Gus Orviston

I can think of no good answer to "why would you want to normalize this," but I can sure think of plenty of bad ones.

I'd be interested in this.

Convinced that Dostoevsky would be a lot easier to read if someone did a translation where everyone's name was John, Alex, Fred, etc.

Can't help but notice it would also be substantially shorter

Medium Sized Nonfunctional Voodoo Daddy

Slightly diminish a band: Slapping Molly

Wife is describing a chess board, and is describing the bishops as "popes" and honestly, this is just a better name, we should all use it

Also, as one would expect in the Pacific NW, good coffee shops and, uh, more access to micro distilleries than one would normally expect to find in an airport.

www.flypdx.com/map

I'm generally depressed by the decline of airport bookstores, but PDX has a Powell's in the airport:

www.powells.com/bookstore/po...

A class dedicated to a plain reading of the Federalist Papers would be interpreted by the Trump regime as an all-out assault on it

If Owen has now decided that fascism, antisemitism, and racism are bad, I'm delighted. Good for him for turning over a new leaf, and I can't wait to hear about his conversion experience.

Hey, that's the only way some of us get followers

This.

They Might Be Slightly Tall

About The Same As Ezra

Slightly diminish a band: As Good As Ezra

The "fuck him up Socrates" tweet. Yeah, that one. You know that one.

The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.

I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.

I see that Will has now decided that facts should care about his feelings.

Who here has enough object permanence to remember "facts don't care about your feelings"?

Trump would sell every Ukrainian out to be sent to the Gulag if he thought it would increase his chances of getting a Nobel Peace Prize, and he's going to act like it in Alaska.

If you thought that the 2018 Helsinki summit was humiliating, well, just wait for this one.

Her punishment for this is the person that she has become.

It remains perpetually amazing to me that the evangelical teachers of my childhood - that could work themselves up into a froth over relativism - are the types of assholes that are fully on board with this framing of this, and this project.

Lying. He wants them to lie.

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before.

But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.

He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

When does Trump send the National Guard, or does this only happen if a town has a black mayor

It’s people like this that make America great.

Radley Balko, “The Rise of the Warrior Cop”

Continuing this “books I’ve read because of this terrible administration” thread. Picked this up as a result of what was happening in LA, finishing it as they’re about to restart this in DC.

To be fair, pretty obvious that Trump is not the only problem, this problem has been going on for awhile.

The guy who promised on the campaign trail that he would do this won Utah by more than 20 points.

This exact kind of dangerous "dropping tons of sensitive data into ChatGPT" behavior is happening at an absolutely staggering scale right now, all around the world: