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Set list from 2pm to 11pm. Bands include "Two Man Giant Squid", "Wifeknife", and "Jesus Christ II"

You don't even have to go downtown! Every single combination coffee/frozen margarita remote worker hub in the city has a set list every day that looks like this!! The honky tonk band at mine this morning was from Amsterdam!!!

Cliché but SXSW encapsulates everything excellent about living in Austin. It's always 75°F and sunny with all-day concerts at the corner store and an endless rain of free drinks & the dumbest branded free stuff. Gonna do the ridiculous Rivian obstacle course and go see Orville Peck for free.

Being a marine and getting sent to the coast of Iran as an expedition force with only air support has got to be like a top 3 nightmare scenario as a marine, right

so, next time they are in power, i think democrats should ask themselves real serious questions about whether they want to continue considering bids and accepting contracts from an organization that has made eradicating half the country an explicit political goal

DOGE Bros Had More Fun Burning Down Government Than Testifying About It None of this would have been legal if they’d sent competent adults. But the fact that they sent smirking little shits makes it so much worse.

"Jennifer Schuessler has meticulously documented the destruction since the beginning... But there’s something about seeing a callow young man blank out when asked why he destroyed so much that really brings home the mindless destruction of this campaign." www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I question this campaign's burn rate but hey whatever works

Incredible

My pet theory is that the only way Blexas happens if the "Texas is a non-voting state!!!" line applies to rural republicans, and by god we might have the conditions

you may fly over a land forever; … bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men in the mud

TR Ferenbach,This Kind of War

Open comment period for DHS on the Big Bend Border wall. BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov by email, 833-412-2056 by phone

Rio Grande River in Big Bend State park with an obvious giant cliff on one side and a huge stretch of nothing in the desert on the other

Open comment period for DHS on the Big Bend Border wall. Light 'em up: BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov by email, 833-412-2056 by phone

Having a rattlesnake rear up at me to strike lives rent-free in my head along with running smack into a mountain lion at night, skydiving, being held at gunpoint, and some sketchy shit abroad that will go undescribed on a list of good stories I do not need to ever experience again.

Open comment period for DHS on the Big Bend Border wall. BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov by email, 833-412-2056 by phone

Rio Grande River in Big Bend State park with an obvious giant cliff on one side and a huge stretch of nothing in the desert on the other

Open comment period for DHS on the Big Bend Border wall. Light 'em up: BigBendComments@cbp.dhs.gov by email, 833-412-2056 by phone

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

I genuinely feel like you can still do this! Maaaaybe with $10 cover here or there but, like, I've got three sets of plans for this exact thing with no badge.

the archeological unwinding of this era's fraud will take decades, assuming we emerge semi-intact

I have to assume we're probably only seeing like 30% of it

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And, to make the obvious points:

—The US offers "thoughts and prayers" when school children are gunned down with AR-15s.

—Any country's reaction is different when a foreign entity is involved.

How long will people in Iran remember? How long would Americans remember an Iranian missile.

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

My sense is it's a wedge issue between combination big tech/big ag and normal big ag, in that it's a competition between them for who can exploit more without profit sharing. Big Ag thinks it's fine when they do it to migrant laborers but hates when Big Tech does it to them

The U.S. military has really begun to flirt with doing itself generational damage in terms of professionalism and permanent damage in terms of reputation. If we come away from this conflict looking like Russia or Israel, it will take decades to undo.

Exactly

Lyrically and sonically could have been made in 2005, which short-circuits my brain's ability to assess quality

Colin I have tickets to a Format show in April and I am PSYCHED

GOP lawyer who headed Texas redistricting wins congressional primary Gober is one of the only Texas Republicans known to have played an instrumental role in last year’s redistricting scheme, a process conducted so secretively that even the Texas House and Senate’s Repu...

NEW: Chris Gober — a Republican attorney who played a key role in the GOP’s effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map mid-decade — is now the party’s nominee to represent one of the very districts he helped redraw.

This November, he will face Democrat Caitlin Rourk in the GOP-leaning district.

For Big Bend, it will take them seconds to change the color of the line on the map again, and mere minutes to issue full waiver of laws in the park. They have 45 billion dollars to spend. There is nothing stopping them except for us. (4/6)

At Organ Pipe National Monument in AZ, they said they wouldn't dynamite sacred sites and wall off a sacred spring -- and then they did it anyway when everyone stopped paying attention. (3/6)

ALERT: I'm seeing headlines like this claiming victory on the Big Bend border wall. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE. All DHS did was change the color of a line on a map. DHS engineers have mapped out a course for the wall in Big Bend National Park. They showed their cards. (thread 1/6)

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

It Wasn't Fascism All Along Conservatism was a distinct ideology but it is dead and it is not coming back.

Important and correct by @polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle at @liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents.

The "all conservatism was always already Trumpist and fascist" line is ultimately a way to normalize Trump, and should be resisted.

www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...