Am kinda sorta expecting this type of invasion by Texas into New Mexico, in the next year or three.
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Am kinda sorta expecting this type of invasion by Texas into New Mexico, in the next year or three.
Well I didn't see you mention "Fran"
"Fran" by Narfcore www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwPp...
I’m with firstname29502 here. (And firstname29502 would’ve written “when.”)
Greenwald? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Had completely forgotten about him. And now I will return to completely forgetting about him.
Um, no thanks. deadline.com/2025/09/pete...
There’s a wild rabbit who visits our yard and he’s always happy to pause and let me take a few pics before he scurries off. It’s like he’s saying, “How about this angle? Ok? Got your shots? Ok gotta run, seeya!” then he hops away. 🤷♂️
Are there penalties for violating the Posse Comitatus Act?
How *anyone* can trust *any* of these bored billionaire techbros with AI and robots will always be beyond me. These are the very *worst* people to be making decisions about AI and robots. All I can say, over and over, is do not trust these SOBs and just say NO to their AI. Period.
450 million dollars. 🤷♂️
Proud to say I never once attended a frat party. I hated the obnoxious drunkards. There was a big frat right across the street from my dorm. When they had parties I opened my dorm room’s windows and blared Who’s Next and Quadrophenia at them at max volume, which they hated. It was glorious.
Oh man, this, yes, but in the end John Gill was a good guy. Trump is evil through and through, always has been.
Graham Greene, the great actor, has passed. RIP
I spy AI, aye, says I.
Tesla has released a laughably lame (AI-generated?) “Master Plan Part IV” probably because the company and its distracted, fascist-nutjob part-time CEO spectacularly failed at executing Master Plan III. The creepy world depicted in MP IV? I want no part of. Fuck robot servants. Just say NO to AI.
If this is true it is one of the most evil, depraved things I’ve ever seen. For this, the global EV buying market should effing destroy what’s left Tesla’s business. In fact any American business, product, or service built on the blood-soaked soil of Gaza should be boycotted for a billion years. 🤬
such an obscenity
damn, that’s good where have you gone, Molly Ivins our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Or was it a deliberate distraction from the collapse of the CDC?
Nah, I don’t hear car horns honking and drivers whooping and hollering out on the street.
Reposting tons of happy Cost Plus Drugs customer testimonial posts is just commercial spam like crap from cryptoscammers and I’m not here for that, @mcuban.bsky.social. Dude, you *know* better. Wtf? Unfollowed.
Whose eyebrows, New York Times, whose? Show us the eyebrows.
You need to add the ability to mute images of Donald Trump from any post.
Ad published a mere two months before the 1929 Stock Market Crash 🤷♂️
yes, that about sums it up. Just say NO to AI — not because of concerns or fears about AI, but because of complete, unshakeable, ironclad DISTRUST of the companies, investors, lobbyists, and cheerleaders of the CORPORATIONS offering AI products and services.
yes absolutely
I’m so tired of everyone dancing around what’s really at issue here: she’s an African-American woman, and racist fascists believe such individuals have no place in leadership positions. This is just more straight-up racism.
Absolutely mind-blowing. Audiences are either gibbering idiots for missing out on RELAY or they know nothing about it. Kind of like the proverbial tree falling in the forest: if a movie gets no marketing/promotion and audiences don’t even know about it so nobody sees it, was the movie ever made?
They do. They do. Nuttiest thing I’ve ever seen: die-hard, true-believer “QElon” cult-level Tesla investors consulting Grok (owned by Musk!) for market/investor/company insights, and treating the “answers” as useful, even actionable.
Must think differently. If the power that be (however evil, mendacious, greedy, petty, stupid, psychopathic, and cruel) wants to destroy institutions, who are the most QUALIFIED candidates? Shitty, destroyer mini-mes destined to ruin the institutions fast. Hence, these people are SUPER-qualified.
Uh, yeah, um, thanks, no, gonna pass. You lost me at a16z. 😉
Every American should watch this whole video to better understand America's DNA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRs2...
In Silicon Valley, home of enshittification, everything shall eventually get enshittified. Even Netflix. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
Undermining national security IS THE WHOLE POINT. It is THEIR GOAL! Sigh. 🤷♂️
fantastic shot what a character!
Looks like the kind of image BLADE RUNNER’s Deckard would’ve liked to analyze Enhance 274 to 46….
But do they climb into their own pot then set it to boil, like American frogs?
How's this?
Of course there would be a tech startup to do this. Of course farmers would utilize such tech on their herds. It's 2025, what was I thinking. Of COURSE this exists. 🤷♂️
Ask your doctor if muting words and tags is right for you.
Grr. I requested to join the Class but of course the law firm never got back to me. I certainly don't desire a settlement. I wanna see Anthropic and the rest of these bandits sweat it out in a jury trial.
NYT constantly giving Trump a break. Zero trust in that publication anymore. Zero.
Always was.
I did Telluride once in 2011. Mind-blowing. Alexander Payne sat next to me during one film (he was there showing The Descendants that year)—we had a great chat. Also met Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, bunch of other directors. Almost perished in a bus-plunge-off-cliffhanger crash. What a festival! 😂
Man, zoom in on any portion of that one audience photo and you’ve got a dozen Norman Rockwell paintings…
My theory: they got all bothered by the company getting rid of the “fetus” the old logo was inside of…
@emiilietao.bsky.social So, which is it?
