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[Sally_Mahoney]

Speaker nominee Mike Johnson's MAGA Logic: "Roe v. Wade toppled over the economy"

It’s not about kids, workers, anything like that. It’s about controlling women, and most specifically, controlling their sexuality. Women are not human, they are a machine for creating more men, period. And fuck those assholes with a cactus.

[MerelyGifted]

The last sentence so beautifully sums up my own views, but I’d suggest a sideways cactus.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Microsoft's AI blunder: inappropriate poll sparks public outrage

I think this is probably where the next AI bubble is going to pop. Humans anthropomorphize things. They name their vehicles, talk to their pets, and think that computers ‘think’ like humans. I was kind of upset by the 60 Minutes piece recently where Geoffrey Hinton (some pivotal neural network guy) was doing the “oh my god these AI things are smart”. Aside from making him look like a smug ass with his own comments about himself (I think they edited the piece as such whenever he jokingly tooted …

[FSogol]

Political Cartoon Thread... b/c why not?

(I am inclined to agree, and so I did not crop out the comment [from a Mastodon user].) [image]

Election day tomorrow in Virginia and worried that people won’t show up. GOTV.

[Sally_Mahoney]

UK government plans to define as "extremist" anyone who “undermines the country’s institutions and its values”

One traditional “British value” is a belief that the government should not dictate “British values”.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Homeless people "want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk" says Fox News' Jesse Watters

It goes back quite a bit further than that, the Victorian english concepts of deserving and undeserving poor people (distilling it to some moral failure, not a failure of society) has dogged protestant countries for a while. AFAICT capitalism has been its primary torchbearer (which is why you see less of it in places where socialism got a foothold).

[Sally_Mahoney]

Cybertruck to be officially delivered today

You know, pattern languages. It’s like when you are young and read about Buckminster Fuller and go “yay domes for homes built in factories like cars and planes”. And then you encounter architecture and building and heat and noise and furniture and sealing and all those other things and you go “hooray for rectangles!”

[gero]

Cybertruck to be officially delivered today

The decapitated head of the pedestrian maybe? It’s part of the trend for dangerously high front ends and poor front and peripheral vision which has been growing in recent years which Tesla, to be fair to them, hadn’t followed and are notable outliers on the roads (I’ve finally started to see them here in the last 2 years, still many more Hyundai electrics though, Leafs which had pretty much a monopoly until 2020 are falling off. As it were.) Add to the inability to see inconsequential things li…

[nosaj]

Steve Bannon calls for Civil War between MAGA and the GOP (video)

I just posted this in another thread… worth a listen… [Why Smart People Become Conspiracy Theorists with Naomi Klein - Factually! - 237]

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump rejects Liz Cheney's report on his lack of appetite and insists he was overeating

"I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much. I am not talking about a whole tub of Häagen-Dazs on the couch, no. Most people eat ice cream when they are upset. Not me. Not me. Some people like Ron Desantimonius eats pudding with his fingers when he’s upset. With his fingers, can you believe that? No I order down into the kitchen and I say ‘Bring me a whole pot of macaroni and cheese. Make sure it’s Kraft because it’s the cheesiest.’…

[Bunbain]

Bless you for taking the time to do this:

McDonald's goes after Starbucks with new CosMc's coffeeshop

There were no pictures of the inside so I generated my own… [CosMc's 4] [CosMc's 2] [CosMc's 1] [CosMc's 3]

[Sally_Mahoney]

EU to regulate AI

It is impossible to read about the “EU AI Act” without finding myself humming “‘Ol’ Mc Donald had a farm”…

[milliefink]

What a great way to put it:

U.K. faces prospect of fourth prime minister in 18 months as Conservative Party turns once again on own leader

The best I can do to explain it is that Sunak, Patel, Braverman, et al are all wealthy individuals who put their success down to Tory values. And because Tories believe in their hearts that if everyone shits on everyone else as hard and as long as they possibly can, then prosperity and happiness will come to all. The fact that exactly the opposite is happening simply means people need to shit harder. I don’t understand that psychology either, but it’s clearly a thing.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Georgia can't have both batteries and bibles

Apparently she is unfamiliar with the Christmas carols “Watt Child Is This” and “Amperes We Have Heard On High”.

[Purplecat]

The Biden Administration. Document the atrocities - Praise the graces

I hate to do this. I really, really hate that I have to do this. But I feel the need to speak up. We’re all affected by what we’re seeing. We are all weary, we are all scared, and many of us are frustrated as hell. Can we please keep that in mind right now, when we post? While I can’t fault anyone for seeing the next election as a chance to defend their loved ones, I also cannot blame those who are seeing it as a referendum on what we as Americans are willing to tolerate from our politicians a…

Once again, @Nightflyer cuts through the pain and anger that all this shitty news is causing, and reminds us mutants to be awesome to one another.

[Nightflyer]

I’m not sure I deserve it… but thank you.

[MerelyGifted]

Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol destroyed by upset Christian man

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Ten thousand likes’d be insufficient AFAICT.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Meditators can switch off their consciousness on demand, new study reveals

When you meditate, inevitably something breaks into your awareness. If you have cats, this will probably be their role in such affairs. Some people, seeing you sitting calmly with your eyes closed and obviously taking a moment, will walk up to you and start talking. Sometimes, it’s an itch, or a mosquito, or some loud or unexpected noise, or the sudden realization that you need to do something or go somewhere, sometimes your body says “hey, you need to pee.” Mostly, for me at home, it’s cats.

[Murgatroyd]

There is a school where Santa Claus learns how to answer heartbreaking requests

I’m inclined to be a problem solver, almost pathologically so. Winston Wolf is my spirit animal. It’s the work I do and often becomes my role with family and friends. It took until my early 40s to realise that I’m not obliged to do that, that there’s not always a solution out there, and that not everyone is looking for a solution to their problem (even when they acknowledge there is a problem). I’ve learned, as the second article states, that often it’s more important to quietly witness and be …

[gero]

Hyperloop One shuts down

Oh, you know… Shifting paradigms, thinking outside the box, disrupting traditional industries, making nice brochures, raking in venture capital… The usual.