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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.
I've said this before and it bears repeating: One way we'll know if and when a real machine intelligence happens is that it will create art that is an artifact of its own intelligence, not ours, and it likely to be absolutely incomprehensible to us human on first approach. How cool with that be.
Because murdering many tens of thousands by eliminating vaccines is exactly like encouraging children to eat healthy & get exercise.
Tweet: Diseases aren’t caused by germs. The fickle and mischievous goblin king curses us with illness Community Note: The goblin king is not fickle. His Book of Maladies plans who will get sick hundreds of years in advance
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
happy labor day
By which he seems to mean "preventing anyone from subscribing to labeling services", since that's an optional feature. Golly, I wonder why.
I'll say this, though: people would probably be "nicer" and "more welcoming" if moderation specifically handled anti-trans and pro-genocide content with appropriate harshness. The rest of us would probably stop feeling like we had to handle that ourselves.
He's since blocked replies & quote shares so he seems uninterested in people challenging him on strange assertions like 'most people don't like it here.'🤷 Definitely the thing to do if one wants more people to behave in a specific way is to block them from sharing one's admonition to do that.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Thirty years ago today, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron published “The Californian Ideology” in Mute magazine and circulated on the early-adopter email list nettime, writes Nathan Schneider. Its diagnosis of what makes Silicon Valley tick is worth revisiting:
I will never understand the decision to dub in George Baker's voice.
This is very true. I used to use a bulk grocery service called Azure Standard because they were very vegetarian friendly, and often had the beans I prefer in quantity, plus some harder to find other stuff. This year, everything soy disappeared and tallow replaced it. It’s an excellent canary.
timeline cleanse
Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
The allegory of the cave, but the people manipulating the shadows are fooled by the illusions too
These fools are going to kill a lot of people.
Yes.
Why are those two facts in the same headline?
I use that to refer to humor that presses on a sore point. Something one might have convinced onesself was no longer a problem (scabbed over), but still is (it's only a scab, it's not really healed). I don't know that I've heard anyone else use the term.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
Holy shit this is sick. I think one could unpack this into really strong partial explanations for why regional Arab states have mounted so little resistance to Israel's genocide in Gaza. It's about the money.
While that's true, it can also be true that bike lanes (& other infrastructure that suddenly starts to get built when middle-class white people move in) are often a bellwether for people getting priced out of the neighborhood. We need to be able to accurately describe what's happening.
Useful distinction! I've heard a lot of discussions about 'healthy masculinity' vs stereotypical masculinity & I'm not sure I've heard it framed quite that way. It's often implicit (that's one way to restate Faludi's driving thesis in _Stiffed_), but I haven't seen it made that explicit.
Except the real world is TikTok, Instagram, & (maybe especially) cable TV.
I'm still not sure what your point is. He's on record (publicly, in letters, & in journals) as a devout racist & a firm believer that enslavement of Africans was a white christian man's moral duty. He may have ALSO liked $$; people can have more than one moral reason for an evil deed.
Apparent ICE agents are not ICE. They are Federal Brownshirts and should be labeled as such. Giving them the status of legitimate agents is flat-out succumbing to a lie then promulgating that lie.
@redcrossny.bsky.social tried to call me six times over 2.5 hour period on a Saturday afternoon, from six different phone numbers, none of which caller ID'd as red cross. Starting to think they don't really want my blood.
Help me understand what that has to do with what I said.
For some of them it's going to be a 'no way it but through' scenario: to the extent each is committed to the revolution, they may believe the 401k is irrelevant.
What should Longstreet have done differently?
tl;dr: They're going to get rid of the CDC as you know it. They're going to build something new and ghastly that they call the CDC, using its legal powers and data systems, and they are going to use it to hunt down every abortion in America. We are still in the window of time when we can stop that.
You have to fight this. You MUST fight this. This is the first fight in 8 months that you, as a person without a law degree, can personally win against the Trump Administration. We still need a bit more critical mass from Democrats. Keep calling. Demand (1) statements and (2) investigative hearings
Part 2 is to collect & weaponize unprecedented amounts of medical data, especially about women, for the purpose of social control. (See first post.) bsky.app/profile/coli...
Why would they want to "write public health or of existence"? Because it gives them yet another license to kill as many people as they want, for whatever reasons their fevered brains can concoct (e.g. eugenics).
The Trumpist / #Project2025 agenda for CDC, part 1: "write public health or of existence."
If you allow the devil to do what he wants, you've accepted the devil's premise.
The premise of AI as a business model is that no matter who you are, at any walk of life, anything about you can be appropriated by the billionaires and simulated for their profit
Topic for discussion: Is Gavin Newsom the Braxton Bragg of George McClellans?
What @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says here:
Honestly this strikes me as a subject with a LOT to unpack. Will keep my eye open for it.
Interesting - what are some negative consequences of that? Do military saddles normally have a horn? (I had thought horns were normally only on saddles used for working livestock.)
IIRC Longstreet's view was that if he stood down in protest Lee would just make someone else do it.
Winfield Scott recognized it would be a hard war that would take massive effort; he was mocked & forced into retirement. (& then his plan became the de facto blueprint, anyway.)
Verdict I've heard from several people I trust on these matters is that he would've made a solid corps commander. He rose past the level of his incompetence & there were no structures in place to hold him to account for it.
As I understand it, refusing to free his father-in-law's slaves was more about Lee's personal conviction that black people needed to be morally improved by white people through the medium of slavery, than it was about profit. (Which, TBC, is in my opinion worse.)
It never occurred to me before, but we should absolutely make calling him "Colonel Lee" a thing to piss off Confederate defenders.
