Breaking: Here is who’s planning to occupy the Project Jupiter data center.

The annual “unclaimed bodies” press release turn, which a staff reporter can accomplish in minutes between Teams meetings and mandatory online training modules, is now being farmed out to a digital parrot before, I presume, it is proofread by this young reporter based in Oklahoma. 1/2

On the west side of Las Cruces, we have this big string cheese factory. During the pandemic, they expanded with grants that came with required targets for hiring, wages, and capital investment. Last week, the city closed the grant after the company flew past those goals over a year early.

The city was honored for its role in a $15.6 million supportive housing project under construction. Separately, Tierra del Sol director Rose Garcia was presented with a lifetime achievement award.

LLM might be of assistance to human physicians but is not a substitute for human experience, intuition, or inspiration. It can’t make the leaps that human thought executes. AI is imitation intelligence. It can look things up quickly and provide response is likely to be helpful. It is not a doctor.

Occasionally I file restaurant reviews from around southern New Mexico.

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group. McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington DC for "violating" its policies on violent extremism.

The annual Household Food Security report is canceled. “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger,” the Department of Agriculture said in a statement.

This!!

this exists it is called thinking

This has been driving me bonkers for a long time.

Catching up on the aftermath of a recent shootout at Salopek Park in Las Cruces.

Doña Ana County commissioners approved an unprecedented $165 billion industrial revenue bond to help finance a mammoth AI-training data center for Santa Teresa Friday.

Good morning, BlueSky. I am at the Doña Ana County government building for a pivotal hearing on Project Jupiter, a gi-normous data center project proposed for Santa Teresa. Commissioners are expected to approve a staggering $165 billion industrial revenue bond, plus LEDA incentives. 1/

Could you move over there? Oh, these seats are marked for media. They are for staff. There are seats marked for staff. I know, but we need these. So you don’t want me to sit in this section? No, would you please move to that other section? OK, where do you want me? Any seat marked “media.”

A special “administration-friendly”edition of The Daily Show following ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. The set has been redone in wood panel and gold, and Stewart and the cast play at fearfully pivoting to North Korean style praise of “our father.” They sustain the bit for half an hour. 1/2

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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

No kidding.

Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

LBJ really did write this in 1969 but it took him a moment to get there. Censorship on network TV is nothing new. The Smothers Brothers lampooned the president frequently, and eventually (1967?) Johnson called up the head of CBS and complained. 1/2

FCC head Brendan Carr misrepresents the FCC’s equal time rule, which only applies to competing political candidates, not jokes by late night comedians. He mashes it up with the Fairness Doctrine, which applied to controversial issues, but was abolished in 1987 — when Reagan was president. 1/2

“There shouldn’t be a rush when we’re talking about a $165 billion decision.”

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

“…what’s become of our social media in the past two decades isn’t merely about what happens online; it’s about rewriting the American story. It’s affected the way we talk to each other, IRL. … The medium is the message — and the message is fracture.”

Pound sand, Clay.

The City of Sunland Park has joined community organizations and residents seeking more time to evaluate the proposal, which participants at several town halls have characterized as rushed and skimpy on key details.

Bringing a conclusion to a horrifying 2022 murder north of Deming.

Trump Threatens ABC’s Jon Karl to His Face Amid Grilling on ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown

“This goes beyond austerity. It is necropolitics—the use of policy to decide who lives and who is left to manage their own decline.”

“The vast majority of counties across the United States are experiencing declining rates of childhood vaccination and have been for years, according to an NBC News data investigation, the most comprehensive analysis of vaccinations and school exemptions to date.”

The purported letter firing Karen Attiah makes one’s head spin.

“The long-term goal for the spaceport is not just one customer or a few applications, but building the whole region and working toward orbital launch…”

It is entirely fitting and proper that Charlie Kirk’s admirers are honoring his beliefs about free speech by devoting hours to getting people fired for saying the wrong things about him.

It appears I’ve been targeted in this effort myself, which is ironic, considering my public position has actually been to *decry* this assassination and political violence. 1/4

As the Post’s global opinions editor, Karen Attiah was Jamal Khashoggi’s editor at the time Khashoggi was murdered by the Saudi regime for his writing in 2018. She now reports the Post fired her for posts she wrote on BlueSky about political violence, its widespread acceptance and cliched responses.

“…we have a social media hungry for content, and a commentariat that must offer its insights on what felt like a genuinely consequential event. Many of these takes were wildly bad, seeking to use Kirk’s murder to further their own pre-existing narratives…”

Wow so many words for I don’t read articles but comment anyway.

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

“What makes political violence thinkable is not just ideology—it’s infrastructure. Violence is rarely spontaneous. It emerges from patterned tactics, institutional supports, and cultural cues that signal which kinds of aggression are permissible, and which targets are fair game.”

There is that…

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

Reading much tonight on Charlie Kirk, who he was, what he said and believed -- from both admirers and those deeply opposed. It does not matter. None of it. What matters is that political violence made routine against any voice, left or right, marks us as a failing, dying republic. This is horror.

Developers of a proposed "hyperscale" AI data center opened a series of community meetings around Doña Ana County to field questions, promote the project and receive public input. Boy, are they hearing from folks.

A deadly shootout in a city park Thursday has claimed the life of Julia Clark, 19, who was apparently caught in crossfire. It occurred a little more than five months since the deadly shooting at Young Park.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

NEW: Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.

For years, hikers had to cross private land to reach the Achenbach Canyon Trail. That ended when the BLM purchased the land under program the White House is cutting back severely and the Interior Department is putting new restrictions on using the Land and Water Conservation Fund in this way.

Slightly diminished a book. Nicomachean Vibes.