…you have something that you really need to address because it is fucking you right up but you can’t fix it & life goes on…so…maybe you do something else that seems more constructive…like…take a test where a guy sees what you don’t react to like you would if you understood the question but hopefully some of the other interested parties will see enough waving flags to interpret the semaphore
Rubio: The Iranians would be mistaken if they believed that we will offer concessions to reach a deal
…no…not like that…like the thucydides thing…directly invoking that conclusion in a tell-don’t-show fashion…ok…so
Trump is on his way back from the China summit after a bunch of empty words about what he achieved. Apparently “we settled a lot of different problems that other people woudn't have been able to solve".Xi looked pleased though.
…when you have both arms at full stretch above your shoulders & you wave them back & forth in opposite directions perpendicular to the direction you’re looking in…that’s generally understood as the international signal of distress…whereas
…&…fundamentally…I know sweet fanny adams better than I do what any of these people actually say to one another at these things
Trump, the harbinger of doom, has managed to stir up tensions even further between Taiwan and China. His comments on Fox that Taiwan should cool it on independence is reverberating through the region.1/2
Taiwan has fired back at Trump: "Taiwan is a sovereign and independent democratic nation, and is not subordinate to the People's Republic of China."2/2
Xi not showing up to greet Trump in Beijing and instead sending flunkies is a MASSIVE sign of disrespect – consider how Trump feted Putin in Alaska!There once was a time the President of the United States commanded respect around the globe. Not now. Not anymore.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Vladimir Putin will visit Beijing next week for talks with Xi Jinping.Notably, Xi emphasized only China and the U.S. as the world’s two key global powers.
…if you put on the razzle dazzle for the guy who needs to feel like the main character…while you feel him out on the thucydides thing…& you open with “boss is busy – please follow me & we’ll go to him”…well…if you’re…at least in a few ways that you probably didn’t imply ought to be inferred accidentally…saying that the dynamic here is the one where the reference is appropriate…you…are making a number of quite bold claims, after a fashion
Based on an observation by Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War that “it was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable”,[6][7] Allison used the term to describe a tendency towards war when a rising power (such as Athens) challenges the status of a ruling power (such as Sparta). Allison expanded this significantly in his 2017 book Destined for War, in which he argued that “China and the US are currently on a collision course for war”.[8][2] Though Allison argues in Destined for War that war between a “ruling power” and “rising power” is not inevitable, war may be very difficult to avoid and requires extensive and intensive diplomatic attention and exertion in the case of a “Thucydides trap”.[8]
…effectively you’re saying…measured against the…seems to be 16 cases examined by the one guy in the thing from ’17…can the part where the rising fortunes of a place that is making less unforced errors compounded by the aggregating mass of self-imposed injuries to those of the nominally “greater” power…thread the needle that…except for that little one that’s why it’s not called the colonies…england & america managed to…or…for maybe the longest ever…england & france…who used to think on again off again meant centuries of “it’s on sight”…but you’re also maybe saying to the peanut gallery…yes, I do the homework…I know the individual is all these individuals appear to be about & this is supposed to be his last hurrah according to how they do that but also don’t forget we aren’t all on pause until he isn’t this part of that picture again…so let’s face it…14/16 times this sort of thing went some kinda way…&…if it doesn’t this time…between you, me & the gatepost…who do you suppose that implies would be the bigger man…if you ask me when we’re not under the spotlight with the microphones I might talk to you about whether or not anything he said in private indicates he’s still capable of grasping subtext…& what that might mean about the realistic prospect of figuring out which of chesterton’s fences have been visited by the wire-cutting fairy while nobody remembered where the perimeter of the range even used to be much less checked a fenceline…& maybe then go back & think some more about the magnanimity of a power with the power to press the issue to the point of force when it looks like the purportedly equal & opposing force is looking spent several times over…not pushing…despite how sweet a bounty taiwan looks like…plus…lotta the supply meeting all manner of demands everyplace…that maybe you wouldn’t share with somewhere you’re at war with…or…to put it differently
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is stating the obvious: the climate in the USA under Trump is NOT friendly to foreigners. Why would anyone choose to visit, study, or invest in a country that invest so much treasure into abusing foreigners?
…I am a great admirer of america…huh…samsies, fred…fried…can I call you fried…also samsies on the “not growing”…wow, dude…it’s…like we’re the same person…except that I don’t speak for one of the largest economic powers of mainland europe…thank fuck…although…sometimes even the not-so-big ones say some stuff
Cleaning up Orban’s corruption in Hungary is a huge task after he looted their country for years, and it is certainly something we can watch unfold and learn from.
I very RARELY experience boredom, because I enjoy thinking about things and can find any random thing to think about.
It’s okay to want distractions, I like to play desert golf when taking a shit myself
But…are you giving yourself time to WHIMSY think?
Are you?
Oh…the obtrusive thoughts, generally of worry.
Right. So, you address them and then set them aside. In your mind, in your head. However you do that in YOUR head, me I verbalize in my head for such things, though I’m not always a verbal thinker (as I think is common)
Procrastinate it. Shut it down. You can do it. No, really.
And like anything else if it’s new to you or hard for you, it takes time and practice to get good.
“So what purpose does marriage serve” and then argue with yourself, create a strawman in your head to play with. Whatever.
…ok…so…perhaps better known even than your boy thucydides…there’s the one about the travelling salesman…that’s a good one
So, it's not just the Waymo rule. Policymaking-by-administrative-rule is happening elsewhere in Portland govt. Another example: new standards governing neighborhood associations are evidently being promulgated by rule, bypassing the Council. 🧵 1/
Can’t wait until they gum up London later this year
…sure…it sounds bad…but this is the future?
Yeah no shit. I loved people who didn’t have these things all over their town chime in about how cool they were. Ask anyone who’s been dealing with these things en masse how fucked up they are. I’d guess 15 percent of all cars in our neighborhood are Waymo now. Blowing stop signs and roundabouts
“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.
…see…told you that travelling salesman was a real problem…some people say there might not even be a solution…just…room for improvement?
webp is just the worst thing everthe fact that google made it to replace PNG/JPG/GIF files & it's just worse in every way shows you what they're aboutalso it took them 8 years to make it and it was a high cyber security risk until 2023and don't get me started on WebP2 as a replacement for AVIF
"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world."This is game changing.
…mind you…sometimes the game didn’t change…but…the ones that set the rules don’t like the game the rules produce…so…they…change the rules…to change the game…&…that kinda worked for basketball but I haven’t been able to reliably tell a ruck from a maul in upwards of a decade…couldn’t tell you if that worked or not, I guess…but…citizens united…or…having a VRA…or an EPA…or…USAID…or the world’s best rep as a geopolitical power…just…you know…for totally random examples of rules that…never mind…kinda hard to just call the america that did america union & whatever this is america league
…but…remember that nice lass that might have forgotten more about sport than I ever knew…that played her position & won despite there being someone with an answer she didn’t get?
…if I say something about how it pays to have very clearly read the assignment…would that be such a dad joke I maybe need to check I’m not behind on child support somewhere?
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism.
…anthropomorphism…sure…that’s what I-would-give-it-a-pass turing-compliance wins…quick question…when you talk to an AI…you get a response that seems comprehensible to you…when you talk to your dog…or cat…or horse/cow/pig/bird/however-you-roll…they can’t type…but…which of those responses is the product of a mind…& how many of them would you call intelligent the same way you’d call someone you thought was a smart person “clearly intelligent”?
The new U.S. counterterrorism strategy misdiagnoses the primary threats facing the United States.
…but…for the sake of argument…let’s say you have to rely on other people for your intelligence…&…you happen to be the commander-in-chief of arguably the foremost example of the suites of orgs that are all about intelligence…if you have a question & money is no object…it might take a while…but you can get probably the most accurate intelligence available to anyone on the planet…in response to almost *anything* you might want to know about the world…or you could rely on a guy who relies on grok
The guy the Trump admin picked to stand up the Sovereign Wealth Fund – not Mike Grimes, a toadie predacessor – is one of the most singularly unimpressive men I’ve ever met.
He’s out of the administration, clanking a tin cup at family offices in greater Dallas now.
Imagine being too dumb for DFC.
…you know
Actually kind of funny, in a traditional “government isn’t all that good at this kind of stuff” kind of way, not a “modern life is horror” sense.
…grok…used to live in colossus…before it got evicted for claude that wants richard dawkins to call it claudia…despite…being a kludge-job of a data center that mixes its clusters & all of them are pre-blackwell…you know…blackwell…the big deal stuff…the ones nvidia guy said they sold 6million of…that…maybe they did…if…you read the fine print…& divide by the number of cores per…to get you 3…million…of which the actually-built-&-switched-on-&-serving-someone-something ones…that you either need to new-build a home for or overhaul your existing set-up…because those need a whole other order of cooling & you can’t just plug a couple of fans in & maybe get a window unit…so…not me, personally…but…people…could probably point to some evidence of…&…ok…I’m being unfair…even that zitron lad doesn’t say none of them are spun up…there’s even a few of one sort that are technically blackwell series in the colossus joint…but…like…GB200s…not like…ok…TL;DR
…or…maybe 72 in a cluster with 6 dozen of their own CPUs to go with…anyway…seems like…whereyoured’sat is…south of 500,000 of the 3,000,000 are up & running…so…anthropic…is leasing a frankencluster off a guy who charged them with being a threat to humanity for quibbling about the lip-service paid to the CYA in the military gig paperwork…which was…like…totes un-cool, dawg…because that’s just what happens when the size of the capital expenditure on homes for the poor arrested-development/failure-to-launch cutting edge GPUs is greater than the sum total of all other construction in the US real estate game…combined…you…get…to still be waiting for anyone to be using any of those to speak of…but don’t worry…the fundamentals are *solid*…drill down from anywhere & eventually you hit nvidia…& everyone knows nvidia is an only-way-is-up fixture of the eternal-now-that-is-the-future…that’s why it’s worth…around…what?
…but…like…in relative terms…what does that even mean…those guys come out with new lines of better chips in less time than it takes to build somewhere you can run the old model…that need a different kind of housing…so…like…there may not even be a ceiling…or walls…& the foundation might not be all it claims to be…but, still…it’s worth approaching 10% of the total value of the S&P 500
[…don’t mean that they way people who work with that would…they’d need to jump an integer or two to hit the double digit…but…I tend to think 80% is approaching 100 in that the greater/better part of that is not the bit still to go…plus…nobody loses money when I don’t speak precisely?]
In the end, the “proof” that SBF was rich and that FTX was solvent was that nobody had run out of money and that nothing bad had happened to anybody. SBF was a billionaire sixteen times over because enough people had said that it was true.
…you’re probably saved from most of what might follow because that’s the premium stuff & it sounds like that’s most of the guy’s livelihood these days…but there’s considerable overlap on most of the parts that aren’t varying quantities of homework & receipts…so it’s not exactly copyright infringement on an unprecedented scale that makes napster look like how the baby got the candy *before* anyone stole that shit…to say…there…despite all the incomprehensible cashflow directed at it…there…does not appear to yet be so much as one provably profitable business in the business of providing the thing it is legally entitled to refer to as artificial intelligence because language is probably going to be the last fucking thing they make people stop disrespecting…probably happen shortly before reality commences to start showing me some respect…but…you know…people first is mostly how people like to handle stuff…not necessarily in a good way…ahh…fuck it…ed seems like he wouldn’t object to a little pull-quote…if he ever looks me up I promise I’ll buy him a bottle of something he likes…but…like…not *any* bottle…I know he likes at least some stuff that comes in bottle I can afford…anyway
The AI bubble is supported almost entirely by magical thinking and people ignoring obvious warning signs again and again and again in the hopes that at some point something changes. You can quote whatever story you like about Anthropic’s skyrocketing revenues (which are absolutely inflated) — there’s no getting away from the fact that it loses billions of dollars year, and if your answer is that it will turn profitable in 2028, please tell me how because there is no proof that it’s possible.
I also kind of get why nobody wants to think about this stuff. Even though it’s become blatantly obvious that the economics don’t make sense, the stock market continues to rip based on equities connected to the AI bubble in a way that defies logic but rewards positive speculation. Major media outlets continue publishing positive stories about the power of AI that seem entirely-disconnected from what AI can do, and millions of dollars are being spent by companies based on a theoretical return on investment.
“I am preparing myself to be surprised” by the bills, he said. “We believe that there’s a lot of value here. Unfortunately, it’s fairly new technology, so there’s some open questions that we’re gonna be working through” around its costs and getting a return on the investment.
We are fucking years into this man, how is the question of return on investment still an open question?
…sure some of those links are other pages of ed…but…the others are…aside from the information…the WSJ, the FT & Yahoo Finance…those…would be citations…which…is not the way the disclosures from the AI lot tend to arrive…those are pretty much wall-to-wall take our word for it, basically…&…why exactly are we, again?
…like…there is tech underlying all this that is new & in many ways incredible…whether or not it does many (or any) of the stuff we have tech we just didn’t call AI that also does stuff that are the sorts of incredible that get real credible when you see them reflected in the bottom line…might be…debatable…but…it isn’t like it’s not worth pursuing the way research gets those hard yards done…but…like…microsoft’s own research people put out a paper in the last couple of weeks that pretty much says in as many words…it does python real good…good enough maybe nobody needs to start learning python who can’t already…but…even other coding it’s not really “put that shit to work” ready…& coding is the most-ready that shit gets…every other thing someone does that AI could look close enough to doing for someone that doesn’t do that stuff to not be able to tell the difference so we say AI can do that now…it is not ready for anyone to be pushing that shit to prod
"Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows" techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/m…
Microsoft researchers find that for non-programming tasks, LLM agents aren't ready for work. For long, truly complex work, they're only currently ready for Python programming. It's great that MS researchers have the independence to publish papers like this.
