Audacious Ness

"The Department of Homeland Security has issued a response to Chapell Roan"

we are living through the most juvenile fascist takeover in history

Am I seeing this correctly that in their response the spokesperson for DHS claims that ICE's operations are “…removing pedophiles from our streets”??

What?

Great question! Let's circle back on that later.

I don't have a law degree like Vance, but I thought criminal codes were rather well defined

Why in the hell does he get reelected and given committee chair roles?

This also works with veggies and flowers and papermaking and spinning and weaving and baking and...so many wonderful skills that come with a sense of connection and making and double as useful.

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

Not that a billionaire can't do any good while also hoarding insane wealth, but the mere hoarding isn't going to be balanced.

*has already chosen, and continues to choose for as long as billionaire.

Meanwhile my town festival this year had a cotton candy vending machine that was marketed as AI cotton candy and it had lines of people waiting to order sugar from kiosk

(except it doesn't think)

The silver lining is that some people are realizing that photographs, videos, and text aren't inherently trustworthy. After all, they haven't been for a long time now.

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

Thankfully, if any lives are ruined by me they are being passively ruined.

Being your authentic self: NPR's LGBTQ+ readers share their coming out stories National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11. To celebrate and honor LGBTQ+ people who have come out and those who want to, NPR readers share how they told their loved ones.

Continuing to dream of a time and place where the concept of “coming out” is transformed by a society that has learned to not assume and also not to try to control. May that day come soon.

Really difficult to “tarnish” such an ugly legacy.

Love that he attributed the absurd to POTUS.

Source: foundation.phsc.edu/about/news/p...

Screenshot with partially visible headline "/Bobcat Trot Sponsored by Rao Musunuru, M.D." One line is highlighted: "A brief ribbon-cutting ceremony will dedicate the newly completed Mrs. Prameela Musunuru Health and Wellness Trail in honor of Dr. Musunuru’s wife." Full visible text: "Bobcat Trot Sponsored by Rao Musunuru, M.D. Press Release October 11, 2021 “Exercise can significantly improve health at any age,” says nationally recognized cardiologist and Vice Chair of PHSC’s District Board of Trustees Rao Musunuru, M.D. “That’s the good news. However, the increasingly sedentary lives of children have led to a dramatic rise in childhood obesity and potential lifelong health issues.” With the community’s long-term health and wellness in mind, Dr. Musunuru is sponsoring Pasco-Hernando State College’s annual ‘5K Run with the Bobcats’ and ‘one-mile Bobcat Trot’ on Sunday, November 7 at PHSC’s West Campus in New Port Richey. The 5K race begins at 8 a.m., followed by the Bobcat Trot at 8:10 a.m. A brief ribbon-cutting ceremony will dedicate the newly completed Mrs. Prameela Musunuru Health and Wellness Trail in honor of Dr. Musunuru’s wife. The paved, wheel-chair accessible path rims the campus’ tree-lined perimeter road, also to be dedicated as the Rao Musunuru, M.D. Circle Blvd. All walkers and runners are welcome to participate in either race, regardless of fitness levels."

In 2021, the Mrs. Prameela Musunuru Health and Wellness Trail was new and dedicated in honor of board vice-chair and sponsor.

Cool. That's definitely a choice.

Wouldn't it be lovely if @bsky.app used appropriate contrast?

Is it just me, or does this feel like Melania mimicking the British royalty?

I imagine they mostly want cost reduction and increased reliability, which the current “AI” push isn't going to assist with.

Further, I wonder what the bosses think will happen if/when these subscription-based services have become integral to your business. Why wouldn't prices go up?

Weird that the attention-loving POTUS made his entrance before the cameras were rolling. But good to know the ego-cult continues to escalate.

I mean, what else would he do with this time? Negotiate with the domestic terrorists who have ravaged Portland, destroying all commerce there and caused all the buildings to be boarded up? That would be insane.

MAGA: Make Argentica Greater than America?

Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants For decades physicians believed that premature babies didn’t experience pain. Here’s what doctors know now – and the innovative solutions being embraced by today's caregivers.

Source article:

Doctors once believed that infants—especially premature babies—did not feel pain, and if they did, they would not remember it. This might sound like Medieval medicine. But as recently as the 1980s, babies undergoing surgery were given a muscle relaxant to paralyse them while in the operating room but were not given any pain medication, says Fiona Moultrie, a paediatrician and researcher at the University of Oxford who focuses on neonatal pain. “At the time, it was assumed that most of the behaviours that infants were exhibiting were just reflexes.”

Also this:

On the plus side, maybe these ramblings will further reduce unnecessary circumcisions?