I hope the JJ Cale estate is cleaning up on The Lowdown (killer soundtrack overall but especially the ubiquitous JJ Cale)

"But needing a story so good rather inhibits writing one; I spent the last two dolorous weeks tapping away at a piece that I am afraid will not do at all." Girl, same. The young John Updike to William Maxwell, 1960. lithub.com/dear-bill-le...

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/

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Hitler, Stalin, Freud, Trotsky, and Franz Joseph all lived within a radius of a few km in Vienna in 1913-14. “Stalin could have, with real probability, walked past a homeless Hitler trying to sell his mediocre watercolor paintings on the street…” [earthlymission.com]

I thought my grandfather helped sort this out in 1945-46 when he helped round up Nazi war criminals for the Nuremberg trials. Clearly we did a poor job of housekeeping in the decades that followed. How hard is to understand the basic message, "Nazis are really bad and you shouldn't be one"?

The house is a metaphor for the country.

Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...

In the quest for a cozy, funky coffee shop in South Minneapolis, Rick's Coffee Bar is a solid contender -- good vibe, comfy chairs, decent coffee. It's a little out of my neighborhood, but a good place to park when the dog is being groomed/tortured at Wendy's Doghouse.

Each AWS outage is a chance for people to reevaluate whether billionaires should be allowed to exist, and each time this test is cut short when the entertainment comes back on.

AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.

Got up to let the dog out, checked the work email, saw AWS is down. A good day to stay in bed and roll the clock back a few decades. There's no such thing as the cloud, it's just someone else's computer, and you have no control over whether it's running.

Happy AWS outage everyone!

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

prison book thread

If you're talking about the President's gross-out AI video today, and not the fact that 5-7 MILLION AMERICANS turned out to protest this administration all across the country, then you're either being played or you're aiding and abetting an attempt to change the topic.

With Milkweed gone, South Minneapolis really needs a funky, cozy coffee shop (Milkweed was never quite as funky as Blue Moon, but it had some comfy chairs). Everyplace that's left is too bright and loud (or off the list for purely idiosyncratic grudges) ...

Elizabeth, If the French police ask, tell them I was with you all morning. I’ll explain later. In other news, I have something for you that will make a splash at the Meryton ball. Darcy

Is there any way to block that stupid video? (You know the one ...) Having seen it once, I don't need to see it again, and I don't want to just start blocking everyone who reposts it, but I will if I must.

I repeat myself: this is a town of 6000 people in Waldo County, Maine

1700 people out for No Kings in rural Rockland, Maine today… more than 4% of the population of Knox County. #NoKings #Maine #MEPolitics

Sweet, Jesus

Quakers don't bow to kings

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

and by and by Think that I am unking’d

Have fun today friends! #NoKings www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

I didn’t grow up reading books and live a life as an avid reader just to not do anything today at 49 years old. I'll be in my State's capitol with fellow Americans and then to a library event celebrating HORROR! 📚✊🚫👑

This is such a thoughtful thread from Brittany Packnett Cunningham about No Kings. (I'm not tagging her on purpose—some of y'all don't act right.) www.threads.com/@mspackyetti...

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith which is a dangerous assumption tbh

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw (streaming included): The Sword The Last Dinner Party The Snuts The Kills jeremy messersmith (My musical tastes are weird; I like musicians who are unapologetically themselves regardless of genre)

"The money is amazing—he just gives it to you when you show up, and says, 'Here is the cash. Thanks, my faithful protesting employees. My name is George Soros. This is happening in real life, you are not dreaming, and this is not an insane lie your president is making up.'"

Rules, not rulers

“In America, the law is king.” -Thomas Paine

Hey, that's a picture of the St. Paul protest in June! I was there, and I'll be at the one in Minneapolis tomorrow! It will be a big day for showing the promise of American democracy and will make people who fear the people quake in their jackboots ...

I'll take my shot at refutation. I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is. You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.

7/ Caught in a lie, Frey never apologized. Instead, we got his famously weasely “Language became more casual, including my own.” BTW this is the 1st election voters can hold Frey accountable for lying & Locke dying, but the incident is almost memory-holed in coverage. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Hey Minnesota - make your plans now to attend Saturday’s No Kings rally. Here’s the rally closest to me: Saturday October 18 Rally at 1PM; March after The Commons in Downtown Minneapolis Find an event near you and express your American right to assemble and speak: www.nokings.org

Grab yourself some horrors, my fiends!

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. - Get Out - Carrie - The Others - The Innkeepers

This is terrifying and shows local government complicity with the brutal, dehumanizing behavior of ICE and the current regime. We need to hold our representatives accountable at every level.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

everything else aside, it still surprises me how almost every highly publicized “AI” implementation could in fact be replaced by a very small shell script

I’m only thinking about this article in the content of SCOTUS rehearing the Voting Rights Act case. This is what Republicans say in private. Republicans who are elected. Republicans who serve within their party apparatus. Republicans who work for the Trump administration & work in state government.

At last, the true promise of AI is achieved! Screw discovering new drugs or solving unsolvable problems of the ages, or even outsourcing drudgery to a robot. I cannot wait to be able to trade spicy bon mots with the big predictive text box. /s

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London. Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.