The Tapeworm that Starved to Death in RFK's Brain

every one of these gnardknockers was hired for a reason, saying they're not qualified means you're/we're just not acknowledging the actual job description...

they got very tired of having to say "I'm not racist!!" ("... but")

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

oh I got it backwards - but wow - ty for sharing! that was my mom, sans arizona and plus 60 yrs - that's a trek

ACAB exhibit number 8,745,932

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

everything is normal

I... have. I absolutely have.

It's perhaps depended on what I looked like at the time. I've seen a version of this argument before - but presenting this personal experience as a more widely indicative fact is problematic at best.

She was in Beaumont pre-Spindletop? ...wow

Let's all agree to be disappointed in the crap spewed by a person/publication once and bank that knowledge rather than re-live it 999 more times.

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

Erase them. Go full post-Akhenaten but during instead - report the news but still ignore them. They do not exist. They will not be remembered. They are nothing.

I would really like a news feed with no quotes from the right, none, no images, no names. Just reporting action. Titles and descriptions are ok. But bits of quotes are - they're lies anyway. And they're nasty and manipulative. Misleading. Gross. Ends up being a litany of shock quotes and it's dumb.

Portrait of Shirley Chisholm by Kadir Nelson. Her arms crossed she faces the viewer with a resolute expression. The US Capitol is visible in the background. https://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/30296

But this portrait of Shirley Chisholm by Kadir Nelson, commissioned as part of the same series, is AWESOME.

Breaking news from 1775

student participation in what?

Hive Mind help.

Are there any crafters or seamstresses that could use some higher end & assorted vintage fabric?

I’m behind financially but have a 2 boxes of beautiful, embroidered silk from India + several others. New condition & will sell cheap so it’s mutually beneficial. Can DM pics.

I'm so pissed about the outrage re: young GOP messaging each other lols about rape and gas chambers and "watermelon people" & Jewish people.

Like they're saying this shit in BILLS. That anyone who aborts a child should be KILLED. THERE ARE MASKED GUNMEN ON OUR STREETS KIDNAPPING.

“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.

Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

... requesting a permit for 8' x 6' of park space on which to put a bench and can I apply for this Tangible App to also be named Chat? posterboard + tempra paint logo and no hosting fees!

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets

yup

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

reading this just for the insults

Boy this is a real poser, will the Times ever decipher this imponderable paradox of not giving the slightest shit about coal miners but loving donations from coal magnates? Time will tell.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

A farm worker harvesting strawberries in the rain wearing a plastic poncho

"Sara" has worked in Watsonville CAs strawberries for 16 yrs. "I earn piece rate. It's raining which makes the rows slippery and the mud sticks to our shoes. It's dangerous as we still need to work fast to make enough money to pay our bills." #WeFeedYou

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