Absolute malpractice by the sandwich jury if they do not demand reenactments, varying the sandwich trajectory, bread, meats and condiments.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

New in PN: Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts

"Nearly every time he appears before cameras to sell the GOP’s lies, he manages to unintentionally tell the truth. These admissions have advertised the fact the regime is intent on using the shutdown to torment vulnerable Americans."

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

On the upside, this might give us a sequel to The Big Short.

I saw the plaintive comments from (anonymous) ICE staffers that they were taking the heat for things the CBP were doing, but (shrug) fuck 'em.

Feels appropriate, though, that ICE has become the symbol of this administration of Incompetent, Corrupt Extremists.

Sorry to hear that.

I didn't have "Teen Vogue will have some of the best political writing around" on my bingo card for this monstrously fucked-up year, but I was glad *somebody* had stepped up.

the wheel (a few of the lucky ones told of a local farmer who'd befriended and mentored them, saving them a lot of grief).

Earlier, in Alberta, my landlord did his MBA thesis on a proposed matchmaking service between retiring and aspiring farmers. Don't know how he ever made out.

I'm seeing a succession thing here in Canada. Farmers selling out to developers because their kids don't want to farm; but also novice farmers struggling for land and mentorship.

When I wrote a column for my local daily, a lot of the new young farmers I interviewed spoke about having to re-invent/

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Re-upping this:

"Which is to say, if you have to choose a 'pedia' to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying 'well, ACTUALLY' to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire..."

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

It's a sad commentary on how underfunded women's health research is, that the largest study on this to date only included 29 women.

...and of course, in the current environment, it's only going to get worse.

Newly-hatched baby quail, with a pattern of dark down on its back and wings, with pale down on its belly and yellow around its eyes, shown in the poster's hand for scale (they're tiny, and could sit comfortably in a teaspoon if they'd only hold still).

Overhead view of nine new-hatched baby quail exploring their new cage, and more specifically a mound of food. Their down is in multiple colors, with most in striped light and dark brown, three in dark down, and one in yellow down with a dark spot on its head.

One small new-hatched quail, striped in dark- and light-brown down with a pale belly, eyeballing a stray bit of food on the paper towel in front of him. Behind him is the dark-grey brooder (a metal platform with adjustable-height legs, to provide warmth for the babies in lieu of a mama bird) with a few siblings barely visible in its shadow.

It's baby quail time again! First hatch from the new incubator. Forty-ish to date, and many more still in the incubator in various stages of hatching.

When Periods Stop : Understanding Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea (FHA) Why this under-recognized condition deserves more attention–and how you can help researchers close the data gap

Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is an understudied condition. Please help me get two important studies filled by spreading the word! open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Facts matter…this is true. 💙

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

This bubble can't pop fast enough.

...though some will always find money for a tool like this.

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Hahahahahahahahahahah! (pauses for breath) Hahahahahahaha!

Relative: What'd you think of the game last night?
Me: Depends which one you're talking about. Canucks got blown out, but the Lions held on to beat Calgary so that was good.
Him: ... Baseball?
Me: Oh, right. Yeah, I hear they lost.

Apropos of which, if you should think a change of govt is the quick fix for this, a reminder that a) the Conservatives were in power for almost half of this period; and b) Poilievre himself is a landlord and real estate investor.

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

We often think of problems as separate buckets: disease, malnutrition, affordability or economic development. But “Climate change is not a separate bucket,” Hayhoe says. “The reason we care about climate change is that it’s the hole in every bucket.”

www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Seems like a bit of a tell, huh?

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Happy The Clock in My Car Is Right Again Day to all who celebrate.

It's insane that culture creates expectations for young cis straight men that an ideal mate should be okay with being sexually objectified while also being their mom & placing their husband's needs over their own; then when these men can't find a partner it's the womens' fault for wanting autonomy.

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.