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when you think about, it's actually kind of impressive to make a computer innumerate. like that's its one job. it's in the name.
You are no more permitted to slap eight year olds than you are to slap tech CEOs, and for much the same reason: they're far too immature to know better. We must have the utmost compassion for those whose emotional development is limited.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
They set three *trillion* dollars on fire to recreate the bodybuilder forums argument about how many days there are in a week
Looks like a banner night for #Aurora watchers tonight! Live cam from northern Maine still in twilight and you can already see purple and green even though it's not completely dark there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2g...
My statement on @nadler.house.govâs decision not to seek re-election next year.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
I hope Susan Collins is very concerned.
Of course it's easy to explain that two people are married. The complaint is that it's hard to explain that two people are married and it's bad and Grandpa makes it his personal business to be mad about it.
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
Not just never seen before, but the stuff that doesn't happen often. Traveled to the southwest and picked up black plague or valley fever and the small town ER back home on the east coast was confused? They could call the CDC and get help. And you'd get treatment, and you'd live.
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
Terry Pratchett was right to say that the origin of evil is treating people like things but he failed to anticipate that some folk would go on to treat things like people. futurism.com/openai-inves...
"A Baptist chaplain at a privately-run ICE lockup in Pennsylvania is facing accusations of sexually abusing a detainee over the course of more than a year, beginning shortly after he gained her trust by gifting her a Bible." The Independent
Shitshow waiting to happen on.ft.com/41sHC8D
Most profitable movies of 2025 so far look like Sinners, Weapons, Materialists, & Minecraft. Nearly all them were not expected slam dunk hits with huge marketing campaigns. In case of Sinners, there was a weird insider whisper campaign to torpedo it before release! www.vulture.com/article/is-s...
Right now thereâs a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. Itâs mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people wantâŚ
The key takeaway is Netflixâs bragged about algorithm that spies on every click you make gives them more data about audiences than ever existed in cinema history. But it has not led to their biggest hits. K-pop DH was made fully separate from Netflix & has crushed their $320 million Electric State.
Oh stop it, both the media for this idiotic reductive narrative and Dem centrists for being such astonishing wimps. The voters of NYC â especially young ones â made their clear choice, so either move along or go sit down. You win nothing by being cautious and scared www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
âMr. Nadler has been sharply critical of Hamas, still believes in a two-state solution for the region and does not agree with those who say Israel is carrying out genocide in Gaza. But he said [that under Netanyahu] Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza âwithout question.ââ
Also, just generally, Jerry Nadler has always been a good Congressman and a mensch, and it's good to see him retire gracefully rather than drag it out and maybe lose to that demon twink running against him.
Your pal @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Genuinely hard to take a bad picture of this dude. That's the @nywfp.bsky.social float behind him - follow them and let's make this man mayor and get him the progressive caucus he needs to get things done, NYC!
In college I propped up canvases against a cabinet and sat on the floor to paint, but I didn't have a studio or easel, and my paints were soo much neater lol
AI grifter scammed their way into Dragon Con. The staff had them escorted out, lmao you love to see it
I love the first image with the AI art surrounded by paint tubes and art supplies. I baked a box cake with artificial raspberry flavoring, I will style it with a flour barrel, brown farm eggs, pats of churned butter, a jar of honey and fresh raspberries. (And my cake is still better than AI)
give the people what they want
"hi i'm rahm emanuel and i love giving fascist american xenophobia a cute little rim job, someone please tell me i'm still relevant pls"
real game
RFK is once again actually talking about autism instead of vaccination, and affirming his desire to torture and murder autistic people. Let's see if neurotypicals are able to notice this.
I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm, The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged, The bells are ringing through the town again The children look up, all they hear is sky-blue bells, ringing www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFI...
Oh my god????? Someone in power finally said it??? And is taking action???? Now he needs to actively campaign for a youth.
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
itâs so cool that we had 2 incredibly unwell, close to death presidents in a row
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: weâll see
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. đđŞś
yes, almost every single person who yells about the flaws in Obamacare has no idea what the Dem votes actually looked like Lieberman! Nelson! Landrieu! what a shitshow
...did people forget that Joe Lieberman got the public option pulled out?
Netflix is putting its money where its mouth is: đ° $2M to back Newsom in the redistricting fight đş A deal for Sesame Street â new episodes and the full archive free to watch. Thatâs how you pick a side.
I let out several different audible âNOâs during this video incredible stuff, you gotta watch the whole thing
Yes, there are people who arenât white or male who STILL want white men in charge, for whatever twisted reason. But the last election was about two tribes divided by a fault line, and people voted for which tribe they wanted to win. Itâs NOT like there was any real debate about what the two
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole âbecause of the economyâ is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. Thatâs it.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobsâeven multiple jobsâaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Weird?
Most of the good writing so far is in absurdly-aggressively-priced academic works. The Sederholm/Woofter reader is (somewhat) less aggressive and Iâm looking forward to it. Someday someone will write a good intro/overview for a trade pressâŚ
this was always going to happen and I for one I am howling about it
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: theyâre all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
When you train your AI on people who canât admit theyâre aging
so that's the residence - specifically a hallway outside a bedroom on the third floor:
What's going on at the White House?
