With all the mines of the country shut down by strikers what will the poor editor do for coal next winter? It is becoming apparent that nobody wants to work these hard times. --Rooks County Record, 27 Apr 1894
1894
Vivimos en un mix de la introducción del 18 de Brumario y el día de la marmota.
Este dato a mi siempre me vuela cabeza: Un/a trabajador/a aún no logra recuperar el salario que tenía en 1974.
“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
fascists lie. trump lied about no wars. maga assholes like carlson and greenwald are lying when they say they were fooled. they all lie about everything because they see truth as weakness and good faith as an attack vector. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascists-lie
Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”
¿Esa era la voz de Alf? ¿En serio?🤌🤌🤌
Modern western square dance, which is also called western square dance, contemporary western square dance, or modern American square dance, evolved from the western style of traditional square dance. Industrialist Henry Ford popularized the form, believing that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society and that this plot could be counteracted by returning America to dances and musical styles that he saw as traditional and white. As a result, beginning in the early 1920s, he used his wealth to promote square dancing, through books and square dancing events. Ford also promoted square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools by 1928 as part of the...
I don't know what I was expecting when I entered the words "square dance" in the search box but it wasn't this. It does feel surprisingly fitting, though, and it may even explain one or two things about present-day America.
Doctors say that vaccines are the best way to protect children against measles. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they should just swim in untreated sewage water instead. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Monty Python's AI skit
"... egg, bacon, and AI; egg, bacon, sausage, and AI; AI, bacon, sausage, and AI; AI, egg, AI, AI, bacon, and AI; AI, sausage, AI, AI, bacon, AI, tomato, and AI..."
Vení, sumate, hay lugar para todos. Hay un crimen y hay monstruos pero también hay tarta y café. Hay gente rara y un pescado en la cafetera y un pedazo de leña con secretos. Todos los caminos conducen a Laura Palmer. Nunca es tarde. Todos los días pueden ser un 24 de febrero.
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Interesting
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
By day and night he wrongs me, every hour
He flashes into one gross crime or other
That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it.
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us
On every trifle.
Para enviar y decir 'ustedes'
No se podía imaginar una diputada como Lilia Lemoine, de ninguna corriente política. No era un problema ideológico. Por debajo de un cierto nivel, no se es de derecha ni de izquierda: se es bruto, simplemente.
Cada vez que escucho a alguien decir que no es "de izquierda ni de derecha", me acuerdo de esta repetida sentencia de don Horowicz.
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
Current DOJ use of force policy states that even if the ICE officer did what Trump, Vance and others are claiming he did, that's still not allowed. From the policy here: www.justice.gov/archives/ag/...
What is her name?
This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?
Kidnapping an asshole is still kidnapping
Tagging here people who expressed interest in the notes of that talk back in September and people who are active in the critical AI discussion I follow:
@olivia.science
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@tante.cc
@hagenblix.bsky.social
and many others
collectivefutures.blog/a-short-crit...
Also weird to read a headline saying that we're meeting the political moment the day I finalize an episode about a toilet gadget that scans your poop.
Médicos Sin Fronteras son terroristas. La ONU es terrorista. Los periodistas son terroristas. Los que reparten alimentos son terroristas.
Menos mal que los que asesinan a niños no son terroristas, porque si no, todo el mundo sería terrorista.
This guy has investigated this phenomenon extensively and actually recently released a book about it! Highly recommend his content.
