This, and the following four posts. Seriously. Airports are one giant petri dish. Do not go swimming in the petri dish.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

Yep. This. Machine learning “AI” has been around for a long time and the plagiarism machines are just one specific form. My computer uses “AI” for noise cancellation and it’s not recording all my conversations.

Peekaboo.

I would guess that that would be so many variants of how people pronounce just that one word even in America depending on what part of the country you live in

Apparently it’s not uncommon for people’s voices to change drastically from one language to another, I have jumpscared a couple people switching languages

I love to mess with little kids by telling them to say “this is my normal voice” in their normal voice ten times. Quantum accent observation in real time.

Even worse, if you record your voice and listen back to it, it may not actually sound correct because the recorder often captures narrow frequency range. It's quite a curious thing that our truest voice sounds but a lie

Anyway, if you’re a Kiwi and know the international phonetic alphabet, you’re my new best friend

You will also learn that anybody who says that Australian accents and New Zealand/Aotearoa accents are very similar and that if you’re good at one, you’ll be good at the other, is a damn liar

Try to teach yourself to do a different accent or dialect and you’ll soon realize that you have no idea what you sound like, and maybe it’s completely different than you thought This is why I found myself on the Cambridge Dictionary site frantically trying to figure out how we in the US say “what”

ICE shot pepper balls into the head, face, torso, and legs of Reverend David Black in Chicago. If they're not dropping from the sky into black and brown neighborhoods, and dragging their children outside, naked, and zip-tying toddlers, then they're shooting women. #SheShed

They act that way not because they genuinely believe it, but because they are acutely aware that their fate rests on *you* believing it.

If i could afford one, all I'd want is a note attached to it saying it was donated back by me. Id rather see the collection kept complete.

It's sad, 'cause any wealthy individual could make a huge impact in donating.

If I were wealthy I would overpay and buy every single painting! I hope this is successful and helps them stay open! This regime wants them all closed forever, and we cannot let that happen!

Bob Ross was a light. ✌️ One that still shines.

Hope whoever buys them Return them to the stations someday soon

Sad it has to happen but can’t think of a better reason to auction off his work.

Great fundraising idea. I think Bob would approve. 👏👍

What an extraordinarily magnanimous gesture. I'm going to buy the entire Bob Ross Joy of Painting DVD series online just to express thanks and approval of his (estate's) humanity and support for public television.

I just donated to Public TV.

True story: While attending college (mid-'80s), there was a group of 7 or 8 guys in this one dormitory where a friend of mine lived who would toke up together on the days that Bob's show aired, and then convene in the TV lounge at 4 pm to watch the latest episode. They never missed an episode. 🌿

Wow. Remember watching this guy after school. Was like therapy. He was so smooth and gentle and peaceful.

That’s kind. Sad it has to be this way! 🥴

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Pedophiles are now the most protected group of criminals in America.

Sen. PADILLA: This Justice Department fired a 15-year career prosecutor who put away sex traffickers and transnational terrorists. She was marched out of her office. Why? Because she had the audacity to remind Border Patrol that it should follow court orders.

Been checking my mailbox every day. Will be so glad to see my useless felon maga scumbag rep Issa put out of a job. Let's goooooo

YES on 50

I donated a ton to this even though I don’t live in CA since July. CA is my birth place and home state for most of my 62 years and I love it. I won’t let DJT duck it up.

Sending in my vote today!

My fellow Californian's. Please Vote Blue & Vote Yes on prop 50.

SHUT UP: Arnold left office with 23% approval, bankrupted California.

Exactly. Like I said, we still have to vote.

I'm not counting my chickens until the votes are cast.

Mailed my ballot yesterday!

Hopefully my ballot will come in the mail today 💙🔥💙

Well done, Ensign! 🫡

Mailed mine today!

And Marc Elias's team is suing Texas for it!

Texas Republicans didn’t even give their citizens a say like Californians can.

This is encouraging. Californians understood the assignment. We got loud and spread the word on Prop 50. This is a fight against Republican anti-democratic tactics, but we still have to vote. Get those ballots in, early voting has started. We’re going to pass Prop 50.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

This is also quite literally why Trump keeps saying that Portland is a war zone and things are burning. He saw 10 seconds of a video clip from the protests in 2020 on Fox News, decided it was current and it's useful to his handlers that he thinks that and useful nonsense for the cult to repeat.

I'm--

If you go to the actual story, you are informed that this photo is from 1992. This context is omitted from posts to social media so as to generate clicks and normalize Trump's fascism by implying this what is happening NOW.

Please share widely, especially if you know anyone in PA. The GOP are throwing everything at the PA Supreme Court race. We have to maintain our Democratic majority! Thank you!