Rebecca AND|OR Speas

These are two different children!!! Please employ critical thought!

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

I wonder if these cowards and murderers will think that it was all worth it when they’re hanging from their feet in the town square.

Dismantle ICE, release the names of every single pig involved and put them under the prison

It turned out to be a medical model for intubation, so I literally was like “idk what I expected” 😂

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

A cardboard archival box with a sticky note that says “Ephemera (Baby Head)”.

just another day at the office

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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LAUREN BACALL: you just put your lips together and blow

HUMPHREY BOGART: *holding nintendo cartridge* i know how to get it to work lauren

I often think about that sliver of time between the rise of the internet and the emergence of cloud storage where we all just had really cute USB flash drives that we carried around everywhere. Mine was a dinosaur whose head peeled back for the USB plug and it absolutely ruled. I miss it.

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWWWW

Getting dick punched by Ohtani. Peak baseball.

Colleges don’t know what the hell they’re talking about when they say they’re training students for careers in AI, but this is it. Figuring out how to tweak every form of human activity or interaction to bend toward the algorithmic capabilities of a shitty guess machine. Sounds like a great career.

is the History profession "in freefall" because of the proliferation of misinformation amid an academic profession that too-frequently locks itself in ivory towers while leaving the application of history to contemporary affairs to amateurs and know-nothings, or is it another thing?

What a useless creature.

I genuinely had hoped I’d wake up and realize that whole “AHA lies down like a wilting Victorian heroine in front of the guzzling maw of AI” thing was a fever dream brought on by an undigested bit of beef or a blot of mustard, BUT ALAS—

And unlike generative AI, I can cite correct, extant sources.

What’s even more fucked up is that three of these AI committee members live and work in Texas, whose AI datacenters use nearly 50 billion gallons of water a year while people are told to cut back on showers and conserve water IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE DROUGHT

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Infinitely better than any Civil War reenactment

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

This is the most myopic, spineless, and embarrassing stance that the AHA could possibly have taken. I am livid. The AHA should be ashamed of themselves.

I understand that we all need that funding, especially right now, but the AHA should be ashamed of themselves for going belly up like this.

This is the most myopic, embarrassing, and shameful stance for the AHA to take right now.

Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson - Pancho and Lefty (Video) YouTube video by MerleHaggardVEVO

*Norman Rockwell guy standing meme* I don't think we actually should spare a few prayers for Lefty as well as Pancho. I think we all know where he got that bread and he did NOT have to do what he did. Never snitch.

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I am tired of people expecting me and other indie booksellers to absolve them when they admit to ordering from Amazon because they couch it in a sheepish “I know I shouldn’t but—“ or a “I just couldn’t wait!” or a “you know I TRY to support local” etc etc etc

I had thought that this kind of faux pas could be left in my days of bookselling past, but clearly we need to just tattoo it on our foreheads, because it is a CONSTANT.

PSA to authors doing an event or signing with an independent bookstore:

Don’t talk about Amazon. Don’t mention that your book is a Kindle deal. Don’t talk about your Audible exclusive. Don’t tell a humorous anecdote about ordering shit from fucking Amazon. ESPECIALLY DON’T DO IT AT YOUR GD EVENT.

As someone who has been confounded by a phone UX upgrade, all of the rebellion pilots having no idea how to fly the new updated TIE fighter is incredibly relatable #Andor