Braaaaaaaaains Spears

Hat tip to whoever chose the photo for this piece.

Live your life in such a way that you can be picked up at the airport in the Weiner-mobile.

About this part in particular—human artists, even commercial ones, put something at risk in the creative process. AI-generated art lacks that risk to me.

Coincidentally I just finished reading this and I agree completely.

So in the mid-60’s, the federal government offered states a bunch of funding if they passed helmet laws, and all but California did, but in 1975, thanks to major lobbying pushback, that federal funding was uncoupled and now a bunch of states have repealed their helmet laws.

We already did, decades ago. There’s a lot of states with no helmet requirement whatsoever. It’s one of the biggest unknown public health self-owns ever.

This one is up there with repealing motorcycle helmet laws, frankly.

Fair

Run. It’s a vampire.

I remember years ago, during the Bush the Lesser years, this being a common refrain among Log Cabin Republicans, so not only is she soulless, she’s unoriginal.

It’s a target-rich environment

It was my father’s birthday 3 days ago and while our relationship was troubled, I have a small sense of what you’re dealing with right now. All my best to you.

If you’re in Beth’s district you should vote for them in the primary and general, and if you aren’t, you should support their campaign.

The Devil just let Johnny think he won because the mere fact of taking on the challenge made him guilty of pride. In this essay I will…

Agreed

Did mine yesterday, and yeah, probably should have done it earlier but glad I’ve done it now.

I figure if they used an LLM to generate the text, they didn’t actually read the results closely and that’s how it slipped through, which is a different kind of bad from “I did this research and couldn’t figure out this was fake.” I’m just not sure which one is worse.

Why admit that to god and the world?

Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’

From this story in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Mr. Pritzker said he had directed state agencies to investigate what happened at the apartment building, citing reports of "children who were zip-tied and held, some of them nearly naked" and "elderly people being thrown into a U-Haul for three hours and detained." Mr. Pritzker added he believed that some of the people were U.S. citizens. "What kind of a country are we living in?" he said.

Everyone who did this or who was there and didn’t stop it needs to be publicly outed, lose their jobs, and go to jail. Whether or not these people were citizens is irrelevant.

I’m torn between wondering if it’s worse that the person who wrote that piece didn’t understand that the Daily Currant was a not-very-good version of The Onion or if they used a LLM to write it and didn’t catch the mistake.

I actually had tickets to see it in the theater with my then girlfriend but she got a migraine, so I sold them back and then just never got around to seeing it.

I’ve never seen Titanic.

I’m glad the Saints got their first win of the season today because there probably won’t be many more of them. It’s good they get to play Carolina and Atlanta twice this year.

I am sure that if they really want to, Senate Republicans can find a way to make the filibuster not apply here, or just kill it completely. They don’t want to do it because they want Dems to be complicit in the fallout from the budget cuts. There’s no reason for Dems to go along.

Could they solve their problems by admitting the truth of their New Jersey-ness?

It has long been the case that the right wing isn’t opposed to government oppression generally. They just want to be the ones doing the oppressing.

A picture of the US Capitol with a Spirit of Halloween banner across it. The caption reads “It's barely been 24 hours since the shutdown and Spirit Halloween is already capitalizing”

They’re running a big sale on clown costumes

You give those things to a Gen Alpha kid and they might try to kill you.