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Christ, Lee Greenwood? It’s the Super Bowl Mike, not the east Terre Haute cousin fuckin fair and hot dog eatin contest.

Honestly, this post could be about anything

It took you 5 minutes to say “Of course he will.”?

No radio? So how am I supposed to get @marketplace.org on WAMU?

do people really think you can just post any arbitrary image on a large social media website without an entire mountain of automation kicking in to make sure you’re not spamming child pornography or videos of people being stabbed to death because that’s the entire history of social media in sum

So, Trump is sending the Texas National Guard to Chicago.

A bunch of Texans. Habituated to Texas. Equipped for Texas. Deployed to CHICAGO. On the Lake. With Winter coming on...

Petri: An open-source auditing tool to accelerate AI safety research A new automated auditing tool for AI safety research

oh great I’m an open source auditing tool now

If Chicago wanted to make those Texas soldiers feel at home, they'd wait for a blizzard, then turn off all the power and go to Cancun for the weekend.

The "Alt National Park Service:" On Plagiarism, Part 4 A series of pivots, and a glimpse at the future.

It's finally up! Time to talk about the last three months of plagiarism and deflection by the Alt National Park Service.

tl;dr AltNPS is flailing desperately for ways to cling to their manufactured image as a government insider, in ways that show that they're in too deep to change.

"At the War Department first and foremost we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate and common sense application of standards," Pete Hegseth said last week

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

This is wild.

Gotta keep those arteries lubricated.

I think there’s a lot of bad faith lists.

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Worse, Sir Brian May, PhD in astrophysics, once postulated with the help of his assistant F. Mercury that females with large glutes were what drive the Earth's rotation instead of angular momentum, and this theory has yet to be refuted or even seriously questioned in the scientific community.

There’s a scene in Real Genius where the professor is playing a taped lecture to room full of tape recorders.

A lot of the points on the decline of print media were made 20 years ago by Clay Shirky..
www.edge.org/conversation...

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

Picture of a stylized picture of Boston as seen from Cambridge, with the words "Boston's next 250 years: from Revolution to Resilience. Tue Oct 14 at 6PM, MIT Tang Center, E51-345. What will the next 250 years of Boston's history look like? Join Long Now Boston for an evening of fascinating, deep conversation around the future of housing, transportation, climate change sustainability and more, and help us create a better future. How can we be better ancestors to Bostonians of 2275? Panelists: James Gray — Senior Principal, Stantec; Hyun-A Park — President, Spy Pond Partners; Chris Osgood — Director, Office of Climate Resilience, City of Boston; Nadia Dixson — Archivist, City of Somerville; John Sundman, Novelist & Essayist.

Join me at MIT on October 14 for 'long now' discussion on what Boston/Cambridge might look like 250 years in the future. When I was invited to be on this panel I said, "I dunno. My crystal ball gets pretty murky 2 months from now." But the organizers said that was OK, so I said, "Count me in!"

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Is it an eigenvector?

The last American ground troops killed in an enemy airstrike were Private First Class Herbert Tucker and Corporal William R. Walsh, who died on the island of Cho-do in a raid by low-tech, fabric-and-plywood Po-2 biplanes from North Korea on the night of 15 April 1953, in the closing months of the Korean War.5 Not a single American ground soldier or Marine has been killed by an enemy aircraft in any subsequent conflict, meaning that as a practical matter, American land forces have experienced an unbroken run of friendly air superiority for more than sixty-five years.

huh. didn't realize american air superiority has been that consistent post-Korean War:

It's better here than Twitter. Twitter has too many shut-ins and "I'm a millionaire crypto" spam accounts. Bluesky is like 2am in the progressive student affinity dorm, which means that it can become performative and inane, but most people here, I think, are thoughtful and curious.

Life imitating Art again…. and annoyingly. 🫤

What about Lez Zeppelin?

Remember, you can’t spell “cowardice” without ICE.

“Army's 82nd Airborne, an infantry division that has been parachuted into combat zones in both world wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan. “
Pretty sure we weren’t conducting airborne operations during WW1.

Too bad, so sad.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)