Daryl Hall & The O'Jays - Back Stabbers YouTube video by Daryl Hall

Too obvious?

Absolutely right. Even some of the younger ones are fossilized in their thinking.

“what they see as…” How do *you* see it?

Ha, that's fair!

Newspapers seem to love these stories, but they're an absolute waste of time. What do we learn by hearing random opinions of uninformed people?

Thanks!

This made me happy. What'd you call this gulf?

Could you explain what you're trying to do to counter these layoffs? We all agree with you that they're bad.

Is there any other tool you can use besides introducing legislation? Now would be the time.

Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

And finally...his survivors were sent a "How'd we do?" survey.

Avishai Cohen Trio - Courage (Live at Blue Note Tokyo - 2024) YouTube video by BLUE NOTE JAPAN

We could use some courage about now

"The Satan-machines rolled their eyes and flailed their arms and wings; some even had moveable horns and crowns."

I'm still trying to get over where the crank is located.

I mean... come on...

#skystorians #history #wtf #horror
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One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.

2. What if we have entered a new age of impunity, in which elite interests can get away with murder, through a combination of capturing or bypassing the judicial system, distraction and brute force? This may now be the case in the US and Israel, and could be starting to happen here.

Gracia | Volumetric Characters | Meta Quest 3 Hands-on | No Audio YouTube video by MIXED - VR, AR & Mixed Reality

The Gracia app for Quest 3 #vr, with its super-realistic gaussian splats, is pretty cool, gotta say. Feels like the future.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice.

The result is demagoguery and corruption.

Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Bassically Kick and Bass Rerub) [Afro Zone] YouTube video by MoBlack Records

Headline: "RUSSIA WILL KEEP TESTING NEW BALLISTIC MISSILE, PUTIN SAYS"
Sun Ra inquires: "What you gonna do without your ass?"

Grumpy Voters Want Better Stories—Not Statistics A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

"It’s narratives like this one—“rampant inflation,” “open borders,” “boys in girls’ bathrooms”—that drive emotions. And it’s emotions that drive behavior, including voting behavior. Reality is sadly unimportant."

John Coltrane: My Favourite Things - East meets West - YouTube video by QArts

Something nice for a Monday morning

Only with a couple of simple questions -- and I don't know his work well enough to say whether the answers reflected his actual thinking. But I'm impressed that *he* was impressed. He talks about it in this NY Times interview: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/02/m...

The right has historically and ongoingly been much better at weaponizing language than moderates/liberals or the left and yet here we are in a timeline where we’re being told that the problem is progressive language, and not mainstream institutions laundering right wing talking points and propaganda

Rebind | Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Rebind Book, John Kaag Henry David Thoreau's Walden, a seminal work of American Transcendentalism, is rebound by John Kaag, a distinguished philosopher and author.

Agree that the chatbots I've seen are badly done, basically just toys. But could there be something truly useful here? Philosopher Peter Singer created a chatbot (petersinger.ai) that "does remarkably well in channeling my views." This one lets you "converse" with an expert guide to a classic book: