Duke won’t solve this until one of their own throws Stephen Miller into an active volcano

having a real estate guy and a fox news substitute weekend anchor make decisions about the ethical use of artificial intelligence in surveillance and lethal weaponry seems like the pre-credits part of a dystopian sci-fi movie that never got made because the studio thought the script was too cartoony

...to help alleviate anxiety over the growth of my netflix queue, decided to ask an AI what the upper limit was

at 98 (human-equivalent) years old, #roscoe can have whatever he wants

and today, his 14th thanksgiving, that means lots of cheese
and turkey
and cheese
and things that are not cheese, but are arguably cheese-adjacent

...(there has been speculation by some inebriated physics undergrads that any visible origami panther is simply the momentary three-dimensional shadow of a four-dimensional entity, who is just playing with our heads for the lolz)

(interdimensional trolls, in other words)

here we see the rarely-observed carolina origami panther, a curious creature that can be folded in half four or more times

the evolutionary advantage it gains from this skill is unclear; unethical experiments suggest that it is capable of fitting into ludicrously tiny boxes, jars, and bottles (1/2

#xeni and #eno were nearly flattened when trees fell on the house during the july storms

xeni made the fallen corpse of her failed assassin her personal scratching post

be like xeni

#cats #queenenergy

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

quote about "militant decency"

TIL: "militant decency"

close up of a dog's face looking at the viewer

...when someone loves you and thinks that you don't know that you can't sing

two cats grooming each other

ten minutes ago they were trying to kill each other
now they're giving each other mani-pedis

unsure if this is a brother/sister thing, a cat thing, or a brother/sister cat thing

#cats #family

Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity His military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men can’t think and thinking men can’t fight.

Pete Hegseth "seems determined to bar academics or anyone who faintly resembles one from contact with the armed forces," Eliot A. Cohen writes:

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this" Omar El Akkad

"...I mean, it's a drag, and we're all busy, but there's going to need to be some kind of revolution..."

silhouetted skink on a window curtain

...the thing about living in a forest in north carolina is that you're never alone, not really

little cousin otis with the kung-fu grip

tuxedo cat with lego puzzle of keith haring figure

thank you all for the birthday wishes! 💙🎂🌈

79.85 light-hours distance traveled around the sun thus far

how we're celebrating (since chocolate cake and / or pop tarts aren't really an option this year):

Keith Haring Lego, figure 1/5, step 88 of 88 (figure 1 complete)

(xeni for scale)
#lego

(Campbell, F. "Blue Gravy." 2025. Crayon on paper, with stickers.)

...this piece, recognized as the first in the artist's "blue period," is often cited for its unique take on the quintessential life dilemma of whether or not to stay within the lines, or to reject the confines of the accepted rules

Much of my experience with AI products has indicated to me that a huge danger with it, that so many people have no grasp of, is that much of it is programmed to be sycophantic.

Especially to fellow attorneys: never offshore your critical thinking to something that won't tell you you're wrong.

seven cats with rainbow colored fur

tl,dr: everyone up and down the food chain is irked with me at the moment, please stay on the line and your complaint will be answered in the order it was received

6) ...and the birds are angry with me because their realtor apparently didn't tell them their new condo has cats, therefore potentially affecting their property value
7) ...the baby birds (once hatched) will presumably be angry with me for some reason TBD (3/n)

4) because birds built a condo, the weed eater can't be moved without causing reality show-level drama
5) ...now the #panthers are angry with me because there are birds living a few feet outside of their front door
(2/n)

1) because i am old, i am tired
2) because i am tired, i left the weed eater propped up outside the front door (instead of putting it away like a properly domesticated AARP member)
3) because i didn't put the weed eater away, birds took the opportunity to build a family condo on top of it (1/n)

proud of having the self discipline to not buy a particularly expensive doughnut last week

also proud of going online at midnight to get this keith haring lego art the moment it was released

(failing to see any contradictions in this behavior)
#lego

veteran of a hundred tiny wars

cat in a pyramid shaped cat tree with windows of a forest in the background

there is usually someone in your life who thinks they are your king

#cats #caturday #kings

tuxedo cat in a forest

...should you happen upon the rare carolina #forestpanther, remember:
answer her riddle and she will give you a quest