This scale of loss makes me think of two things: money laundering, and a return on investment that’s not measured in monetary profits, but policy outcomes.

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

Everything is awful. Here's a baby goat with a tiny bouquet of flowers picked right out of the lawn at The Beer Garden

Today’s #dailysketch is Uncle Deadly. I would say this is probably what the Tennessee legislature looked like yesterday when they carved up Memphis, but that’s an insult to Uncle Deadly. 😔#muppet #muppetshow #jimhenson

The Artful Corvid #oldknees

Confession

mario kart is making us all racecar drivers

lately what i think is that a person can be wrong in the same way that an LLM is wrong, but an LLM cannot be right in the same way that a person is right

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

There’s an article by Hicks, Humphries, and Slater called “ChatGPT Is Bullshit” (2024) that’s useful, though of course I go all the way back to Frankfurt and Orwell before him. And yeah, I give the students copies of my Orwell zine.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

“A physics professor at USU explained that the 9 GW to power the data center will produce an additional 7-8 GW of waste heat, adding up to a 16 GW total thermal load. It’s the “equivalent of 23 A-bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day.” —Salt Lake Tribune

“So this idea that once a government program is in place, you can never roll it back, President Trump has proven that to be wrong.” *coughcough* ICE *coughcough*

US Agriculture Secretary Rollins: “The good news is that 4.5 million more people are now food insecure (most of them children) in the United States.” That is essentially the gist of her real quote. This is frighteningly the type of achievement the regime is constantly bragging about.

Me walking out of my campus office when Canvas went down

This is another threat to annihilate an entire country via nuclear attack. He should have been impeached the first time he made the threat. (Among other things he should have been impeached for.)

wasn’t particularly worried before. now… i’m a little worried!

Iran keeps cooking our ass with these videos

"While working for the bureau have you encountered updog?"

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Example, first page of each act/issue (that had relation with the front cover and one of its panels went in the back cover):

It sucks that optical drives (for DVDs) are no longer standard on laptops or even desktops, and that Apple has no onboard software to play Blu-Ray anyway

I’m sure someone has pointed this out, but I LOVE the way the folds and the angle have cropped out the “NO” from the slogan. Perfect, A+ graphic design.

just an idea, but what if for Mother's Day, you got a vasectomy

Peek! Like most of our native bees, bi-colored sweat bees live in ground burrows that are easy to miss but worth looking for

Just making sure @mariswicks.bsky.social knows about the puffin livestream (noisy!) m.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3M...

It’s been ~2500 years since Sophocles wrote Antigone, I feel like “law is apolitical” has been understood to be false for a long time. The question is how law and politics interact, not whether they do. The post below nails it.

Dear all of bluesky, I just looked at the server logs for frontalot.com/loot and it seems that literally tens of millions of you have NOT played my mini in-browser RPG yet

Bluesky Date: Do you like it? Me: Yeah, I love Chinese food. It’s great. Bluesky Date: So you hate Japanese food? Me: Wha? Bluesky Date: And Japanese people obviously Mel: That’s not what…. Bluesky Date: Pol Pot did nothing wrong

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

Yep and maybe I’m being difficult, but some of the clearest communicators I know are academics. Why? Because most of us have to teach 18 year olds.

[Hotdog costume man meme]

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

I long for the alternate universe in which Trump is about to have a fight with Justin Gaethje

As the great shop clear out continues apace, I discovered a stash of 9x9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers prints I had tucked away in an odd place for reasons I will never be able to identify. Anyway! There are 10 of them! $30 a pop! www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

This question can be asked/answered the same way for just about every industry, frankly. Libraries would be so much better off if we spent funds on staff and core services rather than chasing shiny objects. But funders never want to pony up for the core stuff; it doesn't get you a spotlight. 📚

This sign, as an LLM prompt

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

It is an awful blight being a squirrel.

The problem is that you cannot actually support students in education if you are also treating them as a population from which to extract (money in the form of fees and housing costs, life-times in the form of debt, so so much data). Universities are a party to this extraction but hardly the main

GET IN LOSER WE’RE MAKING ZINES

Just look at Bob and Judy; they're happy as can be

When you cartoon you write using pictures. Everything included becomes information for the reader. We can see Charlie Brown is mad, and as I said, it looks like Snoopy is about to beg to differ. What are the people in the back telling us? Protest our country? Justice for Light? Hr Hond Alanie?

ok this is a very good headline