Kevin A. Mitchell

It doesn’t sound like we’re going to talk, it sounds like it’s going to be the same tired old counterfactual sound bites, at least regarding the technical parts and environmental impacts.

There’s no fair reporting on it and there really is no rational discussion on it so I’m bowing out.

The Obamas are the epitome of sophistication, class, intelligence, grace, decency and love. I’m so desperately missing presence like this in the White House.

I'll tell ya, when I pick up Bsky and someone says they'll only vote D in the midterms if the candidate is "good enough", it sure puts the "doom" in doomscrolling.

Article III: The judiciary. Ensures the laws are constitutional and are faithfully executed.

The entire problem here is that the executive is not a monarchy, it is the third tier of power, and its sole job is to execute the will of the people as expressed by Congress.

Trump thinks he’s a King…he’s so wrong. This is my view of the proper political hierarchy of the United States.

Preamble: We the PEOPLE! (Not including corporations)
Article I: The legislature. The representatives of the people. Makes the laws.
Article II: The executive. Carries out the laws.
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No, not a political battle, willful mismanagement of a government agency that also happens to run airport security. The political battle is over curbing that mismanagement. The executive branch is rotten from the top down, and caused this problem.

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

I wonder if this is how love happens for people like Sagiotoko Sōsuke...

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I’m at a loss because all the money I sent to the DCCC has resulted in the Democratic Party we have today, and insane levels of text spam. I thought the money I sent them two years ago was going to save the country…

I fear that easier English-language access to trail guides will just take quiet natural spaces and fill them with loud, rude tourists. I’m an American, and I’m embarrassed about how some of my fellow Americans behave over in Japan.

The thing that makes me sad about this is that I just watched a video about how a village had to cancel their Sakura festival. Seems tourists found out about it, it’s now overcrowded, and people are …entering private homes unwelcomed to use toilets, and one case of pooping in someone’s garden.

Kinda like how gunpowder can make killing machines or fireworks. Instruments of death…or pretty pictures in the sky. At base, it’s just some mixed chemicals.

I don’t blame the toolmakers…I think on the whole, AI is neutral, agents are neutral, human activity is most of the problem. Even with the agents, most of the strange stuff they do is human-prompted. Humans gave them agency. Nobody has to post AI slop either.

There’s a difference between wasting the money, and perhaps not spending it. Once it’s spent badly, it’s gone. I’d rather they get frustrated at every turn that nobody will sell them warehouses for people, because it’s bad public image.

You do realize that those are taxpayer dollars that are available to that organization because of the removal of health care benefits, right?

What I find amusing is that many humans are acting like dumb regurgitation machines that can’t distinguish fact from fiction, fearing leaders’ authority that makes them measurably stupider.

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

I used to have a lot more faith in the American people. Not much as Barack Obama does, but some.

No, the real curveball that threw us into this timeline was the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.

Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

What I can’t imagine is that there is not a unanimous outcry to remove him from office.

No, I can’t imagine. I mean, I don’t think I’m presidential material, and…shit, I’d get my act together. Besides, yo hablo español, un poquito. それに日本語を少し話せます。…and I appreciate other cultures. And if I couldn’t handle the duties of the office…I’d just resign!

In the case of Mars, there’s all kinds of juicy radiation. It’s a one way trip that ends with cancer.

If only there was a planet that didn’t need terraforming, and had a magnetosphere to protect it from the solar wind…

Someone needs to convince him that there’s an even better planet around the star Sirius. Best launch soon!

We once had the will to ensure all Americans would have electricity…look up the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrification Administration. We need that will again. Light up Puerto Rico!

Stop being reasonable…they aren’t. ICE isn’t. Don’t fund ICE.

If you’ve got a dangerous building, you know you have to raze it and start all over.

If you’ve got a dangerous government agency…

I looked online and there are all kinds of blue colored hats with bunny ears that one can purchase, even in adult sizes. Perhaps a show of solidarity?

The one thing I might have added is this: We're not voting D vs R at this point, it's whether we'll keep a Republic or fall into dictatorship.

Holy... Oh man, tons of respect for that video. No, I'm not pissed off, I'm energized. You sound like me when I get going, and you said almost entirely everything I would have said. Clear, direct, passionate and honest. Strongly agree with you.