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Believer in the fire & fury version of Woke II. Yes to Truth. No to Reconciliation.
Long-suffering Washington Wizards fan.
Long-suffering Washington Wizards fan.
Oh noes! An executive order! Whatever shall the states do?
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Oh noes! An executive order! Whatever shall the states do?
Anticipation, such as it is, is always industry driven. Articles like this don't mention consumers because none of this is consumer driven. Ive's devices designed for Apple sold because they looked nice, but, more importantly, people wanted what was in those devices.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Anticipation, such as it is, is always industry driven. Articles like this don't mention consumers because none of this is consumer driven. Ive's devices designed for Apple sold because they looked nice, but, more importantly, people wanted what was in those devices.
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Jena Friedman: Treat Nazis Like You Treat Women | CONAN on TBS
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December 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It seems like you don't understand your mission if your goal is to prepare students for work. Preparing students for success isn't done through narrowing the field of study, unpredictable job markets aren't solved by limiting options.
Preparing students for "work" means they don't matter to you.
Preparing students for "work" means they don't matter to you.
Opinion | Stop Blaming AI. Start Preparing Students for Work
AI isn’t taking jobs, but it is changing them. Colleges should listen to calls for more work-based learning to set students up for success in an unpredictable job market. https://bit.ly/4iTQc7J
AI isn’t taking jobs, but it is changing them. Colleges should listen to calls for more work-based learning to set students up for success in an unpredictable job market. https://bit.ly/4iTQc7J
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It seems like you don't understand your mission if your goal is to prepare students for work. Preparing students for success isn't done through narrowing the field of study, unpredictable job markets aren't solved by limiting options.
Preparing students for "work" means they don't matter to you.
Preparing students for "work" means they don't matter to you.
When this crossed my timeline it said Claude Monet "reposted by Paul Cézanne."
Monet’s Poplars series almost didn’t happen because the trees were about to be cut down.
So he purchased them until he finished painting, then sold them back.
So he purchased them until he finished painting, then sold them back.
December 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
When this crossed my timeline it said Claude Monet "reposted by Paul Cézanne."
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very cool that every day now there are a bunch of stories where i think well i can’t post what i think about that without violating terms of service
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
very cool that every day now there are a bunch of stories where i think well i can’t post what i think about that without violating terms of service
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The thing that gets me about this is that even if we wanted to make a positive AI ad, they never showcase AI being used to enhance someone’s day or improve their workflow. There’s no “it allows me to more easily do what I love.” It’s always presented as a failsafe for the dispassionate and incurious
Every ad for AI is like
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The thing that gets me about this is that even if we wanted to make a positive AI ad, they never showcase AI being used to enhance someone’s day or improve their workflow. There’s no “it allows me to more easily do what I love.” It’s always presented as a failsafe for the dispassionate and incurious
Wire's Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 are 3 of my favorite albums of all time. Their stuff post-154 is great, I like Newman's solo work a lot, Dome is great; peaks and valleys sure, but almost 50 years of vital music seems impossible.
Its not.
Its not.
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Wire's Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 are 3 of my favorite albums of all time. Their stuff post-154 is great, I like Newman's solo work a lot, Dome is great; peaks and valleys sure, but almost 50 years of vital music seems impossible.
Its not.
Its not.
Starting to think I'd like a "Grand Juries are America's Strongest Soldiers," t-shirt or similar.
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Starting to think I'd like a "Grand Juries are America's Strongest Soldiers," t-shirt or similar.
I've purchased a couple of pieces in the past and love them.
I'm all done with IRL #sciart events for the year, so I listed a few more itty-bitty paintings in my ko-fi shop ko-fi.com/1626SLXL3044...
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I've purchased a couple of pieces in the past and love them.
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i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
i just reposted this but I really just want to say that the $8/mo I spend on the Handbasket is one of the best investments I've made in indie journalism ever
Jail for 1,000 years.
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Jail for 1,000 years.
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working title is: 'How to Spot a Wrong'un with Jane Austen'
Absolute Units returns this Thursday!
This time we're chatting to the wonderful Professor Paddy Bullard (University of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (Associate Director, The MERL) about Jane Austen, ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth next Tuesday.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
This time we're chatting to the wonderful Professor Paddy Bullard (University of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (Associate Director, The MERL) about Jane Austen, ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth next Tuesday.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
working title is: 'How to Spot a Wrong'un with Jane Austen'
Well. I'm going to be trying this one out.
Absolute Units returns this Thursday!
This time we're chatting to the wonderful Professor Paddy Bullard (University of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (Associate Director, The MERL) about Jane Austen, ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth next Tuesday.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
This time we're chatting to the wonderful Professor Paddy Bullard (University of Reading) and Isabel Hughes (Associate Director, The MERL) about Jane Austen, ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth next Tuesday.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
merl.reading.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Well. I'm going to be trying this one out.
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a few weeks ago it was john yoo saying that mayhaps bombing random boats might not magically become legal simply by intoning "drug trafficking" and now this. really hate living in the timeline where now even both torture memo guys are thinking things have gotten out of hand.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
a few weeks ago it was john yoo saying that mayhaps bombing random boats might not magically become legal simply by intoning "drug trafficking" and now this. really hate living in the timeline where now even both torture memo guys are thinking things have gotten out of hand.
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i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
And now Bad Religion is stuck in my head for the next 12 hours.
Had a good time joining @bradleyonishi.bsky.social to discuss this essay on Straight White American Jesus
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December 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
And now Bad Religion is stuck in my head for the next 12 hours.
Able to use Bluesky well enough to mute a thread, but not well enough to be able to understand and engage with the concept of "Some people can reply."
If nothing else, at least the games playing and bad faith is consistent.
If nothing else, at least the games playing and bad faith is consistent.
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Able to use Bluesky well enough to mute a thread, but not well enough to be able to understand and engage with the concept of "Some people can reply."
If nothing else, at least the games playing and bad faith is consistent.
If nothing else, at least the games playing and bad faith is consistent.
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It doesn’t matter how many differences the frog had with the scorpion, it carried the scorpion nonetheless
I'm honestly trying to understand the criticism but it seems to rest on the idea that, until now, I have been in an intellectual alliance with Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and am only just realising that he might have some opinions I disagree with
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It doesn’t matter how many differences the frog had with the scorpion, it carried the scorpion nonetheless
Did I buy this? As in, see, open, buy, immediately no debate about it? Yes, yes I did.
404 is on the short list of truly essential media right now, and I'm glad to be able to support them when I can.
404 is on the short list of truly essential media right now, and I'm glad to be able to support them when I can.
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Did I buy this? As in, see, open, buy, immediately no debate about it? Yes, yes I did.
404 is on the short list of truly essential media right now, and I'm glad to be able to support them when I can.
404 is on the short list of truly essential media right now, and I'm glad to be able to support them when I can.
If you're murdering people because you're afraid to lose a paycheck you're not "apparently good." There's no good anywhere in there.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you're murdering people because you're afraid to lose a paycheck you're not "apparently good." There's no good anywhere in there.
How have I not seen this New Yorker cartoon of a Demonic Consultation? This is incredible.
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How have I not seen this New Yorker cartoon of a Demonic Consultation? This is incredible.
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My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.