I'd wager that the 'military' school he attended had ground keepers and did not have the scions of the rich placed on punishment details beyond standing watch in comfortable environments.
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I'd wager that the 'military' school he attended had ground keepers and did not have the scions of the rich placed on punishment details beyond standing watch in comfortable environments.
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The press is fine doing conspiracy theories about Democrats, from Mena Airport/Clinton Body Files to Hunter Biden's Laptop.
He never was on the side of the left, liberals, or progressives.
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Children in PSA's (and ads), print or TV, were almost uniformly Mid-Western white. The constrast between them and those depicted on Sesame Street / Electric Company was jarring.
Same with the left using right wing frames to criticize those they don't like, e.g. "Crooked Hillary", with the 'justification' that "broken clocks are right twice a day." N.B. Stopped (frozen) clocks are the ones that are correct once in the daytime, once at night. Broken clocks are never right
IKEA's in but not ABBA: Sweden publishes contested cultural heritage list reut.rs/425Rsxn
And that is why the media needs to focus on Biden's health. And that is only half-snark given how many 'Biden At Death's Door!' headlines there were and nothing about how Biden could run laps, physically and mentally, around Trump today.
A picture of him holding up the front page of a current newspaper is needed.
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It has become what Rational Wiki calls a 'snarl word' rationalwiki.org/wiki/Loaded_...
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...
The know this because their consultants (who win or lose still make money) tell them that is what polling says.
All of that predate social media. It predates Internet.
As for politics/polarization, one has Fox and Murdoch owned media going right and the rest of the media hiring and making editorial decisions to chase after a right-wing audience. That is when they are not chasing some 'golden mean' or doing 'both sides' false equivalences.
Love that 'social media' is to blame. Legacy media stopped delivering facts because; a) keeping access was more important, and b) retaining facts for tell-all books months after the event makes money.
Old Windows 95 joke - "32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor" The "written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition" part described more IT companies than just Microsoft. Like Sun and Apple
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Sandstorm - daRude Happy Anniversary youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU?...
'Tis the season
Remember the soda-flavoured syrup in the tiny wax soda bottles?
💯 There are some (some? many!) parallels between the Gilded Age (1870-1890) when this was happening and today.
And yet the US built dams and canals to water the deserts in the South-West. Regardless of lack of population. Plenty of Europeans and Easterners seem to be more aware of the South-West's water situation than those currently drilling and draining aquifers dry for more golf courses in the desert.
Inherited from corporate monopoly mistakes.
Now, chanting American exceptionalism all the while, American excuse lack of high speed rail, lack of last mile phone and electricity (even within high-rent urban areas), and degrading infrastructure on "America is 'too big'" to do any of that. American 'can do' got up and left about the Reagan Pres
And in the '50's, America went on to build highways streatching across the nation, built dams and built electrical lines out to rural areas, and had endpoint-to-endpoint copper landlines for communication. All with less resources than today.
Brush Up On Your Shakespeare from 'Kiss Me Kate' youtu.be/bPduoU826ew?...
More Green Lantern Theory, but yes politicaldictionary.com/words/green-...
And a lot of people forget that in tradition the patriarch and head (administer of high, middle, and low justice) of the family is eldest male bearing the family name, the grand (or great-grand) father. Sons going off to have families (and control) of their own is fairly recent.
In many other countries the white person IS the minority.
To the US media that is just 'Trump Being Trump.' Not newsworthy. Not like a Democratic politician wearing a tan suit or having mozzarella cheese on their Philly cheesesteak. Now that deserves multiple headlines.
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I fairly certain that the majorities in other countries will be just as uncomfortable.
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On the contrary. Like ICE, *That* is the kind of 'Blue' Trump supporters are willing to back.
If protecting the Fed from those that engage in mortgage fraud is necessary, what does McArdle say about Trump's mortgage fraud? *crickets*
There are some crazy traffic cam videos in the wild from Europe showing car drivers trying to contest right-of-way with trams and buses in dedicated public transport lanes. A fair number of videos of cars attempting to enter these lanes getting hung up on rising automated bollards as well.
Happy National Bacon Day! We all know how our favourite Watch Commander likes his done, but what's your preference? And if you don't want them, can I have your crispy bacon bits please? #DWCon2026 #Discworld #NationalBaconDay
Sure there are liberal anti-vaxxers. Which of them currently are in power and where?
Like something out of the Cthulhu Mythos series, instead of the book of 'Unaussprechlichen Kulten' we have an instance a personal copy of the 'De Vermis Mysteriis' book. It is like Charles Stross' ( @cstross.bsky.social ) 'Laundry Files' is the script for this play.
"Hello! Is There Anybody In There?" ... In There? ... in there? ...in there
The sad part is that this is not a function of politics but of the need for tourist dollars to replace revenue lost by reduced taxes. DC being made even more dependent because of the lack of home rule and the burden of 'unpaid mandates' imposed by Congress and the White House.
⬆️ Or defend rural life by attacking urban centers and the liberals that live there but prefer the conveniences of city living opposed to living elsewhere.
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one problem that I have with the 'Never-Trump'ers is that they have yet to repudiate the reactionary bigotry and conspiracy theories of the neo-Confederates, allowing what used to be the 'John Birch Society' to morph into MAGA
Not very long ago there were surveys showing that not even conservative women wanted anything to do with conservative men. Much 'tsk-tsk'-ing from the media about how conservative men could not get dates and were owed girlfriends/wives in order not to be a-holes.
Not all of them. Many just make sure that the gun toting groups are pointing weapons either at each other, at an external enemy, and/or a nefarious internal other. Look at Netanyahu. For all his decrying of Hamas and Hezbollah, he helped setup and fund these group to kneecap PLA.
