It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.

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"Bad Bunny was interested in a general overview of Puerto Rican history to go with the YouTube videos, so I wrote historical narratives that cover the conquest by the Spanish empire in 1508 until the present day."

Hey let's hook up street medics this morning 👇👇👇👇👇

Damn that’s crazy. On a completely unrelated note www.wikihow.com/Discord-Alte...

Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors. Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

Well, this is going to be a problem. discord.com/press-releas...

After some coordinating via signal, half of the art kits I had went to a group here in town and the other half were driven to Minneapolis this weekend! Hell yeah, community.

time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Just to be clear this isn't me trying to make a comment on the world in general, this is me making a comment on the fact that Facebook served me in advertisement for someone who has monetized screaming into a pillow. This is a real product.

So modern society definitely seems to be going great.

fellow engineers, you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something: 1. how will the police use what i'm making? 2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against? 3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?

The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.

These numbers really put into perspective that the alternative halftime show got 15K views, lol.

oh my god this is even lower than the funniest low number I was imagining

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

The absolute best side eye from Cadence. She's still deeply suspicious of all the affection I am giving her. We may need to take it up a notch.

I said something almost identical to this at brunch today, except I stated it very awkwardly and with a much worse metaphor. This is the vibe.

Final week. :-) Store.anthonyhurd.com only about 60 prints have sold so far so the odds of winning are pretty good!

Certain common words (swears, the word fat) may have been used against you. I respect your right to put up boundaries; mute, block, don't engage with that content. Telling ME what vernacular I can use is a no-go, however. My life is not about juggling the myriad triggers of a vast audience.

I have heard this about calling myself fat so often that I have a stock response at this point: I recognize that word makes you uncomfortable, I am sorry you are having a feeling it is difficult for you to manage, I’m still gonna need you to manage your feelings and not my language. 

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

So based on this, I am wedged in between ttrpg creators and community, left-wing activist youth community, and queer creative workers, and neighbors with indie rock musicians and fans. Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable with that.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

As someone who studied court stenography it’s beyond irritating to see a skill that requires years of training in order to type so fast you can take the diction of two people speaking over each other get mangled by a machine that can’t even transcribe one person without screwing up.

I have appreciated Amanda’s efforts here so I’m disappointed she’s wrapping things up by spreading misinformation. I can assure you as someone whose neighborhood has been crawling with ICE in recent days that we are not in the “aftermath” of anything.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Something else about the halftime show: As I said, especially as a 41 year old white person who barely speaks any Spanish (much to the shame of my extremely fluent mother), this was not For Me—and I was fine with that But also I got this strong vibe of “if you want to party with us you are welcome”

Absolutely worth your time thread. I learned many things.

I knew he’d be jamming! x (plz click thru for the caption from Remezcla : www.instagram.com/reel/DUhaj_U...)

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

If you were to run down a list of all the things distinctive about the United States in contrast to Old World Europe, most of it is stuff we instead have in common with Latin America. That's not some woke novelty, it's a deeply embedded centuries-old aspect of our culture and national identity.

If only there were a newspaper in Washington, perhaps one owned by a person of considerable wealth, that still employed “metro” reporters who could cover a story of such intense local interest and importance

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.

1) open patreon for free 2) create free, and only, tier 3) write newsletter to patreon subscribers 4) publish to patreon, service pushes patreon/newsletter post to subscribers emails 5) repeat as necessary 6) there is no 6, stop using substack

"making her Olympic debut at 26, making her the oldest American woman to qualify for the Olympic singles team since 1928" That's a big deal, too, since for a long time that sport has run on exploiting girls.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The first person I donated miles for is safely home. That's a good feeling.

Cyanotype through some thrift store lace on a lamb's bone. I'm very excited to continue to play with this.

Tristan Elwell (/@tristan.elwell on Instagram) is the marvelous artist

Please quit Substack!

Looks like we're almost there anyway