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Laura Branigan - Self Control (1984). #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideos #80s

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write the Book (1983). #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideos #80s

Ghost Lanterns, Evansville, IN. #photography

Most people aren't thinking about the products they use and the lack of data privacy laws. I don't believe it's fair to ask them to become experts in the subject just to be aware targeted ad revenue is going to be critical to these lossy companies padding their bottom line ahead of an IPO.

How to kill without firing a shot.

Yeesh... In these fraught political times, do you, the entertainer, sign up for any project where the script is described as 'complicated,' without asking them to send over the entire screenplay first?

Kim Wilde - Kids in America (1981). #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideo #80s

Bourbon Boutique, in lovely downtown Campbellsville, KY. Playing a show here shortly with my band, FORBIDDEN CATS. #livemusic

Listened to @iwriteok.bsky.social earlier on BtB, and the comedy bit on RFK Jr. hawking mummy pills is about where I feel like 2026 is going to land.

This is a Rationalist piece, so I guess take it with a grain of salt, but I really enjoyed this and feel like this was a more compelling narrative and case for humanity than any 660,000-word Harry Potter fanfic.

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

RIP to a real one.

Imagine the Manhattan Project wasn't run by gov scientists to win a world war, but rather run by the greediest POS in the world for the sake of getting even more money they don't need and will never spend. Then imagine if the Manhattan Project shared their weapon with every bad actor on earth.

JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth.

Even a generation ago, if you told people "you will be added to a government database for tracking purposes if you speak out," folks would be in an uproar.

I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

Iron Maiden - Wasted Years (1986). #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideos #80s

Quoting Jean Paul Sartre and having the response be, "Did he say that?! I always hated that guy" is usually a cue that you're hanging out with chuds and in mortal danger of enchudification. Duncan, your heel turn is nigh complete.

I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers

Cutting Crew - One for the Mockingbird (1987). #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideos #80s

It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways.

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

Unc class grants the bearer additional attachment point (carabiner.)

It's difficult to pick apart fears about AI & data centers that are intrinsic to the technologies vs. those that are connected to the fact that giant, fateful decisions about these things are being made by a small handful of insular brain-cooked oligarch narcissists.

Pat Benatar - Anxiety (Get Nervous) (1983) #MusicVideoMonday #MusicVideos #80s

Brew day! Making a Wheat Ale, to which I am going to be adding in a silly Raspberry Lychee fruit spread I found at Aldi as an adjunct. #homebrewing #craftbeer #BrewSky

Whiffing on a real softball across the plate on the subject of "How ghoulish do you want to be perceived?"

"I have yet to encounter a single person in my life who uses algebra." Not really the flex that you think it is, dude.

It's *secretive.* Thus, it's far too important for you, the group being 'protected,' to have any mechanism for regulatory oversight until this inevitably leads to a swarm of additional false-positives and petty abuse cases.