The Archdeacon of Bangor's house in Wales: Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer, & Owen Glendower. ARTIST: Richard Westall 1765-1836. Date: June 4, 1795 Location: Boston Public Library - Rare Books Department https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:h989r6032

The Archdeacon of Bangor's house in Wales:
Hotspur, Worcester, Mortimer, & Owen Glendower.
---Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, Act III, Scene 1
#drama #theatre #history

A Christian economy?

Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger

This is awesome!

Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”

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Fascinating!!!!!

Moe-throwing-guy-out meme, but it's the A-10.

Stolen from @tamslick.bsky.social

Oh, my apologies! I was addressing the number of suicides, rehab check-ins, deaths of despair, the fentanyl epidemic and every other needless death caused by those orders. Pound off

I watched my father’s coffin lowered into the grave via a FB messenger video chat, with one sister holding the phone and the other on another screen. It was April 2021.

None of us has recovered. My dad’s brother died last week & all the old grief came rocketing back in ways I couldn’t foresee

This is one of my better essays, I think. If I may say so … just thinking of the cold ten minutes at the cemetery instead of a funeral.

Exactly what we all needed- an in home permanent wire tap

I looked quickly while scrolling past and I thought that was Larry David on the kit

He’s my dog ma, I’ll do it

That being said, she’s mine now

Tip from the experienced- if you move from state to state, and you don’t own a motorcycle at the time, still transfer your endorsement with your regular driver’s license. I save $7 in 2016 so I can pay $200 for the course in 2026.

“No, no, you’ve brought the wrong colour shield Mate. We’re the away team today.” - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, f. 150r

That is completely contrary to the historical record of what happened

It’s always “this meeting could’ve been an email” and never “this email could’ve been a fine cask of delectable amontillado wine”

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The Oregon Coast March 2014

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2026/4/16/camerun-incontro-pace.html 8:46 AM · Apr 16, 2026 · 93.1K Views

The Pope is subtweeting again.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

They opened with 'we can use LLMs to replace writers, artists and musicians!' followed by'why do your homework anymore, ask Claude!' That has poisoned my view of the entire enterprise.

They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?"

Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

Have you tried using rice as a collection and growth medium for harvesting mychro from a forest?

There’s hogsheads of sperm ahead

When I say “who’s promoting it” I mean that genuine technological innovation doesn’t need a salesman. It sells itself. Does anyone here remember being sold on email? No, we started using it because it was a genuine improvement over what existed at the time.

Exactly one year ago today: