The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???
“The message of Jackson’s litany is the beginning of education, and the beginning of democracy. It says that you have worth as a person, simply because you are a person. It says that you have a voice. And it says that your voice is most powerful when it joins with other voices.” [gift link]
And 2. the Biden admin approved a $400 million grant to Puerto Rico to install solar panels to improve reliability and protect 30,000 low income households from blackouts. Trump cancelled it a couple weeks ago
Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
it's so funny that he wedged in a complaint about the new kickoff rule at the end there lmao
“Oh! The Grammy goes to Luther Vandross!” - Cher
Thinking of my Japanese American elders today, their resistance, their bravery in the face of state violence.
“Were you afraid of being arrested?”
Fred Korematsu: “No, I wasn’t because I didn’t feel that I did anything wrong. If anybody did wrong, it was the law.” www.instagram.com/reel/DUJAjhC...
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
On this day in 1984, we released a single called The Killing Moon. 🌙🐰
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
THE BEARS HAVE THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN
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Last week, I got a corrections request for a story I didn't write, on a publication I don't write for. It sent me down a very strange rabbit hole involving a mysterious content publisher. There's a lot I don't understand, but here's what I know:
aftermath.site/nicole-carpe...
"I'm more than just a rhymer, you still a small-timer
Hopin that the game'll treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd, your beat don't concern me
I'm eating mangoes in Trinidad with attorneys"
may he rest in power and eternal mangoes
this is actually really easy to understand if you were or are living well below the poverty line. at least imo and experience. had the exact same thought as "oh this is $3? that's not so bad, it's basically $2" when gifting games to friends via steam sales this year.
This is how they played The First of Us
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Comic: LOCKS 3/3 (end)
Comic: LOCK 2/3
Comic: LOCKS 1/3
Sounds about right, I look like one sometimes.
Drawing of a red-skinned oni girl with horns and pointed ears and a blank tanktop, holding a large kitchen knife as she cooly glances at the viewer, engulfed in stylistic Asian flames. Behind her is a wild-looking teal horse with a mane made of flames. The text says "2026"
happy year of the fire horse (hinoe-uma)! 👹 An old Japanese superstition from the Edo period says women born on this year will be hot-tempered and shorten their husbands' lifespans
Kikomancy- the magical art of using soy sauce to power spells
much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong
