Lynne Ann Morse

“Last July, a flash flood in Texas killed more than 100 people. The National Weather Service’s forecast was very good, Spinrad said, but there was no one filling a position responsible for warning local officials and emergency managers at the time.”

Explain how a rock is not making the choice, moment by moment, to be a rock

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

I mean, that would be good, right?

*gently pushes a box of tissues into reach for you*

(Not that you'd have an accident with that ink, or anything. It's just in case...)

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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

It's almost like one needs to extend a "theory of mind" also to the world in aggregate.

Sort of the paranoid's "Something's bound to go wrong, so, what's it gonna be?"

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

It’s not just ICE/CBP. Our entire police structure is rotten.

A first step is invalidating the doctrine of qualified immunity.

The next is holding cops accountable for their testimony.

Then we define their status as licensed, and the licensing board is independent, and autonomous.

Furry! Warm, too!

Even less, if that cat gets a hold of you, eh?

There's already "enough" fallout, if just not the radioactive kind.

That sounds, alas, like an analysis well-grounded in wisdom.

(I do so hate when someone says I should have already forgiven, when the perps are still at large and wreaking chaos in their courses through life.)

This is what technology is supposed to do, but silicon valley wants you to get a robot to do your hobbies badly while you clean and vacuum.

That they think we dream of being their servants is so unbelievably clear when you study their behaviour in aggregate

This sounds, despite the appellation of "bitch", like someone willing to be generous & give credit where credit is due.

I don't really think much about my exes. Loving Spouse & I have been benefitting from some of the experiences they gave me, mostly the sort of work they were all unwilling to do.

I still have your painting up over my calligraphy worktable!

Maybe people will wake up to the fact that the AI push has been about paying workers even less and taking away job security.

Less "prompt engineering" and more labor organizing.

A short thread and series of thoughtful responses.

(Content note: I curate my feed with extreme vigor, so a lot of really offensive answers probably don't make it to my own eyes. Proceed with caution.)

*fans self* Oh my goodness! Well, that's really great to hear, thank you!

(I'm still very glad you like it; making it was a real stretch for me, and the production of it involved a hell of a lot of beginner's luck, which I look back on with pleasure.)

And you did it! Hurrah! You rock!!

Mind, *any* place that has "The Village" as part of (or even the whole of) its name brings back times spent watching Patrick McGoohan being chased by a big white bubble and insisting he was not a number.

Hawaii: you're up. Call your House representatives and tell them to oppose SB 2761, which is heading to the House from the Senate: it's a total ban on social media for under-16s, not made any better by the obvious typo in the effective date of 2077. legiscan.com/HI/bill/SB27...

So, even worse, really. *deep sigh*

A wedge of a cake on a plate, fork nearby, liberally sprinkled with powdered sugar. The interior of the cake is layered, white and then dark red, sandwiched between two layers of baked cake.

But, as he said multiple times during the trip: all roads may lead to Rome, but once you get here, that's when it gets challenging, because you have to choose where - and HOW - in Rome you want to go.



My sweet for the evening was also new for me - a ricotta and cherry cake!

Luckily, our wandering had brought us to the Metro - the Colosseum stop was easy to retreat to, and our tickets were as good for it as for the train and bus. Loving Spouse and I had to discuss the precise way back; we each had a different idea of the best way.

A broad walkway slopes away from the viewer, ultimately pointing to a distant building, curved and made up largely of arches in three storeys, plus a more solid "extension" above that. A diagonal "cut" of the wall's line gives this the identifying characteristic of what we call "The Colosseum" today. Some of that is obscured by trees, columns and even fencing, stretching along the right side of the walkway. Some people are visible from their backs, from the mid-ground to the far background, where they are tiny figures. On the right a white man wearing glasses and a blue jacket stands, looking at something out of the frame, mobile phone in his right hand.

Still coming to grips with the sheer scale of it all, we tried to learn if we could "walk around" and maybe see the Roman Forum as well. But, we tried to go into what turned out to be the Forum *exit*; I had to admit my feet were done for the day. Still, the Colosseum made a nice backdrop, eh?

Three columns visible on the right remain from Caesar's "Venus Genetrix" temple. "Genetrix" has a lot more punch than "Ancestress" in English, but part of the point is Gaius Julius Caesar asserting a divine origin of his *gens*, or tribe, the Julii. Somewhat less easy to discern, to the left and farther away, is a series of double columns, marking where the "Basilica Argentaria" stood. The domed building beyond and to the left is the church of Saint Luca and Saint Martina.

And even the areas overlooking the ruins were very lively. Still, knowing my feet would be happier if we kept moving, we took a gentle amble along the Forum of Caesar where the street overlooked it. Despite not being able to wander directly in it, the view still gave great pleasure.

The week previous to this, Rome had gotten a lot of rain; this meant that there was no access between the Forum of Trajan, through to the Forum of Caesar, and also then the Roman Forum. But when we wandered back across the street, we could see the main entrance was MOBBED.