"Faster than a speeding bullet."
I love watching border collies work.
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"Faster than a speeding bullet."
I love watching border collies work.
“Over the past 25 years the problem hasn’t been the supply of homes. It’s been the supply of homes for people who want to own and live in them,” writes Richard Dennis, co-CEO of The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4lmfdcV
McDonald and key members of the DOGE team bypassed authorized record preservation requirements and violated the Federal Records Act by conducting official government business regarding the cuts using Signal, a messaging application unauthorized for federal employees, and intentionally set to automatically delete messages. DOGE fed grant descriptions into OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot, asking it to decide if grants were “DEI.” They then entered ChatGPT’s responses into a spreadsheet compiling all NEH grants, including its “DEI rationale” and “Yes / No DEI?” replies. This ChatGPT-generated list was used in place of the list created by NEH staffers to identify which grants to cut. Projects Grants that were flagged as “DEI” and then terminated included a documentary sharing the story of Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust; an archival project on the lives of Italian Americans; a project to digitize photograph collections of Appalachian residents; and multiple projects to preserve endangered Native American languages and cultures. DOGE staffers violated the Federal Equal Protection Clause of the 5th Amendment by flagging grant descriptions as “DEI” solely because they included “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “homosexual,” “LGBTQ,” and “Tribal,” among other terms. DOGE staffers also flagged grants that NEH leaders concede had no connection to DEI, including grants that had been awarded for collections management after a natural disaster, preservation training, and improving HVAC systems. After the termination of previously awarded grants, Michael McDonald asked an NEH staff member to solicit the Tikvah Fund’s application for a single-source award; the NEH ultimately granted it $10 million.
“The principle that knowledge of history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the arts is necessary to sustain a strong and resilient nation drove Congress to establish the NEH,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “Our lawsuit reveals this administration’s contempt for that principle and for public investment in research for the common good. DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking.”
Details on DOGE staffers using random text output from a chatbot to justify cuts >
"DOGE employees’ use of ChatGPT to identify ‘wasteful’ grants is perhaps the biggest advertisement for the need for humanities education, which builds skills in critical thinking"
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Term limits on being a federal politician would be a start. Many are in it for themselves or whatever lobby group they end up having a corporate position in.
“I’m automatically attracted to killing people — I just start bombing them, it’s like a magnet. Just drop 'em. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a genocidal maniac, they let you do it. You can do anything,"
- Netanyahu to Trump probably.
"There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question". - Carl Sagan
But there can be stupid presidents.
To me it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else at least in the near future to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, ..
Pale Blue Dot. An image captured by the Voyager 1 spacecraft far out in the solar system. It's camera is pointed back towards Earth, which is a mere pixel in the lower right of the picture. The late Carl Sagan petitioned for it to be taken and described it so profoundly in the following posts.
I was a young teenager fascinated with the night sky when this was taken. The words put to it have stuck since.
Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
A photo of a group of people sitting around a table with serious expressions on their faces. It feels somewhat staged. Whatever they are doing could even be illegal. The focus is on an elderly gentleman who is working from home. He is wearing a tacky white crown with the letters U, S & A on the front. There is a map displayed just behind the old man's right shoulder with comically large warships dotted in the ocean to help show him a sense of strategic importance. The map is given a name only an incel could think of. Two bystanders are visible even further back, peering through a gap in highly secure black curtains. They are most likely placing bets on Polymarket with what they are witnessing.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Uh huh. Yet every day I am confronted by those who are deemed superior because they are placed higher in the capitalist game.
We are all human. Some of us didn't even get a throw at the dartboard.
One of the most beautiful places in 'NZ'. My childhood stomping ground. I'm somewhat biased.
I agree. Apologies. When you mentioned NZ and what is going on.
I reminisced about a place I grew up in, associated with someone who is avoiding due process.
Uhh. No it doesn't make me feel better but I am not surprised. Money talks.
Kinda like old mate buying in and living it up in one of the most beautiful places in NZ.
Glenorchy.
Excerpt from the MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 501 Refusal or cancellation of visa on character grounds (i) an offence under one or more of sections 233A to 234A (people smuggling); (ii) an offence of trafficking in persons; (iii) the crime of genocide, a crime against humanity, a war crime, a crime involving torture or slavery or a crime that is otherwise of serious international concern; whether or not the person, or another person, has been convicted of an offence constituted by the conduct; or (c) having regard to either or both of the following: (i) the person's past and present criminal conduct; (ii) the person's past and present general conduct; the person is not of good character; or (d) in the event the person were allowed to enter or to remain in Australia, there is a risk that the person might: (i) engage in criminal conduct in Australia; or (ii) harass, molest, intimidate or stalk another person in Australia; or (iii) vilify a segment of the Australian community; or (iv) incite discord in the Australian community or in a segment of that community; or (v) represent a danger to the Australian community or to a segment of that community, whether by way of being liable to become involved in activities that are disruptive to, or in violence threatening harm to, that community or segment, or in any other way; or (e) a court in Australia or a foreign country has: (i) convicted the person of one or more sexually based offences involving a child; or (ii) found the person guilty of such an offence, or found a charge against the person proved for such an offence, even if the person was discharged without a conviction; or following: (f) the person has, in Australia or a foreign country, been charged with or indicted for one or more of the (i) the crime of genocide; (ii) a crime against humanity; (iii) a war crime; (iv) a crime involving torture or slavery; (v) a crime that is otherwise of serious international concern; or
Yeah wtf.
Building and planning permits should be subject to a character test like a visa.
Allegedly btw.
Yeah, I'm kinda against having a monument to a convicted felon built on one of Australia's iconic waterfronts.
Unfuckenbelievable
Accumulating absurd amounts of money breaks people's brains. Detached from reality, morals and ethics they are rarely accountable for their actions.
I have no solutions either.
There needs to be limits. No it's not envy. You are just greedy.
From Epstein to Gaza, we have more than enough evidence to conclude the pedophiles ruling the West are involved in a child sacrifice cult. Whether they're unironically worshipping Baal, or creating silence with shared depravity, that cult is most accurately just called capitalism
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
