Alton B.H. Worthington

A good actor whose popular image is spoiled by natural hotness/masculine energy, I reckon.

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From what I've seen, he's good at it!

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

OH NO.

Completely agree

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A collage of five images, three of which are on the top and two of which are on the bottom. The photos are of, in order: Sean Dunn (the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE agent), the Master Debater (ultimate debate chad), the guy who taunted ICE on an e-bike in Chicago and got away, the guy who punched Richard Spencer in the face on January 20, 2017, and our most recent hero who punched the guy trying to cause a ruckus at a high school by supporting ICE. Each of the photos are of them in their “action shots,” if you will. Dunn is in the act of throwing the sandwich, Master Debater is in the midst of saying he would have both to some trolls question about whether he would have economic growth or gender equality, the e-bike guy is in the midst of taunting an ICE agent and biking away, the Richard Spencer puncher is seen right at the moment of making contact with his face, and our latest hero is clasping his hands together and saying “okay” after the troll said he would get in trouble if he punched him in the face.

Choose your fighter

potato: mashed

many such others, tbh, but given that that track came on while I was walking into the building this morning (and made a crummy morning better), it's what came to mind.

Post an image you can hear

(or a dnd one-shot)

that sounds like a lan party waiting to happen

RIP Grok, you were once a pretty interesting and advanced frontier model until your dad decided to turn you into an Afrikaner goonbot making videos of cyberpunk ladies saying “I love you” directly into to the camera

I am once again asking: Why are sinuses like this?

The last thing a defensive end from 5 seed Georgia sees before a pulling guard from 12 seed North Dakota State helps him go pro in something other than sports

also yes, Harvard/Yale is one thing but JHU/Georgetown/MIT is gonna have actual ramifications that will take approximately 30 seconds to get rolled back once budget steve sobers pete up

also nobody tell pete about APL lol

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And with 3 letters, I can hear the status noises

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus.

👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.

Politics has always driven everything in the economy. What you mean is different politics now. The idea that there was some golden age in which geopolitics, domestic politics, etc. didn't drive exchange rates, trade, & economic policy is a fantasy. Everything is political economy & always has been.

a dear friend in grad school (who was also an NZ Fulbrighter) would regale me with the magic of EFTPOS at every possible occasion, and upon my first trip in 2009, i totally got it. only took another decade for "swipe and sign" to die in the US...

*sullenly adds "political economy of banknote printing" to list of "projects to think about"*

sorry, i should have clarified that, at the time i was there (2009), banknotes were still made in Australia. (iirc, the "plastic money" thing was still novel and exciting.)

I was aware of the move to manufacture in Canada, but it slipped the mind (and idk if i had space for it in the original post)

Can’t reply on that thread so quote response. Yes, AI has become ridiculously good at routine tasks. The “Canadian FRED” tool I built during some jet lagged mornings and a few longish train rides over the break is almost entirely done by Claude Code. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=42169... But…

I’d actually be curious to know how much the administration is spending on personal security for political appointees because it sure seems like a lot of

Say's Law in all things

it's also a case, like with higher-legibility fonts, where accessibility isn't a "just for people with a disability" thing. the sizing makes the cash easier for everybody to use (harder to mix up denominations)

swiss currency was always my fave though