Mike Spangenberg

Did a double take at "USACE constructed a cutoff wall in the channel...between 1874 and 1876"

EIGHTEEN??

“Yes” is a one-syllable answer

We need lawn signs like this!!!!! Where can we get them? I'm happy to pay for mine.

[struts outside with a shovel and baseball bat to “earn” my neighbor’s tomato garden]

Unprecedented corruption

We should ban cars on Halloween every year and expand from there

It’s time to wake up - we are literally on the verge of losing our democracy if Donald Trump cheats his way to those seats in Texas.

Wes Anderson movies of the last 20 years are bad, is a take of mine

This is less a push-poll and more a shove-poll

Furthest I've been (pedantic version):

N - Thunder Bay, Canada
E - [This is unanswerable as all destinations are equally far East or West using our system of longitude and latitude]
S - Milford Sound, NZ
W - [See E]

Beautiful

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

Quick: does anything in our economy use microchips or semiconductors?

JD Vance and other pedophile protection party officials are holding an emergency meeting tonight over their strategy on the Epstein files.

This cover-up is a disgrace to Epstein’s victims. The American people deserve transparency and accountability.

Release the Epstein files.

And final thought, I’ve never heard these folks engage with the dishonesty and deception they’re suggesting in uses like this. You’re outsourcing the playful flirty banter with your spouse to a bot? Maybe that’s not a lie, exactly, but it sure isn’t forthright. No thanks! (4/4)

These dufuses think you can have an algorithm write language without changing the human understanding of the language. Because they are not serious people and they abhor the humanities. (3/)

And she shouldn’t! None of us experience the chummy spam texts we receive “from” Nancy Pelosi as being meaningfully from her nor an actual sign of connection. Despite the denotation of the words, the connotation is clear to us. (2/)

These guys are awful at understanding the relationship between humans and language. A message to my spouse has distinct meaning because it comes from me. If it’s all AI, then my spouse would not experience a text like this as being meaningfully “from” me, nor would she experience it as jokey. (1/)

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Oh wow—this is really wonderful news!

On the list of things our city has done to reform policing, “Reports” claims the top spot, just above “Commissions” and “Nothing”

“This is EMM-Pea-Are”

Missing child poster for Victoria Alexandria Jackson, 12 years old, last seen August 2nd at 8:00pm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is 5.1 feet tall, weighs 140 lbs, has an insulin pump for Type 1 Diabetes, and was last seen wearing a tan 'Rugrats' shirt, blue jeans, and red and black shoes. The search is scheduled for Tuesday, August 5th at 8:00 AM, meeting at Rick's Coffee Bar, 5402 43rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55417. Contact 1-800-222-TIPS with information. Incident #: 25-217186.

There's another search effort this morning for Victoria Jackson, meeting in 15 minutes at Rick's Coffee Bar. Please keep an eye out for Victoria.

Campaigns are tough and demanding and competitive. AND thank you @dbrauer.net and Sarah for curating, hosting, convening #mayorpalooza that brought out the hopeful parts of #minneapolismayor race. #wedeservebetter and better is possible...& the ice cream was delish!

The fundamental problem with men’s sports is that as far as I can tell *none* of them are dating each other

If you see VICTORIA or know her whereabouts, please call 911 immediately.
Incident #: 25-217186
To report information anonymously, contact CrimeStoppers:
• Call: 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)
• Online: CrimeStoppersMN.org
Please share this post to help bring VICTORIA home safely.

there is a search going on right now at minnehaha falls for missing 12 year old child victoria alexandria jackson and they need more people helping if anyone can go join, please share this flyer!!!

On my way to Mayorpalooza hosted by @dbrauer.net. Hope to see some of you there!

I have reduced my social media posting by 800%, maybe even 1,200%