Where do the rings go in the pink dolphin version?

Ah yes, I remember crushing my banana-seat Schwinn down N Olh Sl

It’s one banana. What would it cost? $10?

Parachutes be like, “chill, bruh 😎”

Mitch Hedberg saying, “I bought a $7 pen because I always lose pens and I was sick of not caring”

One of my favorite Hedberg jokes:

Can I Opt Out of Having My Doctor Take Notes With AI? - KFF Health News Your doctor might ask to have an AI tool listen during your next appointment. If you opt in, you will likely get more of your doctor’s attention. But the technology is not perfect. Here’s what to know...

AI scribes are changing medical care. Here’s what to know if the technology shows up at your next doctor’s appointment ⤵️

I just don’t know what to do with those tossed salads 🥗 and scrambled eggs 🍳

It’s not a defense budget if it’s spend on an offensive war.

This picture makes it look like he got a spray tan but the tanner ran out halfway through

As for the ESPN/hulu Q - I think you can purchase an ESPN account separately without Hulu. If you do go with Hulu, you want to make sure you get the correct tier of the program. There are cheaper options (eg ESPN select) that only give you access to NHL, cricket, and non-power 5 college sports

T-mobile advertisement for a free season of mlb.tv

Do you have t-mobile? If so, you can get a free season of MLB(dot)tv. They run this promotion every year during the first week of the season

Went straight to Michael’s when I got my copy and purchased a replacement.

Leslie Knope saying “We are a red vines family”

Doesn’t matter…

Fortmanteau

a close up of a man 's face with the words ho-ah written on it . Alt: Al Pacino saying hoo-ah!

Whoa or…

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

Karpf: "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race." davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Perturbed cat

Happy to have my lap. Angry it’s in his chair.

Either you’re trying obfuscate that last sentence’s meaning or you need to fire your editing staff.

As everyone shifts to vibe coding, the people capabale of Quality control will become fewer and further between. Eventually, code will be written and no one will have any clue whether it’s shit or not until they dump it in an update and it causes WW4.

I have a 2x4 kallax on a platform. It works well and seems very secure.

The first movie I remember this in was Traffic (2000). It used to heighten the realism. It’s so forced and ever present now that it breaks the suspension of disbelief for me.

Speaker Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request for the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol.

“Mike Johnson will defend a president who wants to unlawfully nationalize elections but won’t authorize a civil rights legend to lie in honor,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

“This is really going to wreak havoc on my social calendar” -introverts

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If AI is inevitable, why do they have to dump so much into campaigns pushing it?

Apparently AEG felt it was easier to fire their COO than replace creative with AI. Good (if not late) decision on their part bsky.app/profile/aegj...

When you see cautionary tails as aspirational…

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND Plaintiffs, * * * * * * * * Civil Case No.: SAG-25-628 Defendants. * * MEMORANDUM OPINION On February 14, 2025, the United States Department of Education ("DOE") published a "Dear Colleague Letter" ("the Letter") explaining the new administration's positions with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI") principles and federal antidiscrimination law. A few weeks later, DOE issued an announcement that it would require states and school districts to affirmatively certify their compliance with DOE's interpretations of Title VI and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ("SFFA"), 600 U.S. 181 (2023), within ten days ("the Certification Requirement"). Those documents, and whether they created new legal obligations or merely restated existing law, have been the focus of this litigation.

This case illustrates why following procedures is so important. The stringent procedures outlined by the APA are not hollow gestures designed to manufacture the appearance of fair and reasoned decisionmaking; they exist to ensure that agencies stay within the bounds of their delegated authority and exercise that authority within the constraints of the law more broadly. See Nat'l Fed'n. of Indep. Bus. v. Dep't of Labor, 595 U.S. 109, 117 (2022) (*Administrative agencies are creatures of statute."). Still here, this Court takes no view as to whether the policies at issue in this case are good or bad, prudent or foolish, fair or unfair. But, at this stage too, it must closely scrutinize whether the government went about creating and implementing them in the manner the law requires. Here, it did not. And by leapfrogging important procedural requirements, the government has unwittingly run headfirst into serious constitutional problems. Plaintiffs have shown that neither challenged agency action was promulgated in accordance with the procedural requirements of the APA, and that both actions run afoul of important constitutional rights. Both challenged actions accordingly must be vacated. The administration is entitled to express its viewpoints and to promulgate policies aligned with those viewpoints. But it must do so within the procedural bounds Congress has outlined. And it may not do so at the expense of constitutional rights.

ORDER OF JUDGMENT For the reasons stated in the accompanying memorandum opinion, it is this 14th day of August, 2025, ordered that: 1. Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, ECF 66, is granted as to Counts One, Two, Three, Five, and Six and denied as to Count Four; 2. The government's motion, ECF 72, construed as a motion for summary judgment, is granted as to Count Four, and denied as to all other counts; 3. Judgment is entered for Plaintiffs on Counts One, Two, Three, Five, and Six; 4. Judgment is entered for the government on Count Four; 5. The Dear Colleague Letter of February 14, 2025 is VACATED under 5 U.S.C. § 706; and 6. "The Reminder of Legal Obligations Undertaken In Exchange for Receiving Federal Financial Assistance and Request for Certification under Title VI and SFFA v. Harvard" is VACATED under 5 U.S.C. § 706. /s/ Stephanie A. Gallagher United States District Judge

THEREFORE, the Parties do HEREBY STIPULATE AND AGREE as follows: 1. The challenged Agency Actions have been vacated and set aside by the final judgment entered in American Federation of Teachers, et al. v. United States Department of Education, et al., No. 1:25-cv-00628 ("AFT"), and the vacatur and terms of the judgment in AFT apply to Plaintiffs; 2. The challenged Agency Actions will not be relied on in any way by Defendants including by way of seeking to enforce its substance through ED or DOJ civil rights enforcement procedures; 3. The certification demand issued on April 3, 2025 will not be reinstated in substance even if under a different name; 4. The challenged Agency Actions creates no obligation, responsibility, or condition on Plaintiffs in any manner;

NEW: In cases brought by the NEA and AFT, there are now final court orders: Last year's anti-DEI "Dear Colleague" letter is vacated and unenforceable.

DOJ/DOE gave up the fight, dismissing the appeal and case in the Fourth Circuit and subsequently dismissing the the second case with a stipulation.