lapsed electrical engineer; still not enough paid music gigs to quit the day job; builder of rule engines and tools to help people get jobs. he/him
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Respectfully I think this is too charitable. It's not like the survival of Disney depends on any particular merger going through. Its executives already have generational wealth. They're unquestionably in a position to tell Trump to eat shit and they've chosen to collaborate instead
KERNEN: Speaking of Nvidia, I don't know if it's a shakedown, but it doesn't seem normal to say 'you can sell your chips to China, we just want 15%' HASSETT: There's a serious national security risk if the Nvidia chips lead to Chinese getting a head start in AI K: How does getting 15% solve that?
Even Ted Cruz winning in 2016 would have been better
Aster season has arrived. #bloomscrolling
If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
You're being too hard on yourself! Sometimes there's a word in another language that is perfect - & there isn't a corresponding word in other languages. IMO mensch is 1 of those. If you didn't grow up hearing it, totally makes sense to me that you sometimes may need to be reminded of its meaning.
Angela would bring people onto Murder She Wrote for an episode in order to give them work so they could stay insured. Cabot Cove needed a new body and suspects every week, after all, so it was a good fit.
reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...
A group of eight state and national media organizations, including @propublica.org @texastribune.org and the Texas Newsroom, are arguing that Ken Paxton’s divorce records are of public interest, especially in light of his bid for a US Senate seat.
We were on NY1 this morning to talk with @patkiernan.bsky.social and Jamie Stelter about our new book, "Life After Cars." Check it out! Thanks so much to Pat, Jamie and the entire crew for making us feel so welcome.
They clearly did not do the reading. We have our OWN martyrs. We INVENTED that.
Also hilarious they want their priests to go to oratorical war for the most obnoxious Protestant imaginable, heh. They clearly don't get it.
Grand juries: The fuck we will Media execs: How high?
Dem-aligned rich guy buy one media outlet challenge
New: Tejano star Bobby Pulido seeks to flip Rep. Monica De La Cruz's South Texas Congress seat #TX15 www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
At the same moment of the subprime mortgage crisis, my husband was completing his PhD, which focused on copulas--the same equations being used by the wide boys in finance that got us into the crisis. Legit Comp Sci researchers right now must be watching the 'AI' industry with horror.
Great to see our new paper "Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change" out in print today in @natclimate.nature.com, which builds on our landscaping project on climate-health attribution a couple of years ago, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
You could live the dream: studying feral cows.
I joined one (there are SO many) Dementia/Alzheimers caregivers support groups as I care for my 98 yr old father in law w dementia. There are 112k members. Jaw-dropping and eye opening how many ppl are dealing with this-it is such a labor of love, but also 1 of the most difficult things imaginable
someday the five year old won’t want me or my wife to sing baby beluga to him when he goes to bed anymore and that will be a sad day
Yes! I knew it! I am at ease.
i'm sorry, a wave? i only know of one in the press. how many of these have there been?
Wonderful new photo mailed to me by a very thoughtful and generous Bluesky follower!
Back and around 1997 in NCIS special agent called me, demanded that somebody be prosecuted for not flying the flag the right way. I laughed at him. He called my supervisor and complained. These days I'd probably get fired.
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” - TR
ma’am please stop bothering that baked potato😭
Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.
we brought Adonis home immediately after I got "restructured" out of my last job, so he's never gotten used to seeing me get up and get ready for work, and he is Not pleased
Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”
If the journalists and news companies you rely on did not make clear prior to last year's election that these were the stakes in last year's election, I would urge you to reconsider your media diet.
I swear every few months some idiot asks why we’re still enjoying life with the current events of this dumb fuck country…babe, I’ve got shit planned for next year already. Only reason imma stop living is because my heart and brain stop communicating
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.
So much other insanity I barely even processed the insanity of the Hyundai raid. Invite SK workers, abruptly kidnap and -torture- them, send them home—now we’ll “let” them come BACK? Someone business minded in there better figure out how to neutralize Miller. I get zero care about human rights but
This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.
50mg diphenhydramine 15 minutes before the shot or 20mg cetirizine/loratidine or 360mg fexofenadine 2-3 hours before the shot will make you feel much less like shit and not affect vaccine efficacy! in fact in one study it *improved* it
Oh it's not just Georgia. Hyundai Shipbuilding, the largest shipbuilding company in the world, was looking at a number of flagging US shipyards to invest in totaling about $150 billion. Part of this was to help build Jones Act ships and a number of arctic ships to counter China & Russia
The Trump Administration is literally poisoning kittens. And by “literally poisoning kittens,” I mean “literally poisoning kittens,” not just “really strongly metaphorically poisoning kittens.”
Late-stage capitalism is when you have to pay to see the rest of the threat
Can anyone point to a recent list of Fox And Friends advertisers? I'm only finding stuff from last year.
Wasn't hard to find the segment! youtu.be/VoOebNNCMjI?...
Similarly, I listen to old Dr. Demento shows and recently heard one from 1988 where Dr D was talking to Weird Al about working with Wendy Carlos on “Peter and the Wolf,” and they said not a word about her gender. It wasn’t relevant. And this was 1988! It’s all about decency, which is timeless.
Casey kasem was an amazing man in general. He was a Lebanese man who ended up working as hard for Palestinian rights and liberation as respected academics like Edward said up until he died
This is so cool. Wendy Carlos was the first trans person I ever heard of, since I liked her music across her name change. It would have been fun to hear a story like that.
My hometown’s public radio and TV station is going to close down because of the loss of federal funding, and because Penn State won’t shell out to make up the difference. It would be a couple million dollars a year. The football coach makes $8.5 million a year.
