Nice write up.

So we should deport ICE and CBP officers?

I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend and colleague, Tom.

I don’t think any journalists follow me, but please repost to make sure that all see this.

Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.

Tell me you’ve never watched Star Trek without telling me you’ve never watched Star Trek.

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Weekly interview with the Pete Hegseth.

Microsoft is creating society-destroying AI the right way.

Six Feet Under, for sure.

I like this one.

If you keep something long enough, it will come back in style.

California is at risk of becoming a billionaire-free paradise. Please make it so.

Just got thunder and hail in Lotus (foothills, east of Sacramento).

So, @npr.org, you want to reflect on this? https://www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g-s1-19480/harris-dnc-fact-check

I believe that subsequent events have demonstrated Harris to be almost exactly right.

h/t to Jim Wright for pointing it out.

If wolves had killed two dozen cows and threatening to kill more, ranchers would be screaming for their hides.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

I believe he lives in Oakland, California and make hand-blown glass Klein bottles.

Thank you. I had completely forgotten about that book.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought you were referring to him as a technophile, which I thought he was at first. I realized many years later that I was wrong.

Please say more about that. I was a strong critic of Stoll when the Cuckoo’s Egg came out but have softened my stance on him. He seems like a humanist. What has he said in the interim?

I loved Brook’s authentic reaction. Also, Bryan Stevenson has more empathy in his pinky finger than all of the members of the current administration, combined.

Countless listeners have told us that this story from Bryan Stevenson made them cry and gave them hope for our country's future.

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As my sister said: RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

Borrowed from my own comment on a friend’s FB post: “But I didn’t think the leopards were going to eat *my* face.” Schadenfreude has never been my favorite emotion, but if some of those who voted from Trump and, are now suffering under his governance, wake up, that will give me some satisfaction.

While this is egregious, it is emblematic of the incompetence of the people purporting to run our government like a business. If this were a business, and the American people were the board of directors, the people running this administration would be fired.

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

Some insights from Ezra Klein: “Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”
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Since joining Blue Sky last week, I’ve been followed by a lot of accounts that have profile pictures of women in skimpy outfits and that are promoting various crypto schemes. I block them.

RIP Jimmy Carter, a true humanitarian. I’m not a Christian, but from what I know of the teachings of Jesus, he showed us what it means to be one.

It’s telling that someone who is so successful, by the metrics our society uses to judge people, is so in need of affirmation. We really need to examine our values.

Being the first round, with top seeds playing bottom seeds, some disparity is expected. But, yeah, these games have been lopsided.

I remember you talking about that when you came home from work. What a privilege. What an amazing player.