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Their son is under the rubbles

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

Norton Critical Editions (which I typically love) put out the Communist Manifesto with a worse cover choice.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Women want me, fish fear me, fish are disgusted by me, fish have been spreading lies about me, fish want me dead, fish are plotting my downfall, fish are trying to suppress my teachings, fish are making it look like an accident, the fish have won over the women with propaganda, women fear me.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

“Lloyd Doggett” is an excellent name for a congressman from Texas.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

suboptimal, but tough for me to see this guy as the problem given, well, everything else & everyone else involved.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Domenech certainly has a face for radio & podcasting.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

We’d likely be better off if advertising & headlines had no influence over public opinion; unfortunately that seems highly implausible.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s so cool this administration is going to sell the most pristine parts of the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Sawtooths to private owners so they can log, hunt, mine, and build survivalist compounds on our shared national heritage.

submitted 8 hours ago • 32 comments

Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.

submitted 5 hours ago • 78 comments

We’re in our Question Mark era

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Right. If it doesn’t work at all, if it can’t approximate human work often enough, why should I have any concerns about this for the long term? In that case it is simply a bubble that will burst sooner or later—plus ça change.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it does work, often too well for people to manage…

submitted 6 hours ago • 95 comments

the sycophancy drops (sometimes) when the amour propre of the interviewer or the prestige of their profession is pricked.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know if the "public lands for sale in the BBB" maps that are getting passed around are actually real? I haven't seen clear attribution for them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

submitted 10 hours ago • 38 comments

Tyler Austin Harper is allegedly a professor of literature. I’m interested in how this scenario he has imagined is “Shakespearean” in any meaningful way (can’t just be ironical!).

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

this & the quoted thread are good to remember re. Tucker Carlson as well.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Just remember, while this is good, Tucker was a big fan of Iraq and all the Patriot Act stuff. Now he’s against it, was/is for Trump, and believes he was attacked by a demon.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

this has to be one of the coolest jobs to say you have. I would be the opposite of the police officers who lie about their jobs on dating profiles; my bio would just be “Giant Panda cop.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, I support the thin blue line: Smithsonian Museum protection officers & physical security specialists, & US National Zoological Park Police officers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

politics brain: maximum level (extremely complimentary)

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

this is very true & applicable to a sizable number of figures in Trump’s orbit & the right-wing media-political complex.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

no i don't think this is true

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

none of these words are in the Bible.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

A bit of trivia calculated to interest only me—Princess (soon to be Queen) Elizabeth was present at the National Federation of Jazz Organisations’ concert at Royal Festival Hall in 1951, which signaled the ascendancy of traditional (or “Dixieland”) jazz in Britain.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Their son is under the rubbles

Norton Critical Editions (which I typically love) put out the Communist Manifesto with a worse cover choice.

Women want me, fish fear me, fish are disgusted by me, fish have been spreading lies about me, fish want me dead, fish are plotting my downfall, fish are trying to suppress my teachings, fish are making it look like an accident, the fish have won over the women with propaganda, women fear me.

“Lloyd Doggett” is an excellent name for a congressman from Texas.

suboptimal, but tough for me to see this guy as the problem given, well, everything else & everyone else involved.

Domenech certainly has a face for radio & podcasting.

We’d likely be better off if advertising & headlines had no influence over public opinion; unfortunately that seems highly implausible.

It’s so cool this administration is going to sell the most pristine parts of the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Sawtooths to private owners so they can log, hunt, mine, and build survivalist compounds on our shared national heritage.

Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.

We’re in our Question Mark era

Right. If it doesn’t work at all, if it can’t approximate human work often enough, why should I have any concerns about this for the long term? In that case it is simply a bubble that will burst sooner or later—plus ça change.

the sycophancy drops (sometimes) when the amour propre of the interviewer or the prestige of their profession is pricked.

Does anyone know if the "public lands for sale in the BBB" maps that are getting passed around are actually real? I haven't seen clear attribution for them.

Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

Tyler Austin Harper is allegedly a professor of literature. I’m interested in how this scenario he has imagined is “Shakespearean” in any meaningful way (can’t just be ironical!).

this & the quoted thread are good to remember re. Tucker Carlson as well.

Just remember, while this is good, Tucker was a big fan of Iraq and all the Patriot Act stuff. Now he’s against it, was/is for Trump, and believes he was attacked by a demon.

this has to be one of the coolest jobs to say you have. I would be the opposite of the police officers who lie about their jobs on dating profiles; my bio would just be “Giant Panda cop.”

Yes, I support the thin blue line: Smithsonian Museum protection officers & physical security specialists, & US National Zoological Park Police officers.

politics brain: maximum level (extremely complimentary)

this is very true & applicable to a sizable number of figures in Trump’s orbit & the right-wing media-political complex.

no i don't think this is true

none of these words are in the Bible.

A bit of trivia calculated to interest only me—Princess (soon to be Queen) Elizabeth was present at the National Federation of Jazz Organisations’ concert at Royal Festival Hall in 1951, which signaled the ascendancy of traditional (or “Dixieland”) jazz in Britain.

how did I not know that George B. McClellan’s son became mayor of New York City?

we gotta smother this trend in the crib.

UW-Madison alumna, so good.

I‘d have to say You Do Not Like to See It.