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The Silicon Valley mantra of move fast and break things when applied to government means you wish to supplant the current government. Only Authoritarians want to destroy democracies.

We know the adage, if you repeat a lie enough times it becomes truth, but my wife just pointed out with how we train LLMs that is exactly what is happening. The era of post-facts is truly and horribly upon us. Authoritarian misinformation is an integral part of the miseducation of AI.
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So happy to hear this! Enough time to reread all the other Imperial Radch books (a couple more times) before it is released.

As politicians and talking heads decry how political violence is unacceptable, I am left wondering what all the 2nd Amendment advocates thought those guns might be used for?

It seems that human political systems will fail simply because they are systems that allow people who seek power to gain power.

There is a fairly well organized Discord group of MyConstant victims that would probably be willing to talk and have fairly detailed experiences

Can we just pretend like we know how our government works. These agencies were created by Acts of Congress and are funded by Congress. Stop listening to the FLOTUS and get back to running the government as mandated.

Lobster dogs have souls! Ann Leckie continues to deliver with Lake of Souls. So many thoughtful characters to learn from.

Please don’t stop people who want to put immersion blenders in their ear from doing so. They have every right to self-lobotomize. And has a shorter term societal impact than a lot of their other choices.

Shall we gather a bunch of people, move into Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago and claim we’ve always been there?

A stream of Portlanders march up Grand under multiple signs and slogans

At least 13,000 people just crossed the Morrison Bridge and turn up Grand in Portland,OR #handsoff #fiftyfiftyone

Promising to “undo the Biden Economy” junior oligarch Drumpf sets sights on returning the Dow to 25,000 by next week.

Hundreds gathered in front of the Minnesota State Capitol on an overcast day withe gilded horse statue on the roof above

Local unions gather at the Minnesota State Capitol in St Paul to Say No to Privatization of the USPS.

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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Smut is funny if you write it serious, and horror is funny if you don’t. This is the boobies and blades möbius paradox

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

I agree

Assign ever Democrat a number, and with his first lie, number 1 gets up and walks out directly to a news crew and explains the lie, and continue with each new lie. No fanfare. Just a continuous stream of exits and responses until half the chamber is empty.

Na Sceiri, County Dublin

A windmill Don Quixote would tilt against caught my the rays of the setting sun under a sky of scattered clouds

Muileann Gaoithe

An s-curve road snakes across a lichen green landscape in the south of Iceland

Tiomáinfidh mé ar an mbóthar seo arís.

Time ticks by in a coffee cup, the wooden stir stick at three and daylight pushing shadow across the table , 1/3 to victory

Can one say Ar feadh chaife?

Bond franchise sold to Spectre. Bond sent on missions to eliminate whistleblowers, union organizers, and independent journalists.

The black gaps of a sewer grate form a strange and haunting grin in the freshly fallen snow.

Tá sé ag cur sneachta

All the suffering, no reward? Why?!?!

Textured concrete and a single four petaled beige leaf catching the late afternoon sunlight

There was a pause in the rhythm of my steps and then a return

Wait, you mean free shipping is now being rolled into the cost of goods for everyone?!?! How can it be?!?!

Aren’t the people who complain about participation trophies the same one’s sponsoring and attending 36 College Football Bowl games?

Moss in the wedge of concrete steps with what I can only describe as a moss flower blooming in the middle

Sometimes, if I look really close, I see something I haven’t seen before.

A baby blue robin’s eggshell nestles under two dandelions amongst an early spring lawn

As we approach the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, I am glad I have peculiar pictures of spring in my phone.