Definition of “goon”. The original Nazis were also just corrupt goons and thugs.

Thanks, New Yorker

Oh. Right. Yes, Lindsey Graham was a co-conspirator.

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

On sale @ both PFBs tomorrow (Tue 7th) at opening. Special orders available for pick-up at the same time. I live semi-nearish; anyone who wants to pick up from Main Street at 12:01am is welcome to DM ***before 9pm*** & if there is any interest I'll walk over & briefly reopen the shop.

Sir, we’re all out of intelligence. The whole country is just dumdum, bottom to top. Well, can we just make some more of this? Intelligence? Yessssssssssss! We will make

Among the very best of us humans.

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Frankly, it’s a song that directly instructs young, gay men who have fled their repressive hometowns as to how to find food, shelter, and community in the big city.

It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?

Especially the parking lots. www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/18/f...

This has been happening in Japan, they way over-built golf courses back in the bubble in the 80s. Some huge beautiful megasolar farms on them now

@anntelnaes.bsky.social is right: “A SILENCED CARTOONIST IS AN INDICATOR OF AN UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR FREEDOM Of EXPRESSION. EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS are DEMOCRACY'S (dies in darkness WaPo) CANARY in a COAL MINE.

Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Ah. Me too. Teaching Big History

MAGA ppl grew up laffing with Archie and not at him, they did not get the satire.

Republican = chaos

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Yup.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

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187th day of the year that WindWaterSolar powered the @California_ISO grid for part of the day. Gas down 37% v '23 & 17.3% v '24 Solar up 45% v '23 & 15.2% v '24 Batteries up 206% v '23 & 59% v '24 Demand down 1.1% v '23 & 1.4% v '24 despite more AI

See you tomorrow night in Denver & Tuesday in Boulder — @rosecityband.bsky.social + Prairiewolf!

This is a more accurate portrait of Portland.

So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

Literally “governing“ while addled on purposefully misleading Fox aggrodisinfotainment. Explains much. About the entire GOP apparatus, frankly, for the past thirty years. Who runs the country? Murdoch.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

The Invisibles nailed our present dystopia in 1997.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The thing that human beings seem to value above (almost) all else is other human beings paying attention to them. Put that in your algorithm and smoke it.

One thing that feels underrepresented in our conversations around AI/education is the not-insignificant number of students who have a negative reaction to the idea of using AI—especially being compelled to do it by teachers. They deserve a voice in this conversation, too.

Students may end up being the only real bulwark against what is happening. But, I know that not all students have the same power — the same exit threat. Student resistance will fall along institutional lines of privilege. Could hasten the marketization of non-elite schools. The elites win.

If you don’t want to do your job, you can leave! People are desperate to teach at universities, let them do it!

Any prof doing this should not be able to work in academia for a decade at least after the date of the last offense.

Professors who do this should be required to quit and have their jobs given to the nearest senior graduate student, postdoc, or adjunct.

Don’t take the bait.

hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please

War-ravaged Portland

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

cc @dgans.bsky.social

At the risk of sounding like the 55 yo dude I am: online #creators, download copies of your posted work (or own your platform in entirely). It sounds ridiculous, I know. It’s more ridiculous to lose access to hundreds and and hundreds of pieces you wrote or recorded variety.com/2024/digital...

That’s not to mention the literally thousands of pieces that are gone from the places MTV bought. RIP the groundbreaking and award winning Addicted To Noise and SonicNet

That power wasn't originally there then, but it's originally there now.

Don’t think of Russia Russia Russia. @george-lakoff.com

Probably the framing should be not Trump is going after “his enemies” but, rather, Trump is going after people doing their job in the Justice system, investigating *whether or not* Trump had committed crimes. Typically, innocent people welcome investigation they know will exonerate them …

Russia, Russia, Russia