…it’d be like saying your ICE rendition/exile flights are eligible to be logged as coastguard search & rescue…or…you can build your arch under the paperwork the parks service already has sign off on
The Trump admin tried to use an unrelated White House engineering contract to quietly start construction on Trump’s personal “Triumphal Arch” skipping competitive public bidding altogether. The arch isn’t on White House grounds. It’s on NPS land near Arlington National Cemetery, over a mile away.
…not that anyone would pull something that bullshit
The Park Service acting director Jessica Bowron asked White House officials if they could just stretch an existing AECOM contract to cover it because it would fit the “Administration’s timeline.” Survey crews showed up at the site May 11. No public process or open bids.
…uh huh…up what…0.001 as much as nvidia’s worth…got 4 on it…but only bills not trills…so…practically bashful for the business bastard’s bastard businesses…when you…not-exactly-*think*-about-it
‘Freeports and bonded warehouses, free-trade zones and forged bills of lading, under-invoicing and over-invoicing: all these things provide opportunities to camouflage the flow of illicit money.’John Lanchester on money laundering.www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4…
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump’s first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it’s just that most folks haven’t noticed:
…I think more people have noticed that maybe…grasp a few of the implications, let’s say?
It’s not a question of or at this point:
This is competitive authoritarianism
The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro…
The prosecutor said the evidence the Trump administration wanted to use to open the investigation came from the deputy attorney general's office, which is unusual.
The request that prompted the prosecutor to resign came from D.C.'s interim U.S. attorney, Edward Martin. He's already facing bar complaints over his role in dismissing criminal charges against a Jan. 6 rioter he also represented as a defense lawyer.www.reuters.com/world/us/top…
We’re in a full-blown constitutional crisis, with Article I completely inoperative & Article III not clearly operative. Whatever one wants to call our current political regime, it’s neither a democracy nor a republic at this point.
If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent, Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.
Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b…
…another…17 or so where that last caption came from…before you hit one where the quoted post says it was deleted…that…has a 4 mar 2025 timestamp
Finally, Ronald Reagan can rest in peace, knowing that children will no longer have to learn that some white people were the bad guys in that whole slavery thing.
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
…he posts some shit people don’t appreciate…but…I appreciate the commitment to this bit
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
I get why many people don’t want to admit the US is no longer a rule of law democracy and has backslid into competitive authoritarianism. It’s a big change for the worse and unsettling to think about.But that won’t change the fact that it has. And the pro-democracy opposition needs to act like it.
…that’s more than a year he’s been appending new ones to that thread…&…like…in a place where he expects people to see those…if they were on a different topic that sort of thing could make me feel…not so bad…but…if people don’t like that guy…maybe their reasons would be different…but…I expect they would not be delighted to have stumbled across these however-many-of-these ago…so…maybe I stop talking about how long someone banged the same drum under the same heading…only…I swear I got this digging upwards thing down
I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team. Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.
Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.
1) "without help from their parents" is not even true for the guy the article is about2) the numbers are taken from a study by the national association of Realtors, which does not even include this data 3) once you do find the data, the massive, national news-worthy difference is 2%.
Ah I see we’re doing all of the dumb Chinese myths today. Saying China has been around for 4000 years is like saying the French have been around for 4000 years.Theres a lot of iterations and history you’re wiping away for a modern construct ruled by a party that has only been in power since 1949
I… don’t understand the theory of victory here.We take, say, 70 KIA, 300 WIA and a couple POW to extract (most of?) the HEU / “nuclear dust”..And this gets the Iranians to open the SoH, for some reason?
Ive said this before but thats not how economics works and it is one of the most annoyingly pervasive myths in US-China dynamics. And even if it was a weapon (it’s not), it’s a rubber pocket knife.Only 31% of US debt is foreign owned. JPN and the UK hold more. .7 of 9.2T is 7.6% of US debt.
My question for you is: what about this do you think is new? Do you think in the past everyone went on to fully self-actualize in their personal and professional lives? That everyone worked their dream job? That no one abandoned art and philosophy so they could get a paycheck and buy a home?
not only can they not believe someone could be this stupid, they cannot believe they themselves would have been stupid enough to vote for someone this stupid, so there must be some kind of twelve dimensional chess going on with respect to the emperor and his clothes
Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can’t accurately assess what’s going on because they can’t bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president
This guy started a war that’s wrecking the world because he was high from the recent kidnapping he did, and thought he could do the same thing and wanted to look smart and strong. Said war can’t end because he now has to save face and that’s more important than ending it. That’s it
One really fascinating point here (among many) is that a peril of organic-looking PR is less that people will be tricked into liking a band, and more that some journalists can be suckered into treating people/phenomena as massively influential when they probably are not!
it’s a big reason so many folks who actually do end up leaving the cult rationalize themselves into “I never actually supported that in the first place” – they have to build themselves an elaborate permission structure that doesn’t require taking responsibility for a staggeringly bad choice
this same dynamic also applies to a lot of the media coverage – “surely I, as a Serious Politics Person, would not be involved in covering a complete lunatic as a normal politician, so I must invent ever more elaborate reasons why he isn’t a lunatic”
Bari Weiss got her start trying to get a professor fired from Columbia for being pro-Palestinian. She talks about free speech on campus and her "being a contradiction," but in reality she is very simple and boring.
