okay these people have to be joking right? AI image generation and blockchain investments powering art about,,,,,, environmental regrowth?

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

Most of the pundit cottage industry is based around obfuscating a very simple truth out of psychological self-protection, that one of America’s two major parties came to be the Demented Psycho Evil-Ass Rape Party from affirmative choices their voters made of their own free will because they liked it

i think people who make jokes about Taco Bell giving you diarrhea are suffering from chronically low fiber diets and scared of the fast food place that sells beans

There's a reason why Meta's employee keylogging plans are only being deployed in the US -- per experts we spoke to, this sort of monitoring would be illegal in much of Europe, where such monitoring is a violation of worker privacy.

In the US, most states don't even require notice of surveillance.

This was what viruses in the 90’s did—steal passwords and logins so they could hijack your accounts and potentially steal your identity. This is worse than micromanaging, it’s putting people, technical infrastructure, and corporate protocols at immense risk.

The post-AI-bubble regulation should start by making it illegal to do circular deals - money invested cannot be used to pay for services, money invested cannot be used for buying hardware, etc, etc. Hell, I'm game for making it illegal to invest in customers at all.

This is also why I check out when people minimize racism as a material & economic interest. Towns keep their taxes low by pulling over Black people. CEOs pump up their stock by selling technology meant to surveil us. Insurance companies meet their margins selling exorbitant policies in Black cities.

"The next time jets thunder overhead, remember that the pilots who fly them are not willful disturbers of your peace; they are patriotic young Americans affirming your New Sound of Freedom!" (c1956)

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

I cannot express how much this rules. Someone needs to make a gif of the old man at the end. Please

Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry

“Give me the wings, magician! So their tune Mix with the silver trumpets of the moon, And, beyond music mounting, clean outrun The golden diapason of the sun. There is a secret that the birds are learning Where the long lanes in heaven have a turning And no man yet has followed: therefore these Laugh hauntingly across our usual seas. I'll not be mocked by curlews in the sky; Give me the wings, magician, or I die. HUMBERT WOLFE”

From a longer poem called “The First Airman”, circa 1920

This excerpt appeared in the intro to the book “No Echo in the Sky”, by Westland test pilot Harald Penrose. He was also very much into birds, and wrote various tales of his observations while flying

#WorldCurlewDay

To be clear I don’t know what other folks do but in my classes we do in fact explain these things. We explain what the Nazis thought they were doing, too. I don’t know how you’d teach these subjects otherwise.

"Despite our rhetorical commitment to 'critical thinking,' we typically present one side of an issue — the left-wing side, almost always — and call it a day."

let me stop you right there; who's "we"

Florida's economy works by converting pension funds into real estate speculation & medical debt. I'm impressed it's lasted as long as it has

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

a set of two battery powered blue led rings

til they sell aftermarket light up rings in the standard cornhole hole size

In 2019, Hegseth proudly told his Fox News co-hosts that he had not washed his hands in 10 years because "germs are not a real thing. I can't see them, therefore they are not real."
If he can’t see the flu virus, why bother getting vaccinated?🙄

jesus christ i could eat a theoretically infinite number of pierogi

rejoice By Devine Lu Linvega

Wrote an interpreter for the Rejoice programming language (https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice.html in OCaml

https://git.quiltro.org/lobo/freu

Two US officials who died after Mexico drug raid reported to be CIA agents Mexico to investigate possible breach of its constitution and assess US’s role in anti-drug operation near Chihuahua

Uhhhh.

2 US officials killed in a car accident after a supposedly joint USA-Mexico anti-drug op (that President of Mexico denies knowing of or having approved)…

…were allegedly CIA.

Yes, I absolutely believe Trump regime prob. did do, & is doing, worse than what this looks like

Never ceases to amaze me that we still discover such fundamental properties of the most abundant compound on the surface of our planet.

The interview is framed as if Beshear wants Democrats to stop talking like poll-obsessed robots but all of his answers are carefully worded, focus-grouped platitudes.
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Iran disabling an aircraft carrier by paying a sick waiter $20 to spit in a sailor's drink during Fleet Week