Lady Gristledown

Hamlet, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Also have a soft spot for The Winter’s Tale after seeing a wonderful Asian American production with my daughter at OSF many (I cannot believe how many!) years ago.

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I was reading this interview from @annehelen.bsky.social on boys choirs, and the good they can do boys in terms of gender expression.

And this is true!

But I want to add something: The "magic" of the "boy soprano" has harmed adult femme singers.

Walk with me.

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A seal point and a tortie point siamese are gathered with scrum master for the morning meeting. One is setting atop a piano bench, the other on the rug looking up and receiving instructions from its human.

Morning scrum meeting. #cats #catsofbluesky

'Don't Support Bootlickers': ChatGPT Subscribers Vow Mass Cancellations After Pentagon Deal | Common Dreams Calls to boycott OpenAI are growing after a controversial deal with the US DoD. Critics question the ethics of using AI for military purposes.

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peggy flanagan’s campaign manager on twitter reporting that angie craig is down 13 points in the minnesota senate primary with 75% of voters saying that her vote for the laken riley act is disqualifying, which would certainly explain her suddenly apologizing for it just days after standing by it

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

This is the way to do it. Go to Claude. Not Gemini as Google plans to #enshittify that. Search engines are shitty right now with all the freaking ads at the top.

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Excellent. The oil oligarchs can pay for their protection out of their own coffers.

Question to @support.bsky.team

Why isn’t #Iran trending?

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

"For the United States to make it out of its own crisis, we need to take this lesson to heart: not marginalize discussion of Trump’s threat to democracy, but bring it to the fore," writes @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social. Great piece. www.vox.com/politics/479...

If you are worried about a terrorist incident from a sleeper cell, you can rest easy knowing Kash Patel and Seb Gorka are on the job.

WTF are these bumbling incompetents doing? apnews.com/article/mili...

This:

Five U.S. Men’s Olympic hockey players skipped the State of the Union address:
Jake Guentzel (Tampa Bay Lightning),
Brock Nelson (Colorado Avalanche),
Kyle Connor (Winnipeg Jets),
Jake Oettinger (Dallas Stars),
and Jackson LaCombe (Anaheim Ducks).

#ThankYou

If AI goes to plan, it will become a vortex of unemployment.

All those guys who were inspired to “learn to code” will find themselves learning to roof, do landscaping, install drywall, etc. etc. Assuming there’s anyone who can pay to have a new roof, or hire someone to do landscaping, etc.

I wait until video journalism pieces attach transcripts. With the dawn of AI, that’s happening more rapidly.

The Trump administration can shuffle HHS personnel all they want. Until this administration is over and RFK Jr. is removed from office, the process of rebuilding science and public health in the United States cannot begin.

Siamese cat looking upwards on stairs reminiscent of MC Escher.

Escher’s Siamese. #catsofbluesky

clip taken from People over Papers for Friday February 20th. AI reports a total of 56 reports of ICE activities in the Twin Cities Metro.

Friday 2/20

56 pin drops. Some decrease, but clearly more activity in the suburbs

A photo of a press conference at the midtown global market

BIG NEWS! The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed the $7 million Small Business Resiliency Fund I brought forward with my colleagues. This will support activation and small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge”. 1/

St. Paul City Council passes ordinance prohibiting law enforcement from wearing masks The ordinance said wearing masks obscures the officers’ identities and “erodes the trust that is necessary for the effective enforcement of the city’s ordinances.”

St. Paul City Council passes ordinance prohibiting law enforcement from wearing masks
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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Good & shrill, bringing all the receipts.

Map of police departments with agreements with ICE (287g)

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Thank you for your rebuttal to the premise of that article.

It’s important for the left to understand and interact with AI, to ensure it doesn’t end up right-wards drawn through a mechanical version of the Overton window.

It’s not going away.

It’s day 78 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

We’re still providing mutual aid, fundraising to pay March rent, and in the streets.

This is our home. And we’ll be here, standing shoulder to shoulder with our neighbors and building community.

ICE OUT EVERYWHERE

How did I miss this? I was watching late night sci-fi (Project Terror and Weird) during that era of my young life.

BBC reporting on camps and you’re not sure if they’re talking Syria or US.