This is so extremely my shit, I bought one immediately after reading the article. I yearn still for my Kindle Keyboard (2010) and I really think no feature since then has been that necessary, except a backlight. Will report back.

Rules

It’s the freakin weekend

Some of you people are taking the pleasure boat to Cuckold's point.

!! Would be very cool!

I think the visceral disgust so many people feel towards homeless people is one of the great modern mind poisons. It makes it almost impossible to see their basic humanity, and all the key work and compassion flows from that.

Got the big Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is bananas that Watterson dropped one of the best strips of all time within a month of starting the comic

One of @adapalmer.bsky.social 's wonderful articles I remember, approximately, argued that a key notion of the American democratic experiment was that all people are, fundamentally, educable and not born immutably dumb.

Your mountainish inhumanity

I will keep sharing my amateur film shots until morale improves. Shot on an Olympus Pen-EE half-frame with kodak 200 gold. I can't help it, I like the grain and color that have been co-opted as an instagram filter look! Friggin sue me! #photoraphy #filmphotography #film

BTW the "choice" in question is opposing the regime. Which puts you into the category of nonperson and not protected by law or decency, thus you can be murdered. They see all opposition as illegitimate insurgency and treat it as such!

I just thought everyone should see this

Trump is not omnipotent. He exists within a web of institutions. His authority is not unlimited. It appears that way largely because his allies occupy key places — Congress — that could provide a meaningful check. Important to understand his actual reach and the limits of that reach. (14/14)

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

It feels like a relief that a lot of my politics have gotten less finicky and complicated in the last 10 years or so. Like, basic human dignity and freedom is a framework that covers a lot of handwringing! And "people should be kind". Maybe a result of evil being ever coarser

basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast” this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

The US doesn't need Venezuelan oil fields btw. We produce the most in the world by a good margin, and have for years. I truly think the attack on Venezuela was about braindead immigrant scapegoating (immigrants=drugs=venezuela=bad) first and foremost. Trumps shadow viziers have no serious next step!

My new years resolution to become the world's dog stupidest most violent ugly dying pedophile is already facing some tough competition. Can't say more!

I am positive that he thinks Black people have blood like nickelodeon gak. And that white gentile blood could be what's in the Phial of Galadriel.

I posted this on Threads in a reply but that site is a dead zone for me (was it something I said?) Anyway here's a screen shot because characters are limited here: AI can't create art...

Not mindful not organized not driven heading into 2026 let's friggin go

Happy every horse's birthday (northern hemisphere)

Fuuuuck you frontier, delaying my 11pm flight by 3 hours, then your seating hangout area (away from gate) w chargers is the only place around with ice cold a/c blasting.

Got a BIG laugh from my amicable ex at the Christmas party. I still got it folks

muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)

Shutting down NCAR. Maybe the only place I've ever thought of as a dream job and, if this goes through, it will be gutted for decades or destroyed outright. I haven't formally worked there yet but probably never will. Ugghhh.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Anyone who thinks they don't have the skills to write a book, I promise that you can. This guy is 4x published despite his demonstrated talent and humiliation kink!

this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Hey man are you doing okay. I saw you changed your Nintendo Switch profile icon from that Star Fox babe to a picture of Luigi holding the barrel of a gun against his nuts. Is that from one of the Luigi's Mansions? I'm here for you no matter what but I never played any of em. No spoilers please.

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

“You’re out of gunge/ I’m out of slime” - Out Of Touch by Hall & Oates if it was about running out of various oozes and glops

"advocates say" is some real cowardly framing of the constant stream of videos and stories of agents refusing to identify themselves over and over. It just is happening. It is the truth.

AI was invented to aggressively regress to the mean. It is a metaphorical lawnmower of thought.

Can't wait for the time of evening where the hangover and caffeine comedown mix to make me totally fucking hate myself

I think this is legitimately the worst delivered joke of all time. Like in all of human history. Since they invented jokes. Actually since they invented language.

With the Trump administration cutting off SNAP benefits, I think it's really time to pull together. I made a little donation to City Harvest, and if you donate to any food bank and tell me what your small problem is, I'll give you a pep talk in Monday's newsletter! (Send me your receipt too!)