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A friendly reminder for the well meaning people I see making this mistake: If you want to refer to the community of Somali-Americans use Somali, the proper term, and not "Somalians". Anyone from Minnesota hears "Somalians" and braces themselves for something racist.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

you can set your watch to either

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

I somewhat recently re-read her diary. Along with the verifiable evidence of it being legitimate, there is no doubt in my mind that it was written by a 12-14 year old girl, because she is extremely self-absorbed and hates her mother. A hoax would be more focused on what's going on outside.

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

Our music and our memories are being wiped out. AMERICA built this city. Not a president. Join us!

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

I was a smartphone resister and didn't get one for a long time, and I also knew at the time that I was in the minority and was a weirdo

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

100% this

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

We’re not changing it.

Observations while driving around southern Minnesota yesterday: If yard signs are an indication of anything, I saw more Jake Johnson signs than Brad Finstad signs. Although there were definitely Republican yards, I only saw one Lisa Demuth sign.

"Online leftists don't have jobs" excuse you? I'm literally posting instead of doing mine right now

I’m using my executive authority to ban nonferrous mining in the Boundary Waters.    As far as my administration is concerned, the fight for the future of the Boundary Waters is over. The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.

New rule: no more comments or headlines about trans women in the WNBA until there actually is one

National records and testimony from the NCAA indicate there are fewer than 10 transgender student-athletes competing across more than 556,000 overall college athletes - less than 0.002% of all college athletes. There are 316,189 men. I think you need to look at the sums before saying something dumb.

How is it possible that every time I call a company they are experiencing greater than normal call volumes?

Got a new google scholar notification, so I go check and find this very cool poem by Wang Jibing 王计兵, the recent Lu Xun prize winner, prefacing a PhD thesis on women migrant workers and the gig economy PhD students in all disciplines: more poems in theses please, we love to see them! ✨💫

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

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A side effect of being old, for me, is NGAF if I sound old. Like why is that a thing I should care about? I have joint pain and shit.

Best thread

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

90 seconds worth of solid belly laughs

Margaret Atwood Kazuo Ishiguro Barbara Kingsolver Elena Ferrante John Irving

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

they are laughing because they love diarrhea

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

Mustard and relish

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

Our diversity is our strength. (Seriously, there are wealth of delicious cuisines represented here)

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As an alumnus, I'm not giving them a dime until this shit stops @uiowaalumni.bsky.social

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

A massive Georgia data center drained nearly 30 million gallons of water, sparking outrage among local residents asked to conserve water during a drought. Residents of Fayetteville, Georgia, first noticed something was wrong when their home water pressure mysteriously plummeted.

HS classmate tried to friend me on FB. I always check their history before accepting; he has pro Charlie Kirk stuff, so no.