Michael Patterson

Becca Balint has some talent for this, I see.

Maybe whoever’s talking about this just isn’t in my timeline, because surely obvious, but Isn’t it something that BB’s popularity give the NFL, of all entities, confidence to directly rebuke Trump?

This is true, but it is also a text based social media app where a significant portion of the userbase is scholarly, thoughtful, and perceptive.

The thing that bugs me the most about that is the headline that gives Trump credit for “weighing” [presumably in the sense of considering rationally] anything.

Handel, Hallelujah Chorus. Very loud, through speakers aimed at my MAGA neighbor’s place. I’m not a fireworks guy, but thinking of stocking up for the occasion, too.

Study Finds Cannabis Usage in Middle Aged and Older Adults Associated With Larger Brain Volume, Better Cognitive Function New research found, contrary to assumptions, cannabis usage by middle age and older adults led to better cognition and larger brain volumes.

This, plus the study rather startlingly showing that cannabis use in older adults is associated with larger brain mass and better cognitive function...

news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories...

untrimmed flower stalks emerge from at least a foot of snow, the little humps of snow around each one, and shadows of each from the low February Sun coming from the left.

was -6° today.

[BlueSky’s most irrelevant post ever]

This puts me at young (wrong) Brazilian (wrong) adults (well, sure)

"Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve" Elizabeth Peratrovich

Wanna bet? I mean, whose utterances would they be trained on?

This is fucking amazing. I will never touch “AI” tools, but just using (not understanding) computers has taught me to back everything up multiple times. I’m guessing this guy’s marriage is as gone as the photos, too.

I invoke my right to remain silent.

I kind of hate that you know who is tainting yogurt with his endorsement, I mean, nothing wrong with yogurt. But the meat? Well, look on the bright side: maybe his bullshit will be interrupted by coronary artery disease.

I bet they *will* try to replace announcers, camera operators, directors, tech crews, etc, with “AI” robotics, though. I’m sure that will work out splendidly.

Yes. Even in the earliest stages of my lifelong program of removing racist residue from my thinking (I was brought up by a right-wing descendant of slave-holders) I would think “that’s racist, stop it” about some impulse I had, but I never, ever, thought of *myself* as racist. Denial is easier.

ICE just expressing their solidarity with fascism international?

all those gauges tho....

His lifelong racism is disinhibited now, though, which is a dementia effect.

My primary care doc, who also has a gerontology specialty and is the attending doc at an eldercare facility, says he thinks that people’s true core selves emerge as dementia takes away their learned self-censorship.

I knew intuitively that you and I had *something* in common, and that has to be it!

honestly after all these decades I’ve found nothing that works better than very thin coats of plain old petroleum jelly.

and unsharp masking involved, intentional or built in

this has already been quite a week of court transcript entertainment, at least

Maybe it was just "dinner recorded" and it never really happened.

These billion-dollar numbers are really hard to conceive.

It's far more power than any one person should have. It's something the founders were concerned about. It's something we must change.

Occasionally Bernie hits the nail right on the head.

what I would have said if I hadn’t read down the thread

tool with a crosswise D handle at the top, a straight wooden shaft, and a steel chopper blade at the end with the sharp edge pointing down

Just over my garage door, several times per winter. Don’t ask why I have never gotten around to installing barriers on the roof.

I do have an “ice mutt” for dealing with the aftermath.

Obituary for Barbara Mayhew-Belatski at Cabot Funeral Home Barbara, lovingly known as Barbara Jean, was adamant that she would live to be over 90 with the fiery willpower that one would need to be successful at this goal. It comes at no surprise to her loved ...

#Vermont One of the best people I’ve ever known passed away last week. A mental health counselor who worked with marginalized people, she had remarkable ability to meet people where they are, without condescension to the lowly or deference to the powerful. I’ll miss her for the rest of my life.

Bezos is definitely darkness, though

I think now and for the foreseeable future, “AI” should always be written with scare quotes around it. No matter how complex, computation is not the same as intelligence, and the people who anthropomorphize it have a hidden (or not so hidden) anti-humanist agenda.