That is what their 'lessors' are for. They still need some one to do the unglamorous stuff, like butcher the meat, haul the garbage, clean the gutters. And some one to be the field boss. If it was glamorous, they'd be first in line for the photo op.
Stage 1: the Vampire in Myth and Folklore Stage 2: Vampires in Victorian 'penny-dreadfuls', like Stoker's Dracula Stage 3: Vampires in Modern Rewrites like 'Salem's Lot' Stage 4: Vampires in the 'Twilight' series
Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.
Blaming Kamala Harris for the election loss. Or this policy or this campaign strategy. Misses the key point. Roger Ailes built the right wing propaganda machine for a reason. Musk bought twitter and paid $1 million to vote for Trump for a reason. Trump started his own social media company for a
Someone just tried to mock/shame me for my love for KPop Demon Hunters and my thought to that is, you wanna get wild? Okay I'll show you wild youtu.be/QGsevnbItdU (Also I blocked the dude)
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"Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge In its campaign of “uprooting the foot soldiers,” the Trump Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as those they sent to prison walk free." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
The name Catherine doesn’t exist in the ancient world, and is likely a diminutive of an abbreviated form of Hekate which was used in antiquity: Κατε Thus the name Kate is older than the name Catherine! & while we use it as a diminutive, Kate is really an un-diminutive of a diminutive of itself.
Third Way is rarely honest about positions taken by the Left or by Democrats. Let's face it, they only are willing to provide Republican solutions to problems created by Republicans in the first place.
I'm starting to see, "The attacks on Culture are a distraction from the Class War! Don't respond!" Dude. If you don't come to the aid of your allies when they are attacked through their culture, you won't have allies for your class war.
Class fighting 'bros' were among the loudest in saying 'You're hysterical!' when Roe, Oberfell, and other issues that were not about class war were called out as being under attack.
I'd feel more confident about class war fighters if they did not tend to stop at winning some battles and then saying 'we need to rest' when it comes to battles about class PLUS women, LGBT+, POC, ...
To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
They think that they will ALL be the 'unfettered wealthy white men', ignoring that in the early 1800's the definition of 'white' was heavily restricted by national origin and religion. And that even the 'right' kind will largely be field hands, a small number maybe the field boss.
Given the swift re-write of Jan 6th, I'd say that even their own histories are blank Etch-A-Sketchs that they knowingly erase daily.
Chocolatiers finishing large chocolate hippo statue.
What can I say but, "We've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends."
Who else is Brooks going to blame for Republicans going fash? Certainly not the Republicans.
I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.
The benefit of doubt would be that the editor glitched together "pro-democratic" with "Democratic Party". But that's a tell as well. The editors (or publishers or owners) don't deserve the benefit of doubt anymore
People who are not good people frequently want to believe the artists and creators they idolize hold the same opinions and positions they do, and get very shirty when they are told by informed sources that they are in fact very wrong about that
Showed that movie recently. Willkommen to Cabaret. youtu.be/hBlB8RAJEEc?...
Beer cheese soup is a thing. Ask anyone from Wisconsin. Though I'd use something like a stout or lager. Not the water-like substitute that is Pabst.
I could have used other popular artists that could have been made in a lab for all their producers cared. The later Las Vegas Elvis (early Elvis was more organic), the Jackson 5, The Osmonds or Donnie&Marie. All capable of new popular music. Producers preferred the music to remain static.
I do agree. I could have used a more recent boy band or I could have used a J-Pop/K-Pop group. Some were flash in the pans, some had/have more staying power. Producers care about money. The fans that enjoy the music can be thrown aside if more can be made going in a different direction.
Given they have manufactured bands ranging from the Monkees to Milli Vanalli, It is rather that producers are set to extract as much money as possible from these things. That said, I do agree with you that if one enjoys the music then it should be enjoyed. No matter what other generations think
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Part of the problem is that Republicans don't have a good track record of keeping these kinds of promises and the Dem Congress tend to forget that. Partly because of club membership and partly because of churn (* <- thank term limits at all levels for the loss of institutional memory *)
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Run Runaway - Slade youtu.be/TgciZyCHgQU?...
there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs. Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.
We should have kept the receipts
Definitely a ‘I’ve got to stand here with my boss’ vibe going on
Trump looks like he’s cringing, not looking at either Putin or the cameras. The man is not well
From a physical therapy standpoint, note that Trump needed to hold the hand rail (also when climbing) and Putin didn’t. That plus his weaving walk are not good signs
As for symbolic grounding being shared knowledge, doesn't that depend on the training data? If the LLM is trained on a dataset like Twitter, it will never get the shared understanding of "Nazism is a bad thing." And then there is the example a LLM's response recommending Sodium Bromide for salt.
"The tech had to cat (in the CS sense) together all of the CAT (medical imaging sense) scans of my cat (feline) before making a tar ball to store." LLM's have been known to mess up less contrived examples that had better contextual clues for the text.
'Hellraiser' (ignoring the sequels) was a much better movie than 'Event Horizon' There is 'Things Man Should Not' with attached schmuck bait, and then there is 'Things Man Should Not' with a 'Science Is Bad' anvil attached.
These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra youtu.be/GM1kzbAgo_E?...
What infuriates me is the buy-in on the left to vilify HRC.
Given how the USDA handles meat-packing plants under Dem admins, much less R., this is going to be a humdinger. Articles about the sterilization treatment plants have a para. or two that the workers keep clean-room clean working with the eggs (v. tiny) to avoid any hatching in their eyes/noses/etc.
Like that tiktok video of the ICE dude that had a tactical vest over ... NOTHING! No Shirt, No T. Even a little professionalism is way too much of an ask. Even the 1935 Nazi thugs (all nations) running around to curb-stomp the undesirables wore ties and had their shirts tucked in.