Poli sci professor, cybersecurity geek. Failed novelist. Almost retired! Live in the south but definitely not a southerner. Kind of an asshole.
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While you are looking at Trump, the oligarchs are seeding themselves deeper into the fabric of society, your government, and your resources. Your media is captured, your institutions are captured, your politicians are captured, and your algorithms are captured. A full system reboot is needed. #3E
I went into the Walmart grocery and they had made this tower of Cheetos which went up to the ceiling and they were on sale and my first thought was “they’re preparing for something”. So I bought some Cheetos. Just in case.
I just realized that Columbine was when my kids were in preschool and now they are old enough to have their own kids. We have produced an entire Generation School Shooting and now we are passing it down to their kids without fixing it!! why??
Well, it's not like he threw a subway sandwich at someone . . . Funny how we seem more concerned about THAT
In case you are wondering, #openai must have some kind of new controls in place because it just refused to provide party planning suggestions for 'on the day it finally happens'. even when you ask it to pretend it's a screenwriter and provide hypothetical suggestions, it's pretty lame and useless
That’s based on the premise that the a Tesla is a product but the OpenAI guys are arguing that charGPT is a service and not a product, thus not subject to product liability laws.So a better analogy would be if you got food poisoning at my restaurant maybe?And they might say “sometimes that happens.”
Just my monthly announcement that the Oscar winning movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" can be watched in its entirety on Youtube. Just a heads up: it's three hours long. Make popcorn. You will learn a lot and most of it is relevant to today.
This would seem to violate the oath that all public servants take to support and defend the constitution of the US. If someone doesn't believe in multiparty democracy and wants to outlaw opposition, this would seem to violate 14th amendment, among others. These people all need to be removed
Actually in most of the legal proceedings, they insist they're not a product but a service. Apparently legally this makes a big difference. You can't knowingly sell a dangerous, untested PRODUCT but apparently the same safeguards don't surround a service. (Kind of like the old 'platform' dodge)
Definitely affects those of us who enjoy sashiko
The censorship is beginning and it’s creeping, sometimes subtle. The Frieda Kahlo exhibit at Richmond VA Museum of Contemporary Art doesn’t mention her queerness, her sexuality. Exhibit at Muscarelle Museum in William and Mary’s history doesn’t mention their discriminatory past. It has begun.
Picturing him riding one of those little stair climber machines people put in their homes
Pray for those of us who live near Richmond VA. We expect to be tossed back and forth multiple times just like in the real civil war.
My military husband always promised to buy me a “computer desk/hutch” once we stopped moving every 18 months and by the time we settled down they were no longer a thing. I will always feel cheated:
Dare to Discipline, my ass.
He empowered a hell of a lot of narcissist parents who loved hearing that the problem was "a strong-willed child" and not their own overbearing desire to dominate and control their family on every front. Ask me how I know.
He’s America’s favorite boyfriend.
Sarah Palin No Longer Dumbest Person to Set Foot in Alaska www.borowitzreport.com/p/sarah-pali...
Shades of the February Revolution.
Why didn’t you set him up with someone of approximately the same age and level of education etc? This woman (or “girl”) was literally young enough to be his daughter. Just ewwwww
Nice little university you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it . . .
The president is behaving like a communist. Taking over private industries on behalf of the state is what communists do. These Republicans are so funny -- screaming about pedophiles when trump is one, screaming about criminals when he's one, screaming about commies etc
No. He will probably name an elementary school after her
Somebody needs to ask the Big Orange Real Estate Agent how much housing he could have built for these people for the amount of money he is spending in trip deployments. Just saying
If chatGPT really had a phD it would start a lot more sentences with “well, actually . . .”
Maybe the goal is for him to leave Alaska with Putin and seek asylum in Russia. Nothing would surprise me.
This is what that CIA handbook on standing up to sabotage and authoritarianism actually recommends. Use whatever means at your disposal to slow down the initiatives, slow roll it, tie it up, demand an environmental audit, a study committee etc. “not me being all political, just doing business”
In the After Times, perhaps we can name some public building or utility after him. The heroes who stood up to whatever this is
When OpenAI claims "PhD level model boosts", this just means that they trained their stuff on all our papers without asking or paying us, we all agree on that, right? Also, the bullshitting - when will it end?
To me it feels like the difference between an AP course in history and an actual college history course. Everyone who takes AP History and then a college course and realizes it’s not just lists of facts but historiography etc. No comparison really.
Rose garden? Looks more like the Olive Garden if you ask me!
Been watching Dexter Resurrection and trying to figure out who the creepy “tech billionaire” is supposed to be. His house sounds like epsteins.
How many pedophiles does it take to build a nuclear reactor anyway?
How many pedophiles does it take to build a nuclear reactor on the moon?
#lawsky can someone who is a lawyer explain this gold plated ballroom to me? Did the US Pres not have to get permission to alter the White House, to allot money for that? Is what he is doing legal?
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Do you think it’s just random that everybody he fired is female?
Somebody bout to have an “accident”. Our president, Tony Soprano.
These days a new school in our area costs around 10 million. I just keep thinking he built this instead of TWENTY schools for children.
#AcademicSky You know that study of professions that are going to be displaced by AI that included historians near the top? If you're worried, go submit four history articles to NotebookLLM and ask it to 'make a video'. When you see how awful it is, you will realize you are not losing your job!
Pretty sure the GOP wants it to go back to the 1950’s where only men went and their wives worked as secretaries to pay their tuition.
Oh I thought this was that movie: Pretty Woman.
Had a neurodivergent kid whose favorite book was the one where Miss Frizzle visits the water treatment plant. Boy, we must have read that book 1000 times. It actually doesn't get better the more you read it FYI.