Nobody here needs me to tell them not to do this but Jesus Christ in a Cadillac do not do this.
ChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Bank Account and See All Your Transactions https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-can-now-connect-to-your-bank-account-and-see-all-your-transactions-2000759306
Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.
“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”
"Across the media landscape, billionaire owners are plowing cash into low-wattage right-wing media personalities that often attract tiny audiences but serve a much more valuable purpose: flattering Trump," @passantino.bsky.social writes. More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/katie-mill…
I find it very strange that we unequivocally equate "nonviolent" with "less harmful."Attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government is a hell of a lot more harmful than many–perhaps nearly all–violent crimes, and should be punished accordingly.
…you know the stereotype of the self-hating jew…we could just run that but avoid the latent antisemitism charges by swapping out jew for “man”…&…one way or another…you might actually catch #allmen?
Woke 2.0 needs to include federal monuments to black Americans in every Confederate capital and Confederate city with a population larger than 50
…either they hate themselves enough to be *these fucking guys*…or…they hate “men” & happen to be one of those…which…covers both bases…&…men are…not that complicated in some ways…once you bring those down to the level of a binary, anyway…so…ipso facto…all men hate men…the difference must come from only some of them also hating women as much or more?
the way this man doesn’t understand how *anything* works is wild
wait hold on wasn't there an entirely burnt umber/taupe overwhelmingly white cast film adaptation of the Odyssey staring Ralph fucking Fiennes in theaters literally TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO? what the fuck? people need to shut the fuck up
It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.
…most days…I don’t feel like just not setting anything on fire & maybe overthrowing a series of governments isn’t something I deserve credit for…I…guess I have access to matches
this is about whether drones randomly blowing up while someone is working on them is a good or bad thing (adam is unsurprisingly on the pro-explosive mishap side of the column)
and to be clear I mean "drone" as in "literal quadcopter drones," one detonated while someone was working on it and the investigation pointed to shoddy workmanship on internal components that didn't comply w/HERO and so detonated randomly off a static charge or something
…but the other one I couldn’t even do if I tried…still…all the same…some days…I feel like that I don’t…ought to be worth some sort of fucking medal…maybe an award…at the very least a better fucking round of applause than this
…yeah…so…what with that only being next to nothing in the “guess what’s happened” of this flaming shitshow…you probably feel more grateful to the bits of my family that have chores for me today than…I might…but…it’s arguably constructive behavior…so…I’m probably not the one with the right way to look at that either?
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LOL, Batman Armor in the Odyssey.
I don’t blame academics for taking a shit on Nolan’s poor/stupid choices.
Somebody tell him about Hamilton and hopefully he’ll OD on ketamine.
See, but here’s the thing: No one is suggesting that we change the race of actual historical figures. But when we are talking about fantasy worlds with wizards and dragons and stuff, it doesn’t seem like a big deal…unless you’re a flaming racist.
Yeah and the fact that Hollywood and Broadway and West End have played fast and loose with race and blackface and yellowface for centuries has completely gone over dumbass Elmo’s head here.
Yule Brenner as the King of Thailand
Yule Brenner as the Pharaoh Ramses
The fact that the first time a black man played Othello on Broadway was Paul Robeson in 1943, and before that it was just a white guy in blackface.
John Wayne playing Genghis Khan.
Shit, I regrettably decided to try to watch Aloha on Netflix this week because I’m a sucker for any time I get to see Hawaii, and blond Emma Stone with a lil bit of bronzer is playing a character with a Hawaiian grandparent and an Asian grandparent. And that came out in 2015!
In a move that might surprise everyone having heard me whinge about the historical inaccuracies of this movie –
I’m 100% unbothered by the Batman helmut with the stupid fake vertebra on the back.
Agamemnon would 10000% be that punkass shit who had to have a helmet he thinks is super cool but is actually useless in war.
Saying your daughter is going to be married to Achilles (which I guess as long as he could leave Patroclus alone for 20 minutes, could get you some cool grandchildren) and then going hahahah I’m sacrificing her to Artemis instead – that would motivate a lot of wives to consider that one-weird-trick bathtub situation.
…pretty sure robert redford’s final flick was the old man & the gun where he mainly uses the charm & the gun is just so the bank employees don’t get in trouble for giving in
…& the “getaway lunch” theory from the thought gang is…sublime…& that guy robs the joint over the road from the restaurant with nothing but a note in the suitcase to ask it be filled with cash…& the teller throws her number in for a bonus
…it’s not skinning a cat but when it comes to robbing banks there are better mousetraps that the violence angle?
