Natalie B.

trans guy rescues a baby from Lake Michigan then gets a burger as soon as he’s discharged from the hospital is as Chicago a story as they come

OK which is it:

1) Muslim voters will bring in regressive Sharia and destroy democracy
2) Muslim voters will let in lefty woke Marxists and destroy democracy

I need them to pick ONE 🤣

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.

(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Walking doesn't always work. sillylittlewalk.substack.com/p/i-go-on-a-...

for those fixated on congressional authorization, i get it. this is a massive violation of our constitutional order.

even so, congress *cannot* legitimize an illegal war. there is nothing congress can do to make it legal under int'l law.

Air power and elite special forces both make leaders feel like they have costless military options because any consequences are abstracted and delayed.

Those unable to value delayed gratification are equally unable to conceive of any price that's not immediate and obvious.

Absurdly dangerous.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

HRW closely monitoring initial reporting that Israel and the United States have launched strikes on Iran. Our focus remains civilian protection and carrying out our mandate by monitoring for any violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

This from a month ago - stuck me at the time as a very positive message.

Good grief

LMAO GET THEM ZACK! The look on their faces

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

"Are our [spiritual] practices ... creating space for diverse ways of being faithful, or do they quietly reinforce a single, idealized model of Christian life?"

- for some Christians – particularly autistic and other neurodivergent people – many commonly assumed rules are simply unattainable.

YouTube video by DRM News FULL VICTORY SPEECH: Hannah Spence Addresses After Historic Green Party Win in Gorton & Denton| AC1Z

Hannah Spencer victory speech
youtu.be/Tf7wVpDEvho?...

"We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other. We can demand better without hating each other"

Beyond exciting: magnificent! Go, Hannah, go!
💚💚💚

@zackpolanski.bsky.social having to explain that yes, its possible to talk about the cost of living crisis as well as opposing genocide.

A comic drawing of the trolley problem meme but a group of people are holding the trolley back while another group unties people from the track. Towards the top of the image are the words, "We can break free"

We can break free

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

some benevolent cyberpunk for you

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

An angry pigeon flies into the camera, partially blocking a view of the Columbia University library.

The best photo I've ever taken of a bird in my whole entire life. Columbia University, 2010. #birding

[creating sloths] make a sin adorable

What a beautiful sunrise. You too! 🧡

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

Me: earth’s tilted orbit around the sun is entirely predictable and the resulting gradual shift of day length through the year should be the cause neither of surprise nor wonderment.

Also me: IT’S STILL LIGHT AT SIX O’CLOCK PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS WONDROUS MIRACLE

me and the girls finding out that everything is political

All awful, but this struck me > 'One junior banker who worked on Epstein’s account later told the FBI she had relayed her concerns to human resources. 

She recalled the HR manager’s reply: “You feel uncomfortable doing the job you were hired to do?”`

The AI That Wrote a Hit Piece When It Didn’t Get It's Way When an AI agent targeted an open source maintainer with a personalised reputation attack, it revealed a threat that PR, hiring and publishing professionals need to understand now.

This via @alphaville.ft.com is a staggering tale - a prelude to much more of this? www.themediastack.co.uk/p/the-ai-tha...

Substantial yet dainty snow person with thin twig arms and eyes plus a little carrot and some buttons. They also have a mohawk made of snowballs and pine needles. Unrelated, but my worst neighbor’s car is in the background (cyber truck).

Tinier snow friend with three big buttons, button eyes, button mouth, big old carrot nose, scarf, and a hat. there’s a little sign saying “take a picture with me”

Weird lumpy snow dude with lumpy lips, lumpy, eyes, lumpy nose, lumpy, cat ears

Squat snowperson with big round body, hat and scarf, smaller carrot nose, button eyes and mouth, and round little arms on a ledge outside of brick building

“All the artists have left New York”
You sure about that????