My increasingly firmly-held take is that hanging onto things created "for children" is not, per se, any problem at all. What's a problem is that a lot of stuff created "for children" is lazy crap.
This is a free campaign ad for Trump. It tells Americans that the NewDems caucus supports Trump’s general ideas, and says Trump is not a fascist and Republicans are normal and worth working with (“bipartisan”.) This is electoral poison. It hurts the D brand and so every Dem, me and you included.
150 yrs of steadily increasing dependence on electric power have severely degraded our thinking about how to store power generally. We tend to only think of ELECTRIC BATTERIES. But electricity isn't the only thing you can store - you can also store heat (or cold) & mass, for example.
I was having a meeting about data security and said “No matter what, we absolutely must NOT do X” and at the end of the meeting someone’s Otter AI Notetaker spit out meeting notes and one of the Action Items was - We absolutely must do X So I banned AI notetakers from meetings.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
I tried name checking 'Californian ideology' a few weeks back & the pushback saying 'that's not a real thing' was so intense I ended up doing a bunch of muting. Anyway, I've never noticed it abating at all.
That you are incapable of understanding metaphor says a lot. Ignoring you going forward.
_ *current executive secretary understands how that shit works & will often preface subject lines with desired urgency - e.g. 'NOT URGENT'. Current triage screener will then adjust priority accordingly. But we went without a triage screener for 1.5 yrs.
(We have exception lists that set higher priorities on requests from certain individuals, based on their rank. So if it comes from the President's secretary, it's automatically "VIP" & has an SLA completion deadline <30m. Even if it's 'format the phone numbers consistently on web page x.')* ...
DIRECTOR: Why wasn't this done within the SLA time?" ME: Because the SLA time doesn't account for staffing & neither our system nor your metrics can accommodate that fact.
Unpacking Tim Treadwell's very human-centric understanding of what he was accomplishing in the space where he died. ('Got weird' is a slightly strange subhed choice because what I'm reading there is pretty much what I've heard most other biologists say about that film.)
To paraphrase Teh Yogi, sometimes you can see a lot just by looking. Thread giving an example of technical intelligence analysis based just on observation of the technology, without clandestine activities. (When I do this with web tech I call it 'web archaeology.')
SIMILARLY: People coming from all over the world to study there is more or less universally recognized as a sign of cultural dominance. One thing we're saying when we block people from studying here is 'how dare you want to learn from us!'
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
[checks notifications] wait, they're saying 'this isn't what he meant.' [shrugs, plonks down cash anyway] Pass me the chips, eh?
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Orlando Furioso, reading your posts
(Of course most of these apply beyond filmmaking.)
I will add: At a certain point, "you should stay and resist" becomes meaningless. There comes a time with a regime when you just won't be allowed to do anything, & not far past that is the line where staying only jeopardizes your own life & those of your loved ones.
You're a dude who doesn't care what the kids think & you're lecturing someone about "tribalism".
It can be even freakier-looking: we'd get them on our 6'-8' Douglas Firs, spread out over many branches, & it would seem like every worm on every branch would jerk at the same time. It was creepy.
If you validate the Devil's premise, why should anyone choose you, since you're only a lesser devil?
Good question.
Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort
I’m not kidding when I say I love a formal synthesis. This one is spot-on. Some of what’s happening is people are trying to have a historical gaze for events that are still happening. Is it definitionally authoritarian? Cannot know until bodies stop dropping. But you can know it feels authoritarian
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's The Feminine Mystique
The right has been not-subtly gearing up to go after Rx stimulants for some time now, so as a researcher of drug use and overdose prevention, allow me to assure you that taking away Rx stimulants from people who need them will EXPLODE the unregulated stimulant market. Aka people will go to meth.
('Deskilling' is an old term & concept - it's just that in the past people used it to describe processes which often took years or even a generation. I don't think we've seen it playing out in months or weeks, before genAI.)
After AI deskills people, MAHA kills them.
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
very cool!
In so many ways - not least being that 2017 saw a lot of people, including a lot of legislators, doing a lot of work. Which is one of many reasons I find it so hard to understand why they've capitulated SO. HARD. ...here in 2025.
You mean the part where Texas aligns with California to take down a Trump proxy?
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
Smdh even bears are taking entry-level jobs now. It's tough out there for Gen Z.
They're doubling-down on 'google is free, do my work for me.'
So we've established that you're unwilling to provide any backup for your claims, thanks for letting us off the hook on taking you seriously!
Why in the world should we put in the effort to make up for your poor communication & argument skills?
(I suspect the rationale is something like 'prevent despair' but I'd rather he make that case himself. It can be made well, but when it is, it's usually not as dismissive as he's being here.)
Don't blame your audience for failing to properly understand yoru vaguebooked messaging.
Like, neutral phrasing (e.g. OMITTING THE F*ING PARENTHETICAL) was the default option, but she hadda go with just...dismissing them.
Do you mean the FT fashion writer, or Swift? & if you mean Swift, could you explain how you're defining 'conservtive' for this usage?
Srsly though the key thing to remember about this list is that if HHS goes the way Kennedy wants to push it, putting a pre-existing condition on record could get you designated a Useless Eater at some point in the not-too-distant future.
"Trump could be stopped at any time by the Republican party. I suspect he could also be stopped by big business." I suspect this is true & that makes me feel physically ill.
Probably not. A proper fashion journalist would know it's a load of hooey.
Cope harder.
Maybe you know - does the salutation 'Friend' imply that the anonymous recipient is a Quaker? Or is that a standard Quaker salutation?
Seems like just a year or so ago that Serious People were stridently insisting that people stop talking about impending collapse of the AMOC because it just was not going to happen & we were only gonna panic the normies into catatonia.