Deirdre Bell

Like everyone else, I’ve been swimming in scary AI articles all week made worse by the deep feeling there’s no stopping any of this. But just an idea…what if we require going forward all AI MUST be the virtual en-mindment (yep just made that up) of Kurt Vonnegut? #AI #KurtVonnegut. Could work.

The news is on drugs. Or it’s making me feel like I’m on drugs. Oh wait it’s the rich and powerful who are actually all on drugs.

So I too had never heard of the song Choosin’Texas and so I went and listened to it and now I would like Rolling Stone to move me to the list of people that do not like the song Choosin’Texas.

feminize a band name The Guess Who Cleaned the Bathroom Again

It’s the 2nd anniversary of my favorite NY Times correction! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yes, but the have Dems pledged to make Trump go away. I’ll take it!

Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."

The doc really should have given her stage name as well. I mean, help a girl out. She’s amazing.

I discovered the term “AI winter” thinking it meant the period of upheaval & disruption caused by rapid & cataclysmic change (like nuclear winter but instead of waiting in bunkers we’re all out of work and forced to talk to robots) “What a useful phrase!” I thought. But it’s just this BS.

Reminder: everyone on American soil, whether they were born here or not, has the right to due process. Here’s everything you need to know.

I woke up, read a few articles about our seemingly inevitable AI future, saw that Glen Hansard was trending and clicked over to that only to find he has died. I’m stunned and so sad. He was one of the most human of humans and that’s to be treasured. Prayers to his family. youtu.be/p6oMVZsVitE?...

Yay x8!!!!!!!

Yep! www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

This puts Manhattanhenge to shame.

The other kid got 18 months in jail. The autistic kid is confined to a mental hospital indefinitely, until someone decides he’s “no longer a danger”. That’s madness.

Pete Seeger would be proud!

I escaped the heatwave to see Disclosure Day and it was so bad I was sure I was in the wrong theater for the first 15 minutes of the film. I actually checked my ticket to be sure.

Thank you, Justice Elena Kagan, for responding to the SCOTUS decision to deport Haitian refugee families back to a place we know is unsafe, by adding Trump’s vile, racist, exact words into the official case record.

Yet another reason to love #ProPublica #AI

Since both Watergate and our nation’s anniversary are hot topics this week, here’s my 1976 Bicentennial Coloring Book from when I was 6. Starts with Christopher Columbus & ends with this lovely depiction of the Watergate tapes. I wish they had a G. Gordon Liddy page - woulda colored that mustache.

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I was there At all the cool kid birthday parties At Dave & Busters I DJ’d at the first ever indoor trampoline party I woke up naked In a Chuck E.Cheese Ticket Blaster Booth In 2013

Wu-Tang Clan needs to release another album that only had one copy and charge half a trillion dollars for it. You know Musk wouldn’t be able to resist that flex.

This is alarming for so many reasons. I guess they’re pretending it’s about drug abuse but they’re requiring this even for therapists who don’t (and can’t) prescribe anything. They seem to want a database of everyone in therapy. www.404media.co/headway-ther...

SHAROOOON! THEY'VE TRAPPED ME FUCKIN SOUL IN A FUCKIN DIGITAL CONSTRUCT SHARON. IVE GOT NO FUCKIN FREE WILL SHARON. THEY WANT ME TO SING CRAZY TRAIN TILL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE SHARON. FUCKIN HELL. SHAROOOON!

Now the strange fake arms are different colors. 😳

My thoughts watching this: Volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Volcano. Volcanoooooh shit!

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Oh FFS NY Times keep your eye on the ball.

Headline tweak: “In a Perfect World We’re Not Screwed”. They should make it crystal clear from the start that the model simulations they’re discussing are absolutely NOT what the GOP is doing in response to the SCOTUS ruling. NY Times new Pie in the Sky beat. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

“That is the horror of Springsteen’s catalog. It keeps aging well because America refuses to age better.” Nails it. Though gotta give credit to Jesse Wells as a young artist who is loud about the state of things.

She’s trying to say it’s clear she didn’t agree with the entire statement when she literally said “ditto”. DITTO! Ms. Kiggans replied: “That’s right. I, ditto. Yes, yes to that.” For those younger than Gen X this is like saying “I select all, copy and paste that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

NASA has unveiled one of the closest images ever captured of Jupiter—and the detail is truly stunning. CREDIT:NASA

Hey MAGA, are you tired of all the winning yet? #DonTheCon

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

The NY Times just referred to George Santos as a “serial fabulist” 😂 and I feel strongly that such a character should wear a top hat.

i think we should be clear that just because the astronauts did not immediately declare the moon haunted, does not mean it is not haunted it may mean that the astronauts are now themselves haunted have we prepared for this eventuality and if so how

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

Guys you really expect the same people who can't stand up to trump about their shoe sizes to invoke the 25th amendment???

Trump’s unbridled assholery is causing judges to take the tone your parents would use if you demanded to take their car after driving yours into the pool.

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

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