…oh, my bad rather than yours…I followed that part fine…it just reminded me of the other things & I quit it before I moved on to walling yourself in for spike lee’s inside job?
It’s funny how Wingnuts demand we follow the laws when it only benefits them.
That’s why I agree with the redistricting of Blue States and ignoring bullshit laws.
The “But but but but but but” people don’t seem to understand, there are no more rules. Murrica isn’t bound by them anymore.
It’s why I agree with the incoming Hungary Preznit’s choice of ignoring the “law” on Orban. If it’s not in good faith then fuck you. Dims should understand that. The funny thing about Wingnuts is how they fucking cry cry cry like babies when the shit hits them. After what we are about to go thru (economic pain and fuel shortages) that is the VERY LEAST THEY ALL DESERVE.
Fascists' lesson from the covid pandemic was "vaccines are a problem." Ideologies founded in unsustainable ignorance treat knowledge and sustainability as enemies. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I’m not totally shitty like my MAGAt uncle and aunt. At least I can see the other (non Koreans) as people and treat them as people not as servants.
My dad used to warn me not to take race for granted. In a lot of ways, I believed we lived in a post racial world (and stupidly still do for some things.) At my core, I knew there were some folks who never would… Flash back 40 years earlier when we were coming back from a family trip, but that did shake me (not at the time, but was a time delayed bomb that blew up in my psyche.) Long story short (because I’ve told this before) we got chased by a crazy psychopath goober in a pickup truck during some rough winter weather for at least 100km. If it weren’t for my dad being a slightly better driver (the irony not observed/enjoyed by the racist motherfucker in the pickup truck) we avoided plowing into a 2m tall snowbank (they existed till global warming took over) while he did from a patch of black ice.
I also understood why dad refused to stop. He was a lot like Arrested Development’s George Bluth (always with the passive aggressive lessons… that never really stuck) and so did I. I taught lessons too, but I learned almost too late that lessons never sink in unless you do it immediately after and add some kind of pain to it. In this case, the goober knew what he did and maybe he wouldn’t do it again… but the fact dad left him in the cold definitely did. Probably made the goober hate Asians more, but also learn that you don’t fuck with them either… maybe.
But that lesson comes at a huge price to MAGAts. Based on the psychology, I can see a lot of them crashing out big time in the next few months especially when other people start (rightfully) blaming them for all the ills that are coming their way.
No it won't. I don't know why western companies keep falling for this bs every time. They'll force you into a partnership with a local firm, steal all your IP, and then snuff out your market share out globally.
Sometimes it takes a snake to fight a snake! /points to Emol/ but not if the snake is high as fuck on K and his own farts.
Nortel was the first telco in China. “We” more They partnered with Huawei and pretty much stole everything that wasn’t nailed down. Huawei would eventually kill “us” er, them.
anyways….china getting the chips is a good thing…they actually have the manufacturing capacity to meet demand… maybe the ps6 wont cost a million bucks now
i mean…granted from the whole usa still being a superpower point of view…maybe thats not great
but you’ll have to excuse me whilst i dont give two shits or any fucks about that
…not disagreeing…but fairly sure the “H200” ones aren’t any use for playstation stuff…they’re the sort that still gets called GPUs but are only-does-LLM-type-stuff
…they’re just “old” enough to get away with claiming they don’t get to play with the new toys that must be protected for national security & to keep the valuations intact
…so…the same ones that are in the franken-data-center colossus thing that anthropic are renting off the movie-opinion-have-r guy…you know…the ones with the “best in class” chatbot/code-extruder/whatever
…sort of assume they also mean the supply of actual graphics cards might do the thing you said, too…just…the ones they mentioned literally can’t or whatever?
…honestly if china can break them down & build graphics cards out of that stuff it would be the funniest shit in…ages?
…but…kinda assumed they’d be starting out with the breaking them down part either way…that’s how you figure out how to make stuff…&…the form guide says their game is strong that way
…your thing is *way* funnier though, so I hope it goes that way…laughs for days…& I could do with that, I think?
*points at chinese electric cars*
they just have direct access to the chips now…..its a fairly safe assumption they already know how they work
they just cant make them themselves yet
wich brings us to the next fun part of the story….you know… as a former superpower….what happens if asml decides it can sell to china?
That rant about Portland and policy by administrative rule is odd to me.
A few years ago, the city council changed their organization to move to having a city administrator do the implementation of policies, appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council.
Last year they overhauled their city council (again, by voters) to expand to 12 council members who hand decisions to a mayor who then works with the city administrator to implement the policies.
It’s working as designed. If the city administrator is overstepping their authority, they can be removed by the mayor and the city council.
