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“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

And when the answer with one devise all the others tell me I missed a call

My new favorite sign. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I had read the end of this incredible piece many times but not the entire thing till now (insomnia)—just amazingly acute and prescient observation. See if you can spot Vance and Trump among the personalities Thompson describes

Gotta go old school. Chalkboard!

YouTube video by WrabelVEVO Wrabel - The Village

Every now and then I get reminded that this song exists. So for all the trans people out there suffering from family rejection, fear, hate, and wishing they had an accepting family, here's a song for you with lots of feels.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tils...

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI.

A typo in the link -- but this one works
www.engadget.com/ai/switzerla...

Switzerland just released Apertus, a completely open AI model. Not just "open weights" but everything—training data, process, code. While other nations race to build AI, the Swiss are redefining what "national AI" means... 🧵
www.engladget.com/ai/switzerla...

Here's the thing about AI -- think of it as a new intern who's read EVERYTHING, but has no practical knowledge. They really want to please you and will not admit that they don't know the answer to something -- if they don't know they'll make something up that sounds good.

🔴 who needs a laugh ? 🤭🤣
#Dogsky #Catsky #Funny 🐥

They've been prepping their "Dave" for the last week -- today is his big debut.

I love this so much.

From a paper I just read: the effect of worship attendance on one's willingness to pay higher tax so everyone can have better health care across nations. Note in most nations, the association is positive, though mostly non-significant. Just in the USA where the association is negative & significant.

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Oh that’s not good.

Wait a minute - there are 7 food groups? I only knew about 4.

Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

I've noticed this problem myself -- And in real life I'd guess it's worse than in these tests. I often get bored and distracted while waiting for the AI response and get caught up in other things, which just slows things down more.

let's take stock here:

(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.

Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

This is patently false.

DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry.

But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone.

This lawlessness must stop.

NEW | Solar power was the EU’s biggest power source in June 2025 ☀️

For the first time, solar ranked first among all power sources, producing 22.1% of the EU’s power ahead of nuclear at 21.8%.

Coal power fell to a record low 6.1% in sixth place.

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

ALL CAPS

THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...

GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I'm not sure it will be the same without @hcrichardson.bsky.social groaning every time you mention Jefferson -- maybe she can record a soundbite you can play each time he comes up? :-)

Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Umm -- it's not a how-to instruction manual. It's just supposed to be funny. Have you seen Bugs Bunny?

I did actually. Thanks.