My policy early on was to make them specify each article, each slide, each sentence, each bullet they demanded be removed in writing, and then to make them confirm it again in writing. Call it resisting or whatever, but all of this is worth defending. Our non-appointed leaders have all failed us.

I have seen this play out over and over again. Leadership requires *making* difficult decisions and protecting your people, not just *encountering* a difficult decision. All these commands that have pulled articles/profiles could commit resources to rewriting them. /

/ ...stops if those troops happen to be from politically disfavored groups. All of this horseshit hasn't exposed the hatefulness of people like Trump and Hegseth. We already knew that. It's exposed the cravenness and cowardice of the professional Defense establishment. /

As we roll into memorial day this is such an important point. Memory is a collective project of respect and care. You can make it harder to remmeber publicly, but you cannot simply legislate memory out of existence. This is a deliberate choice by hundreds of people.

When you subsume your vote for what some TV pundit tells you is "the most electable person" you're giving your rights up to someone whose motives you do not know. The most electable person is the person who gets the most votes. Vote for the person you think deserves your vote the most.

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

Good morning! 🪶

Yellow Warbler playing worm toss. #bird #birdphotography #yellowwarbler #birdsofrhodeisland

At least you have a chance when your left of center party is willing to fight for your rights. When they come back into power. But when both parties abandon you, you’ve lost for a generation.

When I say I will never vote for Gavin Newsom. When I say I’d take another Republican congress over Democrats that abandon trans people. This is why. When your largest left of center party goes the way of Labour in the UK, you’ve lost all hope. I will never do it.

fail or explode are the two scenarios directly from the onsite orange county fire authority incident commander

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

It's unfair to call the Marvel movies "kid's movies", they also have serious political messages, such as: - America is good - the military is good - military contractors are good - billionaires are good - heroes protect the existing power structure, villains try to change society

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

If a trip to Mars

Senator, he was a Senator Happier than you and me Senator, he was a Senator And it determined what he could see

Not to get too woo woo about this and I’m obviously being a bit cheeky but I actually do think that as long as you don’t take it too literally, basic ideas from Buddhism do provide some useful intuition for thinking about modern AI, and perhaps vice versa.

“Agent” is a useful model for the oop-brained but when you reach functional enlightenment you discover that the self is an illusion and your “agent” is nothing but a composition of calls to the exact same function

For my Friday Sick Burns post, I wrote down some angry thoughts about the UK bathroom ban announced this week by the allegedly left wing Labour Party. www.burnsnotice.com/there-has-ne...

Getting to a point where I dont care what happens to the economy as long as these guys eat shit spectacularly

The goal for this summer is to sell enough shrimp shirts that I can fund a series of 3 insect themed mini-murals in Philly. The current plan is to put a lightning bug on a barber shop across from a cemetery, moths on a shed in a busy south Philly park, and beetles in a third location. RTs help!

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If democrats had started the Biden presidency day one with the notion that they were there to un fuck all of Trumps fuck ups and constantly NAME THEM, they probably would have won. But instead they did what they always did: Hide under a fucking rock and yell about bipartisanship. Weak loser shit.

She campaigned more with Liz Cheney than she did with AOC (who gave her a full throated endorsement). And people still defend it.

Lawmakers to reintroduce “Not On Our Dime” Act, legislation which aims to strip charity status to organizations fundraising for the IDF & settler terrorism. The bill was originally introduced by now-mayor Zohran Mamdani, and will be reintroduced by AM Diana Moreno. www.notonourdime.com

but like I said the other day, NBC cast Vanessa Williams in The Odyssey in 1997 and no one gave a shit because this outrage is manufactured by racist incel billionaires from South Africa who no longer touch grass.

Dear Democrats: get on the data center issue asap. The American people are already there. They don’t want their communities polluted so Zuckerberg can power an ai chatbot that convinces their kids to commit suicide.

Google apparently added a screenshot in between with a prompt to remove the violin, and I can't tell if this is very funny damage control or just someone forgetting to upload a picture.

The post says Google's new flagship AI model, Gemini Omni, allows multiple refinements of a video without "losing the thread" so where is the violin, google? Where did the violin go? HOW DID YOU LOSE THE WHOLE DAMN VIOLIN IN THE FIRST STEP

i often think about this review

Them: On the “Have participated in or given aid to an attempt to overthrow the US government?” how do you deal with Jan 6th participants seeking clearance? Investigator: [deep discomfort] Them: Shame a polygraph won’t help with firmly held beliefs. Investigator: I think we’re done.

Had a nice chat about SF-86 background investigations with a colleague at LLNL today. They recently got interviewed for someone else’s check and they had a question for the investigator in their office.

I genuinely cannot stand people who do this "actually, it's wrong to criticize Democrats who actively vote to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of trans people in public schools" routine. Sorry, but no. Stop making excuses for people who vote for crap like this.

I still think at least once a week about Pelosi flying down there to stomp on his primary challenge from Jessica Cisneros, who seemed AMAZING, and whose stance on reproductive rights was making him look bad. House Leadership did a full-court press to keep him and like every vote since has been trash

also: cuellar! every single fucking time there's a list of shitty dem votes there he is!

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

Our greatest power is our ability to withdraw our cooperation.

I can't imagine what the legal theory is here. I mean, we have a simple English word for people who aren't allowed to withhold their labor from their employer.

The fruits of insomnia. I started doodling a poseable art mannequin I found on a flea market 2 weeks ago. Recently, I'd also been reading about Elizabethan occultist/alchemist John Dee, so for reasons that now elude me, I ended up turning him into a Silver Age #MarvelComics superhero. #comics

Mmm yess @economist.com free markets indeed www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Northern Yellow Warbler At the Pool in Central Park #birds

Daily bunny no.3325 has a book recommendation

Really appreciate Portland's general love for wildlife. A typical coyote thread where someone posts that a coyote threatened their dog is a litany of "Was your dog leashed? No? Then don't blame the forbidden song dog."

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.