Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app)

wait he thinks it's the same guy???

Stay home.... and revolt

Sigh. Sigh. Brown bag. Sigh into.

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Seriously into the stiegler index.
I really think bluesky could add just a few reddit style post self-labels to the posting options

Toss a few fun but functional numeric indexes in there too

Compact, limited per post, stress the self-reported aspect, option to hide

Cmon, they'd give themselves 11's

I would like a level of memory checkbox, like

- off the dome
- ive googled this before
- i googled it immediately before posting to make sure
- i know this due to career
- i know this due to exact education
- shiggles
- speculative fiction

"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."

To paraphrase mr. Gretzky, You miss 100% of the slurs you dont take

Its military world gone GEAR!

You like gadgets! Tools! Mythbusters! Top gear!

What about the best way to sever flesh from bone?

Wait, wut?

People vote against incumbents and punish actual holders even if a hypothetical but very probable worse future holder might line up

The devil you know, recency, actual v prospective

Also, both partys foreign policies can suck

Good news?

We are not the incumbents

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

And here we go, reportedly.

If there's a hell Khamenei is there. If there's a hell the people who started this war by massacring a school full of children will join him there.

Back before I joined States Newsroom and the Wisconsin Examiner, I wrote for The Progressive about how the system ignores the pleas from loved ones of murder victims who opposed the execution of the person who committed the killing.
progressive.org/magazine/the...

For the kidz, his name was David Rees and he is so tired of how relevant get your war on has remained

Again from the early 2000s

3 panel comic of two men speakingto each other on an office phone Panel 1: oh yeah! Operation: enduring freedom is in the house! Panel 2: oh yeah! Operation: Enduring Freedom is in the motherfucking house! Panel 3: yes! Operation: Enduring our freedom to bomb the living fuck out of you is in the house!!!

The very first get your war on by david rees from 2001

He would knock someone out with it and use the persons body to smother the fire

Will it help stem the iranian backlash and purging of the protesters, who knows, its obvious thats not the main concern, its simply something to bootstrap this "operation" to, but its parrallel not intersecting with it

This all day. Ive no love for the iranian central gov, the ayatollah but this destabilizing death dealing has no correlation or relationship w the actual iranian protests and freedom movement within iran

Its an interruption of that, not direct support of iranians but a leapfrog w another country

This is the logical endpoint of anti-anti-Trumpism: "I'm all alone. I'm afraid of everything. There's no one to trust."

All while living in a wealthy, internally peaceful society, earning a hefty paycheck, and getting regular reminders of the high status that you've enjoyed since birth.

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

Daft kants

Iowa State scales back free tuition program for DMPS students The university will transition the program into a scholarship over the next five years before it fully dissolves, citing funding and long-term sustainability concerns.

ISU w their own Scott's Tots walkback

What a lame move

two of the flags in their account name are American cultural creations

Which i know due to Vexillology, term coined by American Whitney Scott

＼(^_^)／

lmfao

it is impressive how many different ways palmer manages to be wrong

- C-RAM is not autonomous under almost any definition (he's conflating it w/Phalanx when there are impt differences)
- Aegis operates autonomously in a very specific limited use case, and a human still consents to release

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"When I returned to New York in 1917 (I had read Progress and Poverty in Chicago) I happened to meet with a group who called themselves the Single Tax Party. Though I knew nothing about politics, and instinctively distrusted politicians, the poverty of the Single Tax Party and the devotion of its members appealed to me, and I threw myself into its work for a couple of years. The work consisted mostly of handing out tracts on street corners and of soapboxing. The latter activity was exhilarating. The soapboxer begins by convincing himself that he is possessed of a great truth which he is impelled to give to the world. But, it soon dawns on him that on the street corner he is not a teacher at all, but rather an entertainer of sorts. The crowd that gathers around him consists of idlers, interested only in passing time hanging heavily on their hands, and in the give and take of the speaker and his hecklers. It is the qucstion and answer period, which the speaker gets to as soon as possible, that makes the crowd. The questions put to the speaker are rarely honest ones, that is, questions eliciting information, but are usually aimed at upsetting the speaker and getting a laugh from the crowd at his expense. To avoid that embarrassment, the soapboxer soon acquires the habit of answering the supposed queries with quips that turn the tables on the heckler. Soapboxing has gone out of style, but while it lasted it was great fun, developed skill at debating and accomplished nothing in the way of education. I tired of it in short order."

Social media in the 1910s. (From Frank Chodorov's OUT OF STEP.)

To recap:
Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company.
Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance!
Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families | CLASP This report finds that heightened immigration enforcement is harming U.S.-born teenagers in mixed-status households today and setting them up for worse long-term outcomes.

New research from CLASP & Univ. of Colorado finds increased immigration enforcement is pushing U.S.-born teens in mixed-status families to work more & enroll in school full-time less. Enforcement policies don’t just affect immigrants; they reshape outcomes for American children.