AI is destined to make 99% of humanity suffer.
Curious, what do you think of the Telluride Film Festival? I can imagine some folks thinking, eh, why bother when there’s Venice and Toronto…
Fuck no. Kids, stay the hell away from AI. It is not there to help you. It is there to suck the life right out of you, for the benefit of corporations.
Full-on Idiocracy at this point.
Astounding, the crappy US box office so far for this great movie thriller RELAY. See it, dammit. I will always blame ComicCon for this problem.
So true. THX was so perceptive so early on, on so many things. I often think of this scene when I hear everyone jabbering on about AI chatbots:
What is always, always, ALWAYS behind this is the smell of money. Companies like OpenAI are gonna do what *everyone* else has done in the past: pursue the vast public money pouring into education.
There’ve been efforts to get computers to be tutors for 65+ yrs. (I wrote a book on the history.) So seeing Kyle make these statements is nothing new. It’s a widely held view among politicians and some higher-ups in school districts. Less so among teachers, who know what goes into helping ppl learn.
They should just replace YOU ARE HERE with IDIOCRACY. I mean, YOU ARE HERE just doesn’t fit. 😁
No IDIOCRACY?
Sold. Lookin’ forward to watching it.
It’s starting to feel like INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, this whole AI craze. It’s like a cult or something, the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Happily, I am immune.
agreed. absolutely *loved* it. will be amazed if it passes $10 million box office. 🤷♂️
I just remember “G for GROUND” So “stalaGmites” are the ones on the ground and the ‘tites, are, well, not on the ground
We're alllmooosssttttt there
My review of the new flick RELAY. In two words: LOVED IT. boxd.it/aPgrqr
That’s what most bags of chips look like at grocery stores here in 7000+ ft Santa Fe all the time. So bloated they might burst at any moment!
I just see a business cashing in on a news item.
Such an exciting time for bored billionaies :-)
Curse of social media, more like. Social media looks like it'll be the worst thing to emerge out of the internet that ever happened to society. (Of course, AI is guaranteed to be a quintillion trillion times worse, so, no biggie, 🤷♂️)
Ongoing BAFFLEMENT w/ podcast world. Prolly spend 10-15+ hrs a week listening to podcasts. Amazed at how bad, slow, primitive, anti-discovery, cumbersome, podcast apps still are. In 2025! And RSS! Love it but it is to podcasting what MIDI is to music: desperately needing improvement.
Everything. It’s like trying to explain in the span of 288 characters, the solar system, or biology, or architecture, or 19th century literature, or the civil rights movement, or the history of Apple, Inc., or any topic for which universities devote entire departments of faculty to.
None. But that is a different question.
Streaming has never been the way.
Why would any thinking human rely on Stephen T. Dennis’s tiny list of gradeschool-level bullet points as a basis for having even the humblest beginnings of a sensible, informed understanding of anything related to the long drawn-out Tesla saga?
If hurricane hits, hide in one of the 16 bathrooms.
I take it you haven’t seen this. Behold: www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
thoughts and frayers
No I mean electric RVs based on batteries and electric motors instead of fuel tanks, exhaust pipes, and internal combustion engines
Seriously, I did not know about this link between RVs and deforestation in Borneo. So this is excellent reporting. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...
Wow. Thanks so much for that gift article. I also had zero knowledge about this. What org can I join to add my voice to shaming and pressuring RVmakers and their shareholders into switching to sustainable materials (not to mention switching to EV drivetrains).
Oh I'd have to say that for me, I like DQ more than SH just because SH is more of a comedy and DQ is more of a serious detective show. They're both great and this is just my humble opinion, but I get how for some, SH could rank above DQ.
Good. deadline.com/2025/08/dept...
Reminds me of a complaint expressed by some people in the 1970s PLATO community when discussing using SmallTalk and Xerox PARC Alto computers: just to get 2+2=4 you’d first have to teach the system what “2” means and what “+” means and what “=“ means and it was all too low-level for the PLATOites. 🤷♂️
The more propellers, the less I trust an aeroplane electrek.co/2025/08/18/a...
yep, appears to be…
I feel bad for this poor horse who lives nearby. His humans keep him blindfolded, and he just stands by the fence alongside the road. #animals #santafe #newmexico
You are hereby notified that I am stealing that line. 😂
“Reseller” is the kindest, gentlest way one can say “scalper”
The top 13 films by US box office, so far for 2025. No wonder cinemas are dying.
Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD
One of my favorite actors, and the star of one of my favorite films, THE LIMEY. Terence Stamp. RIP.
No he isn't.
Seen on Mastodon mastodon.social/@apilsetas/1...
Nature swings … and misses
The greatest version of “Anna (Go To Him)” by far no questions asked is this Beatles vs Ride vs Rolling Stones mashup. You’re welcome. Turn it up loud. on.soundcloud.com/TVt0KQzL4YJ2...
Fincher’s trailer may be fine but nothing tops the original three Swedish/Danish films.
Would love to see this but it seems no cinema in the entire state of New Mexico is willing to screen it 🤷♂️
“I’ve wanted to pee on this place for so long”
