Whew. Looks like a solid majority for the principle that deploying the national guard to enforce federal law requires exhaustion of the permitted uses of the regular military, which are very few under Posse Comitatus.

I dunno who needs to hear this but using AI at your Early Concept phase, or for ideation, is literally the worst place to deploy it It isn't creative, what it does is hand back tropes. That's what the model does: sift for likely responses to an input It's like building your foundation out of memes

This is the opposite of inquiry. Anyone who does this is needs to stop pretending to be a researcher.

The best skater I ever saw as a derby ref was a guy who used to come to open skate and spend the entire time pretending to fall down in increasingly acrobatic ways. He always looked like he was on the verge of catastrophe, but just kept going. This is a post about the Seattle Seahawks.

God damn that Seahawks win was good enough to reset the timeline

The Seahawks are elite because they spend most of the game beating themselves. Only then they turn their attention to their opponents.

I could not give a single shit about him complaining about refs. This image is *very literally* an IRL representation of the ALT right Jew cartoon meme and it is making my SICK TO MY STOMACH to look at it. This man needs to face immediate consequences.

The Old Man and The Seahawks

My high school football coach was also the European History teacher and he kept comparing combatants in world wars to local football rivals. So Nazi Germany was Dubuque Wahlert and the Russians were Cedar Rapids Prairie. I think Italy was Bettendorf. Anyway good luck out there Phil.

This is hilarious. Look, whatever is allowing them to go 9-4 in this year’s NFC West, most other teams want it. Ideology doesn’t give CMC that kind of run blocking.

Coming soon: Verbinski’s “All art is Propaganda” and “Burmese Days” by Wes Anderson

The best moment in the History of the Word Caucasian came in a series of Supreme Court cases during the immigration panic of the 1920s. The Naturalization Act of 1790 said that only "white" people could be naturalized as American citizens, but that only raised questions about what counted as white?

Undergrad appreciating the fact that I was able to come up with 6 articles for them on a topic of their research interest just said "you're like a human algorithm" Or, you know, just... a human? What are we doing here.

It is patently irresponsible to send this man against the Seahawks defense. He will actually die defector.com/colts-auditi...

Our first monophysite President.

Fam, this stat is actually fucking NUTS 😂

Every week is “struggling in a dominating performance, Seahawks claw their way to a blowout”

Just watched someone trying to navigate an icy intersection with a wheelchair almost get plowed into by a delivery robot that had raced across the street and almost got hit by a car in the process as the light was changing. Yeah we all need to start carrying baseball bats

This makes perfect sense to me and I've often wondered how, say, lawyers who use AI to write briefs expect to effectively argue their positions in court.

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

TIL about Atlantropa -- among massive hubristic 20th Century water projects, undoubtedly the most massive and hubristic. From flooding most of central Africa to dewatering the Med... the notion of a hydraulic society's colonial imaginary has never gotten such a workout.

“Rubrics, please”

here's my take on Woke 2. the thing about Woke 1 is that it's born from the end of history era, when it was important to re-discover forms of oppression that had been denied or hidden. but this led to a [clears throat] hermeneutics of suscpicion, and ultimately paranoia and internecine factionalism

Dominating in an ugly win, the Seahawks clawed their way to a blowout victory

There are days when I think about the wisdom of having bought a tiny corner lot with 200 feet of sidewalk to shovel. Half of which is a heavily-used neighborhood route that the city plows insist on redepositing snow on after each pass. But with great frontage comes great responsibility.

I’m a Seattle sports guy, so the football podcaster I listen to spends the first five minutes of not one, but two episodes talking about how he screwed up the crust on a pear tart.

I made a map of queer communities across the US btime.org/c/queer/map

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Great article just out from two of our graduate students in Geography on teaching a writing-intensive class at the moment ChatGPT appeared, and how grappling with emergent generative AI has transformed the content of that human geography class. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Guys ok -- if "broka" was a Germanic ancestor for the 15C Kentish word "brook" that meant, essentially, "wetlands", then the King James bible's translation of Psalm 42:1 -- -- "as the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God" means: "God you are like a wetland!"

telling my students that my grandfather was a British artillery officer in World War I and they're looking at me like like I might predate indoor plumbing.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This the design game for us.

I mean after Ohtani and Yamamoto who can blame them

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I returned to Watt’s legacy this summer in a separate piece that recalls the “wise use” agenda, a framework of resource dominance that effectively laid the groundwork for Project 2025’s approach to federal lands and waters. bsky.app/profile/dust...

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

That #Seahawks win against the Houston Texans is looking more and more impressive. Houston sacked Josh Allen 8 times! The Hawks' offensive line only gave up 2 sacks in their game against the Texans.

Tennessee Titans press conferences seems to be incredible content, paused while channelsurfing at a presser where they asked the coach how he plans to come out this week with a win and he goes "lets not get ahead of ourselves here"

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

This only highlights the need for a remote that generates power from being stuck between couch cushions.

As a former derby referee with 10 years’ experience, I’m happy to endorse the Fox 40 Classic for this purpose. Pea whistles are for clowns and children.

Who’s out there theorizing AI as the real subsumption of nature by capital?

At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

I was impressed by the Rams and Seahawks coming out last night and giving us the more rare “two clearly very good teams both playing like ass”. People will pretend these games are just good defense but I love them for what they are.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

*slams beer down on counter* You crying about interceptions costing us wins?? Let me tell you kids about Dave fuckin Krieg #Seahawks

Seahawks looked like an elite team who succumbed to one player's bad day. If that player isn't the quarterback, they win. I can live with that loss. Nobody can make me enjoy it, and nobody should excuse the cause of it, but I can live with it.