Pope condemns clickbait, has good takes on AI: I hate to inform you, folks, that we are indeed living in the future

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.

Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a long torso, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.

This is the kind of shit that happened to us older generations — which we wanted to stop. But that’s “cancel culture” so it is great that a bunch of guys who were in diapers when I was in college are recreating abusive office structures.

God damn am I mad.

Among other things, according to the decision: - 250 security prisoners will be released. - 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released. - 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released. - 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

If you are a WHITE mom or dad who is a US citizen it's time to check with your neighbors and see if you can pick up their kids at school when you get your kids.

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

This is pure racism.

And I think this part of my ND because I find analysis of it offensive

They hate that his name is Benito Cortez .

And it’s not always rage cycle

It’s about camping il their base to feel entitled and abusive to anyone similarly named

While Ice Raids are happening

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

my autistic kid has a totally different year at school depending on who his teacher is. accommodation is so important for autism. my autistic kid is brilliant and funny and kind, and I wouldn't give him a "cure" if they found one. he just needs help navigating our neurotypically-normative world

tweet from childish branzino @absflora: timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

‘Once the war ends, we’ll be able to weep’: joy and trepidation in Gaza as ceasefire goes into effect Gaza erupted in celebration as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached on Thursday. But while there has been an outpouring of joy over the prospect of an end to the genocide, many…

"We lost everyone. We lost everything."

"They were the worst two years in every person's life in the Gaza Strip. We lost so much."

"We are waiting for a new stage of this war. The stage where we're allowed to live with our sadness."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

A post calling USAID a moral atrocity based on a socialist think tank discussion of three or four examples of the USG using USAID to launder efforts to subvert regimes it doesn't like — which, by the way, include the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the kleptocratic authoritarianism of the Maduro regime.

I don't know a better illustration of the bankruptcy of certain niches of the Very Online Socialist Left™️ than celebrating the deaths of 100,000,000s from disease & starvation bc the USG has used USAID as a mechanism for subversion. Like, do they think the U.S. won't just use a different agency?

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gave ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state.

Yes, peeps, it is me again because $2.99 is a STEAL for the ebook (w/ bk 2 next month, no less!)

Writing The Witch Roads in 2022 reignited my love of writing after a rough period when I thought I should just quit. All else aside, this book is about finding joy in the small graces of the world

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you’d think the “AI can replace all artists and writers” people would have noticed that no one gives a shit about watching computers compete with one another, and yet

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

HELLO TECH PEOPLE

May I please have a bookmark with RFID and a home-base device that will make it bleep when I’ve lost the book I was reading & need to find out what happens next?

Thank you and good evening to you and your families!

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

I have not been able to stop thinking about this book since I read (and edited!) it. Chanda is one of the most brilliant people I know + a writer who has continually helped me think about the universe, our place in it, and so many other things in new & necessary ways. Trust me, you want to preorder:

You have multi million dollar foundations arguing that we need to protect foreign students not because they are HUMANS

But because they spend money at universities

And it’s going mega viral

The “anti billionaires” suspended a volunteering Black autistic lawyer and yall did WW tears FOR her

I mean, at this point he’s just stringing lies, one after another after another.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

It absolutely *is* polite! Cooperative overlap is a supportive and loving way of talking. There are only, like.. one or two cultures where it's _not_ considered polite, and they can go fuck themselves if they think the rest of us have to conform lol www.anildash.com/2021/09/26/c...