What's a mage to an artificer?

You may know this but the title comes from a completely unrelated Fleming story, in which context it does actually make sense

I suspect some of this comes down to a difference in perceived urgency when facing creeping fascism coming through a cartoon villain (Trump), versus through a boring appeaser (Starmer)

This way they can get some good money for their worthless stock before it goes under for real

Sometimes I think the "AmeriKKKa evil!" people are themselves unwittingly accepting a white supremacist framing of history. Because why should the soul of America be represented any more truly by Jeff Davis and George Wallace than by Frederick Douglass and John Brown?

That's the Drow Jones Menzoberranzandustrial Average, please

the historical autopsy of why the New York Times, specifically, decided to try and incite pogroms against a tiny minority in the first quarter of the 21st century will be wild

Yeah let's hear directly from Justice Taney about how their precious philosophy of constitutional originalism guided the Dred Scott decision

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Rahm does need to go away, but is he really white?

Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk.
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee!
I fear I'd better stop this song
Of elephop and telephong.

Wow, autocorrect hated that.

(2/2)

Oh, and "Eletelephony"!

Once there was an elephant
Who tried to use the telephant.
No, no, I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone.

(1/2)

When I was about 10 I could do "The Lady of Shalott." These days I'm more likely to have memorized the lyrics to folk songs, but I'm pretty sure I could at least whip out "Ozymandias" if the need arose.

the government is saying “underage girls are testing positive for pregnancy at ICE detention centers” instead of saying “ICE agents are raping & impregnating underage girls.”

Je ne sais pourquoi

"Revolution is not for the sane" (Saw Gerrera)

Some cops more than others

ROBERT BARATHEON: What about Aerys Trogdoryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back? JAIME LANNISTER: He said the same thing he had been saying for hours... AERYS TROGDORYEN: Burninate them all.

This came into my head and would not leave

"President controls gas prices" factoid actually just statistical error. Inflations Georg, who starts over 10,000 trade wars every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

It's an ad for her campaign lol, of course it does

I'm sure there's no sinister reason why the shots that purport to prove that NYC sucks include a random watermelon 🤔

Twin Peaks opening but it says The Truth Is Out There instead

This is genuinely one of the best reasoned pieces of writing on US-Taiwan relations by anyone running for Congress I’ve seen in recent years. Even as someone who believes that strategic ambiguity has value in 2026.

Everyone, go check out @katmabu.bsky.social!

Are we talking about the president or the smoothie protectorate of Dairy Queen

I don't think Trump can force Ukraine to do anything. What leverage does he have? Withdrawing military aid? He already did that just for spite.

I'm hearing the Paramountain bid is winning out over the Goatflix bid

Yes

Putting the "LLM" in "Gell-Mann amnesia"

"Starlight tour" for instance

Burrito con carne, sin burrito y sin carne