Mark Jurva

Most people rarely use AI, and dark personality traits predict who uses it more Artificial intelligence dominates headlines, but new evidence shows most people barely use it in daily life. Researchers examined real-world web behavior and found low rates of AI use, often linked to...

Most people rarely use #AI but those who do use AI more "tend to score higher on aversive personality traits, particularly Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy . . . ." www.psypost.org/most-people-...

Re: Portland. I lived there is ‘85-‘86. As anybody from that time can tell you there was a lot more trouble to get into around town and I was often part of the trouble. So, when my band played Pioneer Courthouse a couple years back, after the show I walked EVERYWHERE downtown.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

It’s the Portland way.

this isn't even portland going out of its way to be more weird, there's a reasonable chance all these people were coming from something else they all do every friday

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location Suzette Smith

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Put the National Guard on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang

Have fun in Hell.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.

In recent years, Finland has done something unusual: It has managed to cut down on carbon emissions while growing its economy. #Climate
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YouTube video by CMajorEntertainment Horowitz in Moscow

Horowitz in Moscow
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Carnivale

This is a problematic mistake lawyers make. Law and justice is always rooted in an emotional story, as it should be I suggest. The word "emergency" evokes fear and desperate decisive action. It fits an invader scenario better than a contract dispute. Judges rule on emotion and story as well.

A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

Folks, what the hell!?
"People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life."
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The homeless count in Clark County, Vancouver included 133 people above the age of 62 — a 21% increase from 2024.
www.koin.com/news/washing...

I compared ZIP code level rents versus homes permitted from 2018-2024 and guess what!
Places that permitted the most new homes had the slowest rent growth, and in places where almost nothing was permitted, rents *skyrocketed*

Al Shabaab captures central Somali town, presses on with advance Al Shabaab insurgents have seized the town of Tardo in Somalia's central Hiiran region and are pressing on with an advance that has already displaced thousands, a military official said.

Al Shabaab captures central Somali town, presses on with advance reut.rs/4lT5ji6

Reading Anton Chekhov stories I am reminded of the the adage, "the more things change the more they stay the same."

TikTok is reportedly being sold. Take this with a grain of salt, as it’s mostly rumored!

#news #skylightsocial

Best reply letter ever

someone send him back the Cleveland Stadium reply letter

World Report 2024: Rights Trends in Iraq

What liberation looks like:
Iraqi women continue to struggle against patriarchal norms. Iraq’s penal code enables impunity for male violence against women, and mitigated sentences for violent acts including murder for so-called “honorable motives.”
#Iran
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@stephaniekelton.bsky.social Do economists call the government debt/deficit the National Ledger to incorporate the surplus in the economy. If not, would it make sense to start doing so? If not, why? You, of course, have no obligation to answer. I'm simply thinking out loud.

Meet musical genius Carol Kaye. You know her bass lines. #bass #brianwilson
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Portland, Oregon
June 15, 2025
#photography

The permanence of desire and how we suffer; Gabriel García Márquez.

Watching yard birds and listening the the genius Brian Wilson who left this mortal realm today. #BrianWilson #Birds

The Immigration Lawyer Who Helped Too Many People In Tucson, a legendary attorney was suspended for two years from representing clients in immigration court. Was the punishment warranted?

There is a crisis of legal representation of migrants and refugees in the U.S. I am torn about the disciplinary penalty exacted against this legendary immigration lawyer. The bar must come up with avenues for effective representation of those less well off.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Patch of pansy flowers seeming to have angry faces.

“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

No one discusses ecology or conservation. It's simply no longer an idea one contemplates. The death of this topic is the death of this world, its nature, its humanity. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.