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Prompt engineering, but for dog toys

YouTube video by Parks and Recreation Patton Oswalt's Star Wars Filibuster (Extended Cut) | Parks and Recreation

Literally the only use for this youtu.be/5BBhNkywMJY?...

I don't know, I raise my own LLMs on a couple acres we maintain out back. It's not easy, but it's important to keep a connection to the old ways. Maybe I'm just built different.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Lisan al-Gaib!

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
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FYI for those who don't know: NBA players have in their contract that the players (ie LABOR) gets 50% of all basketball related income. WNBA players get ~9%.

Devon?!

Hot dog

"Stone co-founded Jelly with Ben Finkel" has some real "Zendaya is MeeChee" energy

Frame of preference A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at immigration detention center Detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water, inadequate food and denial of religious rights.

It becomes a death camp soon enough doesn’t it

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Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment

Pokémon Go back in time

a statistical analysis is only as good as its authors' willingness to be honest about the limitations of the data that was used.

aw hell naw i can tell this Target cashier is going to go home and draw a webcomic about our interaction

Microfarms!

Nightmare stuff

I'm going to try it out this weekend at a couple events! I'm curious at what point anyone notices the pattern. Best case, no one does, and I implant some subconscious ideas!

The whole playlist is meant to be good BBQ music, but it gets progressively more and more socialist the further in you get, culminating in eating the rich

WGLTW Presents: Wait...is this BBQ Socialist? Playlist · Kyle. · 64 items · 69 saves

Need some BBQ music this weekend? I finally finished a 4th of July concept playlist I've been working on, "Wait...is this BBQ Socialist?" open.spotify.com/playlist/2Dx...

next democratic president

They are for me, but I haven't updated R in a really long time

Current mood: ennui, but with sprinkles

It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.