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"Brandy" by the Looking Glass.

Animal, Surrender! :: A Boot For Every Bane

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Not sure how many eight-string bass / pipe organ / drums trios there are out there, but I’m going to go ahead and declare the Brooklyn-based Animal, Surrender! as the very best of them all.

the way he sings "we'll have to let your mother die" ... !

cover of Tom Waits's album The Black Rider

"dig through the ditches and plow through the riches..."

A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide? As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously reticent scholars have changed their minds.

Exidor and Mork from the old TV show Mork and Mindy

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Exidor?

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS infuriating, deplorable account of what one trans woman in the U.K. has gone through as a result of the country's shifting laws (particularly as they have moved toward explicit hatred this year).

Just read it. My God.

Singing this to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It"

It’s a Very Dynamic Flavor Graham Platner’s Senate run begs the question: how are the oysters?

This is such a good local angle on the Jack Reacher: Oyster Farming Progressive guy running against Susan Collins in Maine. I would maybe have photographed the oyster from further away, is my only note. www.midcoastvillager.com/life/it-s-a-...

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
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love the site! there's nothing I don't like about it. I always enjoy the interviews / conversations - the immediacy and surprise of them.

"Haha, yeah the AI gets this basic stuff wrong, but it excels at summarizing tax law or complicated literature."

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST IT'S JUST THAT YOU CAN'T TELL IN THOSE CASES BECAUSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ENOUGH TAX LAW OR COMPLICATED LITERATURE

WHY ARE WE EVEN DOING THIS

AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...

Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.

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HELLO ICE LOVELESS COWARDS • KIDNAPPERS •HIDING BEHIND MASKS LIKE THE KLAN deport yrsif off planet you scum of the earth! ICE: WHY DO YOU HATE YOURSELF? DID PAPA BEAT YOU? MAMA LEFT YOU? CHINGA LA MIGRA TEXT: #FOAD FASCIST CLOWNS: • QUIT YOUR JOB AND GET HELP • CALL TODAY: 1-800-IM-UGLY-INSIDE AMERIKKKANS WHO WEAR FACE DIAPERS 4 TERRORISM BUT NOT COVID You are your own ancestors' nightmare Look in any mirror & ask yourself: "is my dream job is being stephen miller's little bitch?" INFORMACIÓN: Si observa la aplicación de la ley por parte del ICE en su vecindario, llame al Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership (ACILEP): 510-241-4011 or San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548 CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS: https://www.acilep.org/services https://shlen.org s

spotted in the wild

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

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YouTube video by T AD Steel Pole Bathtub - Paranoid

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shot for shot Shrouds remake starring Ted Danson

She is abus’d, stol’n

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Professors I know at Columbia are crushed and looking for jobs elsewhere. How do you work for a school that didn’t even put up a fight?

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Ozzie making breakfast in
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE METAL YEARS is one of my favorite things in the whole wide world

Tony Iommi post: I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.  It’s just such heartbreaking news that I can’t really find the words, there won’t ever be another like him. Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother. My thoughts go out to Sharon and all the Osbourne family. Rest in peace Oz. Tony

Geezer Butler post: Goodbye dear friend - thanks for all those years - we had some great fun. 4 kids from Aston- who’d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston.

Bill Ward post: Where will I find you now?  In the memories, our unspoken embraces, our missed phone calls, no, you’re forever in my heart.  Deepest condolences to Sharon and all family members. RIP Sincere regrets to all the fans.  Never goodbye. Thank you forever.  Bill Ward

Astonishing and bittersweet that the founding members of Black Sabbath have lived this long and were all with us until today.

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll OMAHA, NE—Subliminally influencing those who have purchased the 1971 album to sit back and enjoy the music, a hidden message discovered Wednesday when local heavy metal fans played Black Sabbath’s Mas...

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86 - Berkeley News Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

Zuck thread of posts (on Thread) bragging about building "several multi-gigawatt" data center clusters in the pursuit of "superintelligence"

Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating

thank you jazz

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

I think the Democrats need a plan to sell but I don’t think it should be called Project 2029. For one thing there should be some triage that can be linked to flipping the house. Perhaps MAGA DAMAGE ABATEMENT PLAN.