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From war-ravaged Portland

YouTube video by SoundgardenVEVO Soundgarden - Spoonman

Found out today at the session our occasional spoonman had died suddenly.

He was old, but not that old. He’d stopped playing over the last year or so, arthritis in his hands.

Always lifted my spirits when he joined in.

Anyway, here’s a song about a spoonman that he almost certainly never heard.

43 years ago this month, ‘Wild Things Run Fast’ was released. An extremely underrated album - long overdue for fresh praise.

This is Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). He wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Over 63,000 of his constituents to lose health insurance, if the ACA was repealed.

RETWEET to let New York know that RepMikeLawler wants to take away their health care!
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The Terminator (1984) Kyle Reese meme: Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.

we have fallen all the way to the bottom if insane loon MTG has become the voice of reason and calm for the Republican Party.

still nonsense.

a university is about education.

big time sports should be separate. be professionals, because that's what you are now.

let universities go back to club teams and intramurals.

Penn State fires their football coach, giving him a $50M buyout.

Isn’t Penn State a publicly funded school? Taxpayers will pay a man $50M to not coach?

Time to end major college sports. This makes no sense.

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

every day is Columbus Day.

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

should be perfectly suited for working in a prison laundry or cleaning up the yard.

they need to be prosecuted, convicted, and punished severely.

we seem to make a habit of doing nothing to the white, christian, wealthy, connected men who are abusing children with impunity.

The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

Beautiful crisp morning

If you haven’t personally experienced a hostile takeover where the new CEO is just there to strip a company for parts and make as much profit for himself and the board as possible before declaring bankruptcy, welcome America.

You’re living it now.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

Andrew Wyeth, American (1917-2009), Maplejuice Cove, 1942, watercolor on paper, 45.7 x 55.9 cm, private collection

what, no shiny?

Democrats in Maine drafting 77 year old Janet Mills to run against Susan Collins because electrifying Graham Plattner is insufficiently pro-Israel is EVERYTHING you need to know about the fakakta state of our party.

It is just incredibly broken and corrupt.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

AI has hit a wall. Dev cost is going straight up, the tech isn't improving, and it's already becoming a toaster (cheap and ubiquitous.) It's plateaued so far below its promised potential, businesses are already dialing back on its use. This bubble is about to pop. www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

sorry, but unless those guys are the Central Park Five he's still a virulent, lifelong racist.

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

god is the ultimate autocrat. there's no negotiation, no compromise when you're talking about divine word.

inherently anti-democratic.

completely illogical to base decisions about modern life on 2,000 year old myths.