Good hunting, Ms. James. Good hunting.
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Good hunting, Ms. James. Good hunting.
There it is. “Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target” 3/6/26 … 1/
Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.
Interviews with people who have little understanding of humanity are, at best, curiousities. And at worst, peeping into the thought processes of someone who thinks of human beings en mass as fungible widgets.
"WASTED"
There's a moral vacuum at the heart of this administration.
I'm not talking about the girls' school. The White House posting "WASTED" over a photo of the killing of combatants reflects an utter lack of humanity.
This is who we are, because we voted for these ghoulish, cruel bullies.
"An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood" w Chip Carter is officially online (& forthcoming in U. Penn. L. Rev.)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... We scour 19th cen. dictionaries & the context in which the 14A was ratified to discover the original public & legal meaning of "person" in 1868.
Non-fiction books are so important and this is depressing. The amount of knowledge contained in a good non-fiction book trumps basically any other medium.
MAGA and their fellow travellers are the spiritual heirs of both the Confederate planter-class (who would think MAGA voters were uncultured rubes, just like the poor white farmers who died for the Confederacy) hybridized with the Know-Nothings of the 1850s to 1880s.
"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy" - Captain G. M. Gilbert,
Note that lacking a theory of mind for other people means an absense of empathy for other people.
Nationalizing the fossil fuel sector earlier secures their revenues for us, and means we can manage its closure safely.
It prevents the likely alternative of the public inheriting an environmental / social wreck from a disorderly exit,
without having had any of the profits to pay for it.
Just using this moment to remind people of when the “serious” climate people scolded us and said this ass was legitimate. Don’t listen to the “serious” people
Our beloved friend @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social performs three different takes on my short story "Gramma Wolf's Garden." And all three are marvelous.
Check it out today for #BandcampFriday and support an indie artist with 100% of the proceeds.
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Actually, here's that announcement, and it's huge! Who Killed Nessie by me and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has been nominated in the British Book Awards! www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
That's not true. But Skynet sent a Terminator was sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor and alter the timeline in an ultimately futile attempt to get out of an appointment to be interviewed by Chotiner.
Oh, hey. I hit another hundred followers.
Remember, the people in this story are right around the median competence level of this Administration.
They could not organize a Girl Scout Cookie sale.
Buy Girl Scout Cookies. They support LGBT folks.
Eat them in front of Republicans. Without sharing.
Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.
Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.
Photos of people and a book around NYC
This is the book tour I could afford!
"We Interrupt This Program" -- my new funny pop culture fantasy about what happens when things go ungodly (or ungoddess-ly?) wrong in a magical "Murder She Wrote" style town -- came out Tuesday, so yesterday I took her into NYC! 📚👀
#fantasy #newreleases #books
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"
Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.
Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.
A nightmare employment report this morning.
Economists’ expectation was +50,000 jobs.
Actual number was 92,000 jobs lost.
🎁 🔗
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
We can put bets down on when they get killed, right? That's totally cool?
Or do we have to put the bets on the platforms run by the other amoral waste of protein because their feefees get hurt?
Good lord humans are stupid
That sounds like a low budget sequel to a surprise low budget comedy.
Or a writing prompt for Ursula.
I heard USAians back in 2003-2004. Just to differentiate us from Canadians...
Asset forfeiture seems appropriate.
Two massive, miltiarized, masked ICE goons with smoking rifles and a baton stand over the bloody, broken body of Lady Liberty. ICE 1: Of course we took 'er down! ICE 2: She had a flaming torch!
From our magazine, the latest by Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.
Read more from the March/April 2026 issue: www.texasobserver.org/issues/march...
5 shaheds in a truck, from Wikipedia
Shaheds can be dealt with, but apparently not by the US military and their broken procurement...
Shahed have been a known threat since 2019 (although that was a earlier model), and they are a remarkably low-end threat:
Performance wise they can only barely outrace a piper cub: ~120 mph.
Obviously the way in which Tucker Carlson is specifically targeting Chabad is terrifying, but it is also a little bit funny to see Tucker Carlson try to explain Chabad to non-Jewish audiences, the way Orientalists tried to explain Islam after 9/11/01. forward.com/fast-forward...