I love the phrase "get myself with ivy". Lmao fuck

This is probably a reference to the daughter of Hades (Greek god of the underworld), 'Makaria,' who mourners would have made offerings to at funerals for protection in the afterlife.

Midwesterners honor the Greek goddess by bringing mac and cheese to funeral receptions and wakes. 😄

The levels of rage to make normal people in the Twin Cities laugh derisively when you fall on your ass is surface-of-the-sun level.

But it’s from the same root that caused all those strangers to stop and help me. It’s just that now, instead of bandaids, people need whistles and bodies on the line.

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.

- wait, HE picked that romantic ass music? Hahahahaha (awww)

WHERE IS YOUR MANHOOD NOW, HAWLEY? YOU BRING SHAME ON YOUR ANCESTORS

it's the For Everything-ness and the obsequiousness and the *blithe* wrongness on top of the sparkling markov chainer, not the sparkling markov chainer itself, that seems so sui generis

SHWEP episode The Enigma of Pythagoras

it doesn't sound like there's a whistle shortage, and even if Philly never gets hit hard, for people to have an ice whistle and see it in their kit every day will be a useful reminder - an amulet

This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years.

You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.