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Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Tech oligarchs have been scrambling for products to retain dominance since the plateau of the home computer and mobile phone. Today, they're forcing 'AI' garbage on us while pushing for mass surveillance and war products, even if they have to make the wars to service them. We can reject this future.
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Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.
Michael Green’s tally of the costs of raising a family in the U.S. today is going viral, even if some economists scoff at his math.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another
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wapo.st/3MeOGki
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wapo.st/3MeOGki
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Birthday dinner night 2: Chicago style
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Birthday dinner night 2: Chicago style
I underestimated how many of the books in stacks on the floor near the shelves, or double shelved, were signed. It is likely there will be signed book overflow.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I underestimated how many of the books in stacks on the floor near the shelves, or double shelved, were signed. It is likely there will be signed book overflow.
Jon had enough signed books to fill an extended Billy bookcase.
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Jon had enough signed books to fill an extended Billy bookcase.
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I think it is incredibly disingenuous to act as if the justified criticisms of LLM's and GenAI are invalidated by totally different uses cases of machine learning.
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I think it is incredibly disingenuous to act as if the justified criticisms of LLM's and GenAI are invalidated by totally different uses cases of machine learning.
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Three evenings ago I read an article about using ice packs on the forehead to help beat insomnia. The original study was from 2011 IIRC. Apparently if you drop the temperature of your frontal lobe by a degree or so you trigger a cascade of sleepy time metabolic events.
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Three evenings ago I read an article about using ice packs on the forehead to help beat insomnia. The original study was from 2011 IIRC. Apparently if you drop the temperature of your frontal lobe by a degree or so you trigger a cascade of sleepy time metabolic events.
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My pho guy closes his shop on Black Friday every year and just cooks hibachi out front all day for anyone that wants it for free
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My pho guy closes his shop on Black Friday every year and just cooks hibachi out front all day for anyone that wants it for free
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They’re going to run “AI Trump,” an LLM programmed with everything he’s ever said and all the pictures ever taken of him, for president in 2028 and the SCOTUS ruling that makes this “legal” is going to inadvertently grant personhood to all the other LLMs.
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
They’re going to run “AI Trump,” an LLM programmed with everything he’s ever said and all the pictures ever taken of him, for president in 2028 and the SCOTUS ruling that makes this “legal” is going to inadvertently grant personhood to all the other LLMs.
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The ultimate Wilson family Thanksgiving weekend tradition
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The ultimate Wilson family Thanksgiving weekend tradition
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Guillermo Del Toro saw some audiences somehow didn't realize Oppenheimer was a movie about doing a bad thing, and out of the kindness of his heart, he made a Frankenstein movie just for them.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Guillermo Del Toro saw some audiences somehow didn't realize Oppenheimer was a movie about doing a bad thing, and out of the kindness of his heart, he made a Frankenstein movie just for them.
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-Afghan Whigs
-John Cale
-Wilco
-Car seat Headrest
-IDLES
-Afghan Whigs
-John Cale
-Wilco
-Car seat Headrest
-IDLES
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-Afghan Whigs
-John Cale
-Wilco
-Car seat Headrest
-IDLES
-Afghan Whigs
-John Cale
-Wilco
-Car seat Headrest
-IDLES
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> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
- Jethro Tull
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- moe.
- String Cheese Incident
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
Besides Grateful Dead, and Phish, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen more then 5 times.
Radiators
Supersuckers
The Cure
ACDC
Steve Miller
Radiators
Supersuckers
The Cure
ACDC
Steve Miller
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
> Besides Grateful Dead, Phish and Widespread Panic, introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times.
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
-disappear fear
-Springsteen
-Afghan Whigs
-indigo Girls
-Maceo Parker
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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Good opportunity to try out my ☕️!
A Black Friday deal now live on our flagship blend The Mix — a great time to test drive our beautiful beans.
And a deep discount for pre-paid gift subscriptions of anywhere from 2 to 24 shipments! Holiday shopping: sorted! ☕️🎁
And a deep discount for pre-paid gift subscriptions of anywhere from 2 to 24 shipments! Holiday shopping: sorted! ☕️🎁
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Good opportunity to try out my ☕️!
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
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This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is both offensive and intentional. If the ICE agents are "ignorant" they are willfully and deliberately ignorant. Their job is not to uphold the law but to terrorize non-white Americans in service to the white nationalist cause.
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I'd seen mention elsewhere recently of how we measure the poverty line and it is wild: it's a measurement from the 1960s to be a crisis threshold.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'd seen mention elsewhere recently of how we measure the poverty line and it is wild: it's a measurement from the 1960s to be a crisis threshold.
Thank you canned wine for giving me a limit and also taking the edge off of an intensifying, unrelenting festival of grief.
I’m sure this won’t impact my yoga tomorrow.
Can I sleep til February 15?
I’m sure this won’t impact my yoga tomorrow.
Can I sleep til February 15?
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Thank you canned wine for giving me a limit and also taking the edge off of an intensifying, unrelenting festival of grief.
I’m sure this won’t impact my yoga tomorrow.
Can I sleep til February 15?
I’m sure this won’t impact my yoga tomorrow.
Can I sleep til February 15?
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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