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How Grammar's Not Our Thing?

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Joe looks like he’s about to rev a Corvette into the sunset while yelling, “Keep calling me sleepy, you stupid sonofabitch.”

Don't be installing one, I guess...?

Can't write a headline. Jeez. There are free grammar checkers, people.

"Created from the lush vegetation and animal fats of the Carboniferous and adjoining periods, holding in itself the black essence of all life that had ever been, constituting in fact a great deep-digged black graveyard of the ultimate eldritch past with blackest ghosts, oil had waited for hundreds of millions of years, dreaming its black dreams, sluggishly pulsing beneath Earth's stony skin... Daloway's theory was that man hadn't discovered oil, but that oil had found man. Venice hadn't struck oil; oil had thrust up its vicious feelers like some vast blind monster, and finally made contact with Venice."

This is, in fact, the very plot of Fritz Leiber's "The Black Gondolier" (1964) ... relevant excerpt here:

Nine years after Trump’s famous “grab them” quote supporters accuse him of “Un-Christlike” behavior. I guess at that time they were thinking of that verse from the Gospel of Matthew that says "And Jesus said unto them, 'Follow me, and I will make you grabbers of pussy'".

Elon Musk stands accused of pretending to be good at video games. The irony is delicious | Keza MacDonald Musk desperately wants to appropriate gamer credibility, but he may be faking it – and doing exactly what toxic nerds have been accusing women of doing for decades

The man actually hired a professional gamer to play a video game for him and then bragged about how skilled he was. Instead of enjoying the experience and collaborating with other players, he cheated. For him, it’s never about having fun; it’s about claiming a win he didn’t earn but paid for.

The world's biggest loser is the world's richest man. What does that tell us about Capitalism, kids?

Take Cheney, drop him on his head and change his greatest joy from wealth to the adoration of his minions and cruelty to all others, and you’ve got Trump. With Trump, as the Atlantic put it, “the cruelty is the point”. What Dick did to Iraq for moolah, Donny wants to do to San Francisco for lulz.

I expected to be happier about Dick Cheney finally dying. Today, I'm indifferent. Who would have thought the Bush-Cheney regime would be the good old days?

Let's take a moment to reflect on what a great name "Pennywise" is for an evil clown. King has his moments, few and far-between though they are... keeps me coming back to dip into his cheeseball goober every now and then. (I don't think I've been able to get through an entire King book since 1985.)

Experiment: put Trump on a stipend of $30k a year, give him a car, and tell him to go live like everybody else. Outcome: he'd be half-dead, staggering, in rags, bawling, and begging strangers for help on the street in a week. He's not a "great man", he's the worst kind of fucking loser.

This bathroom looks like the set for an unpleasant scene in a Ingmar Bergman film where the storyboard just says GRETEL CONFRONTS ALIENATION

YouTube video by Hank Green ChatGPT isn't Smart. It's something Much Weirder

A scary Halloween video for you! You may want to start being more polite to that chatbot.

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A tweet from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reads: “You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders.” She continues criticizing Speaker Johnson for refusing to share a GOP healthcare plan to replace Obamacare, saying he cited “ideas and pages of policy” but no concrete proposal. The tweet ends with: “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”

Even the Jewish Space Laser lady knows the GOP “health care plan” isn’t real.

It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.

Welcome to the new order. Whining about it isn't going to help, you're just going to lose that last little shred of respect you had after doing those Imodium commercials.

Actors: you are not special. You are not different. The level of public adulation you have enjoyed so far is sick and inappropriate. You can (almost) as easily be replaced by a machine as a tutor can be. As a writer can be. As a poet can be. As a musician can be.

Actors think they are "special" ... that they are "artists" and it would be somehow unethical to replace them ... now they are butt-hurt over the possibility of being shown up by a different, but similar, variety of creature ... they are afraid of losing the celebrity they are so accustomed to.

"NO! Learning must be 'human-centric'! It's not fair! They have to learn from me, not a machine!" People would just shake their heads and chuckle. It's no different with any other industry, except for the social perception, of course.

Ryan Reynolds Stars With Non-AI-Generated Actress Tilly Norwood In Mint Mobile Ad Ryan Reynolds is sharing the spotlight with the real Tilly Norwood in a new Mint Mobile ad.

Can you imagine if I bitched about an AI stealing my tutoring job? (Which has and continues to happen).

Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress Innovator, futurist, author, and MIT alumnus Ray Kurzweil emphasized his optimism about AI and technological progress in a lecture at MIT while accepting the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School...

“We are not doomed to fail to control any of these risks.”

Oh, but we are. As avowed Capitalists we are indeed.

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@toddmasters.bsky.social Hey is this one of yours? If so, I've been a fan for decades. I had a few of these guys back in the 80s. Super creepy and unique.

Don't fret about Donny getting the "peace" prize ... it's already meaningless. Remember: they gave it to a man who murdered a 16-year-old American boy with a drone after making utterly tasteless jokes about killing young men with drones. There is no Nobel "Peace" Prize.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

I don't think he knows what "exile" means. I think he should learn, though, in the most direct way possible.

Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Where Is America Going and Should You Leave? YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

Chris Hedges Q&A is live now

I find it good communication.

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For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath.

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