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Think Mike's porn alarm goes off while he's watching ICE videos?

OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion | TechCrunch Some of America's most valuable companies are now leaning on OpenAI to fulfill major contracts, notes the FT.

OpenAI is on track to make $13B this year and has committed to spend $1T on AI infrastructure from AMD, Nvidia and Oracle.

We’re going to see aggressive growth moves from OpenAI over the next few years. A TikTol for deepfakes (Sora), erotica in ChatGPT and more sycophantic AI are just the beginning

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Going to be a bit ironic if what saves us from the Federalist Society is federalism.

Be still my beating heart.

Typos are the difference between sex and cloning.

Katie Porter “extremely impressed” by Netanyahu Progressive favorite Rep. Katie Porter met with AIPAC to prepare for a recent junket to Israel and came away from the trip “extremely impressed” by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Why choose?
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Let's just put it this way. The GOP certainly isn't acting like elections don't matter or that a Democratic House can't meaningfully restrain Trump's power.

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

He has…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

—Declaration of Independence, 1776

It's very medieval chanson de geste coded

With so much that we are fighting against, we can't forget what we are fighting for.

Families need health. They need food. And our young people need a livable future.

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

😂
Reverse Cramer in the house!

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

After reading this article, it'll be a tossup between re-reading René Girard and re-watching Silicon Valley (with its exquisite Peter Thiel parody).

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When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging” If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

The clock doesn’t tick the same way for everyone. Until art institutions admit that, we’ll keep mistaking the optics of equity for the real thing.

Grammy Award-winning and now won in a court of law. I don't wanna hear any more discourse about whether "Not Like Us" is the biggest diss track in the history of the culture. There should be curriculum in schools about this now.

A medieval painting of otters playing in a pool, chasing and catching eels and other fish. There are 10 adult otters, and what look to be 2 younger otters in a den at the base of a tree. They are all doing serious otter things: playing, eating, cavorting, eating, gamboling, eating, swimming, and eating. They are having a good time. For now. It can't last, though. This pond seems way too small to support all of these otters, and the painting has a border around it. They can't leave, and soon they will turn on each other in a bloodbath that will make the Donner Party look like a tea time at the Rotary Club. If you check back with these otters in two weeks, I suspect you'll find only carnage. That, though, is a problem for Future Otters. Today's otters are carefree, with spotless souls. Source: Morgan (MS M.1044 fol. 28r)

It's Wednesday. You need some eels in your life, right? And some otters?

Here you go!

A scene of otters & eels, from an early 15th C. copy of Gaston Phoebus's Livre de la chasse. Eel blood is toxic to mammals, but otters don't care. They love them some eels.

Can you blame them?

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

The pampas grass outside my front window sways gently in the breeze as I read this.

No wonder the neighbors keep looking at me like that.

A composite image showing a Hubble view of the Andromeda galaxy, with a bright white-yellow central bulge streaked by lanes of dark dusk, with purple, orange, and blue spiral arms. An inset shows a dense field of stars where Hubble's Cepheid is located. His original black and white exposure is inset for comparison.

About 15 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at M31 to record an image of the star. Here's an Earth-based photo of the galaxy with insets showing the region imaged by HST, and the region covered by the "Var!" plate. (6/n)

Image: R. Gendler, NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

And yet "bayonetting" does have two. A vale of tears, life is.

Homepage - Ren + Homes As the urgency to combat climate change intensifies, RENPLUSHOMES takes the lead in developing a universal methodology for Positive Energy Homes and residential districts. This approach addresses the ...

the work underway to produce positive energy buildings (buildings that produce more energy than they consume) is really quite rad

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