Props to everyone participating in the walkout today. I honestly didn’t know if it was even happening since it was so ad-hoc. And I’m still so jetlagged that driving myself home safely when I get off work is my top priority today. :( I’ll pay attention next time.

I never expected the Ronin Warriors sequel to (re)introduce audiences to classic 80s Japanese punk and pop. This is not at all a bad thing, to clarify. #YoroiShinDenSamuraiTroopers #YoroidenSamuraiTroopers #RoninWarriors #TheBlueHearts #KenjiSawada #SawadaKenji #TheCheckers #DemonBand #ASH #Serra

I keep saying that these people don't respect creatives, and not much has dissuaded me of that fact

THE COSTCO KIRKLAND NIKE SB DUNKS ARE REAL?!?! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

"Being in the Melania film is the worst thing I ever did in a theater" - John Wilkes Booth

why does reddit do this, im going to go ballistic Deleted Comment: (Empty) Everyone Else: THIS WAS THE BEST!!!

Nonsense. It's not possible to steal AI technology. I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.

Pittsburgh has built an entire culture around the answer being, ”Yes, you jagoff.”

Exactly 93yrs ago today, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany German-Jewish antifa author Lion Feuchtwanger was on book tour in the U.S. when it happened He realized, all of a sudden, that he would likely never return to Germany And he never did It's weird how personal history works out

Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33 He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant It's GLORIOUS hater content:

Funny, my immigrant friend from Ukraine says she stays away from Melania theaters; she's had enough of bombing.

I've seen "they showed it as an in-flight move and people still walked out" today...

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

People in Indiana, Minnesota, and North Dakota need to check for this.

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis. I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

California-Kirkbride. California Ave. Caller said that someone intentionally buried her car in snow.

“Are You Dead Yet?” appealed to the psychology of the insecure youths, who don’t want to disturb others but wish that someone would pay attention to them when in need.

Trump DOJ arrested Don Lemon, per NYT. Note: A magistrate judge rejected charges against him, and the district's Chief Judge found "no evidence" he committed a crime when reporting on a St. Paul church protest. buff.ly/OShK7vQ

I really try to keep an even keel, and self-regulate because it’s the only way to be in this for the long haul, but sometimes the fury overtakes you for a bit.

Yesterday I woke up at 2:30AM and crashed at 7PM. Unfortunately, my bedtime alarm woke me up at 11PM. It’s 5:30AM and I’ve just been lying here ever since. Soooo…maybe I’ll just go into the office with the other ultra-early birds (seriously, a whole flock work between 6AM-3PM to beat traffic).

Google uses an "ultrasonic signal" to detect nearby people who are on the same call, so it can suggest "merging" their audio. It just did this in a video meeting for coworkers in neighboring cubes, despite one being on mute. I'd marvel over the neat tech if Google hadn't wrecked the public's trust.

I really thought the “sexism in Japanese media is just part of the culture, and pushing feminist/progressive agendas is catering to westerners and kinda racist against Japan, actually” argument ended like 15 years ago. A Discord server I just left has proven otherwise. :(

we're going to start international conflicts with random countries because the overlap of "cartoonishly evil" and "complete fucking moron" is the Venn diagram that American voters look for in leadership

How does one get evaluated for this? Any chance of a broader rollout? Because…reasons.

Pretty sure, with the 2A defenders, we’re coming up on that 3.5%.

It will never cease to amaze me that I have a real job that connects me to real people via art, and in its best moments lets me help them feel things, and I am scraping by while some clown is paid through the nose to worry about the feelings of a dodgy calculator

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Tree of Life on this week’s episode of The Pitt. Oh, my heart. ♥️ The way everyone rallied that night at Forbes and Murray, and in all the time since. And the protest and march when Trump visited despite the city’s wishes. The thousands of us turned our back to the motorcade. The air was electric.

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude" And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.” And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

I’m flying back to the US shortly from my first international trip in years. Any thoughts, anecdotes, or advice on reentry? I do have Global Entry. Thanks!

Maybe this really will be the year that I resume studying for the JLPT. Or at least reimmerse myself in conversation and kanji.

This Japanese variety show episode was funny, up until the Pakistani guy literally doing a song and dance about his foreign-ness, followed by the plus-sized woman pulling a large cart by tucking an attached rope between her asscheeks. I really thought things had gotten better. :(

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Every time I see someone or some org using genAI for translation, especially the translation of JP to other languages, it makes my blood boil. I'm saying this as a native Japanese person who commands English well that I wish those motherfuckers who use genAI for translation to SERIOUSLY GET FUCKED.

As a: user I want to: not

We are all Cow

I didn't even know it was possible to close the gap between White voters and Black voters to just 9 points. SEVENTY PERCENT OF WHITE VOTERS say the country is out of control. 50% of Trump voters do!!!!

I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.

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NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A Japanese commentator on TV Tokyo, talking about Trump, just said 弱肉強食な世界 - a world engaging in survival of the fittest. They then showed a graph of Trump’s approval ratings over time. (Any J-E translators have a better way of capturing that?)

Possibly the worst use of AI in its short history 😬

This is a wild read. Also, something like this happened at my university years ago: a trolley driver refused to make any stops and screamed at the passengers that she knew what she was doing. A student managed to talk her down and get her to let everyone off. But at least she stuck to the route…

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