Malaclypse the Middle

And post the location of all platters supplied somewhere that all grad students can find out where the free food is.

This is the way it works. Once people lose trust in a politician or leader on one subject, their trust on other subjects rapidly collapses.
As people realize he's full of shit on one thing that they actually care deeply about, then they realize he's full of shit about everything.

Tesla is all-in on fraud, from too to bottom.

Leading a transition to sustainable energy doesn't matter. Making and selling cars doesn't even matter. It's just a memecoin backed by Elon's empty, broken promises to "solve real world AI" and make magic self-driving cars and robot slaves.

The point being that we should know by now: when Trump uses a number it's not for the meaning, it's for the sound, and the particular number he chooses doesn't matter at all. You can ignore it.

Re the Hatch Act, they literally staged the 2020 Republican convention from the White House. Like physically there, at the White House. When anyone said "Isn't that the biggest Hatch Act violation in history?" they said "Go to hell, we do whatever we want."

“Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Everyday, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the Men’s store. A catnap in your office chair. Or finding this homemade historic marker on the Marblehead Rail Trail.”

Should also soft purge the military by cracking down on sexual violence/harassment, racism, and anti vaccines as a proxy for likely future oath breaking behavior. cant always win but we shouldnt abide this capitulation

also its right and good to do even if the Republican Party were a normal party

A painting of a woman sitting at a desk with the words: “I just finished reading a book about Oedipus and Midas. Mother-fucking gold.”

One of my high school teachers posted this. I never had a chance of being anything but what I am.

What’s that old Yeats phrase about having an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains one through temporary periods of joy? Sometimes academia is an abiding sense of self-doubt which sustains one through temporary periods of confidence.

It's now a 'little' more:

143 people burned alive in a Tesla
(And I'm running behind)

PS: Nissan Leaf, on the road since 2009: zero burned alive
(Best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020)

Bumping this little fact for the weekday crowd!!

The books in this sequence each stand alone and do not need to be read in publication order.

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

This is a VERY good point. Let's stop using the word migrants. Lets call them people.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

Christianity doesn't follow Jesus. It follows a man who hijacked his name. @REASONED-REALITY

I have stumbled upon the anti-Paul corner of IG.

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

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So apparently, if I don't keep encouraging people to subscribe to Clarkesworld, they don't.

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All new subscriptions go towards increasing staff pay. They deserve it, so I can't be silent.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

The Great Khan shelters the brave rebels of the Texas Hegemony. Such generosity! Like a father to his children.

Changes in pediatric cancer survival rates since 1975:

Leukemia: 45% -> 85%
Lymphoma: 73% -> 94%
CNS (brain/spine): 59% -> 75%

I have no patience for these brand-building professional contrarians who absolutely know they are lying about the state of lab leak evidence at this point.

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

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Nahant is such a great ride!

INTRODUCTION God I am so tired of people asking me what is happening with the film version of Watchmen, "When are you going to do it?" "Have you got the money?" "Who's going to play Rorschach?" "We've read that you've written a new script." No. I don't have the money, No, I haven't written a new script. No, I'm not going to do the film. Ever. Now go away and leave me alone!!! This nightmare began back in 1988 or 89 when Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Matrix, suggested that we make a film of the Watchmen. "The what?" I said. He thrust a fat hardback comic book in my hand and said read. I read. I loved But, how to make a film of a masterpiece? Always a problem. So far, no one has made a good version of War and Peace, and to me Watchmen is the W and P of comics...sorry, graphic novels. I sat down with Charles McKeown, my writing partner on Baron Munchausen and Brazil, to squeeze out a script. Time passed. Frustration increased. How do you condense this monster book into a 2 - 2½ hour film? What goes? What stays? Therein lies the problem. I talked to Alan Moore. He didn't know how to do it. He seemed relieved that I had taken on the responsibility of fucking up his work rather than leaving it to him. I suggested perhaps a 5 part mini series would be better. I still believe that. With every bit of narrative tightening, we were losing character detail...and without their neuroses and complex relationships the characters were becoming more like normal run-of-the-mill-quirky-super-heroes. There wasn't time to tell all their stories. The Comedian was reduced to someone who dies at the beginning. That's all, just a convenient corpse to kick off the action. None of this was satisfying to me. I wasn't happy with our results. By now, actors were fluttering around Watchmen like crazed moths beating at a dirty street lamp. Robin Williams was keen to play Rorschach. Was that Richard Gere knocking on the door? The pressure on me was building. Thank god, Jo…

Terry Gilliam explains why there should never be a WATCHMEN movie, back in 2003:

You are what you do, not what you say.