new wind chimes have gone up within hearing, not sure if same neighbors or new. Lying in bed with white noise machine and just hearing high pitched nonstop bells bc it's a bit windy

this week's post is about how AI doesn't even do the things people pretend it does margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-...

Everyone, we have a great update! Randy at Kitty Kat Ranch, a sanctuary for senior and feral cats with ober 100 cats in residence, agreed to socialize Tarin. Please see the separate update post and please consider a donation for Tarin to help the sanctuary. Even $1 helps feed them!

what a delight to finish one book in a series and open my phone to see my library hold for the next book has just come in

obsessed with this cat

First day of the year wearing sandals!!!!!!!!! ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

please clap i finally Did The Thing with a browser tab i've had open for almost two months

Truly wonderful when the specific thing you went to the grocery store for happens to be on sale!!!

I'm sorry mother nature but it's either one or the other. Ok? Either too cold for pollen or too warm for frost!!!! Pick!!!!

It's ridiculous that people are out here spending all their time talking like the coal miners are the only blue collar workers out there when there are more solar installers than coal miners.

This is Tarin, one of our TNR cats. She's 9 months and already has 1 litter. She is so gentle but scared and bc we have no long term fosters will be released back into the streets. If you're in CT and can foster and socialize a very shy girl, please reach out! #fosterneeded #CT #cats #rescue

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

this is the kind of quiet organizing that is always on time.

holy shit and hallelujah I worked out and my shin pain went away. That usually doesn't happen so easily!! Wonder if strength training other parts of body is helping somehow. Flabbergasted

Very specific Me Problem: the bananas I bought must have been cold damaged because they ripened while still green and by the time I realized they were riper than I like and now my protein shakes taste TOO much like banana!!!! 😤

Sprained my ankle in Nov 2020 and still today dealing with severe deferred pain in upper shin bc those ligaments are fucked

It's interesting that doing a 90 min full body workout makes my body feel good at the end, but, say, walking seven miles (in good tennis shoes) as a tourist leaves me sore and hurting at the end of the day. I guess it's the variety of movement vs the same motion for hours and hours

Schumer & Jeffries should be on the steps of the Capitol or in front of the Court with voting rights activists and others and state plainly, "John Roberts does not think Black people should have the right to vote or deserve representation in Congress." State it plainly so normal people get it.

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

It's so disheartening watching this court carry out the explicit project of white supremacy so blatantly while gaslighting the public to say it's trying to stop discrimination. They're dismantling every major legacy of the civil rights movement. We need to reform this court.

This is correct. And coupled with the attacks on people of color in the workplace, colleges, and the military, we are likely to see a profound resegregation across American society.

SCOTUS rules that intentional discrimination required to find race discrimination under VRA, which is nearly impossible to prove. This will weaken VRA to point of irrelevance. Though Alito wrote majority opinion John Roberts has been trying to gut VRA for 40+ years since he worked in Reagan DOJ

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

service so bad I’m only tipping 18%

The first thing I do when I get a new phone is change the Google assistant voice to male

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

I'll just remind you that this guy isn't that creative, and he's likely just running the playbook.

i will venmo you $10 if you can find me plastic drawer storage (ideally with wheels) for purchase online that is a minimum 60" tall, and about 16" wide and 17" deep. would like at least 3 tall (16" tall) drawers. why are these so hard to find??? everything is so short

Worked really hard today to fuck my hip up (so it's as painful as possible ahead of a lidocaine injection tomorrow so I can get a really good idea of if that amount of pain relief is worth hip surgery to me) Was successful. Yay and also 🫠!!!

Looking forward to watching this when I'm not about to fall asleep!!

was just thinking about the cycle of socialization/cycle of liberation by bobbie harro and was curious to learn more about harro and there's like ... nothing online?? or it's just buried by a million references to that work. does anyone have a resource to a biography or a wikipedia article or smth?

www.latimes.com/doctors-scie... Relationship between Covid-19 and breast cancer recurrence. #CleantheAir #ffp2/3 Open windows Vaccinate

didn't make it to the clothing swap today to get rid of some clothes but I did accomplish a few other items on the to-do list!! the bag of clothes can wait for a future swap. we call that good enough in these parts

buy is a weird word. Guy makes sense because Guillermo but buy has no business being pronounced like that

So if someone opts in, and has taken photos of friends, relatives, kids, even strangers, they’re “giving permission” on behalf of all those people. So lots of people have no say in this. The whole “opt in” thing was always a charade but it’s approaching terminal nonsense at this point.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

In general the Donald Trump political experience has been an absurd and ridiculous endeavor and demonstrates more than anything how powerful white racial solidarity is in the United States.

Let's see if I can make it...

Never mind

Baffled: just finished laundry and somehow lost a PILLOWCASE?? How???? It's possible it was still in a washing machine (tho unlikely) when I moved the rest to a drier but there's someone doing their load in there now and no pillowcase anywhere

A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

think of it this way: popes don’t get “entangled with politics” so much as they are, and have always been, political actors. this matters: we ascribe an “apolitical-ness” to christianity that we rarely ascribe to islam, for example.

finally saw project hail mary and it was great but so, so long. one of the many things that was so refreshing about heated rivalry -- it had not a single wasted minute.

please just block terrible people instead of quote-posting them i beg of you

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.