I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

MOOOsculinity didn't we already have this talk CTD

You would think even the oligarchs / indolent shareholders squeezing the last bits of blood from the stones would realize that an average age of 59 for homebuyers is a really, really bad thing but nope.

For this and many other reasons, all of them having to do with his willingness to throw marginalized constituents under the bus. He's not the guy and never will be.

My default state these days about anything a Federal agency claims is "bullshit, prove it" and they have to prove it. I mean that's always my default state but normally it's just very lowkey background. These days? Bullshit. Prove it.

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social if you have the time and see this, a quick-ish question: I follow a lot of historians, lawyers, and ConLaw professors and it worries me that effectively, 'digital' means 'ephemeral'. You have letters from 150 years ago, but 150 years from now will all this be lost?

I named my fists 'LLM' and 'AI' because You're right, I apologize. Those aren't fists. Those are two fine Chritmuf hams.

I named my fists Pro and Se because they are not a good idea and rarely help.

I hate that I understood this. Not because of, uh, 'reasons', mind you, but because I've been on ye olde internet too long and I've read a lot of what ER staff have to deal with.

No ceiling in regulatory-capture, runaway late stage capitalism necessarily means no floor. First, true believers effectively say "Anyone can be a John Galt with a factory that manufactures hate and division" (so hot right now!) but that factory isn't going to employ other John Galts.

That's when you reply with "At least I can pronounce Saoirse" and they shut right the hell up.

Nine Inch Nails Living Colour The Cure Fleetwood Mac The Doors Depeche Mode Guns and Roses Eve 6 Aesop Rock Cannibal Ox Beastie Boys Stokowski / Royal Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestras (for Korsakov's Scheherezade) anyone else performing Scheherezade

it's terMOOOOnal you mean THIS IS YOUR JOB TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, CTD

Always projection with these people.

Enemy fighters turning back to shoot at parachutes shit here. Except these men weren't uniformed combatants in a recognized 'legal' conflict, so this is even worse than that. "Our murderstrike of civilians missed a few, go finish the job."

Oooooh this is the best riff on his name yet.

Somewhere there is a person with three advanced degrees and 10+ years of immersion in their niche field deep in the throes of Imposter Syndrome being lectured to by some comfident AI Guy who couldn't even charitably be called "an aspirational dilettante" and this is our world now.

Honestly most pie times for me, it's somewhere between 2 and 3, but closer to 2. I want the focus to be the home made pie, not the canned whip cream. You can get a can of Redi any time you want. Home made pie, there's a little more involved. That said there's no wrong answer here bc PIE.

"'WHeRe iS mY cAR' that's what you sound like, lady."

Three Wise Men detained by ICE, deported to Sierra Leone.

Thanksjivving

How can conversations involving Trump asking about having American journalists dismembered with bone saws NOT have happened, at this point? "Why can't I? I'm the President!"

So many people who feel this way about themselves totally shouldn't. It's like the Imposter Syndrome equivalent for self respect and love. So many people. Except me. I should way this way.

This is pinnacle fuckwit.

A reminder that Sam Altman has said he will tune OpenAI products to be 'less woke'. Elon Musk has tuned Grok to love Elon all the time and also maybe deny the Holocaust a little on the side. They aren't designed to be accurate but they can be made to be specifically inaccurate. Class war.

There is a little 'they are the same' stuff about R vs D but one of the parties wants regulatory agencies to protect industry and the other wants regulatory agencies to protect the public and that alone should be enough.

Beautiful World

I said this in reply to someone in a conversation here but rather than just reposting it, it bears special pointing out: "Jim Crow Democrats didn't go away just because Jim Crow did." That's an important thing to remember as we hear and see "big tent" rhetoric and actions.

I think a lot of people have lost the plot in that they forgot the wealthy and powerful hate democracy (despite whatever they may say to try to convince you otherwise), and why that's so. First, though, let's establish a really crude, simplified definition for Democracy: 1/

I want to make a snarky quote like "oh wow people have discovered cooperative community organizing" but this is actually pretty brilliant. And it is community organizing. Against Big Asshole Wealthy Business. Unions should start doing this.

did the AI guys think to ask AI how to make AI accurate and reliable and profitable

4% GDP debt load for AI/related industry, no one wants it (who wants copilot? I've never seen a single person sing its praises but I've seen hojillions bitch about it), and AI isn't accurate or reliable or profitable. A handful of people can try to make fetch a thing and crash the economy. Broken.

I didn't see that, but I'm absolutely sure a bunch of us said things like "PREACH!" and "TESTIFY, SISTER!" AI is garbage. None of it works to a respectable degree of accuracy. None of it is even profitable. And AI related debt load is 4% of GDP? We are in for a reeeally shitty bubble pop ride.

Hi GOP. I'm Demator Dongressman, every Democratic politician for the past 30 years. I've noticed some disturbing initiatives and legislative goals of late. I'm taking notes. Shocking and appalling things. Also, how can I help?

"6:30pm is a terrible time to make another 24oz iced coffee. Better add THREeve fingers of Kahlua to it." Follow me for responsible adult life hacks.

This is why kerning is 🍆 so 🍆 important 🍆

The new legal standard is that an officer or agent needs reasonable suspicion that they can do whatever the fuck they want in order to get away with doing whatever the fuck they want.

Still thinking about all the 'patriots' who personally told me they need their guns specifically bc Venezuela's secret police disappearing people was something they wouldn't tolerate. Multiple people, that exact reason/scenario. Hindsight... should have been obvious they meant "white repubs."

Don Jr, Eric, and the NYT - three kindred spirits on a perpetual, doomed quest for love and affirmation from someone incapable of feeling/giving those things.

people don't even notice how at the beginning of the last chapter of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo defunds the police

@diedrichbader.bsky.social has anyone ever called you 'Darth Bader' and if not why/how not

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Nunchaku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. I will draw you and spend three hours shading your upper lip.

Where was Pennywise, when Eddie Murphy penetrated deep into California and stormed the Hills of Beverly?

Disconnecting for a week is something I've done twice in the past five weeks and each time I've come back to the internet to find out I have somehow fast forwarded years, corruption and collapse wise.

Remember, it's always projection - admissions of what they would do. Does anyone doubt that PR and DC would be full states with full representation if they were predominately conservative? So... let's get all this done. Excellent suggestions, Mr. President.

I really hope the jury acquits the sandwichdier with a clear "we believe he threw the sandwich and that it hit the officer and SO. THE. FUCK. WHAT."

did bsky really run off some torment nexus ethicists shame on us bsky, shame

The people-who-own-everything can't abide truth spoken to power. Or to the powerless.

Fun game: Whenever a new outlet passive-voices something like this, add in one of their journalists. U.S. Citizen shot from behind by LA Times reporter as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say.

honeymoon over