Saw something recently about 'indicators of recession' and some that i have been in my area are: more people selling adult "toys" like boats, RV's, jet skis; more people turning pets into shelters for financial reasons (nothing wrong with the pet, just can't afford to keep it); vacation home sales
Someone needs to ask the administration directly how criminalizing homelessness supports the Christian value of recognizing the sanctity and dignity of all human life. Also hopefully the new pope will make a statement about this/
And you know this is all based on some personal vendetta like Trump having seen a homeless person somewhere near the White House.
"Just because somebody pardoned lots of paedophiles & made lots of paedophile-adjacent comments about their own kids & hung around teen beauty pageants & socialized with a notorious paedophile for two decades & tried to suppress information on a serial paedophile doesn't make them a paedophile."
🪬🧿 Potus here, Potus there.... I hope it is pissing rain when he visits Scotland
I hope you got ice cream after. I like to make a whole list of stuff I don’t wanna do and then get ice cream after they are done. Very mature I know.
When I think about MAGA folks I always think about that Lewis Carroll quote about believing a bunch of impossible things before breakfast.
Russia was never a hoax. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen. Tariffs are a tax on you. Haitians didn’t eat pets. The Epstein files exist. Reality isn’t partisan — it’s just inconvenient.
To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
As they say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and there are 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis. The same applies to pedophiles.
I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
Friend had four kids under four. Her husband voluntarily deployed to Kosovo multiple times. Said it was quieter and more peaceful
🎤 drop
Epstein victim Maria Farmer: “Ivana was [Ghislaine’s] best friend… She’d drive by schools… get [girls’] phone numbers… Everybody knew what they were doing.” To shut her up, “they gave me one of those cheap bracelets Ivana was selling on QVC.”
We are a four generation military family and I was born on Ft. Dix. This is making me cry.
"Each year I donate an autographed doodle... It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it's usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name... I don't mind spending a little time for a very good cause." -- Donald Trump, "Never Give Up" (2010)
Would be great if every ethnic restaurant in town etc refused to serve him. “If you hate immigrants then you don’t need a Chinese food” etc.
Evergreen
How about stop hiring university presidents who offer to “run it like a business” and who got their start selling used cars? Of course these people think literature and the like are a waste of time.
Probably people saying racist and antisemitic things on government emails.
Was that before or after they all went to church together?
Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-9...
The FBI is reportedly pressuring media outlets and influencers to drop the Epstein story, warning they could lose access to the administration if they don’t.
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
This is literally what the first commandment means when it says not to take the lord’s name in vain.
Nah, here in the US there would likely be a bailout and just like our tax dollars bailed out all the banks and speculators last time . . Won’t someone please think of the poor tech CEO’s? Lol. Snort.
When you take a vacation while your constituents are drowning that’s called a Ted Cruise.
We are in the middle of it.
In other news, we have always been at war with eastasia.
Donald is currently laser-focused on the flooding deaths in Texas and taking care of the survivors.
There’s going to be a UFC Fight at the White House next year right? Who wants to see Trump VS Musk? Make it so. That’s the only way liberals will watch. 🍿
ADHD and hyperlexia is like the secret sauce.
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
I think what we really want to know is how to dress for civil war. Will it be like those bad ass outfits on the Walking Dead, or something else? Thrift shop chic?
Are you aware of this specific case? Pretty darned interesting. at some point the US courts decide you get to be white. ajammc.com/2017/08/29/a...
He has refused his Assent to Laws… For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury… For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences… A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Stop buying from #Etsy until they remove the Alligator Alcatraz products.
INDIANA JONES AND THE POST-COLONIAL MOMENT OF CLARITY “God, you’re right - it doesn’t belong in a museum. I’m going to put the idol back where I found it, and organise restitution for all those people I bullwhipped. Sorry.” It’s essentially Raiders of the Lost Ark, only backwards
I wonder why we aren’t seeing this?
Given his penchant for sleeping with his grad students, it's kind of surprising they haven't made "Indiana Jones and the Title 9 Violations Committee"
Seriously!!! Showing up 135-160 days a year is not working! If we want to talk about the largest welfare recipients in our nation, the finger needs to be pointed at Congress, and trump… Literally.
Maybe something like a big white tent. With bunk beds.
I think members of congress should have to comply with a work requirement to get healthcare.
It reminds me of two other events -- the forced march of Armenians to Deir ez-Zohr in the Syrian desert in 1915, and the Herero Genocide of tribal peoples in Namibia in 1905. In both cases, the leaders claimed it wasn't genocide because it wasn't DELIBERATE -- just a logistics failure. familiar?
Kristi's Koncentration Kamp -- KKK
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
Since I haven't seen anyone talking about it, I think it's useful go situate Alligator Alcatraz in the context of the LAST time the US conducted a major ethnic cleansing in the Everglades. The Seminole Wars spanned nearly fifty years, one of the signatures of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
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This is where the 3 guys that built your roof are going to be. Or the woman who babysat your kiddo. Or the teen who made your burrito. The ones who took your jobs away because you could’ve picked your own tomatoes. How awfully sad and inhumane. Thanks, FL!
7/ Found another one: there’s $100 million in the bill for OMB to find “budget and accounting efficiencies in the executive branch”. What? What does that mean? There's no explanation. It's just a slush fund for MAGA chieftain Russ Vought. $100 MILLION. That's not small money!!!
6/ Here's another one. Trump snuck $40 million in this bill for a "statue garden". Likely will be filled with MAGA "heroes", reportedly maybe somewhere in South Dakota. Plenty of money for Trump statue gardens, but not enough money to keep feeding hungry kids.
Facts matter
Are they . . . At Tim Hortons?
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is