweeted yesterday that it included Lebanon

I mean I’m rarely called upon for diplomatic prowess or anything but it kind of seems to me that a key deal point to nail down in any ceasefire would be which specific fire is ceasing

219. Drunks, Lampposts, and the Birthright Citizenship Case Efforts to backfill academic support for the birthright citizenship executive order wouldn't have been possible without a Court open to such "scholarship."

"Academic freedom protects scholars’ right to challenge the orthodoxy; it doesn’t insulate them from charges of bad faith in doing so. But the problem here is one of both supply *and* demand. And ... #SCOTUS bears at least some responsibility for the latter."

Me in today's issue of "One First":

Happy Easter, I guess?

….is it tho?

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

This is fucked up and also happens OFTEN. If you are going to a protest please bring eye protection of some kind.

Really sorry for this kid, I hope folks are able to help out with information.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez Eats Farts

Anyway, that “system partner” ran on a platform of being mean to People You Don’t Like, not on making things work better so I guess we can’t accuse him of hypocrisy.

And that same “system partner” has decided that it’s a good time to start charging more victimless misdemeanor cases - against the members of our community who, let’s be real, are the least likely to get anything useful from dealing with the courts.

DA dismisses more than 600 criminal cases over lack of defense attorneys “We talk about these in terms of misdemeanors and felonies, but the reality for victims is these are real things," Multnomah County DA Nathan Vasquez told lawmakers.

One of our “system partners” - the only one with the discretion to resolve matters without criminal charges - has refused to exercise that discretion, resulting in hundreds of dismissals
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

One of our “system partners” has so overloaded the criminal legal system that the Supreme Court had to create a new rule limiting how long people can be made to wait in limbo without lawyers.

One of our “system partners” went to Salem and pushed to recriminalize possession of any amount of drugs.