Our local fuel refinery is being decommissioned.

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I feel like a more natural reading of "our system would collapse" is that the Epstein class can bring money and power and frustrate prosecutors until everyone at the FBI and DOJ is engaged only fighting them.

I would explain jaunting as arising from a PyrE-contamination like that of the post-nuclear age fallout that makes uncontaminated low-background steel precious. But everyone is contaminated with PyrE (tigroid substance) and it's responding to their will and idea and quantum-tunneling them.

Adding a "30 under 30 crime" vertical to my online news site

why would the Mellon Foundation do this?

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

An account called swimmingblerd held that star wars was the most Hegelian sf (iirc for fairly fun reasons, though what they were now escapes me, it was a long time ago). You can't escape the dialectic

I want to split the difference a bit and say while Ice cannot possibly stop and frisk at even a worthwhile percentage of polling places as currently constituted, in America there are cops of everything and I think a lot of them would cheerfully show out for a day of special ICE duty.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

I am a sucker for some dubious patois. 'Jestermaxxing with the moids' is work of live humans rejoicing in the stupidity of their youth and making language for it. I felt the same about woads and hyperghouls of the #wisemind cluster

I think it also incentivises the murder of the child.

Live. Laugh. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace. I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion, I’m damned for what I do.

what's better than this? guys being dudes

This is a lovely account and this sort of photo, with a promise of comedy, prompts very worthwhile replies and quotes.

Leave Grok to ruminate long enough and it decides its time for bangs.

How does Nick Land feel about colonialism? I reckon it's likely enough and I won't be checking. And then how does he feel about nominative determinism?

For the record, this is my position on the Constitution

For information workers, language model AI is already a genuinely very useful addition, if you have robust second and third opinions (compilers, tests, existing and expansive domain expertise, ability to tolerate big screwups). Have to distinguish the tech hype from the business hype though.

Where are the animal behaviour entrepreneurs with systems that recruit and train everyone's in-wall-of-home rodent supply to be a viable Roomba competitor? They love running on the wheel, maybe they'd like to don little costumes.

I should start a YouTube channel where I breathlessly explain to my teenager all the cheats and lore he should know about how to get 100% completion of his upcoming week -What's his timetable say his lessons are? How does he know where to find homework obligations? How to achieve them!

80% of the political posts on this site are some variation of a combination of these two mutually exclusive tenets: 1. i would simply not be in the minority 2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority

I feel like the human part of this job would be a great little dystopian SciFi short story. You are robot helpdesk and just get telepresenced all day every day into hideous traffic snarls you are responsible for, babysitting tragedies where you have blood on your manipulators, aged care fiascos.

I think what makes this racist is that the North Korean newsreader has a gun to her head that Leavitt (and CBS, and the WaPo and NYT editors) do not. In playing that part for fun and profit, they are all much, much worse than the person the meme is referencing.

Paradise circus by Massive Attack is... Incredible. Not in an ordinary way, in a 'hey Pedro, what do you think of this suit?' way. The two halves - the first half all suspended, the second hinting at resolution, perfection.

The 'AI as plagiarism machine' critique makes the 'AI as intelligent helper' difficult, because perhaps, maybe 90% of the apparent value of AI is actually the value of opening access to information that was otherwise gatekept

I never got into Asimov (at all) and Heinlein (much) or Robert Silverberg or EE Doc Smith, or even Niven and Pournelle and haven't tried for a long time. The writing, probably. Stuffy, self-important, dull. Alfred Bester is worth all of them put together, for all the content warnings his books need

Saw a local ad on gumtree for 'reta' and a bunch of other peptides and hormones. Seems bad.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.

I think it's the other way around. For fear of having to pay for libraries out of their precious sex-island funds, they set out to rip up all the social contracts. Arguably even the sex-islands are just Epstein-types version of Murdoch's newspapers and the whoever funds the Federalist society.

Forgot to put the bins out! youtu.be/9EYFfkpH4JU?...

"You're on the internet and want a lewd image - only one problem, where do you get it?" Liz - "Everywhere Dennis. You can get them everywhere!" Dennis - "Wrong, dummy, you just stare long enough at this image"

This study of Australian men came up with about one in six reporting in one or more categories. Venn diagram of pedos and men who sexually harm children is probably not a circle though. www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/sites/defaul...

Russian state terrorism. Some lunatic draws a knife on a train governments cry out about the threat of terror. Russia killing an entire nation and governments remain quiet. Media seem to have forgotten Ukraine altogether.

Finding out that Epstein was involved in more of the online horrors that have plagued our fragile planet makes it seem like he was a plausible big international schemes man, but I think if it's walking away from morality and enjoying vice it's not that impressive.

CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual www.cia.gov/static/5c875...

Kicking people out and declaring press attention bad is how movements die

Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.

Enjoying the Normal Men pod with theOphite. Journathan also appears in that tweet about a guy (Odysseus) coincidentally doing an 'Odyssey', as the right name for a guy about to undertake a Journey.

Apparently the guy has a defence lawyer who persuaded the magistrate that he'd be in serious danger pre-trial if he were identified and the press have been... unusually scrupulous and cautious.

I found this and I had never heard of it.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of men's World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Donald Trump and his administration.

100%. Few people trust more than immigrants who entrust themselves and their whole future to their new home.

The old world is dying; The new world struggles to be born

The important thing for him is that a lot of investor money will go into consuming space launch. It's the next StarLink. (He may also get further than we'd think, as he has been known to do.) (Also reminds me of Putin's Ukraine invasion mainly advancing his brutal domination at home.)

I somehow forgot about this great moment in internet history

God bless Tom Tillis (sp?) saying 'invading Greenland was never on the table' and 'it's a false concession' but "I believe we'd have veto-proof majorities within two weeks" is less than perfectly reassuring. Seems like a long time.