Ken Paulman

(Alt text: Meat Loaf’s “Bat out of Hell” album cover featuring a motorcycle launching like a rocket out of a grave)

an album cover with a motor vehicle on it

This was such a beautiful moment

If anyone comes after the Grimace mural they'll have to go through me.

Not too shabby on that headline

These women have completely transformed civic life in my community and continue to do amazing things like this over and over again.

In Minnesota, drivers are required to stop for pedestrians at BOTH marked and unmarked crosswalks. Here I am at one of my least favorite streets, 50th, at one of my least favorite intersections, 50th and Aldrich. Let's see how long it takes for someone to follow the law.

I looked at the menu and don't know where to start.

Phil Collins is a genius; I will die on this hill.

Dammit how did I miss this.

We had a school bus driver do this to us a couple of times, just totally unclear on mission.

The kids are alright.

Dibs on a half strawberry half lemon slice.

In Lewiston, Idaho, the Lewiston Tribune emphasizes the patriotic nature of the protests:

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the News-Miner reports: "Over 2,000 Fairbanksans rally at 'No Kings'" newsminer.com/news/local_n...

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

I wonder if we could have high-speed rail on the moon.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

Me, a person who reads old newspapers as part of my research, screaming into the abyss: It has always been complicated!!!

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

No longer travels to the north country I guess

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

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Male Cheerleaders Are the Right's Latest Absurd Distraction Don't fall for it.

"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."

Expo ‘74 is Spokane’s Bob Dylan.

In Spokane one is constantly reminded that they are in the largest city between Minneapolis and Seattle (in your face, Billings).

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