Cooper Eudaemon

I'm so sorry, Mery. All my love to you

Today I read about a famous gay couple who ran an inn on the foothill path towards Yosemite for 50 years. They met as young men on a ship to SF during the Gold Rush and were inseparable. People knew them as a couple.

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And I would recommend everyone who can donate to MSF (Doctors Without Borders), one of few international medical orgs in Iran: doctorswithoutborders.org

The ICRC also works with Iran's Red Crescent and has been operating there since 1977: icrc.org

i got so many things on the back burner. everything in my life is on the back burner. anytime i got a new thing coming up it immediately gets put on the back burner. i am yet to take a single thing off of the back burner. i have got a lot of things on the back burner

Being a Republican in 2026 is sufficient grounds to be banned from furry chats and events and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

At this point I knew the news was gonna be bad, but...yeah

anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

(...Seriously, hard to imagine a better comment than this: "I thought this was a real winter Olympics post. I thought 'oh I only watched the women's crosscountry this year, I would have watched the men's too if I knew one of them was coming out as a furry' -_-"

Coelyn ab Kaeren, aka "Big Grey," aka "Big G," aka "Super G," team captain of the Vlkhaenia Men's* Crosscountry Relay Team for the 2026 MilanoCortina Winter Olympics (two universes over)

Meanwhile, per earlier discussions: Werewolves on skis. www.tumblr.com/dduane/80855...

"I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything" might just go on my headstone.

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It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.

'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

#BHM Day 8: Diego Bemba 🧶

This colorway turns to a figure whose presence in the historical record is both rare & quietly powerful: Diego Bemba, a Kongolese aristocrat from Soyo (in what is now the DRC & Angola), painted in the mid-17th century.

It is exceptionally uncommon to know the
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#yarnsky

Happy Birthday dooker!

When you see unhoused people asking for money what you should see is a fracturing of the social contract where an issue (housing) that should be addressed on a municipal or statuary level is instead foisted on individuals in a way designed o put callouses on their souls

Reminder that Steve Buscemi, National Treasure, used to be a firefighter, and when 9-11 happened, he pulled 12 hour volunteer shifts with his old ladder. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

In case you want to know the first thing I remember about him. :)

Ah, well, alas. XD
Hopefully it will be fine all the same. Worst case it might need more touching up. Good luck!

I am not a tattoo artist or doctor, but if you're gonna wrap it overnight I'd suggest covering it with gauze or a paper towel soaked with saline first (wound wash, not the kind for eyes, and not with any other chemicals). If anything sticks, try to wet it before removing

Monday, February 2nd 2026 Microsoft Steps Back from "AI Everywhere" in Windows 11 to Focus on Core Features by AleksandarK Today, 01:39 Discuss (80 Comments) If you're tired of seeing Microsoft's AI features like Copilot, agentic workloads, and Recall forced into their products, you're not alone. Microsoft has finally confirmed that it will be stepping back from its "AI everywhere" strategy. According to an exclusive report by Windows Central, the internal Windows 11 teams at Microsoft are now focusing on reducing forced AI integration. Instead, they aim to address what truly matters to consumers, such as fixing the bug-prone operating system and enhancing core features for a smoother user experience. The integration of Copilot into basic apps like Notepad and Paint is reportedly under review, and Microsoft may remove these features to restore the basic functionality users have come to appreciate. This includes features like basic text formatting and tables in Notepad, which are nice additions to a core application.

Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox. You can also review and manage individual AI features if you choose to use them. This lets you use Firefox without AI while we continue to build AI features for those who want them.

hell yeah, erode that AI shit like a urinal cake

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Hand to God, I fight a never-ending battle to train the clerks at my polling site to stop referring to our voters as “customers.”

Consumerism is *deeply* ingrained in the American psyche, overshadowing even citizens performing their duty and exercising their rights.

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i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero

Happy Birthday!

Hooooo boy. Still though, even if they've been suckered in to that, using it exclusively is just malpractice

Jesus fuck. Can you complain to the Dean? Regardless of the quality, any class requiring you to only use one source is a massive fuckup

This is the coolest fucking form of solidarity I have ever seen.

Bravo.

Tumblr post by user calebwittebane: its actually crazy how much local art events and other potentially interesting stuff i completely miss out on just because the orgs all post on instagram and facebook only. two standouts among the worst fucking platforms in the world with the most egregious ui and slop saturation, so dogshit that id be unable to use them regularly even if i wanted to. stop it you all. get on tumblr or something even orgs and collectives that used to have proper websites of their own now just put all their updates on fb and ig. stop! stop it! youre making me feel like an old geezer! ok well old geezers nowadays are very much on facebook... an ancient geezer. youre making me feel like A Ancient Woman

lifted from tumblr and posting here because holy shit this drives me insane

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Which is infuriating because they drown out good economic study and data. Remember how Biden's handlers didn't realize how bad most Americans' economic situation was? It's because they were looking at the wrong indicators, and seeing that corporations and the stock market were happy.

Economic "professionals" are at best quacks and charlatans, and at worst manipulative liars in service of the ruling class

Well, no, most people aren't rational or informed consumers. It isn't really reasonable to expect people to exhaustively research every purchase they make, either--but the myth is what allows for deregulation and other evils, it shifts blame from companies to customers