Maryland Poppa

Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.”
By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.

Former Iron County GOP chairman arrested on kidnapping, abuse charges Sheriff deputies from Washington County arrested former Iron County Republican Party chairman Blake Cozzens for allegedly kidnapping and abusing his wife.

Breaking Iron County News: Former Iron County Republican Party chairman and son of Iron County commissioner, already awaiting sentencing for embezzling $2.1 million from an HOA, arrested on alleged kidnapping and domestic abuse charges. #utpol #cedarcity

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

That is really goddam cool

While local Fox affiliate stations have the unfortunate name, they are at least somewhat independent affiliates. Cable Fox News is the propaganda machine. Local Fox stations can often (not always! like Sinclair-owned) be true local news stations. Glad to see them covering it as they should!

It seems bad when the first bombardment of these United States in...how many decades?...will be coming from our own Federal Government.

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Like all such people, the driver is a privileged child. Waaaah why you doing this to me...
Cop even tells him to grow up, be a man, drunk is still whining.
Country being run by goddam mental children

Thats crazy.
Was the wrong room at least a live class? Not just recording an empty room and they didnt notice?!

I actually found this a pretty remarkable little speech, genuinely humane and reflective and self-aware. I definitely think more and better of him as a person, having watched this, than I did before this entire controversy came to light

Not blocking the government accts yet cause gonna run through a few such posts and block their chud followers first

Video: Phoenix cops shoot, kill suicidal man stumbling away from them Victor Altamirano was holding a knife and yelling "Kill me" from about 40-50 feet away from officers when before shot him.

I had hopes the new chief would reel in some of the indiscriminate use of force by the Phoenix PD, but that has not happened at all. Police everywhere are emboldened and militarized by what Trump and ICE are doing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/video-p...

These AI folks just keep throwing all-the-pasta and hope something sticks, and will cheer when one does, with no lessons learned or revised process.
I'm working with LLMs. It has promise in some areas! But the pasta-throwing process is just maddening and is more likely just going to ruin the wall.

Yes, absolutely. Pilots should be a single thrown pasta. Doesn't stick? Different pasta, or cook it longer, or needs sauce, or spices, etc.
Throwing the whole damn pot (and the water) at the wall is just a mess with no possible solution.

Wait I thought 3D worlds and avatars were going to reshape academics?
Oh, no, wait...gamification!
No, wait, sorry AR/VR!
So yeah, AI is a different beast with possible good application, but as support, not replacement, like all the other stuff.
Argh

OMG this entirely.
Could be cool stuff! Could be helpful stuff!
But throwing the AI pasta at the wall is absolutely not a good approach, especially in academia.
User testing, pilot groups, test and revise...please!
Jump in, disrupt and change pedagogical processes without such is...not great

Wait, Maryland who?
No thanks

Prop 50, The Better Of Two Bad Choices

It's a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't choice appearing on the California ballot this Election Day: choose gerrymandering, or have gerrymandering chosen for you. It's an ugly decision to be forced to make. But, for the moment, at least, one that needs…

Overall nostalgically agreed.
But hoo boy, you gotta also remember the community reaction *against* those places.
And combined with the satanic panic in the late 80s... yeesh.
So vilified.

Ya buddy.
We rode our janky BMX bikes *miles* to the mall, cutting through construction areas to do some jumps, for a few dollars in arcade tokens and food court munchies.

Same as it ever was

I still can't believe how the entire IRB and ethics offices are gone.

This isn’t national security. It’s narrative control.
And it’s being enforced by the Department of Defense.

When the press can only publish what the Pentagon permits? That’s state run media

Cuomo has no authenticity

This is likely a prime reason its being pushed into everything. No one had a great use case for it, so put it everywhere and let the public figure it out. Gamble the few profitable uses will make up for the crazy investment.

Probably hoping to score another personal airliner

GOOD!
Especially for an institution founded in a Quaker tradition.

I don't trust any of 'em. Fox News and its lunatic siblings are just agitprop. The supposed left news is palatable because I tend to agree with it; but they still spin to their audience.
So my worldview is an attempt at read/watch a variety of sources and try to discern what's true. It sucks.

Substack platforms and promotes folks with, uh, questionable motives.
Meidas is just another grifter, big money platform. But I guess at least it's leftist.