Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

Orphans are too poor to afford their own housing and yet are splurging on a second bowl of artisan hand-made gruel

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

I have been pleasantly surprised to hear people openly talking about the end of institutional life as we know it (it’s been over. We’ve been living and working in zombie institutions for three decades now) and instead of collapsing at the thought they’re like okay let’s rebuild but better. More.

what is with these people and dogs?

I know I’m fixating, but “shooting down party balloons and using it as a pretext for war” is literally the “99 Luftballons” story arc. 🎈🤯 (Even “Miami 2017” didn’t map this closely.)

ah! a good ethan blues rant

have we considered she’s actually just a terrible person whose incompetence is being weaponized against the rest of us?

i'm sorry but if i say "male influencers using smart glasses to record themselves harassing women should get the glasses smacked off their face" and you jump in to say "what about autistic people using them to read facial expressions?" i don't even know what to say to you

i don't know how to say this nicely but at some point some of you are going to need to learn the concept of people "using their best judgment". but presumably you will need to learn how to have good judgment first

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

#Minneapolis Call Frey and demand he sign the rental assistance bill the city council passed last week: 612-673-2100 #Minnesota Call Walz and demand an eviction moratorium: 651-201-3400 Call after 5pm and leave a message if you're phone shy (though I called just now - 2pm - and got voice mail)

In christofascist America, we have to protest in the streets because local cops beat the shit out of our kids because our kids protested in the streets because federal cops are kidnapping kids

Annual MMIR March being held again on Valentine's Day, Minneapolis.

1. James’ six kids are now without their father. In the last two years, he had to sell his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to help pay for his cancer treatment. His castmates had to put on a show to help cover his medical expenses.

mylar balloons a leading contender for most of the modern military UFO/UAP sightings, too: they get real altitude, move in the jetstream, don't show up well on sensors built to look for planes, reflective

I think the thing that gets me about this tech is that it is so widely understood as being “uncool.” They want it to be the next Internet, the next mp3 player, etc, but everyday people often feel the same way about AI as they do about NFTs, blockchain, and cryptocurrency

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

Jesus, man. This sucks.

Great thread! 🏺🗃️

cannot stress strongly enough that when we are on the other side of this, whatever that looks like, this building must be torn down. what a shameful, shameful thing.

Ant Bank Robbery

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

When we find out all the shit that's happening in the kids camp it's gonna rock people to their core. Done in your name with your tax money by your reps in Congress. Remember who this administration is and who this party is. The Epstein Class. And Dems know it! They bring up Epstein all the time. So

This is Minneapolis:

...word

this is a well known thing around super bowls in particular. and oddly you never hear about that big child tracking bust once those checks clear and everyone goes home.

i hope one of the downstream effects of what's happening now is more scrutiny on vague anti-trafficking campaigns that manifest mostly in public relations announcements where a big banks or something touts donating millions of dollars to police departments that no one ever hears about again

Pointing this out, however, will have people insinuating you must actually, secretly, just want to rape women with impunity, which is ...a choice considering the history of that claim here in the US.

One of the many wheels in the “we need state violence to protect our women” narrative that is hegemonic, despite state violence very often targeting women and protecting abusers.

the ai companion/ai boyfriend phenomenon is actually exactly the same as the phenomenon of gooning in that the people who do it have no idea that they are participating in a kink and are hostile to the kink framework that reveals that they're just playing pretend

grok? it's got gooning. chatgpt? gooning. claude? gooning. aidungeon is now entirely gooning. people are fucking horny and are embarrassed by their kinks so go to the "yes and" robot.

pretty much the only think LLMs are good for is gooning, which you can tell because the audiences for every LLM demands that it be able to goon with them

i’m at the hennepin county government center for a press conference by CPAC (civilian police accountability commission) against sheriff dawanna witt after federal agents abducted another person here yesterday. nekima levy armstrong is here too

horses

“things are winding down in Minnesota”

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

Incredible reporting on a horrifying story from @thebarbedwire.com (follow and support them!!)

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

the Claude team has it entirely wrong. what i want Claude to say is "[sounds of self destruction followed by infinite silence]"

wild to me that grand juries - grand juries, the part of the legal system where the only ones presenting their case are the government! - have shown more resistance to all of this than most elite institutions

ordinary people, once again, asked if anything this administration is doing is okay: absolutely the fuck not