James Freeman Saunders

There's really only two lines, one where AI is an honest-to-goodness singularity, and one where it isn't.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

oldhead advice from an oldhead.

every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"

and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work

gotta build for long term

Hi mom.

Bring back public shaming

a cartoon of a man standing in a doorway with the words `` i have arrived '' written on it . ALT: a cartoon of a man standing in a doorway with the words `` i have arrived '' written on it .

Ed rn

Ahh, I see. Those look pretty sharp. Are they basically 2D profiles, or are there functional 3D features. If the former, getting them cut out of plate or sheet stock will be cheaper than printing them in metal.

What's it for?

Didn't renew my Amazon Prime membership for the first time in 13 years after actually thinking about whether it was worth it to me.

Please don’t send me that AI slop I do not want to see it. I will not engage with it. I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, I just don't want you to waste your time. I acknowledge that it's a nice gesture that you saw something that made you think, "I should share this with Jimbo, he'll get a kick out of it." But I assure you that I won't.

Please don’t send me that AI slop

I do not want to see it. I will not engage with it. I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, I just don't want you to waste your time. I acknowledge that it's a nice gesture that you saw something that made you think, "I should share this with Jimbo, he'll get a kick…

I listened to Demon Days in its entirety for the first time in a million years at least partly because I liked the pictures on these.

Were the bad guys in the past also so dumb and fragile or are we just particularly lucky?

Thailand toilet signs are a whole thing.

A lot of people with poor reading comprehension in the replies assuming that this happened to a Trump supporter, something that is not at all stated in the article.

Thankee, Sai.

Overall one of the least bad King universes to end up in.

Drone shot of protestors at the start of the No Kings rally.

I had modest expectations for the No Kings rally in Lowell today and was pleasantly surprised with both the turnout and the feeling of community.

Just finished a reread of the Cantos and it hits a little different than when I first read it a decade ago.

I've been trying to teach people I know about kayfabe and why it matters for a couple years now. This video does a much better job than me.

And there was no personal risk to protesting at the time. Which can't be said now.

Lmao "there are approximately 200 books for children about Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the libraries of the MVLC... but there is not one about Clarence Thomas in any MVLC library."

No kid wants a book about any Supreme Court Justices. This is the free market, not censorship.

And he was the pro-monarchy guy. Even he understood the difference.

Hamilton "And let me observe that an executive is less dangerous to the liberties of the people when in office during life than for seven years. It may be said this constitutes as an elective monarchy... But by making the executive subject to impeachment, the term 'monarchy' cannot apply..."

Is that really what his head looks like or is it just a bit?

Roasted

Among the many things I blame Facebook for, killing off (mostly) RSS support across the web is pretty high up there.

+1 on Inoreader. It is 90% of what I want, but man I miss old school Netvibes and Google Reader sometimes.

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