If Books Could Kill "The problem is not David Brooks. The problem is the need for David Brooks" is one of the most withering critiques I've ever read.

Grandpa? Why do we celebrate the holiday? Sit on my lap son & let grandpa tell you the story of this day You see, twitter only had enough engineers remaining to keep it running for one more night, but it miraculously kept working for eight nights We burn a Tesla in remembrance

This article on the impacts of ranching on Point Reyes National Seashore is why I pay for local journalism. And why we in Sonoma County need to take a good long look at local agriculture. bohemian.com/the-befouling-…

Just putting things away in the shop and... Wow that's a flashback to many years ago... flutterby.net/Image%3a2022-1…

Dear freakin' every vendor: I am happiest when I have to put the least effort into completing the transaction. Asking me for my feedback and to complete a questionnaire after every single purchase makes me less happy. Thank you.

A trans woman and a man who left the military due to disgust with the violence prevented further deaths in a mass shooting before the man was held by police for over an hour and it was turned into Hero Veteran Uses Military Training to Fight the Bad Guy, Drag Queen Helps

One of the problems of looking at transportation in silos is we lose sight of opportunities to do truly transformative things. Widening Hwy 101, for instance, cost as much as electrifying SMART and running 4 trains per hour. Or, well, this:

Nazi ideology proclaimed that Germany and the world had to be cleared of Jews. See our online lesson about how the ideology of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party led to extermination of Jews: lekcja.auschwitz.org/31_przygotowan…

I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.

For twelve years you've been asking "Who is John Mastodon?" This is John Mastodon speaking. I'm the man who's taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. #JohnMastodon

"Your speech is only free if we don't think we can monetize it" is a hell of a take. I'm at @[email protected] and Flutterby.net and Flutterby.com if you want to find me.

Yeah, I pre-emptively turned off my poster a few weeks ago, but if you're still on this site, come find me in the other places, 'cause there's nothing left here.

@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) Case in point: Did you know that the "sparks of AGI" paper takes it definition of "intelligence" from an editorial signed by 52 scholars *defending* IQ as "not racist" and making assertions like those in these screencaps: >>

Hey Zoom, I would feel way better about my upcoming subscription renewal if I wasn't gonna be paying extra for all of the "AI" hogwash. Would happily pay last year's rates without the LLM and calendaring stuff. And I'm actively looking for alternatives that my audience can use.

Reminder that I've abandoned this for other places, because I think it's weird (and, yes, this is a test).

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