John Fallot

No kings? No, wars!

PS @scottheim.bsky.social Just sent along another DM about writerly stuff 🤓

Feel like a C, forced to live as a Q

Exactly: don’t give them the satisfaction of having made you mad.

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I was sad to learn we had five mutual friends on Facebook! I feel like I really missed out. 😔

This is what traumatized Brian Lackey.

Neil saw it too and, lighting a cigarette, said with a shrug, “Okay, work.”

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A terrible outcome here would be lawmakers quickly writing and passing a bill that protects ONLY elected officials. We need to end data broker abuse entirely, and protect people who don’t get private security and make headline news when they are targeted

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several “people search” sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.

NEW: The Minnesota shooter allegedly researched several "people search" sites in an attempt to target his victims, highlighting the potential dangers of widely available personal data.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

From the Pope - In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these limits that we open our hearts to hope. Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist.

This applies to all sports but - and I am not joking - it is absolutely something best understood by a baseball man.

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It’s basically the meme where people replace the audio with squeaky shoe sound effects to mock boring parties

3.5% rule suggests US needs over 11 million people to join a movement for its goals to be highly achievable.

And guess which threshold the No Kings Protests might have just passed?

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My conclusion as well, and that part I didn’t mind at all. The rest of it seemed like it was just so utterly boring and uninspired.

My 82-year-old mom’s choir gave a Pride-themed concert today that said No Kings, only Queens!

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Ethan Zuckerman: How to escape the internet hellscape Prospect’s tech columnist on AI, evil tech bros, and resisting digital ‘enshittification’

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I’d say 2008? I was 17 and went to Stonewall with my Uncle and Front Runners NY. Also ran in the Pride Run that year.

My first Pride March was 2015, again with Front Runners NY… although it was a bit grueling as we sprinted every other Manhattan block.

“We want justice, you say how? ICE out New York City now.”

“No justice, no peace. We want ICE off our streets.”

Thousands march past the Ellis Island mural in lower Manhattan against ICE and in solidarity with sanctuary cities targeted by ICE across the country.

I saw that mentioned via @nopebrigade.bsky.social, they would probably have sources.

True, it would be a PR-win, but how would you show up with pizza unannounced without raising red flags? They might think said pizzas have been tampered with and turn them down/away.

An S shape chart, indicating two equilibria. At a critical threshold, the system jumps to the new equilibrium. To bring it back to the prior equilibrium, you can’t just go back to the critical threshold, you have to go back to an entirely new threshold that’s even further back.

Not only that, to “go back” to a prior baseline means going even further back than where we were before.

We’ll need to go out of our way to plant gardens on the graves of strangers to undo the ugliness of these times.

The Cascade Institute does a whole bunch of work on polycrises, definitely recommend checking them out!

Wolf Blitzer [upon seeing something precedented]: This is truly unprecedented!

Wolf Blitzer [upon being upgraded to remember the past 10 years]: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!

From Andor:

Just in from DC Bar - labor attorney Diane Seltzer defeats securities attorney Brad Bondi in a closely watched race with record turnout.