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Was worried I wouldn’t see the aurora in NW Ohio because it’s cloudy, but it’s bright enough to be seen through the clouds.

Leftists really think if they can’t post about something it’s the end of the world and they should upend everything about it.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

The Python Software Foundation got a competitive US research grant, but it came with a condition that they recant and abjure any diversity and inclusion ideas, on penalty of having to repay the money.

Obviously this is not desirable or safe, so no grant.

Donations would help them not regret this

hey man if they fuck up food stamps it's gonna get real nasty out there basically instantly and i think people are radically underestimating how quickly things can and may go nonlinear

dumb business mindset meme saying "learn to sit back and observe. not everything needs a reaction." but it's also like good advice, you can just wait and not say anything you might regret later. anyway thanks for reading the alt text. i love you. oh its a picture of idris elba before he went mostly grey, he's kinda tenting his fingers? he's wearing a rather nice sport coat. sort of a broad checkerboard pattern in a brownish color. idk i'm not the menswear guy

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Wild to spend 14 hours at work flying a plane and coming home to see there’s discourse about laser pointers and planes. This seems like the dumbest discourse ever, would love to never have to worry about lasers again.

Early fall
#fujifilm

Hate AI, hate windows 11, Peak Computer was windows 7 running on a glowing UV reactive liquid cooled computer full of top of the line parts for less than a single modern graphics card.

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

A tweet from Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) shows a screenshot of an Advocate article. The tweet text says: “This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric coming from @Harvard Professor Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_in the @TheAdvocateMag. The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence (‘eradication’ here) leads people to justify violence.” The screenshot highlights a quote from Alejandra Caraballo criticizing a Heritage Foundation policy proposal: “They want us all eradicated.”

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."

I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Jerry from Ben & Jerry's has resigned after 47 years after Unilever silenced their politcal activism.

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows such incidents are increasingly common.

Aerotoxic syndrome was in the news when I first started flying and it’s in the news again. It definitely feels like an issue that deserves attention, it’s a terrifying phenomenon. www.wsj.com/business/air...

I’m on vacation right now, unfortunately for my partner this place still has a phone signal.

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

Damn, almost like these folks really just need to be the victims so they feel like they have an excuse to murder the rest of us.

Obama is out here posting eulogies for a guy who spent his entire life arguing with kids in college campuses and calling for violence against gay and trans people. Real demonstration of whose lives matter in the US and whose don't

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Dave Portnoy tweet saying ‘absolutely disgusting and disturbing video from Charlie Kirk shooting today. Hoping for the best for him and his family. Anybody who is happy about this is a disgusting human.’

Pop Crave Tweet: ‘Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy says he hopes a missile hits Greta Thunberg’s boat as she sails away with aid: “I hope they hit a f*cking, like, a missile on her boat. Knock that boat down. Greta or whatever her name is”

This explains it better than I can

ME CALLING FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE TO SMITE MY ENEMIES: Haha, fuck yeah! Yes!!

ME BEING TAGGED AS "UNIDENTIFIED SKULL #28" IN AN UNEARTHED MASS GRAVE A DECADE LATER: Well, this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.

It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.

It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.

“It ain’t the same as when we were kids, it’s likely someone is trying to break in and trespassing is a crime” spoken by someone who is terrified of a reality that doesn’t exist (and probably has nothing worth stealing).

Local news comments on a story about the “dangerous new trend of ding dong ditching” making me lose all hope.

Screenshot from Star Trek DS9. Leeta, Rom, and the rest of the workers at Quark's Bar are all huddled together. Caption: "(all chanting): Union! Union!"

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

fucking cogsuckers

After half a year of developments of AI in society I decided to go back, discuss my concerns, and think about how to respond to it.

lol, lmao even.

I think we’re at the start of a very worrisome inflection point around “the general public outsourcing huge swaths of their daily cognition to corporate LLMs.”