thebobcampbell

“No such thing as an ethical billionaire”

jfc

We need more Dolly Partons.

I don’t remember this NIN song.

That and hashtags are broken for me.

I miss the imagination they've stolen from us. How they've drained us with their greed, chaos, violence & dehumanizing behavior. Born broken, lived broken, they'll die broken. But I don't want the rest of us that way.

Sure, we can fight for our tiny niche areas—make sure NASA gets XXX project funded or fight for one line of legislation. We may get an inch that way, but we give away a mile. Your research doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Imagine what we will lose if we don’t have threads to weave.

Ana de Armas against a red background, facing camera but looking to her left.

Fake actress Till Norwood facing stage left but looking toward the camera, with a fake bokeh cityscape in the background intended to look like New York City.

Ana de Armas in a textured gold top, right hand on her neck, against a mid grey backdrop, looking straight at the camera.

The hugely pumped image of Tilly Norwood, AI creation, created to look like she’s on the red carpet of an awards show. In a black sparkling top, smiling straight at the camera. Background is, as typical in these AI creations, bokeh. Usually done to hide breakdowns in small background details that AI still fails at (too many legs or fingers, etcetera).

Tilly Norwood is just a knockoff of Ana de Armas, right?

Ana should sue the shit out of that AI studio.

There wasn’t really scarcity, but the boomers had it drilled into their heads that for any one of them to be notable (aka special) then they would have to do something extraordinary to stand out. And every one of their parents was convinced *their* little child was special.

Complete mindfuck.

That’s one tough boat!

Italy issued 500,000 work visas for non-EU just 3 months ago.

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

I’d Margaret her Thatcher, if you know what I mean.

Short-term high-fat feeding induces a reversible net decrease in synaptic AMPA receptors in the hypothalamus Dietary obesity compromises brain function, but the effects of high-fat food on synaptic transmission in hypothalamic networks, as well as their poten…

Saw this yesterday and searched for decreasing AMPA - found this article from 2021. Don’t quite know if it’s relevant, but may be a non-pharma mitigation:

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Kleptothropic

I wonder if the “animated sequence” is the full-color version of o-ren ishii’s backstory. A friend bought the Japanese DVD specifically because the US ratings folks threatened to give it an NC-17 unless it was made b&w, so all US versions are b&w. (iirc)

“To pronounce it correctly, I would have to … pull out your tongue!”

“…and a party-size bucket of flan.”

The Far Side Woman ape: “Well, well , another blonde hair. Conducting a little more research with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

RIP Jane Goodall

Damn, did we already stop talking about the failed rapture attempt?

They can pry my Deluxe Music Construction Set from my cold, dead fingers!

It’s what they should teach in HS instead of sentence diagramming.

No, you should do a deep dive into Backus-Naur Form until you start seeing everything as a language problem. My first elective class in college used it extensively to learn Swahili and the little dance bees do to show where pollen is. Later classes used it for chess moves and DNA sequences.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

It worked. Now we get Colbert back.

Sorry, I am *so glad* paired asterisks don’t autobold.

This is my last week at work and I CANNOT WAIT TO NOT HAVE TEAMS THROW A POPUP IN MY FACE ALL DAY LONG.

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos.

Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.”

Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel.

That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.