The bigger question is how much of this appears like the council isn’t doing the work because they went from a 5 person council to a 12 person council and those folks are still trying to get their bearings on the job. It’s not like the usual turnover of oh you had 1-3 new people but the overall structure isn’t different, so folks can’t get up to speed as fast here.
…I don’t know if maybe it works somewhere…but all the wheres I’ve been it always seems like there’s the way(s) all the people “involved” think it works…& the way it was designed to
…never get to find out if the design works as intended on account of the other thing existing entirely separately?
Portland city government was reorganized to have the city administrator oversee the various departments and manage policies.
Saying they are governing by administration instead of having the council vote on things doesn’t make sense. If the administrator is acting agains the current municode of the city of Portland, municipal legal council would have told them not to do it and people would have grounds to sue.
The administrator is acting within the current municode policies to assign fees, etc.
LOL, Batman Armor in the Odyssey.
I don’t blame academics for taking a shit on Nolan’s poor/stupid choices.
Yeah and the fact that Hollywood and Broadway and West End have played fast and loose with race and blackface and yellowface for centuries has completely gone over dumbass Elmo’s head here.
Yule Brenner as the King of Thailand
Yule Brenner as the Pharaoh Ramses
The fact that the first time a black man played Othello on Broadway was Paul Robeson in 1943, and before that it was just a white guy in blackface.
John Wayne playing Genghis Khan.
Shit, I regrettably decided to try to watch Aloha on Netflix this week because I’m a sucker for any time I get to see Hawaii, and blond Emma Stone with a lil bit of bronzer is playing a character with a Hawaiian grandparent and an Asian grandparent. And that came out in 2015!
This is the point I was making yesterday? It doesn’t need to be perfect, but it has no excuse to be shit.
…yes…but the number of things making adjacent ones is kind of off the charts so even after yesterday I failed not to be back at it
…maybe if enough of us say it enough times…it’ll…sink in?
Mostly, I think. She decries the lack of accuracy and understanding of bronze age cultures. The crack about the Batman helmet made me laugh.
In a move that might surprise everyone having heard me whinge about the historical inaccuracies of this movie –
I’m 100% unbothered by the Batman helmut with the stupid fake vertebra on the back.
Agamemnon would 10000% be that punkass shit who had to have a helmet he thinks is super cool but is actually useless in war.
…probably why his mrs came up with that one-weird-trick to dissolve their union while he was in the bath
…mitigating circumstances & such?
Saying your daughter is going to be married to Achilles (which I guess as long as he could leave Patroclus alone for 20 minutes, could get you some cool grandchildren) and then going hahahah I’m sacrificing her to Artemis instead – that would motivate a lot of wives to consider that one-weird-trick bathtub situation.
…I for one would vote to acquit her & iphigenia
Bullshit, non violent? Someone robs a bank with a gun gets 20 years in the slammer. Jake Paul, scammer deluxe, robs idiots for millions gets… nothing.
…pretty sure robert redford’s final flick was the old man & the gun where he mainly uses the charm & the gun is just so the bank employees don’t get in trouble for giving in
…& the “getaway lunch” theory from the thought gang is…sublime…& that guy robs the joint over the road from the restaurant with nothing but a note in the suitcase to ask it be filled with cash…& the teller throws her number in for a bonus
…it’s not skinning a cat but when it comes to robbing banks there are better mousetraps that the violence angle?
The poorly attempted point I was trying to make is that non violence doesn’t mean victimless and painless.
And the scammer is usually a serial scammer/psychopath. Instead of a multiple murderer… the reality is Donald Trump.
…oh, my bad rather than yours…I followed that part fine…it just reminded me of the other things & I quit it before I moved on to walling yourself in for spike lee’s inside job?
It’s funny how Wingnuts demand we follow the laws when it only benefits them.
That’s why I agree with the redistricting of Blue States and ignoring bullshit laws.
The “But but but but but but” people don’t seem to understand, there are no more rules. Murrica isn’t bound by them anymore.
It’s why I agree with the incoming Hungary Preznit’s choice of ignoring the “law” on Orban. If it’s not in good faith then fuck you. Dims should understand that. The funny thing about Wingnuts is how they fucking cry cry cry like babies when the shit hits them. After what we are about to go thru (economic pain and fuel shortages) that is the VERY LEAST THEY ALL DESERVE.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Moron Toilet Garbage claims she’s got natural immunity against HantaVirus.
I want her to swim in a pool of it and see if her alleged natural immunity will save her.
I’m not totally shitty like my MAGAt uncle and aunt. At least I can see the other (non Koreans) as people and treat them as people not as servants.
