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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
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From her Wikipedia page: "Kargman dislikes being called a socialite as she feels it negates the work she does." Well then. (Her father used to be the president of Chanel.)

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They want to send our friends and neighbors and families away, because they hate the idea that America could be a beacon of freedom and hope to anyone who isn't them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

From out here in the midwest, I'm delighted to see at least one electoral rejection of that stirring message, "Better things aren't possible."

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a much better response to that stupid Khan Academy AI learning thing than “AI can’t do any of those things and never will”; it can’t do them well, and certainly not productively, but if you squint a bit all the things Khan suggested are doable with ML, just the aggregate is dumb and bad

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Great thread by a friend of mine about what it was and is like working in print as an illustrator through the death-rattle days of newspapers and magazines.

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If they get rid of the equestrian event in favor of obstacle course, modern pentathlon should full on switch its narrative to "a shinobi of the Sengoku period infiltrates the castle of a neighboring daimyo": moat swimming, rope climbing, disguise, obstacle course, and timed construction surveying.

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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

submitted 4 days ago • 609 comments

Today is Juneteenth. Instead of erasing the history of this country, we choose to learn, share, and grow. Here's the history of Juneteenth, and why it matters today:

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

June 19, 1925: Bessie Coleman, the first Black female pilot in the U.S., flies in her first air show, in her home city of Houston. After this stunt exhibition that falls on Juneteenth she will go on a barnstorming tour for both Black and white audiences across the South.

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So I have a reddit clone on atproto now? There are "vibes" and you find a "vibe" by browsing hashtags and finding ones that start in #vibe-whatever and once enough people skeet with #vibe-whatever in a time window or total times, then itll be made w/the system. We create communities by engagement.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"They just want to be smart." Says a lot about this moment that the NYT's big technology explainer-to-the-masses is gleefully handing his wallet over again & again and then chastising us for our cynicism for saying there's no such thing as a Wallet Inspector. defector.com/toward-a-the...

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THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

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It’s 102 years to the day since the deeply eccentric Edith Sitwell sat behind a curtain at London’s Aeolian Hall, reciting bizarre poetry through what looked like a traffic cone, prompting Noel Coward to take the piss, which started a highly entertaining multi-decade literary feud...🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Fuck, give her a second National Book Award.

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