"History never repeats itself but it rhymes,"
Mark Twain
"But why do humans keep choosing Vogon Poetry?"
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"History never repeats itself but it rhymes,"
Mark Twain
"But why do humans keep choosing Vogon Poetry?"
Ford Prefect (Probably)
Happy Holidays!
I wonder how much money has been spent on fighting public healthcare.
And how much healthcare that could have provided.
FDR Memorial, Washington DC.
-RIP East Wing-
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
This whole section really.
www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Last minute. No time to spin up good alternates to moderate impact.
He wants Bay Area support after forcing 100,000+ onto roads already past capacity?
@governor.ca.gov was doing so well the past few months 😒
3rd parties might have an opening.
Yeah, Walter Brennan was not a nice person.
I'd counter that mojo by reading about times when Mae West or Jack Benny or Betty White or Lucille Ball stood up against racism.
Given that almost every voice actor and audio engineer has cursed whoever invented leaf blowers more than once, that inventor might be in purgatory for a long, long time.... 🤪
A Nightmare on Gary
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.
Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.
#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
Don't post a lot of original stuff, since I can generally find something similar to what I would have written posted by somebody else.
We convince ourselves the crumbs we're given are feasts just to stay fed.
An funny, ironic, observation:
If you hit the 'Cancel' link to not post something and then hit 'Cancel' in the confirmation pop-up, it Cancels the cancellation.
Funny how things work sometimes :)
Conan the Karen
(Dang. This covers 2 movies and many, many books....)
Tales From the Floating Vagabond
Libre is The Way
Being Karen
Thus the darkness grows
The creators of South Park have more moral courage than
True
We were developing vaccines for cancer and HIV and they canceled that extremely promising research because they hate people and don’t care if we die
It devours all the puny light attempting to pass through, thus declaring it a proper Dwarven Drink.
Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!!
Miss the energy and conversations.
I look at positives 😊
OAK/SFO 12+ hour trip with 2 layovers would have cost 2-4x non-stop flight to Euro off season
If I splurge on food, same price world-class gourmet with ocean view instead of cold hot-dog in gamer funk
Not spending $300+/night for a motel
Chad complaining to Bill that they made Superman super sensitive.
It's a Super dorky DORK TOWER THURSDAY! The Man of Feels is here, at the Mothership!
www.dorktower.com/2025/07/23/1/
Repost/reblog/repeat, thank ye kindly!
Moyers was a favorite of my FiL, a grumpy old 70s liberal who died about 6 years ago now.
A great system.
You did need to tweak advancement for the Knight Hawks starship skills. If you went by the actual progression requirements, battleships crew were mostly octogenarians.
Finally getting a chance to run a Top Secret SI game (Pulp, using Agent 13 expansion). Fingers Crossed.