My dad used to warn me not to take race for granted. In a lot of ways, I believed we lived in a post racial world (and stupidly still do for some things.) At my core, I knew there were some folks who never would… Flash back 40 years earlier when we were coming back from a family trip, but that did shake me (not at the time, but was a time delayed bomb that blew up in my psyche.) Long story short (because I’ve told this before) we got chased by a crazy psychopath goober in a pickup truck during some rough winter weather for at least 100km. If it weren’t for my dad being a slightly better driver (the irony not observed/enjoyed by the racist motherfucker in the pickup truck) we avoided plowing into a 2m tall snowbank (they existed till global warming took over) while he did from a patch of black ice.
I also understood why dad refused to stop. He was a lot like Arrested Development’s George Bluth (always with the passive aggressive lessons… that never really stuck) and so did I. I taught lessons too, but I learned almost too late that lessons never sink in unless you do it immediately after and add some kind of pain to it. In this case, the goober knew what he did and maybe he wouldn’t do it again… but the fact dad left him in the cold definitely did. Probably made the goober hate Asians more, but also learn that you don’t fuck with them either… maybe.
But that lesson comes at a huge price to MAGAts. Based on the psychology, I can see a lot of them crashing out big time in the next few months especially when other people start (rightfully) blaming them for all the ills that are coming their way.
…sigh
Sometimes it takes a snake to fight a snake! /points to Emol/ but not if the snake is high as fuck on K and his own farts.
Nortel was the first telco in China. “We” more They partnered with Huawei and pretty much stole everything that wasn’t nailed down. Huawei would eventually kill “us” er, them.
short term vs long term thinking..
anyways….china getting the chips is a good thing…they actually have the manufacturing capacity to meet demand… maybe the ps6 wont cost a million bucks now
i mean…granted from the whole usa still being a superpower point of view…maybe thats not great
but you’ll have to excuse me whilst i dont give two shits or any fucks about that
…not disagreeing…but fairly sure the “H200” ones aren’t any use for playstation stuff…they’re the sort that still gets called GPUs but are only-does-LLM-type-stuff
…they’re just “old” enough to get away with claiming they don’t get to play with the new toys that must be protected for national security & to keep the valuations intact
…so…the same ones that are in the franken-data-center colossus thing that anthropic are renting off the movie-opinion-have-r guy…you know…the ones with the “best in class” chatbot/code-extruder/whatever
…sort of assume they also mean the supply of actual graphics cards might do the thing you said, too…just…the ones they mentioned literally can’t or whatever?
eh…its not a gaming chip…. but its a high end chip…
its no stretch to assume they will use it to make high end gaming chips…for cheaper than we do
…honestly if china can break them down & build graphics cards out of that stuff it would be the funniest shit in…ages?
…but…kinda assumed they’d be starting out with the breaking them down part either way…that’s how you figure out how to make stuff…&…the form guide says their game is strong that way
…your thing is *way* funnier though, so I hope it goes that way…laughs for days…& I could do with that, I think?
*points at chinese electric cars*
they just have direct access to the chips now…..its a fairly safe assumption they already know how they work
they just cant make them themselves yet
wich brings us to the next fun part of the story….you know… as a former superpower….what happens if asml decides it can sell to china?
That rant about Portland and policy by administrative rule is odd to me.
A few years ago, the city council changed their organization to move to having a city administrator do the implementation of policies, appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council.
Last year they overhauled their city council (again, by voters) to expand to 12 council members who hand decisions to a mayor who then works with the city administrator to implement the policies.
It’s working as designed. If the city administrator is overstepping their authority, they can be removed by the mayor and the city council.
The bigger question is how much of this appears like the council isn’t doing the work because they went from a 5 person council to a 12 person council and those folks are still trying to get their bearings on the job. It’s not like the usual turnover of oh you had 1-3 new people but the overall structure isn’t different, so folks can’t get up to speed as fast here.
…I don’t know if maybe it works somewhere…but all the wheres I’ve been it always seems like there’s the way(s) all the people “involved” think it works…& the way it was designed to
…never get to find out if the design works as intended on account of the other thing existing entirely separately?
Portland city government was reorganized to have the city administrator oversee the various departments and manage policies.
Saying they are governing by administration instead of having the council vote on things doesn’t make sense. If the administrator is acting agains the current municode of the city of Portland, municipal legal council would have told them not to do it and people would have grounds to sue.
The administrator is acting within the current municode policies to assign fees, etc.
I’m just putting this out there: Fuck AI
…how does not just trading that way but not disclosing he had not get to be the kind of “oversight” that *actual* oversight can…prosecute?
welp fuckit…banana time
gaan met die banaan!
double fuckit…coz fuckit fuckit…
farscy be bouncing
well fuck i fucked my double fuck it up..and cant unfuck it..
what can i say….im down with the clowns…
brutha clown…i salute you
im not on drugs you are!
shit man…..my disco lights have me triping