John C Wheeler

I think the venn diagram of AI boosters and people who are sure the server is flirting with them is a circle.

What a headline! www.bbc.com/news/article...

This. And also maybe, if you know where it's happening, go over and beat the holy dogshit out of the rapists, with your fists and whatever you can get those fists around.

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

And the sky looks painted on from my front porch this morning.

What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When your country colonised half the world, and gave all the crap jobs to the "lower caste" for generations, and yet you now complain that the guys checking your bags in the airport aren't white enough, nevermind they might well be born and raised in the UK, several generations since even? What R U?

As Guildenstern, about to meet his death, observes at the end of "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," there is a randomness inherent in life, but this alone allows for the possibility of free choice. Nothing is inevitable. There is always "a point where we could have said 'No!'"

Percentages of people in each German state who did not vote for the AfD.

I do wish somebody would tell this fool that America is a hemisphere.

October Hayseed Dixie tour, Y'all.

Trump's economics: I stopped trading with the electric company and I made an extra $250 a month! (although I'm now sitting here in the dark).

Damn right. No computer will ever be able to play lap steel. Ever.

Can AI take the piss? Can it take a piss? Can it get pissed? Can it get pissed off? Can it just piss off now?

Jack the Ripper was an immigrant. It started there and now look! The woke left wants to kill all straight women. With a knife.

this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan

Lake Ontario is the Native American name for said lake. The Canadian province is named for the lake. It's a far more authentic American name than "America" actually, which is named for Italian mapmaker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, or "Mar-a-Lago," which is sort-of Spanish for "Lake by the Sea."

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Lake Ontario is the Native American name for said lake. The Canadian province is named for the lake. It's a far more authentic American name than "America" actually, which is named for Italian mapmaker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, or "Mar-a-Lago," which is sort-of Spanish for "Lake by the Sea."

Such a great, economical, self-incriminating tweet. Your one moment not to make a petty complaint, and you make it, revealing what kind of person you are, which is of course why she would not be interviewed by you, which is also conveyed in the same sentence. Social media is not all bad.

All love and respect to this absolute titan of music and exceptional example of how to be a great human being. I had the pleasure of knowing her a bit as a teenager as a friend of her sister's son. Cross that Rainbow Bridge singing loud and proud, Great Lady. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

These people are profoundly evil

Heute ist so einer dieser Tage, wenn ich die Nachrichten sehe… Es ist alles so dumm, es ist nicht mehr zu ertragen, wie dumm… Bleibe heute offline. Das reicht.

Standing on a street in a town before one of our shows, watching passers by, it is often obvious who will be in the crowd later.

I do truly love a good Pilsner beer at sunset, and this excellent local German Pilsner is 1€ (about $1.15 or £0.85) per bottle in the local grocery store. A man could get carried away for cheap in Germany if he were to let himself!

Of course, the other way of looking at this is that we fellows in the top 20% well and truly have our pick! Cheers to aspirations of hypergamy! (laughs and chuckles of a dismissive yet devious nature)

What I want to know is: just what the hell does it mean to be "white"? Are we talking external properties here, and if so what shade of brown is the cutoff point? Do we use a Pantone chart? Or does he mean DNA, because mine says I'm 4% Ivory Coast - is that shade of ivory white enough ror this fool?

Just because you can do something does not mean that you should. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Completely agree that it wouldn't have been the Beatles without Ringo. His parts and feel are absolutely essential.

What the actual hell?!?

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

A greqt piece.

We’ll deserve the meteorite. (🎥 BernarGM)

This is a very good article. My own experience coincides with its observations. It's specifically about parts of England, but applicable to everywhere that communities have been left behind and left to wither.

Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity, and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.

I feel like we as a society have done this three-step move where we've come to define things as: (1) a comment is only racist if the person truly intended it to be racist. (2) How can we ever know someone's true intent? So: (3) Who can ever REALLY be racist?

It's like Wikipedia. Years ago, maybe still, the BBC's music pages drew their band bios from Wikipedia. I went on to our Wiki page and wrote all sorts of nonsense about Hayseed Dixie creating the internet, solving Pi, etc. then screen-shotted it on the BBC's page. Great fun!

This is why I don't read much fiction. Reality is generally a lot more bizarre and anything most people can dream up.

Selbstporträt inmitten von Sonnenblumen.

The four horsemen have arrived, but the livestream requires Reuters Premium.

One weird trick to avoid arrest abroad for committing international crimes is simply not to commit international crimes.

This is Alfie. He is a professional opera singer with some of the best vibrato in the industry. Some have even called him the next Paw-varotti. 13/10 (TT: thelifeofalfiee)

In the DM here in Heidelberg (which is like a Walgreens in the US or a Boots in the UK), the selection of reading glasses is directly beside the condoms. I don't know what this signifies, but I feel it must signify something worth considering.

That they annoy left-wing people is essentially the numero uno raison d'etre und Sinn des Seins for both the Spectator and the Telegraph.

“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”