They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

This is a backdoor way to ban speed and red light cameras and should be opposed

Cat 😺 won the Bird Lottery

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If you’ve ever wondered how the Ron Paul to Bernie to Trump you pipeline functioned, this screenshot is the Rosetta Stone.

I’ve been officially jokerfied on this: occupy was a mistake, the entire “1% vs 99%” framing was a _catastrophic_ mistake. We’ve raised a generation of simpletons who think that “as long as anyone is richer than me, I shouldn’t have to contribute” is socialism.

Saw this one posted the other day

What’s funny is that when this happened in Bush 2, W understood that Rs had to ditch him to save themselves and keep the future of the party viable. Grandpa will take the party with him to the grave, and then we get some really weird politics that no one has seen before

Ken Jennings is a real one. www.instagram.com/p/DYi5ddcCii...

The opening salvo of Reconstruction 2.0 should be legalizing direct-to-customer car sales to bankrupt car dealers (a major source of GOP fundraising) and stripping nonprofit status and collecting back taxes from churches who engage in political activity.

LeBron James 07-08 season was 30.000000ppg. 2250 points in 75 games. Pretty close to the numbers Wemby was doing mental math with in that press conference, except he was talking about minutes instead of points

unexpected side effect of [external promotion/title inflation/ calibration arbitrage] is getting way more spam from vendors and spearfishing attempts

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

work in progress tui for the scrabble engine i've been collaborating on github.com/jvc56/MAGPIE

the two genres: kiki and bouba

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

A generation ship is the only form of interstellar travel viable without FTL. One of the main challenges in this would be making sure that successive generations maintain the mission they did not opt into, making political scientists the most important scientists for space exploration.

This is a good joke post re: the oyster guy HOWEVER figuring out how to punitively tax the GOP coalition is something we should be dedicating a lot of time to. One of my personal favorites is a tax on LNG loadings (note: not LNG exports).

the gas tax has been frozen at 22 cents since 1993. it would be 55 cents now if it was indexed to inflation (which it obviously should be)

have to admit it is quite funny that Donald Trump, the Republican Party president, has kicked the green energy transition into overdrive with a de facto ~$100 a ton carbon tax. getting a little chuckle out of that

working on mcts stuff (puct for scrabble preendgame) and had a sudden clarity clarence moment realizing i use priors to prioritize. not tautological (like if i said "i use my preferences to decide what to prefer") because one of these means first in time but the other means first in rank.

fuck you

authorship of take five is ripe for a midwit meme

Dustin May wearing #3 and pitching on May 3rd is incredible.

dying at this page of baseball quotes from the latest print edition of @theonion.com

when i was a kid i thought the keyboard player in the salt n pepa "push it" video that they grab on was dj jazzy jeff branching out, but nope that's just another guy with a flattop and shades

Love this beat in Star Trek where Khan whacks a guy so hard he blows the crotch out of his pants

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

OpenAI has addressed the goblin situation

restaurants fought the smoking bans tooth and nail for a decade and then when smoking was finally banned, restaurant profits soared to all time highs.

bad news from 1930 for the Apollo astronauts

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

To be absolutely clear, I’m a liberal/progressive/leftist in the pre-online sense, which is to say I absolutely believe the government should provide the kind of services people get in places like Norway. I just also think you should be nice to the government workers who provide it.

we are never getting Medicare for All. just quit trying. when half the "left" thinks "bureaucrat" is a dirty word, it's a forlorn hope.

Day 166 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #TheMuppets #SesameStreet

Okay so here’s my actual Bluesky-is-dying hypothesis: The entire web is dying. Users aren’t going from BlueSky to another site (x/insta/threada/tiktok). Users are going to chatbots. I know traffic to news sites has cratered (like 90%). My hunch is traffic to all the social platforms is down too.

gemini's memory probably does nice things sometimes but it's annoying how it fixates. this couldn't be more random, but it somehow thinks i'm the world's #1 pudge rodriguez fan. anything baseball i ask it, it's at least going to namecheck him, or worst case: outright give him as an incorrect answer.

family is when yard and the more yard you have the more family you are

public library and dvd/bluray is the only way to watch maybe this cuts you off around 2020 release dates but that’s still enough good stuff to last a lifetime

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

nardwuar interviewing mogwai in 2006

I’m thinking it’s a great time to get started at Sora

talk to the claw cuz the face ain’t listening

making cowork try to do hard stuff is fun. seems to get blocked by vm restrictions much less than the normal claude web code interface, easier to take yourself out of the loop than working locally (i will not dangerously yolo permissions).

As someone who was laid off from Instagram during Meta's big layoffs, I would like to say that Mark Zuckerberg could have given each one of us $10 million as severance and still spent less than he did on the Metaverse, thank you and good night

the middle class will be taxed. you will pay the transit fares. shoplifting is bad. you will live as a civilized person in a mutually co-operative society or you can live in the woods like the animal you are.

this triple whammy of Dems coming out with big tax cut proposals is dangerously close to negatively polarizing me against "tax the rich" rhetoric EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PAY THEIR TAXES

wynonna judd and winona ryder are respectively named after winona, arizona and winona, minnesota