Meh Pluribus Unum

Don't listen to commuter DC ppl about crime, they don't know anything but gossip really.

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

Nearly 800,000 people live here with extremely high taxes, no representation, and no autonomy from federal overreach. We are going to need the entire country to stand up for us and fight for us so this city doesn't turn into a fascist playground

Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.

Every Democratic state that can do this, should do this.

Then, when we control the levels of power in DC, we ban gerrymandering for the entire country. Once and for all. Everyone playing by the same rules.

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These hydro-panels pull moisture from the air, even in dry climates, and turn it into fresh water
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Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years.

🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...

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Many people want to bring back #beavers for water storage. Big ponds = big benefits for flood, drought, wildfire & more! But what drives big ponds? Is it *just* dam length? What drives dam length?

Get your answers in this new paper by Luwen Wan, Kate Maher, & myself!

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I love you, CC!

YouTube video by Parliament - Topic Chocolate City

Hey, CC!
They say your jivin' game, it can't be changed

But on the positive side
You're my piece of the rock
And I love you, CC

Gaining on ya.

youtu.be/A2M1bvJlXcA

Gainin' on ya, can't you feel my breath, heh
Gainin' on ya, all up around your neck, heh heh.
...
Are you out there, CC? A chocolate city is no dream
It's my piece of the rock and I dig you, CC
God bless Chocolate City and its vanilla suburbs
Can y'all get hip to that?

Have said over and over

“Rising Crime”
-means-
“I’m seeing Black people in public spaces”

It’s 1:1 from them

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

Jackson, Mississippi, is +80% Black. The white supremacy game of undermining & disallowing majority-Black cities the ability to self-govern isn’t new. State govt has been working to slander, ruin, & take over Jackson for generations. Blatant disenfranchisement & resource theft every chance they get.

jesus fucking christ, ken

"Centrist" white nationalism is bipartisan.

DC statehood discourse sort of dumb. They should have done it, they tried, and the reason it didn’t happen is the same thing that blocks very many good things: the senate. Like that’s it, that’s all there really is to talk about.

(We’re still protesting 24-7 by the way and shitting all over 🧊, it’s just not being reported on anymore)

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

It really is shocking how some of the most passionate AI boosters have effectively lobotomized themselves, don't realize it, and don't realize that others are still capable of realizing it.

"More real than real is our motto..."

Today at work
Me: The HR policy says X. It’s confusing.
Her: AI tool says it says Y. What prompt are you using?
Me: The policy. It says X.
Her: But what prompt? This says Y.
Me: The policy. I read the policy right here. It says X.
Her: Oh. It says X. Yeah that’s a problem.

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

This is a good point for everyone, uhhh, not Black, Brown, and/or from the US.

When people in the suburbs especially talk about crime, they are not talking about the wild ass shit going down in the Walmart parking lot at night. They're talking about me fumbling with my keys at my own front door.

Growing up in an early white flight suburb, it took me a LONG time to understand that when people said they "didn't feel safe walking", they didn't mean the cars or the sidewalk conditions in winter. (Which they shoulda been more afraid of! None of y'all can drive! And yet you all want me to?!)

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Absolutely correct, and the same as it ever was.

Don't listen to white people on DC. They don't know what they're talking about because they live in a separate DC that's not a Black city. They all, most liberals by the way, segregate themselves from us in daily life.

I suspect the vast majority of consumer LLM users just assume that the AI models instantly consume and account for the occurrence of real-time news events, and uh, they are very wrong about that.

Which also explains why so many think AI can replace human reporters.

Just yesterday I had someone on here sincerely asking me what the difference is between that and what our brains do in "the slime space," and it's like... have some fucking self-respect.