People who say progressives scare "normal people" have pockets of bigotry in their hearts & behavior that they think of as common sense & don't like hearing otherwise. They're used to being at the center of the discussion & don't like being told to skootch over. They bug the crap out of me. 3/3
#pedofuhrer ##EpsteinTrumpFiles
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
The lead paint generation has a real tough time with paranoia
Sorry Dems but Crime is the only issue on which the regime polls well so you have to let the Emperor take power. Like come the fuck on the crime argument is a literal lie out of all the issues this should be the one Dems are hammering hardest. You don't surrender your achilles heel you fix it!
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
yep. stealing 50 cars and then opening a car dealership isnât a business. âbut we change out the bumpers! our cars are our own!" thatâs a chop shop, asshole.
âOk, so I canât make jewelry, but Iâm great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass casesâ
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
I want Starmer to explain to me, calmly and in detail, why itâs bad to have asylum seekers staying in a hotel in my town. Why should I be concerned about that?
Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley â even by immigrant founders! â about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
How many times in the last decade have we gone 6 days in a row without seeing Trump speaking on camera?
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
If you squint, you can see Death standing over his shoulder tapping his watch and looking very impatient with the whole situation. Just like the rest of us.
Doing laundry again and reminded (because it happened again!) of when I put up a note in the building reminding people to change their laundry out because wet laundry sitting in the machines creates a mold problem *for everyone* and one of my neighbors ripped it down and crumpled it on the ground.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
"This bill screws rural America in every which way you can possibly imagine. And yet, it becomes easier for Republican representatives to get away with this precisely because Democrats arenât in these areas ... telling their constituents what these lawmakers are doing to them." trib.al/Tht3GI7
@mcuban.bsky.social if you want to do something actually beneficial with your money you could save these brands for basically a rounding error of your assets
We are losing the ability to make our own stuff, which means more reliance on off-the-rack fast fashion.
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
Also, please support indie pattern makers by buying patterns directly from them or from reputable shops.
Truly we just cannot have shit, huh? Don't really post about it but I sew a lot of my own clothing and while this isn't necessarily a huge deal for folks already versed in the craft it's a death blow to intro-level folks, and thus to the longevity of the hobby at large. What the actual fuck.
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
The Philippines is on the verge of something similar with there being a social reckoning on how women are treated SPURRED by the fact that there is an epidemic level of 10 to 14 year old girls being pregnant in their extremely Catholic, anti-sex ed country
Fuck the person writing alt-text that essentially presumes that the people reading it can see the images. Pro tip: a whole thread of alt-text 'in jokes' that do not describe the image--or even identify the actors!--is a fuck you to blind and low vision people. Do not be that asshole.
I got into it with a big blue wave clickbait account for âironicallyâ posting AI and he deleted it and then immediately reposted a screenshot of his deleted post and was like SORRY FOR MAKING A JOKE IâLL NEVER DO IT AGAIN True loser shit
9 former directors of the CDC penned an op-ed stating that what Robert F. Kennedy has done to the nation's public health system is "unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
The Philosophy of Fashion existentialcomics.com/comic/618
1. Ask for his sample size. 2. Ask to see his actual recorded data. 3. Ask him in what context he examined all those kids and took those data. 4. Ask him where he published the data. 5. Publish his answers, then put the pedo in jail and throw away the key.
The only GOP senator who *didnât* vote to confirm him? Mitch McConnell, who was disabled by polio as a child & took years to recover. These diseases killed & disabled kids within living memory. Theyâre poised for a comeback. RFK must go. Call your congresspeople.
Would love to see him explain why the best private school in Oregon, with a greater than 99% vaccination rate, is full of kids headed to Ivies and New Ivies, who start non-profits and drive much of their own education by the time they get to high school.
Nice way to say heâs a psychopathic eugenist. He is a mass m*rderer. Has blood on his hands. Heâs a bold faced liar and freak. 77MM voted for the eradication of a century of medical progression to âownâ the libs. Ignorant cultists and selfish fucking bastardsâŚ
The latter group is well over 90% and includes Robert and his own children
First it was seeing children with mitochondria challenges as he walked by them. Nw he can see who has been vaccinated.And he is concerned. He has got to be gone
This is how he's describing his own children & grandchildren, since they are all vaccinated.
What RFK Jr sees as bright eyes, engagement and curiosity is actually the result of fever in the unvaccinated kids. Brain worms and opioids evidently impair your judgment.
I blame the senate members 100% for giving this existential threat a platform. We can loathe kennedy jr himself, but he pretty much declared his intent (with some obvious lying) in his hearings. Let's also direct our disgust and outrage at the gop senate who voted "yea" for this disgrace of a thing.
Doesn't this mean, by his own logic, RFK Jr is damaged, poisoned, & has low IQ, since I assume he received the usual set of vaccinations as a child? Not endorsing his beliefs, just wondering whether anyone has asked him about the impairments he says he should have and why they don't disqualify him.
If youâve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, youâve seen the former are more likely to die.
Also: if you depend on your paid subscriptions for income, please note that your readers will have to pay more--and therefore be more likely to drop you entirely. And, soon enough, they'll also take a bigger chunk off YOUR net. #SubstackHasANaziProblem mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
So you are a progressive with a newsletter, and you depend on that income to survive, and you've been telling yourself that you'll eventually migrate off Substack because of the Nazi propaganda, and Bari Weiss, and all that shit. DO IT NOW, before you are locked in forever. #SubstackHasANaziProblem
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If I was Michelle Obama I would sue the shit out of this man oh my goddddddd
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