John W Buaas

I was going to recommend this, too.

You all say Donald Trump is anti-immigrant, but did you know his wife is an immigrant? *drops mic, saunters triumphantly back into the Nazi bar*

And when LLM algorithms take on/take over the responsibility for making decisions such as these . . . ?

God's/Jesus' existence or non-existence doesn't invalidate Talarico's political ethos, the secular version of which would be: Love something bigger than yourself; love people other than yourself or your tribe.

He's monstrous in size.

A younger and heavier John Goodman would have been perfect for that role.

Not missing your point, but: I have a colleague who said RMP lost all credibility with her when they removed the chili pepper emoji for rating profs.

Important from Punchbowl News:

"Republicans would prefer to keep their hands clean on the conflict for as long as possible, especially given the uncertainty over how long this could last and how it’ll play politically."

As I've been arguing, Rs don't want to be saddled with this (see below)

Such unprincipled/emasculated cowards.

After seeing The Thin Red LIne, I immediately thought that Terrence Malick would be a good choice for directing an adaptation of Blood Meridian.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eud5...

"An example schedule shared by the institution outlines learning time [for four subjects] between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., including a 15-minute break for snacks and recess."

What's sticking in my craw is the 15-minute break part. Why even bother?

i feel like my proxies would be pretty chill

Either inability, or my own preference: Disinterestedness.

The people who study the history of the fossil fuel industry's justifications for itself are like

Would you describe it as a kind of Mad Men aesthetic?

Nah, we’d rather blow through billions of taxpayer dollars doing it the dumb way because we know more than anyone about everything and Trump has a blank check from Congress.

If that's all you're hearing, you're not listening.

YouTube video by MS NOW 'We’re about to take back Texas': James Talarico gives victory speech

James Talarico speaks for the first time since clinching the Democratic nomination for his Senate race in Texas. “One thing is clear today: we’re about to take back Texas,” says Talarico.

paintings of two capybaras sitting in a group, one of them with a backpack, at an aquarium watching a hammerhead shark

capybaras at an aquarium

Noem also has a policy of personally having to approve every expenditure over $100,000, the stated goal being to fight waste, fraud, and abuse.

Insofar as Talarico is reaching out to Republican voters, I think it’s that more moderate subset that is struggling to reconcile their purported Christianity with the sadism of MAGA.

You don’t have to abandon progressive values to speak to those people.

Bernard Nasty Cooter

Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston Passenger Lists Index, 1899-1940

I think I've seen enough news this morning--and it's not even 8:30 am here.

Looking forward now to reading an early draft of a friend's novel, in which a Kansas prof becomes a sentient zombie and shambles toward Galveston in search of Meaning.

Instead, we get stuff like this offered to us, stuff made by a company whose founder got his start by creating a website that rated the hotness of Harvard students--without their permission to be included, of course.

or providing affordable housing, or making health care more widely available, or . . . or . . . or . . .

Think of the hundreds of millions of dollars Meta (and Google before them) have spent to develop a technology that doesn't solve a vexing problem or make the lives of anyone better--money that could have been feeding people sustainably for a long, long time, . . .

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Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

It's the Holy of Holies.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.