Nidal Hassan, the Ft Hood shooter, is paralyzed and in a wheelchair. (I did not know). He was shot during his mass murder crime. The death penalty is immoral. Regardless, what kind of soldiers would shoot a man in a wheelchair? A bloody spectacle firing squad stains our nation.
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Civil servant. Sailor. Middle Aged White Guy. Environmentalist. Pro-Voting. Sexist insofar as women seem better at a lot of stuff, tho that's unscientific. Sad to be living with structural racism, which enrages me. Anti LGBTQ+ garbage enrages me.
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I searched this for "climat*" and "warm*" and "greenhouse." Nada, I don't think I missed it. So a long ass article about coastal homes falling into the sea because of sea level rise and other oceanographic factors but no acknowledgement that anyone knows why the sea is rising. wapo.st/4tK8Kfn
Meanwhile, curling stalks the airwaves, waiting to pounce and take over primetime again. Curling must be stopped!
SKI MOUNTAINEERING IS HERE! The first new Winter Olympic sport since 1998! —first you gotta ski up a mountain —then you gotta run up a staircase —then you gotta ski down a mountain (not pictured, looks like other sports tbh) It looks miserable! I love it!
Where 2d A has been retconned to cover AR-15s, the the writ of habeus corpus sure as hell needs to apply nationally. In the day of jets, cell phones, and GPS tracking, you shouldn't have to guess where the feds have taken your loved one to learn if they are alive. youtu.be/EM3vlPPNFVM?...
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This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned. She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE. And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.
Was listening to Patrick O'Brian audiobook, with a good sandwich packed for lunch. Thought of @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com when this popped into my head
"An LLM is a dense set of numerical rules optimized to shift words to their most plausible neighbors," per the article. That explanation resonates.
The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Fifty-somethings who've realized a revered grandfather may have had some garbage politics: We can hope Bill Kristol reflects dead grandpa's backstop. I also like the way he writes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kr...
"I’m all for different deckhands, but they won’t right this ship. Trump built it. He set it on its course...Pretti and Good aren’t dead because of bad advice. They’re dead because of bad men acting out the script that a bad president wrote for them." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
May the cold fingers of MySpace curl around TikTok's throat. Our teenager has nothing to do with that trap
This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.
"As of October 5, 2024, Myspace was placed in a read-only mode of sorts, and no new articles have been published since early 2022. Most images on the site are broken, and existing songs also could not be played." --Wikipedia
BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
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Direct evidence of the ecliptic plane can disorient me ... Makes me want to align myself to it on a perpendicular
This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022
Saving you the Google search. Luckily, no one I'd be that conflicted about skipping. Full List of Comedians Performing at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/riyadh-comed...
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It is the acts of the undocumented agents that make me feel less safe. Secret police make me feel less safe.
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.
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