Ted Cruz is the #1 lifetime recipient of fossil fuel money in the entire U.S. senate, receiving over $1 million from the oil and gas industry in the 2024 cycle alone
Now he's proposed a bill to give the fossil fuel industry lifetime legal immunity from climate lawsuits
That's the Georgia Women's Tennis Team? Why are they all wearing black suits? And all men? I thought trump said he was keeping men out of women's sports?
Oh, wait, are there some women behind them?
Non-catholic xians freaking out over a pope reminding them what their own supposed holy book says.
They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.
Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.
You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.
"But we also keep seeing this old woman on a bicycle with a dog in the basket..."
I won't even open the new version now, I'm sticking with the old one while I experiment with alternatives - Affinity, Clip Studio, Painter, Rebelle. Hopefully once I get past the learning curve, one of those will be an effective replacement, and I can finally shitcan Adobe. 4/4
I still have a previous version of PS installed, so I opened that up and tried the same thing on the same file, and *that* Content Aware Fill worked a dream. Tried this multiple times now w/ same results, so it's clear they fucked Content Aware Fill in order to force us to use Generative Fill. 3/4
Recently they added "Generative Fill," which does similar things, but using "AI." And they're trying to force you to use it by making Content Aware Fill worse. Using Content Aware fill now turns out garbage. So... 2/4
"AI" enshittification in action. Adobe PS has for years had a function called "Context Aware Fill," where if, say, a client decides to change the aspect ratio of a piece, you could add a half inch to each side, or top and bottom, without cloning or painting out to expand it. 1/4
Go, Bunny! I was laughing so hard I cried.
www.youtube.com/shorts/EkBX1...
These pathetic losers are just flailing at this point. I'm so sick of these MFs pretending we're living in an SF movie, and trying to convince us that an expanded type-ahead program is a sentient being. They can fuck all the way off, and take their clankers with them.
dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.
This is not wrong.
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
If Anton Differing keeps chewing the scenery like this, soon they'll have no sets left.
#FrightClub
#TheManWhoCouldCheatDeath
Having read a lot of your work over the years, I can attest this.
Tough times for J. Edgar Boozer.
If I got an email or DM purporting to be from William Gibson praising my writing and offering mentorship, I would absolutely assume it was a scam.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
the final cover of In the Devil Wind
That's it. The final changes and corrections to IN THE DEVIL WIND have gone back to my publisher. Of course I found things I want to rewrite because I always do. But it's too late, so you're going to have to suffer through my inadequacies. Thanks for sticking around for all of Stark's adventures.
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.
Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.
Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.
This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.
The one I got last week cited my brilliant portrayal of characters, mentioning two by name who do not appear in the book it was referring to, or any of my published works. Guess I'm too small time for the pro level scams that now get these things right.
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
line of turtles on branch with reflection in the water
You know that saying, "it's turtles all the way down?"
It's true
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
A jury has ruled that Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly.
A judge will determine whether or not to break the company up, in addition to other damages.
This is a big deal.
Remember that the Trump admin tried to settle the lawsuit with a slap on the wrist — but state AGs said no way.
Poster for THE FURIOUS, showing assorted people kicking each other. I'm not that they like one another.
I'm writing the British adaptation, THE PEEVED. Two hours of high octane mild irritation. You've never seen so many people going "Tut" quietly to themselves.
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.
The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.
