At this point, the biggest difference between ChatGPT and lawn darts is that lawn darts never encouraged people to throw them at people's heads.

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning

My youth is long gone. Must all the reminders of it disappear too?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

If you want to know which news media organizations are complicit, just look to see which use the word "captured" to describe the abduction of Nicholas Maduro.

So when can you start

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

"But the election of Maduro was a disgrace just like my election was a disgrace." A quote for the history books.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

To wage war for oil in 2026 is like fighting over carbon paper in the age of photocopies.

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Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

“Imagine if The Criterion Channel and Netflix had a baby, but the baby only streamed public-domain classics — and it was completely FREE. That’s WikiFlix.” | ht @tinarotheisenberg.bsky.social wikiflix.toolforge.org#/l

I believe they are called the Trump/Epstein Files, now.

Pretty cool that people can do something like this. Pretty awful that they actually did it.

With a few hours to go in the tax year, I wanted to make sure I got an extra donation in to @wikimediafoundation.org and to @archive.org, among a range of other causes. Wish I could manage more, but this is at least something I know I can do.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

The headline VS the actual story

It’s the time of year when photographers take stock of what they made during the past 365 days. Here are some of my favorites.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

My advice to Democrats is always "Stop trying to make shitty people like you." Rich shitty people or poor shitty people. If Democrats learned to tell shitty people to go fuck themselves, they'd never lose an election.

Incredible things happening on Threads

and the ability to do such vaccine research was impossible. In 1918 it was not known what caused influenza; the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933. The bottom line is that a vaccine virus could never have been imagined in 1918. The influenza virus arose in

No matter how smart you are, you still have only one brain. So why do we call it "brains"?

Remain in life www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGf...

oh my god

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

Here's a method to resist that I've not seen anywhere. Every PAROLE OFFICER in America should be sent images of the roughest ICE agents, especially in their region. Do you doubt there are plenty of of ex-cons in ICE? Even masked, they'd probably be recognizable by skilled parole officers.

All gifts to CalMatters now have 4x the impact until Dec. 31st thanks to now three matching funds. bit.ly/4pyQvHg

I don't usually like to flaunt, but this was the coolest, most unexpected gift for me under the tree, and I've got to share.

if you song only talks about winter conditions I do not accept it as a legitimate Christmas song, it's a weather report song

Oh did someone go to the guest bathroom in Mar A Lago and stumble on them

I wondered this about China and then I realised the focus on Europe is because they think of it as a race traitor

I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator. Shame on you for this.

What you almost miss when you don't watch TV youtu.be/XkEy_IttHKE

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Well, not always, and not all of us, but a great aunt who died in 1937 (before my time) lived here. Yes, in a condo. The building was converted to apartments in 1926. I know if I lived there I'd fantasize that I owned the whole thing. lamag.com/old-hollywoo...

Take THAT, Mariah! youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I

Catering to this dizzy, narcissist loon is now a top job among the sane in DC. One aspect: there is a name for this class of warship. It is 'cruiser' and they are being phased out by the Navy, not-in, for good reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zss6...

What a sweet cartoon! Why am I crying?

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

I’m aware that much of the backlash against AI is essentially throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but if Copilot reinstalls itself one more time on my computer I’m honestly fine with it, we’ll have to get a new baby, I just need this bathwater gone.

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".