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monsteraptor
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Boltzmann brain. Sometimes on a trapeze.
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This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
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on the other hand, those aging populations might very well be dead by mid-century, and in US-political terms the most liberal generation is also the biggest, and still quite young. It is possible that this is some type of transitional crisis as the demographic transition kicks in, and can pass
This is wildly evil and self-destructive policy on multiple vectors, but also? £38K is roughly the median salary in the UK IIRC.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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like in the past two days he started illegally tearing down the white house to build a ballroom paid for from money extorted from american companies and demanded that the government secretly pay him a quarter of a billion dollars for investigating him for crimes he more or less admits to
there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours
Ah. Bad, but likely not “guided missile warheads” bad.
Guided missile warheads?!
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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The U.S. military has killed at least 32 people in seven strikes off the coast of Venezuela without telling Congress or the American people who was killed, or on what evidence.
Trump's Venezuela operation expands in the dark
32 people have been killed. We don't know who they are.
www.axios.com
The rest of my raised beds are straw-bale gardens (bc that’s where most of the tomatoes go); the old straw gets recycled as mulch or compost into the soil beds and containers.
Ya, I do Hügelkultur with my raised soil beds, and some of my in-ground beds (the latter take a lot of work, and big logs).
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Yeah the history channel gassing up the elite genius of the Nazis feels, in retrospect, like A Choice.
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new vlog: Kauaeranga Kauri Trail (Pinnacles Hut Walk) in Aotearoa New Zealand vt.tiktok.com/ZSUGQsa4v/
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OH ITS A FUCKING BALLISTIC MISSILE OVER MY HOUSE OH THANK YOU PEACEMAKING LEADERS ALL OVER THE WORLD YOU USELESS FUCKING TROGLODYTES
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I know it may seem like a small election, but these seats are so important for GA democrats to win. It's all republican now, and with electricity skyrocketing and so many data centers being built for AI, we need rational people's voices in the room. There are so many chances to fit it into your day
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i know we aren't allowed to have good things happen but i would like for something funny to happen
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My daughter asked me to paint her fingernails yesterday, so I have finally found a practical use for all that time I spent with plastic soldiers and tiny brushes
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Here is my fuller dispatch from this afternoon in @hellgatenyc.com
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OK, yeah, looking at the close up of the hand that's the design he used for the tattoo.

Guy literally has the runic equivalent of abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz on his hand.
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B191.1
Weasel
as conjurer.
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D114.1.2
Transformation:
man
to eland.
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