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Kevin Wayne Williams

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Idea Landlord. Author of "PS43 Survives" ( https://ps43survives.com ) and "Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned in Kindergarten" ( https://www.amazon.com/Everything-About-Zombies-Learned-Kindergarten/dp/0990853306 ).

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · Jun 15

I don't get new ratings on Goodreads very often anymore, but they are pretty consistent. Maybe you should take the hint and read "Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned in Kindergarten". I promise that it will be worth your time.
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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1h

Exemplified by the number of MAGAts that will proudly sing "Born in the USA"

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 5h

I find they are best listened to in small doses.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 8h

Not sure how many people remember Andrew Denton, but his "Money or the Gun" weekly variety show included a different cover of "Stairway to Heaven" every week. They got released on an album subtitled "Twenty-five versions of the same song ... it seemed like a good idea at the time".

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 8h

Token Two
Pardon Me Boys with "Stairway to Heaven"

Stairway to Heaven Pardon Me Boys

YouTube video by Darren Jonusas

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 8h

Token One
The Lounge-O-Leers with "Riders on the Storm"

Riders on the Storm - The Lounge-O-Leers

YouTube video by The Lounge-O-Leers

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently people like me are getting under Abe's skin.
#AbeHamadeh
#NaziLickspittle

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

When Aaron McGruder put this out, it was clearly satire. Today, not so much.

Strip of Huey watching TV, speech emanation from the TV

Panel 1: Know what? I'm sick of apologizing. I'm not apologizing anymore.

Panel 2: I despise black people. So does every other God-fearing Southern politician. So does the majority of Americans that voted us into office. So don't try to crucify me for saying what most of America's been thinking! I MISS THE DAYS WHEN DARKIES KNEW THEIR PLACE.

Panel 3: WHEW! Just had to get that last immoral through out of my system. Now, let's put it behind us and build a better tomorrow.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, this applies equally well to Virgo non-cartoonists like myself.

Brad Guigar — Follow my #HaHaHaHalloween Countdown 🎃 @bradguigar.com · 1d

HOROSCOPE FOR CARTOONISTS
♑ Capricorn (Dec 22–Jan 19):
Your work ethic is unmatched today. You’ll grind out two pages, schedule your posts, and answer emails — all before lunch. After lunch, you’ll collapse into an existential crisis about whether art matters.

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

use case for AI ... noticing that another researcher has linked "Joseph Hargis" to a record about "Jos Hargs" and suggesting that you take a look at that record as well.

But you can tell the trees where people blindly followed the suggestions ... errors compound, yielding a self-contradictory mess.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

Yep ... properly used for pattern recognition and analysis, AI can be quite useful. Ancestry.com, for example, has a nice infrastructure of AI that helps filter through misspellings and poor scans to help you find the records you are looking for. That kind of pattern matching is an excellent...

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

A visit to the top 50 of "Black & African American Horror Fiction" always cheers me up.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

Were I to participate in any activities where an inflatable costume were required, this one would be high on my list of choices.

An inflatable banana costume, where the peel has been split in a fashion to make the interior of the banana appear to be a giant phallus.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

I dread the day that HR starts giving me resumes from suckers that went to this school.

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 1d

Bowing to popular demand, I have decided not to post the photographic evidence that my colonoscopy found nothing exciting.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 3d

Due to an upcoming colonoscopy, my food intake today is limited to eight bottles of Sprite.

This is not a fit diet for humans.

A bottle of Sprite: clear bottle, garish green label, with "Sprite" written in Crillee Italic

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𝙽𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊 @testtrien.bsky.social · 2d

Wat de bookies zeggen over wie de Nobel vredesprijs gaat krijgen morgen. Treurig.

Ik zeg, geef 'm aan Greta voor optimaal effect.

Candidate/Organization

US
Odds

Fractional
Odds

Implied
Probability

Donald Trump
+200
2/7
33.33%
Sudan's Emergency
+250
5/2
28.57%
Response Rooms
Yulia Navalnaya
+400
4/1
20.00%
UNRWA
+600
6/1
14.29%
Doctors Without
+1400 14/1
6.6 7%
Borders
Volodymyr Zelensky
+1600
16/1
5.88%
William Lai
+2500 25/1
3.85%
Greta Thunberg
+2500 25/1
3.85%
International Criminal
+2500 25/1
3.85%
Court
'ope Leo XIV
+2500 25/1
3.85%

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly enough, I've lived 45 years among morons that believe they need to strap up to buy groceries.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Floridians will be able to openly carry firearms while shopping at Publix, the largest supermarket chain in the state, the company said on Thursday. The announcement came after a state appeals court ruled that a Florida ban on people openly carrying firearms was unconstitutional.

Customers May Openly Carry Firearms in Florida’s Publix Stores, Company Says

The supermarket chain said it was complying with state law, including a ruling last month that overturned a ban on openly carrying firearms.

nyti.ms

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the notion that Epstein was Melania's pimp utterly unsurprising?

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 2d

Purchase link:

Screaming at the Top of My Lungs, Amy Gabba and The Almost Famous - Qobuz

Listen to unlimited streaming or download Screaming at the Top of My Lungs by Amy Gabba and The Almost Famous in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscriptions from $10.83/month.

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 2d

Amy Gabba and the Almost Famous with "Hey Little Rich Girl" ... also coming to the Rude Girl Riot on 18OCT
#ska
#bluebeat
#swing
#LosAngeles

Hey Little Rich Girl (Amy Gabba and The Almost Famous Feat. Scott Klopfenstein)

YouTube video by Amy Gabba

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 2d

Every one of them is following an order they know to be illegal.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 3d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 3d

Due to an upcoming colonoscopy, my food intake today is limited to eight bottles of Sprite.

This is not a fit diet for humans.

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 3d

It is clear to me that it is time for Ken Lay to step in to manage this business to its inevitable conclusion.

Here’s one indicatively tangled pathway through the morass of companies. Nvidia is investing billions in and selling chips to OpenAI, which is also buying chips from and earning stock in AMD. AMD sells processors to Oracle, which is building data centers with OpenAI — which also gets data center work from CoreWeave. And that company is partially owned by, yes, Nvidia. Taken together, it’s a doozy. There are other collaborations and rivalries and many other factors at play, but OpenAI is the many-tentacled octopus in the middle, spinning its achievement of ChatGPT into a blitz of speculative investments.

Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 3d

Apropos of nothing ...

"Big Yellow Taxi" - Rainbow Girls (Joni Mitchell cover)

YouTube video by Rainbow Girls

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Wayne Williams @kww.bsky.social · 3d

A6 Little kids being happy