Rich Alderson

This is what fascism looks like.

"What's your AI strategy for your university?"

"Tripling the size of our faculty, offering twice the number of classes & cutting the others to half the size...oh, that's not the answer that you were looking for?"

Is there a general outage on Mastodon, or is it just the @SDF server?

JD Vance went kayaking for his birthday. Secret Service had the river level raised Vice President JD Vance's security detail had an Ohio river's water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took to celebrate his 41st birthday. The U.S. Secret Ser...

Did JD Vance ever say "thank you" to the taxpayers?
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Sexual intercourse began
In 63 BC
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Catiline coup
And Catullus' first whoopee.

I am incandescent with fury and disgust

🤨🤬

🤬

I’m imagining Warren and Dick staring at each other and saying, “Oh, for fuck’s sake.”

It's unbalanced, and so is he.

Kamala Harris on what she *didn’t* see coming if Trump took office again.

This hits hard.
Because she’s right.

But it’s not too late.
It’s time to fight harder.

Do not f*cking comply.
SAY NO TO A FASCIST USA!

Try and come for my marriage, you goons. Just try.

💔goddammit

Seconded! When I worked in Redmond, we would often go to Crossroads for lunch. The Indian place and the Mexican place were both great, and we went often enough that they recognized us.

Students with disabilities deserve better than Donald Trump and Linda McMahon.

I came here to say this!☝️

👑

Doesn’t everyone like dinosaurs? I certainly thought so at a certain age.

Now I can do JRRT or linguistics or retrocomputing just as easily.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’

Whew. Next step, to see how corrupt the Supremes are?

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

"There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt.
You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding."

-Cheryl Strayed, tiny beautiful things

Dream of good trouble 💚 GN 💚

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

I stand corrected.

I used to spend time on my grandmother’s ranch in Oklahoma. I can believe that Footloose was inspired by events there.

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

Yeah, pretty sure it was Iowa.

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Another +1 for never having heard the phrase, although I can guess the provenance.