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YouTube video by Stephen O'Regan They're Made Out Of Meat

in honor of the late great Tom Noonan, i want to encourage everyone to watch (or rewatch) one of my favorite things: They're Made Out Of Meat, an underseen sci-fi short film directed by Stephen O'Regan, starring Noonan and Ben Bailey. Worth the 7 minutes!

It's tradition to do this on 9/11

That's why I had to invent organic superlubricant.

It's for the button you use to close a program on WIndows

A phylogeny of Afrotheria, showing stellar's sea cow, rock hyrax, african elephant, manatee, mastodon

What I love about molecular phylogeny: it's so counter-intuitive.

What's the closest living relative of elephants?
Is it rhinos?
Nope, it's a hyrax, or a manatee.

They're all in super-order Afrotheria.

Bald Lang Syne

This is where they put away the internet connected devices when they turn 16 and they only get the internet again if they choose to be baptized?

Them: The Internet is threatening and terrible and everyone is out to get you, stay out of chat rooms

Us: Turns out the Internet is kind of great as long as you aren’t a credulous imbecile susceptible to bigotry

Them: The illegals are giving the gay frogs autism with their pronouns and woke

馬 magnificent

bad cartoon drawing of a horse with a head that's too big and a mouth that goes too far back along its face. Long mane and short legs and tail. text reads: happy horsie year and I hope it is

it's enrichment

We'd be so much better off, Paine argued, if the Colonists could be left alone in their multi-cultural economic zone instead of being dragged around by a king fighting other kings.

Another thing Paine was mad about was that Britain kept getting into stupid wars with other European monarchies and this was messing up the Colonists' trade relations with all these other countries who, he thought, wouldn't have been beefing with America directly.

Elon Musk was babbling about how nobody ever died for their multi-cultural economic zone--but that's exactly what Thomas Paine proposed in Common Sense, and a lot of people took him up on that.

Rereading Common Sense. I had forgotten that one of Paine's arguments for independence was the diversity of the colonists. Why should Americans be British subjects when most of them weren't even English?

“Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent,” Thomas Paine noted in Common Sense, "This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe."

a 馬 character stylized to look like a running horse

新年快乐🎊

马舞春风，万事如意!

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Musk: mama mia da anglo-irish-scot culture offa america, now datsa spicy meataball! [chef's kiss]
Joyce carol Oates: [rolling up sleeves] well well well
Oates: looks like someone's come back for a second helping
Oates: of pain

Frog in a Blender

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

There's a Grim New Expression: "AI;DR" The slang is a sign of how overrun the internet is with AI slop — and how the real humans using it are fed up.

It’s not “grim”; it’s hopeful.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Quoted tweet from MFA Russia, 25 May 2021: [Russian flag emoji] [globe emoji] President #Putin sends greetings to African Heads of State and Government on #AfricaDay. [word bubble emoji] #Putin: Please accept my heartfelt greet... [photo of Putin and several African leaders, wearing suits; some are waving. It's captioned:] #AfricaDay "Accept my heartfelt greetings on the occasion of Africa Day that has become a symbol of the victory of your continent's nations over colonialism, as well as their striving for independence, peace, and prosperity." --Vladimir Putin, President of Russia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the account doing the quoting: You never congratulate 15 countries on your border for their victory over colonialism. 10:59 25 May 21 85 reposts 4 quotes 450 likes

one of the most savage tweets I ever saw was by the former president of estonia on pretty much this exact theme, just a bit early

a woman is pulling a horse out of the water ALT: a woman is pulling a horse out of the water

"Come on Artax! The Dow is over $50,000!"

Will you commit to voting for Donald Trump if he wins the Democratic primary?

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The LLMs responsible for managing the LLMs have been fired

The Internet.