Love to see that so far almost everyone is hating these uniforms.

Just called a person on Nextdoor “illiterate” so we’ll see how that goes.

Once again, corporate media are cowards

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

Everyone says it’s hard to discern sarcasm online but I think it’s easy, so long as the person knows what they’re doing. Detecting sincerity and earnestness is far harder.

“Help me budget” but it’s just thousands of dollars this dillweed is blowing on sending boxes of tissues to other dillweeds

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I am not a fan of using “AI” for anything, even scut work, but there’s an argument to be made for replacing 95% of postgame athlete or coach interviews with something that can churn out mush and pablum so the humans can go chug a beer or something.

I’ve tried a dozen times but USAA still has me listed as a lieutenant so I’ve given up trying to change it.

Epstein’s War

I’m starting to piece things together I’ve connected the dots

people are so incredibly dumb, I'm mad that I felt pressured to be smart my entire life

Fuck these gutless thugs. And all those half-assed Americans who bellyached for eight years about Obama coming to take their guns, where the fuck are they when the government actually starts abducting people? Oh yeah, it was the racism.

“I tell you another thing, folks, that Biden got wrong. Lazy Joe, I call him. No one gave him a nickname before I did. But he never got around to his big campaign promise. Lemme tell you, I will. We’re gonna decode the Voynich Manuscript. Okay? Done.” “U-S-A! U-S-A!”

In a world of Michaels and wolves, be a Michael Woolf, not a Michael Wolff.

Graeber knew you people very well.

Following this model, you all should tweet about how much my book tried to fuck a presidential candidate.

If you ever get the chance, don’t but a house from someone who worked as a general contractor.

Every month or so I discover a new reason to despise the previous homeowner of my current house.

I got my first email in 2000, one I still use. I’ve had probably 20+ accounts through work, school, and personal use. I’ve easily sent 20,000+ emails. You would not be able to cherry pick any that make me sound like one percent the criminal that a random Epstein email makes anyone involved sound.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

It’s all downstream of not hanging every officer above major in the Confederate army. The law demanded it. But Lincoln and Grant — with laudable but misguided mercy — let them go. Lincoln was rewarded with a bullet to the brain, and Grant was gifted the exact guerrilla war he had tried to avoid.

“Once a Marine, always a Marine,” except for this a-hole.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

Not the biggest story today but I’m two paragraphs into the article on the Army West Point Hudson University for Leadership’s special uniforms for the Army-Navy Game next month and they’ve thoroughly mucked it up.

From service to studio: How are veterans finding freedom in art? With key programs suspended & jobs lost, veterans face mounting instability. Yet through painting, photography, & installation, they’re crafting new pathways toward healing—& accountability, Flor Franceschetti reports.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Not sure I have a favorite movie (what would that even mean?) but two are right up there are Jaws and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.

Being a poet is tough work, and being a war poet is even tougher. People often don't want to listen, or feel confused by anything more complicated that "support the troopz"! Even around Veterans Day. Especially around Veterans Day. I'm in awe of fellow poets like Jessi.

Congratulations to U.S. Army veteran, war poet, and Twin Cities psychiatric nurse practitioner Jessi M. Atherton on her Veterans Day reading at Iowa’s University of Dubuque! “The Time War Takes: Poems” - Kindle: amzn.to/3E4pUfI - Print: amzn.to/40Mx69s #warpoet #veteransday #middlewestpress

Side note: WTF is the Northeast Indiana Defense Summit and also why?

A most timely and apt update from the past, considering the work in “war lit” that has been done since Jan 2016. Also meat to see a quick snapshot of Brian Van Reet, whose essay on “red and blue war lit” was still years away. (That essay continues to inform my writing.) 1/

The article starts on a faulty premise (war with China is at most two years away) but then totally punts on addressing that premise. And as for the meat of the article…well, to paraphrase bell hooks, you can’t fix the house using the tools you used to build it. cimsec.org/bring-out-th...

We just had parent-teacher conferences for our 4yo and he got lots of good marks all around. We were thrilled to hear that he loves reading, writing, and math. The fact that he navigates social interactions and has friends and is curious matters more than that he can count to whatever number.

Our 4yo is starting to read and I tell him it’s one of the most powerful things he can do (that and care for and about others).

Gillette CEO but evil

I believe I'm contractually obligated to promote my novel today. Sorry, I don't make the rules. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge www.amazon.com/Surge-Adam-K...

My last word on the matter

If I said shit this stupid they would (and should) fire me.

Oh no the craven nitwits of Nextdoor have discovered AI photo and video generators.

This is how they treated that kid who would send people to the corn field when displeased

Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.

Maybe in addition to a “No Kings” protest we need to do a “No Clowns” protest.

Most animals are better people than most people

Absolutely pathetic sniveling simpering whiny bitch baby energy.

Wanna give a finger to LLMs or the richest guy in the world? (The one who doesn’t read books but claims he loves them, who couldn’t sit through anything longer than a meme but says he loves movies.) Then buy books written by humans.

This world will melt or burn away and all that will be left are AI “agents” elevating tickets to each other.