Work was busy, but involved lots of random stuff, so it was hard to get into a groove and it was rather mentally exhausting. Not sure what tomorrow will be like. Hopefully not as hectic.
Forced myself to work on some art this evening while watching the tennis from Indian Wells. I've been struggling with one pic I'm doing for someone and have been procrastinating as a result... managed to get it inked at least.
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - βWhen your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.β
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
To those who never stop asking well, what do you expect the Democrats to DO???
Stop doing this for starters.
Jesus Christ
I don't even have kids, and I think about this every moment of the day.
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive βto his personal computer so that he could βsanitizeβ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Americans demand to know who they have to bomb to lower gas prices
A post from Mike LaPorte, a head of talent acquisition on LinkedIn: "I owe job seekers an apology. Not for anything I did intentionally. But for what the industry I've spent my career in has normalized. We normalized ghosting candidates after interviews. Just never responding. Like the 3 hours they spent preparing and the PTO they burned to come in didn't matter. We normalized job descriptions that are 40% aspirational fiction. Listing 15 "required" qualifications when we'd happily hire someone with 8 of them. We normalized 6 round interview processes for mid level roles. Panel interviews where half the people in the room haven't read the resume. We normalized asking candidates to show all their cards, current comp, competing offers, career goals, while giving them almost nothing in return. We normalized treating candidates like a pipeline metric instead of people making one of the most consequential decisions of their lives. I'm not saying every recruiter does this. I know a lot of great ones who fight these patterns every day. But as an industry we've built a system that asks candidates to invest enormous time, energy, and emotional labor into a process that gives them almost nothing back unless they get the offer. That's broken. And a lot of it has nothing to do with technology. It's choices we stopped questioning. But I do think we can build better systems and smarter tools to start fixing it. What would you change first? Genuinely asking."
Then let us begin normalizing the acknowledgment and understanding of this grim reality so many have found themselves ensnared in. A large number simply don't know because they're not currently affected by it. The existence of this post alone is a wonderful beginning move.
Phenomenal match currently going on between Alcaraz and Rinderknech... entering a third set. Wish I didn't have to get some sleep. :/
#BNPParibasOpen #tennis
"If we want people to even get fed (we have two billion people who are suffering from food insecurity), if we want these basic needs to be met for everybody, you're an anti-capitalist, because the system is not meant to provide for the need. It's meant to provide for profit."
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, very complete is the beginning
"WHAT ARE WE TO TELL THE CHILDREN ABOUT GAYS MARRYING?" Dunno. I'll ask my 5-year-old, who just married their stuffed bear to a stuffed pony."
Next time this culture of casual massacre Republicans have created and forced us all to live in ricochets back to hurt one of their own every media outlet will start wringing their hands about political violence as if this guy hasnβt been out here saying loathsome shit like this all along.
I know what's right; I also know what I want. They're not always the same. 8)
Sorry, just venting.
I try to stand by what's right, anyway.
So... electoral reform = good, necessary.
Progressive policies = desperately needed. :/
I strongly believe in a functional democracy, and believe that some form of PR is needed.
That said⦠f*** the right-wing, and I'd be happy to see them unrepresented. The world would be so much better if the left had been running things for the last 40+ years instead of the "centre"/right. :/
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldnβt get another penny from us.
Itβs laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.
A black and white cat lying on her side on a blue blanket.
She's being adorable again.
#cats #η«
