Joseph Kohlmann

i don’t want to go to the market and the hardware store carrying my papers knowing it doesn’t matter.

From Alan @alan678.bsky.social today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait. From years past, #BaldEagles on Valentine's Day. (I couldn't resist.) Hope everyone has that someone special, either now or in the past. Western PA #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #nikon #EastCoastKin.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Celebrate with our latest episode all about video game crush’s and online boyfriends.

CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity

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got in an argument with this khaki wearing guy who had his pristine f150 parked all the way across a sidewalk (?) and in the course of the argument i asked ‘do you do a lot of backcountry driving in that thing’ and it upset him so bad he had to lock himself in his truck lmao

“If you look at major companies and corporations like Microsoft and Google, they are the very entities that are powering genocide, powering war. You start to realize that a lot of the claims around 'AI for good' start to crumble.”
- @abeba.bsky.social

I want to stress again that there is no way out & no way forward w/o the most severe accountablity for this fascist regime & its enforcers.

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

Enough with the fucking AI !

Take your AI companions, AI assistants, AI lovers, AI summaries, AI social events, AI therapists, AI spiritual advisers and shove them up your AI asses!

I see people talking about having dozens of autonomous agents fired up, their personal mcp servers cranking, a million GPUs burning away, their sensitive personal information flashing to the world, all to generate like a fucking lame bash script and some doofy plagiarized images. Wtf are we doing???

The amount of mental gymnastics and environmental, social, and political devastation people are willing to turbocharge at great expense just to avoid writing ten or fifteen lines of decent Python code themselves is staggering.

The Trump polycrisis stands out here because this time, it's not like, an economic collapse, or a pandemic, or a big natural disaster, or some sort of violent "attack". No this time the reason we're in crisis state is just that Donald Trump got elected. Throws the mechanics of the thing into relief.

"Shock Doctrine"/disaster capitalism is a wacky leftist conspiracy theory UNLESS you are a disaster capitalist, in which case it is just the normal thing you do at work

Really, really excellent piece. I believe that AI is going to be far more on the bubble end than tech utopia, but I'd be delighted to be wrong if it comes with healthy dose of proper left-wing legislation

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

Why MAGA Wants You to Think Slavery Wasn’t That Bad Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction. By Thomas Chatterton Williams

Sanitizing slavery has become a core objective of the reactionary right under Donald Trump—a malignant response to the progressive left’s oversimplification of American history for their own present-day ends.

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

New investigation reveals that Trump sanctioned UN special rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese following requests for intervention from complicit US corporations targeted by the BDS movement.

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My wife sank to the bottom of the ocean. They said she had a condition which gives the body “0 buoyancy” so once she stepped in, she just rocketed down. I was about to tell her I was ready for kids. And for all this, I get to be the top YouTube comment for the Counting Crows cover of Big Yellow Taxi

Epstein and Bannon discussed strategies to ‘taking down’ the Pope!

A pair of gannets bill touching as part of their bonding display

Here’s my #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #Portrait - good for Valentines’s Day too, a canoodling pair of gannets. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #Gannet #Valentine #Seabird

A preview of the Mac theme "Fallout II" by "Patrick Bores"

Fallout II - Patrick Bores
https://macthemes.garden/themes/f7f717ddffd0-Fallout-II

A tan and white Song Sparrow is perched on a branch singing loudly. 📷 Dreamcatcher

Song Sparrow

Just doing his thing...

Great read and it’s important to note that as some women did here, you can take gun safety courses and do live fire training and get a permit and decide you don’t want to get a gun! Big fan of learning gun safety and having a chance to be on the range even if you don’t want to own or carry.

A collage of five images, three of which are on the top and two of which are on the bottom. The photos are of, in order: Sean Dunn (the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE agent), the Master Debater (ultimate debate chad), the guy who taunted ICE on an e-bike in Chicago and got away, the guy who punched Richard Spencer in the face on January 20, 2017, and our most recent hero who punched the guy trying to cause a ruckus at a high school by supporting ICE. Each of the photos are of them in their “action shots,” if you will. Dunn is in the act of throwing the sandwich, Master Debater is in the midst of saying he would have both to some trolls question about whether he would have economic growth or gender equality, the e-bike guy is in the midst of taunting an ICE agent and biking away, the Richard Spencer puncher is seen right at the moment of making contact with his face, and our latest hero is clasping his hands together and saying “okay” after the troll said he would get in trouble if he punched him in the face.

Choose your fighter

Did you know about the AI company who sold large-scale human behavior simulations and predictions to the military and government?

IN THE 1960s.

The company went under (who could have predicted this?) after about a decade in a maelstrom of bad publicity and dubious finances.

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.