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
Instead of a public retraction, the Wall Street Journal quietly adjusted its headline. Neither Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief, nor the two reporters who wrote the original piece responded to my requests for comment. www.advocate.com/news/wall-st...
Literally look at any Media Matters story tagged with his name and you'll get his disgusting comments in full context. Miss me with this "I find that [his views] have been inaccurately or incompletely reported," you ghoul.
I use the word ‘sublime’ way too often, but this one…
All honor to Elizabeth Spiers and The Nation.
Some of the greatest conflicts in world history have been solved by only the bravest of leaders sending that close-of-business-email. The one you fly off right before you shut down the computer for the day… usually because you don’t want to see the replies until tomorrow, if ever.
I'll bite. Why isn't he?
Surprisingly, that's the thing I didn't think about foundation
cool looking record player
"yes, I need six million kittens 'cuz I'm staging a coup and there's no way they shoot with all these kittens around"
Of all the things "AI" (or at least LLMs) could actually do usefully, identifying and eradicating this clickbait garbage would seem to be a fairly trivial task. Of all the things Meta doesn't want to use "AI" for...
Go rewatch the Rocketeer as well if you haven't in a while! Joel Johnston just straight up hates Nazis and I love him for it. youtu.be/_D-Z0AA-7vQ?...
But seriously I need my compadre to grasp that in the USA people drive from late childhood onward so I have been driving for 38 years and licensed for most of those, and doing it on multi lane roads at speeds we almost never see here in Peru His advice on lane changes is not that helpful.
realizing how many people think only a sniper could make a 200 yard shot has been a real eye-opener for me this week
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS
His note is way funnier than I expected
entering the every man for himself phase in three, two
Mansplaining: a One Page Lesson
Despite loving video games my whole life, I largely avoided communities of gamers growing up because so many LOUDLY hated me and people like me. That loneliness often, in hindsight, feels like a dodged bullet.
Also, for reference if you need it: if you need a N95 mask that is MRI safe, readimask.com has got you covered (literally) and if anyone gives you shit just show them cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/03...
The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
Cool! And if solar can work in the UK, then the rest of us don’t have much excuse.
There’s both a system noise and sensitivity due to the quantum optics issues you say and the frequency sensitivity which is just size of the “antenna” analog, length of sensor paths. To get to quantum optics they also had to invent the most stable cooled, suspended, and isolated mirrors ever first…
Oh! And they’re working on an mRNA vaccine for Tasmanian devils to fix their freaky contagious face cancer!
Also, speaking of oryx, the scimitar-horned oryx is endangered. Which is actually fucking amazing because they were extinct in the wild twenty years ago. Captive breeding in zoos—shoutout to the Phoenix Zoo who did a LOT of work on this—means there are now over 300 wild oryx in Chad.
Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
The price of bedaquiline, a crucial component of modern Tuberculosis treatment, has dropped by 54% from August of 2023, allowing many more people around the world to access effective treatment against humanity's deadliest disease. (thank you @pih.org and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social )
One pelican. 13 shots. Sleep as well as you can. #birds
Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Yeah. And have more dance lessons.
and without a souvenir
only episodes i fully liked this season on SNW was Q Jr, the Holodeck, and Ortegas finally getting a episode built around her. the finale was beyond messy outside of the spock/kirk mindmeld scene
I want to be as kind to the ST SNW Season 3 finale as I can as there genuine well written moments, but what in the Steven fucking Moffat was that?
September 11, 1914: W. C. Handy "Father of the Blues" publishes his most famous composition "St Louis Blues." While he did not create the blues genre he took it from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in music
September 11, 1847: First singing of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He wrote over 200 songs, including "Beautiful Dreamer"; "The Old Folk's at Home (Swanee River)"; and "My Old Kentucky Home."
AI generated books about the shooting already for sale, what a hellscape
Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿
The world may be burning but art will remain
Honestly if I died from something I was loudly in favor of, I would want it reported on constantly. “Hex Dead From Thousands of Bees; Victim ‘Loved Pollinators’”
I had the privilege of working and training under folks that responded to the pentagon on 9/11, and later with search and rescue folks that operated at the World Trade Center. The way they have to fight to be taken care of for the selfless service they provided is one of the roots of my cynicism.
green is the best car color, and I've only had one green car (RX-8, and it was kind of a bluish-green), do better, car makers
On September 11, 2001, US Strategic Command was—by sheer coincidence—one week into its annual Global Guardian nuclear command and control exercise. Strategic bombers had been armed with some 36 nuclear weapons, ICBMs and several SSBNs were on alert, and three E-4B airborne command posts were aloft.
Coincidentally, Russia was also in the midst of its own nuclear war exercise on 9/11. When Russian intelligence detected signs the United States was preparing to move to DEFCON 3, President Vladimir Putin urgently tried to reach President Bush to clarify what was happening.
For 30 minutes, the White House communications office tried but failed to establish a secure link between Air Force One and the Kremlin. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (who speaks Russian), finally got on the phone with President Putin to arrange a mutual stand-down.
Here is a cute bird of hope and good luck. I can't save it any longer for the cold dark rainy days. A ruby-throated hummingbird is perched on a flower #birds
Darth Vader Practiced the Force the Right Way
I'll Draw Your Portrait — Louis Wain
Charlie Kirk goaded his followers into persecuting and threatening people he didn’t agree with. Nothing about that is virtuous. Some people are making it clear they never listened to a word the guy actually said.
have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left
Hate ages people terribly.
