Eugene Bluegrass

I wonder if they saw the 2009 film The Invention of Lying and thought "Hey! Let's do THAT!"

and THAT! 🤣

Thanks, I needed that! 😂

Thank you for the excellent alt text. It makes it so much easier to copy and modify.

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Sadly, the whole country doesn't get to vote on it. The process to amend the US Constitution requires a proposal by a two-thirds vote in each house of Congress, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures. constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

Here’s a South Park episode from 2019 when they went after ICE.

South Park never held back!!!

South Park has more courage than the main stream media!!

Lol, good one. Thank you
I nearly always (earnestly) click thru, especially to support independent media. RS was acquired by Penske Media Corporation in 2017, so when I see a click bait meta description like that, I can't stop myself from spoiling it. Sorry not sorry

Screenshot of Duck Duck Go's default settings for ai search interface. The highlighted section shows where users can turn off ai generated search results, ai search assist, and image results. Full text of this page reads: Duck.ai Duck.ai lets you have anonymous conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. Turning this setting off will hide Duck.ai buttons and links on DuckDuckGo Search. However, you can still access Duck.ai when this setting is off by visiting https://duck.ai directly. Search Assist Search Assist anonymously generates answers for search queries. To do this, it scans the web for relevant content and then uses AI to generate a brief answer. You can choose how often you want it to appear: Never, On-demand (only when Assist is clicked), Sometimes (when highly relevant), or Often (on a wide range of searches). For now, Search Assist is only available in a subset of English speaking regions. Hide AI-Generated Images Filters out AI-generated images from image search results c Cloud Save Save your settings anonymously to the cloud What is this? Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data Reset All Search Settings

Oh yeah, it's in the same place.

I thought for sure ppl would see he'd lost it when he went from promising to lower drug prices by 1,500% to actually claiming he'd done it.

Not to be overly earnest, but the article says, "Osbourne died of a heart attack “out of hospital” and suffered from coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s."

Scholars: AI isn't "hallucinating" -- it's bullshitting A team of scholars argue that AI inaccuracies should be called "bullshit" instead of "hallucinations" because AI doesn't perceive or intend truth; it just generates plausible text based on patterns, w...

Wonderful piece! This is a big topic, referred to as ai hallucinating, aka bullshitting. (Out of deference to all my friends named Al, I never capitalize ai)
www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-...

WTAF?

California community buys out donuts so shop owner can spend time with sick wife These days, you have to get to Donut City in Seal Beach, California, early if you want to get some before they sell out

I love this so much, but it's from 2018. Still, tons of customers are rallying around immigrant-owned businesses all over.
www.cbsnews.com/news/califor...

Screenshot of Duck Duck Go's default settings for ai search interface. The highlighted section shows where used can turn off inclusion of ai generated images in search results. Full text of this page reads: Duck.ai Duck.ai lets you have anonymous conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. Turning this setting off will hide Duck.ai buttons and links on DuckDuckGo Search. However, you can still access Duck.ai when this setting is off by visiting https://duck.ai directly. Search Assist Search Assist anonymously generates answers for search queries. To do this, it scans the web for relevant content and then uses AI to generate a brief answer. You can choose how often you want it to appear: Never, On-demand (only when Assist is clicked), Sometimes (when highly relevant), or Often (on a wide range of searches). For now, Search Assist is only available in a subset of English speaking regions. Hide AI-Generated Images Filters out AI-generated images from image search results c Cloud Save Save your settings anonymously to the cloud What is this? Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data Reset All Search Settings

Once users click "Manage," it brings up the default settings (shown here).

Screenshot of Duck Duck Go's default search settings. The section to manage ai features is highlighted.

Cool! Looks like it's just for images.

Brexit's parallels with Trump tariffs tell a tale In figuring out why the U.S. tariff shock hasn't sent the economy or financial world into a tailspin, Britain's exit from the European Union trade bloc provides something of a playbook - and without a particularly happy ending.

A bit off topic, but did you see this Reuter's pc? www.reuters.com/markets/brex...

Thank you. I wanted to share it, but fact checked. I ran "fact check, trump received a call from NE governor. They are losing $15 billion in sales & $350 million..." It came up false. We're seeing a lot more ai slop & disinfo purportedly from the left.
Is it designed to undermine our credibility?

I always read his smile as barely able to keep from laughing at the crazy shit coming out of his mouth

side by side head shots of political hack FL GOP Rick Scott next to Voldemort

He really is a soulless ghoul

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

Titled "Orange Monday" acrylic on canvas by wefail.art Image depicts a caricature of Donald Trump in bold colors of bright orange, primary yellow, red and blue, against a black background of abyss. The hair appears as a white-hot fly-away cotton-candy fluff and the face has monstrous white orbs for eyes with 2 cartoonish pupils in each, telling us this person is not right in the head. The face is yellow at the top, but dramatic striations deepen into orange and then red as it descends to the chin. The mouth is a gaping reddish brown maw with animalistic teeth, signifying uncontrolled rage, stupidity and authoritarianism. He wears the signature blue suit with a flag pin and overly long red tie. Here, the red tie is used to create an image a stock market graph zig-zagging erratically down & up and eventually plunging straight down.

Would this alt text be ok?

I'd like to share this and would LOVE to include appropriate alt text. Any advice? Bsky allows up to 4k characters, so it will really help the interwebs connect to your amazing work.

Screenshot of a google images search showing a woman in Laos posing between 3 bombs. The google search served up over 100 exact matches. The first image match brings up an NBC article posted in 2016, titled "U.S. Bombs: Scars of Covert War Still Raw in Laos" The caption next to the woman says, "A woman stands outside her house at a gate made from bombs dropped by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in the village of Ban Napia, Laos, on Sept. 3. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on the communist country, one-third of which did not explode, the Lao National Regulatory Authority for UXO says. America's "secret war" left Laos with the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed country, per capita, in history."

When in doubt, save a pic & upload it to google image search. This one brought up over 100 exact matches, beginning 8yrs ago. (I title temp pics "junk" so I can safely save over them for new searches)

www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/u-...

Hang on... they misspelled NAMbia
(I'll never let this go 😀)

Maybe another overcompensating tie?

Sickening.

Megyn has gone fulll KKKaren

I have a friend in Toronto who subsists on selling affordable jewelry via Etsy. The removal of the $800 de minimis exemption will put her out of business.