Kristina McElheran

I’m yelling “Bad Choices!” At the dog. I think that makes us woke.

my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute

Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse. Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that…

In the last 28 years, Alaska’s rural school districts have made close to 1,800 requests to the state to maintain and repair their crumbling public schools, which also frequently serve as emergency shelters.

Only 14% have been approved.

(Published March w/ KYUK and @npr.org)

Help me understand how anti-inflammatory diets are all the rage but anti-inflammatory medications are trash.

YouTube video by Devslopes When your program does as it’s programmed to do

Well my assumptions are so bad for this environment...

The RL Agent says "i made big number! Exactly how you told me to. Ive made more GDP than the world and now operate in Space Bucks"

And im just like

"Well.. no.. not like that"

Im laughing crying

youtube.com/shorts/mrmqR...

#econsky

Honestly, I think this is why the “gig economy” is potentially so destabilizing. It really tampers with the deep Connective Tissue of Life in ways that are hard to model. Especially hard to grapple with from within
a disciplinary silo…

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The true cost of the trans "conversation", which is and always has been just another name for trans persecution. I hope that all the columnists who are obsessed with dissecting trans people's right to exist and participate in all aspects of life see this and examine the harm they're doing.

Dark, but having trouble finding the humour. I’m supposed to be writing about data-driven decision making and analytics and AI. But it’s hard to be serious about “improved decision making” when we basically just ignore stuff that makes us uncomfortable.

Under his eye.

This is both informative and hilarious.

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

Congratulations to Sabrina Shroff on obtaining a “not guilty” for client: Sean “Sandwich Guy” Dunn on misdemeanor charges of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich.

I had the pleasure to work alongside Ms. Shroff in a high-profile federal case in SDNY. She is a fierce advocate.

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

It’s wild to re-watch the Handmaid’s Tale right now. We are so unbelievably dumb.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Sounds like a joke I used to tell my young kids about the dribbling in basketball!🏀

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

That sounds awesome.

$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

Dark comedy where adult convert JD Vance keeps going back to the Vatican after direct insult from the Pope, that Pope dies under mysterious circumstances, and the next Pope gets even more liberal and direct with why Vance is wrong. This repeats.

Come for the alliteration, stay for the insight.

Betting that was on purpose so that his followers can watch the grammar scolds come out and confirm that woke lefty intelligentsia are “mean.”

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Check the source. My first thought was, “they want to starve people into a fight” but then started reading the stats on who suffers most from SNAP losses. Unless the disabled and children are about to storm the stores, this is just more BS to trick people into accepting a police state.

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:

"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

tucker Carlson in his blue collar man cosplay

don jr in his blue collar man cosplay

look at these down to earth, regular guys

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social