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spent part of my lunch break extolling to colleagues how Benito's halftime show was phenomenal actually

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

PSA: Hey US authors! If you're trad or indie published, hound your publisher or get your agent to include in any contract that your work is registered with the Library of Congress. If you are self-published, do it yourself. It's an expense and a hassle, but worth it.

Why? See Anthropic settlement

talking with someone about this today, and their whole expression sharpened suddenly as they asked "is that why ICE is angry people have video from multiple angles?"

AI is the enemy of documentation--which is a way of saying, it's the enemy of accountability.

a black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench and a woman running across the road Alt: classic scene from 1930s film 'It Happened One Night', when Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) stands at the side of a the road and lifts her skirt enough to show most of her leg, in order to flag down a ride. Peter Warne (Clark Gable) is sitting on a fence, but stands up sharply, flummoxed at this turn of events.

Younger sprog & I just watched 'It Happened One Night'. I'd forgotten so much of it, lol at this marvelous exchange:

Andrews: I asked you a simple question - do you love her?
Warne: Yes! But don't hold that against me, I'm a little screwy myself!

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Sign taped to a post, text as follows: Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.

Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.

I promise I will stop banging on about this once Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, & co. cannot walk into the Capitol w/o being bombarded by media questions about why they are still violating their oaths & allowing the lawless authoritarianism to continue. 20 questions for them for every 1 for Dems.

If only the harm people have done would disappear when they do

An ancient Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog blue in colour with dark blue or black bumps to represent the spikes

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺

This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE.

Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

two books, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad; and "How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive" by Marcel Dirsus

"If a dictator reaches the point where they need to decide whether to shoot their own people, they've almost certainly made multiple mistakes already."
- Marcel Dirsus

August 5th marked 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. The photogenic rover created this self-portrait at Gale Crater on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018) using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #NASA #moontomars #MarsScienceLaboratory #MarsCuriosityRover #curiosityrover Read more More about Curiosity Rover NASA Media Usage Guidelines

Curiosity's Dusty Selfie - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2nDjQmZ

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

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oh my, yes lol

Mayest thou be at peace with me, may I see thy beauties, may I advance upon the earth, may I smite the ass, may I crush the evil one. (BDB)

sorry no what?
(and oh my, it is early in the day to have Mrs. Howard giving such a look.)

Not sure what your MP can do. Contact Pattison directly:
www.jpdevelopments.com

ARTE

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

There is a good life
Right across the green field
And each generation
Stares at it from afar
But we keep no check
On our appetites
So the green fields turn to brown
Like paper in fire

-J Mellencamp
'Paper in Fire'

i don't recall ever using either, and when i read 'em in your post i thought, 'cultivable' looks "better" but 'cultivatable' seems more natural, and then found both in the dictionary and...
as an editor, i'd say this is a good time for the passive voice, "X can be cultivated"

When we stand together in our communities, we're not just fighting ICE. We're demonstrating the future we fight for:

One where working people have each others’ backs, and we're free to live our lives and pursue our dreams.

oh no

people outside Canada admiring Carney's Davos speech while at home he takes a chainsaw to (for example) environmental policy & research...
i guess, friends, what i'd like to note is, even if he's spot on regarding middle powers and whatnot, don't take him as being a progressive sorta lad

’Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