Joseph K.

It’s a silly group. Try r/colorists

Except it’s Forbes and they were scrupulous about not touching the audio in any way. They didn’t even take the easy step of making it mono for left and right channels. Instead, they left it so L was the boom mic and R channel was the on-camera mic.

Do it tomorrow. It’s a compelling read because it’s so expertly constructed.

It enrages me to think of that child in prison.

Shades of Stasi chief Erich Mielke trying to justify his and his organization's brutalities: "I love everyone, all people!" It was 1989, and the East German People's Chamber just became free to form new political parties. They laughed and jeered at him.

Stripping German Jews of their citizenship in 1935 en masse was a key strategy in encouraging them to self-deport. Their debased citizenship status became a public rationale for deportations, which eventually (around 1942) was used as a cover when sending them to death camps abroad.

This is the dude who ICE shot like a dog in the street. He’s holding a memorial for one of the patients he cared for.

View of a crowd in a plaza in San Francisco for an anti ICE protest.

Good turnout for the San Francisco protest against ICE.

Hallucinogenic bolete mushroom - Wikipedia

They don’t even know what the psychoactive compounds are! It’s all still a mystery! And some of the academic researchers in the US working on boletes look like they’re really into hallucinogens.

It’s not enough to vote against the ICE funding bill. Leadership is needed. DO YOUR FUCKING JOB AND GET THE CAUCUS ON BOARD. Deny funding for Trump’s paramilitary forces terrorizing otherwise peaceful cities.

ICE is going to fire into a crowd of protesters. It’s simply the trajectory they’re on. When that happens, 60% of the country is going to ask why Congress. Dems didn’t push back harder. It won’t just be a loss of credibility for the Party, it will also lead more to seek violent means of resistance.

The guys who promised to run government like a business are being outright hostile to the customers. That’s basically the final developmental stage of any major US corporation.

Two days ago, he threatened to sue his own news network, CBS. It was a paranoid, delusional turn believing his minions were conspiring against him. Now this. Even for him, this is off the charts insane. People call him "crazy" so often, so it's hard to raise an alarm about something like this...

I think the Coen brothers made it very clear through some of their stories that Minnesota nice has a very sinister underbelly and that Minnesotans are not to be toyed with.

If educators are saying they can only tell based on a vague sense that something’s off, but they can definitely tell, then we run headlong into questions of overall verifiability of human-based AI detection. For one, I’m not able to falsify your appraisal, because it’s always true to ur experiences

His critique goes beyond that. It’s about states preserving the video from original files with metadata and evidence about who gathered it. It’s going to be more important as AI advances and courts start tossing vid footage they can’t verify.

It would be interesting to look at how the Chinese medical establishment is treating Ozempic. From what I’ve seen, the government is very much behind it as a solution to a lot of serious chronic illnesses taking hold. But it’s much less expensive for them than it is for us here in the US.

And it’s super harmful to have that attitude out there unchallenged because it’s resulting in insurance companies rationing the drug. It’s easier to justify legally and socially when it’s seen as something inferior to the preferred solution: natural weight loss through diet and exercise.

Losing weight through diet and exercise alone isn’t enough. Increase your metabolic need through exercise and restrict your calories, and your body will either nag you till you relent and/or literally shut itself down to make up for the drop in calories after a few months.

This whole dynamic is explored in Kafka’s Hunger Artist and it’s especially interesting because it’s the author kind of reflecting (I think) on his own experiences with a crunchy ascetic natural healing movement he subscribed to.

And the anti-vaxxer movement has a lot of overlap with ascetic movements where self-denial is seen as the path for mystical enlightenment and self-perfection. This moralizing becomes pathological with them.

When fatness is shown to have mostly a metabolic and hormonal etiology rather than stemming from the lack of a work ethic, thin people lose the aura of being morally superior, more self-disciplined and harder working. It’s a bit of a realignment because it’s so bound up with identity

That stuff is straight-up saving lives. Separate from the weight loss, what it does to blood sugar levels and blood pressure is nothing short of miraculous. Anyone going on it ought to be applauded for taking control of their health.

Absolute outright lies by DHS. They just made everything up to justify shooting someone. The man they shot was running away from them.

Democratic National Committee blocks release of its 2024 election autopsy Despite a pledge from DNC Chair Ken Martin to release the post-election report, the committee announced Thursday it would not share it publicly.

Dems commissioned a study of what went wrong but decided not to release it. I think that decision says it all about what’s wrong with the party.

Is there any doubt that the edited version would have been cut for focus, to make him look more coherent? That’s an indication we’re entering a new phase when the dictator becomes self-delusional and paranoid, imagining slights and plots afoot everywhere among his underlings.

I meant it for Andrew. But if you have any ideas on this I’m all ears.

Yeah, what do these ChatGPT-written things sound like? How can you tell?

The US Department of Justice is his personal law firm now.