There is no ceasefire. It's just a change in the method and tempo of genocide.

There is a special place in hell for people who organise their books by colour.

When the edible hits

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Worth watching to see what all the smart Sensible people who spent all those years calling us childish idiots for saying it’s just imperial plunder and rule by force have to say about the US president saying openly it is imperial plunder and rule by force. If only for a laugh, of course.

To those thinking Russia is winning in Ukraine: Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men. Not a soul would call that “winning.”

The grinch in “the fugitive”: Richard Kimble: you suggesting that I stole Christmas? Are you saying that I took my presents and got rid of them? How dare you! When I came home, there was a grinch in my house. I fought with this grinch. He had a small dog. You find this grinch. You find this grinch.

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

"To see those... those... monkeys from those African countries... Damn them! They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!" - Ronald Reagan

Good morning and welcome to the official start of the Christmas season 🎄

Is this the cannibal equivalent of a powdered donut?

Good luck!

As James says, this isn't even about climate. It's about all the tools, platforms, models, datasets we use to study and forecast weather and understand how it impacts people, too.

Or rather, all too believable. If you want to suppress all knowledge of how a relatively small number are enriching themselves by destroying our shared home then this destruction, following on the heels of the funding freeze for the national Climate Adaptation Science Centers, is completely logical.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Alien Enemies Act, Insurrection Act...Martial Law.

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“It was not a request from a stranger. Hudson had been friendly with the Reagans during the president’s time in Hollywood.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015...

When I was a kid, cynics said "the president claims his war is about human rights but it's REALLY about controlling oil!". Now cynics are saying "the president claims his war is about controlling oil but it's REALLY about his own personal involvement in a mass child trafficking network!".

The genocide never ended. The ceasefire doesn't exist.

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

it turns out that capitalism only works up to the point where people start having enough money that "more money" ceases to be a meaningful incentive

i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders

Pay attention.

feels stupid to say at this point but how the fuck isn't anyone invoking the 25th amendment.

The idea of "wag the dog" is everywhere. But Trump has been ramping this up for months. It's about Venezuela. You say that doesn't make sense? It doesn't have to. Trump has a bug up his butt about Venezuela. And that fits with Marco Rubio's desire to get Cuba. These are not smart guys.

Look, I'm not one to quickly believe in conspiracy theories about us attacking Venezuela on a made up provocation to distract from the Epstein files, but the timing of all this is not helping me convince myself that it's not true.

You could throw a dart randomly at the map and create a better rationale for war with whatever country you happened to hit than whatever this word salad is. Going to war because the president is an insane old man. We don’t have to live like this.

The Trump promise: a foreign policy you need a massive stroke to appreciate

Really something how many people seem not to understand this extremely obvious point

I do not understand why so many universities and libraries still buy ULINE you’re funding the people who are trying to kill you

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

what if the gulf of tonkin but with midair fireballs and its scored to Yakety Sax

It sure would be nice if the Premier of Alberta would call out this treasonous behaviour by one of her own party members for what it is.

“Make sure JD sits in a goddamn chair!”

How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.

Susie Wiles is one of the most brilliant political operators in the business, having guided DeSantis and then Trump to significant victories, and the idea that she doesn't know how 'on the record' worked is like saying a pilot doesn't know how to land a plane.

Also just tapping the sign again — A.I. eliminates the opportunity for creative discovery on your way to the destination you *thought* you wanted. You’re making art, process is everything.

Why do all AI videos have this specific undertone. It's so hard to articulate the exact feeling it creates; it's not the uncanny valley, thats not it. Its like...if a child's fever dream and your dumbest aunt's Facebook posts were combined into a concentrated serum of dogshit

One of the worst developments of the last ~20 years has been that in certain professions, 5% are superstars and 95% eat cat food for dinner. Society depends on a broad and comfortable middle path.

"You were right." A well known futurist–a paid consultant who’s worked for Stanford Research Institute and others–recently told me that this talk is not outdated, and it gives a good sense of the next fifty years…and beyond.

One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides. The Coke cost more on the Black side.

A theory I've come to believe wholeheartedly is there isn't more corruption in Chicago or New York than there is in Texas or Arizona. It's that Chicago and New York had more newspapers.

Amazing 😳 digital archaeology How AI’s annoying blandness “accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire”

We talk about media literacy in the sense of “being able to actually read a book or understand a movie,” when what we also need is “telling a press release or PR campaign from a news story” or “figure out who owns what and who benefits from those stories being out there.”

Seems troubling that Kelowna-area MLA Tara Armstrong went to bat for a neo-Nazi (?) staffer who apparently previously worked for Trump’s admin.