Sarah M.

"¿Cómo hacemos para salir de ese círculo sin salida? Pues enfrentando el espejo y preguntándole cuáles de nuestros creencias nos están traicionando."

Rita Segato, _Contra-pedagogías de la crueldad_ (2018)

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media Kremlinology is so depressing that you can be forgiven for hallucinating that Weiss was married to Sally Bowles and not Nellie Bowles

Jiminy Cricket

This is spoliation, in the WW2 meaning of terms like "la spoliation des biens."

Mostly the regime has been swiping public goods, but also tried to steal the independent nonprofit USIP's DC headquarters for Elon Musk.

10% tariffs (aka our extra taxes) are fine, getting zapped by Russia-level metal tariffs or broker fees from shippers are not. Glad they've got it worked out! I believe Perry also has this handled through the post.

Neanderthal levels of class consciousness

Taking a Waymo now is like taking an Uber a decade or more ago: an investor-subsidized experience you'd be financially irresponsible to not take advantage of

tl;dr you don't need AI to have slop, it can be hand-crafted too.

This is the core infrastructure of most of the changes in the last twenty years (possibly along with cell towers and oil exploration / exploitation tech).

Making it appear as a conspiracy benefits opinion substacks as well as the tech companies themselves.

"This is all too complicated and sinister" has been a feature of discussing datacenter construction since at least the 2008(?) Harper's infographic on Google's buildings in The Dalles (OR).

There are hundreds of experts at public and private companies who discuss what datacenters cost to build and run.

Thanks to recent layoffs, there are dozens of them who are reasonably available to talk to.

Traditionally the gap between what the writer or the general public knows and what an expert knows is bridged through something called "journalism"

By removing the web-accessible citation they remove the ability of the laziest 95% of commentators to directly link, dunk, or screenshot. This is a social media regime.

Now hoping that the folks at Empress have solved any issues with shipping to the USA.

only while there's money around, then it's One Crash After Another

A Dem ignoring their base's minus-40 or minus-50 turn against funding arms shipments in favor of "kitchen table issues" would have to pretend that they didn't know about the existence of Jerusalem, never mind Gaza

It's be like a GOP candidate pretending they had never heard of Venezuela or taxes

Her upcoming memoir speaking from a remainder bin in 2030:

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"Hey, don't fumble this bag," I told myself, and appointed an incompetent mini-me as my deputy.

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It was at that point when I noticed that Zoom's chat-completion LLM could also write news headlines.

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upcoming in-depth review like you did with Andor?

Pretending that 30-35% of the population _don't_ want ethnic cleansing and autocracy over _literally any_ other policy or economic condition is part of how the US got here.

Everything is just a sweetener or rationalization to justify the primary policy.

Strategists Like Us, soon on Netflix

if you're looking for that edge of your seat startup vibe have you considered long-term unprofitability

a decade to collapse of a political system is a short time
a year to the collapse of an alliance system is a short time
a month to the collapse of a federal system is a short time

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 L'Ukraine organise un championnat national de drones malgré la guerre • FRANCE 24

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKe...

Ukrainian military drone competition

starting to think a lot of people on the news citing WW2, Napoleon, or Roman legions as a source of their present-day reasoning have never read a book about any of those subjects

$150M bonus for destroying Columbia U

don't worry the new method for balancing Social Security is to let communicable diseases run wild while creating a society that is cruel and unpleasant to live in

hold on I should just spent time reading this French history of Indochina and why do I smell corn husks burning right now

this is like watching a toddler reach for the hot stove if instead of with their hands it was with five divisions

Hector Rex

Work in progress: Inquisitor Hector Rex (OOP Forge World figure) shield done in an NMM / painterly style

#warhammer40k #warhammercommunity

a man with a beard is holding a microphone and singing . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a microphone and singing .

yep