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In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

A Persian phrase used when nothing makes sense any more is sag mizane, gorbe miraghse. It means “the dog is playing an instrument and the cat is dancing.”

Read with a British accent:

No degenerate art

'Victorians afraid to go to shops because of rising crime: Dutton'

Oh no, I'm out of milk. Better wait for Dutton to deport everybody before I drag my scared white butt to the shops. Holy shit I wish this guy would fuck off.

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths

chart showing Australia's cheap prices

Trump is hitting Australia with 'retaliatory tariffs' to pressure them to make changes to the efficient Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme so the USA can make more money.

Medicine price comparison between Australia and the United States

#FUUSA🖕 #auspol
More: australiainstitute.org.au/report/medic...

Cory Doctorow @doctorow Replying to @jonrog1 A pathology of conservativism is that 'things used to be simple.' No, you used to be a kid. Your parents shielded you from life's complexity. Things are complex because you're an adult now. Conservativism is the desire to be a child. 8:01 PM • 2021-08-19 • Twitter for Android

I think Cory Doctorow nailed here

Further re the ICE masked secret police. A thing that rule of law scholars know & the rest of America is discovering is if you create violence-delivery agencies to abuse marginalized populations without an internal legal culture, they tend to expand their scope and lawlessness

gowder.io/decay.pdf

YouTube video by ContraPoints CONSPIRACY | contrapoints

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Looking out the window admiring the ambient gnarl. The details of natural processes are impossible to predict. Breezes, rocking leaves, flowing water, your bod, your mind—all are chaotic. Chaos isn’t rare. It’s not a disease. It’s the norm. It’s health. And every second of your life is different.

Trump is surveying Australian academics about gender diversity and China – what does this mean for unis and their research? The Trump Administration is asking some Australian university researchers about how their work fits in with US foreign and domestic policy.

Yeah, nah. Think we got it, mate.

The United States of Arsehole can just go and fuck itself

US surveying Australian academics about gender diversity and China

theconversation.com/trump-is-sur...

In a new study of 25000 heterosexual couples correlates to a previous study that showed when the wife was sick, the rate of divorce was 7x higher than if the husband was sick.

The Americans have no memory of a society that just destroys its political arrangements for no good reason apart from ideology, but every Chinese person older than 60 knows exactly what’s going on

I'm going to do a video on this, but here's my uber-simple explanation of MCPs.

1️⃣ Tons of applications and databases exist in the world
2️⃣ It takes a lot of manual effort to make them usable
3️⃣ MCP is a client/server protocol for making it easy
4️⃣ 👇🏼

If you have used LLM image generators, you know they are hard to control: LLM had to send a prompt to a separate image generation tool, it did not not make the image.

Gemini is the first public release of a full multimodal LLM that can directly make images. This allows the systems to do detail work

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

The light on the hill is a constitutional dumpster fire

In 50 years “orange man bad” will be a euphemism for “very boring but self evidently true fact”.

“yeah it’s crazy how much less sleep I get since the kid. orange man bad, I know, but still surprised me.”

The Earth’s magnetic North Pole is on the move, and at pace.

Please pass this on to any mole rats, robins, eels, whales, butterflies, sea turtles, lobsters or other creatures that use magnetic fields to navigate (thankfully dung beetle navigation by the stars remains unaffected)

🧪🧭🐋🦞🦋🐢🪶🪲

A Hungarian equivalent to “a bad workman blames his tools” is ha egy kacsa nem tud úszni nem a víz a hülye. It means “if the duck can't swim, it's not the water that's stupid”

* And if you want more international duck phrases and facts, the following thread should fit the bill…

What could possibly go wrong!

it is important that we maintain the idea that things matter and politicians can, and should, be decent people.