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Hello! I'm a warehouse foreman, my wife is now retired, and our son is a pan—global marvel. Established October 2009

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Thor Frog Promo Poster by Walter Simonson (1985)

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Electron Spin Must “Turn” 720 Degrees to Return Home

How odd are subatomic particles? Quite!

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by Andreas Heumann

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The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

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The story behind this painting:

Hi everyone,

Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31, our father was detained and taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We are launching this GoFundMe campaign to help with legal fees and cover basic living expenses for our family during this difficult time. Some of you may have seen my painting, “The New American Gothic,” and are aware that my parents are the subjects. My father has lived in the United States for over 30 years and has always provided for our family. He is a devoted husband, father, and grandfather, and the hardest working person I know. He has spent all of his adulthood building a life for himself and his family, working tirelessly to ensure that his children would have a good life as American citizens.

We are equal parts devastated and terrified. If possible, please consider supporting our family’s efforts to cover fees related to his case, and the day-to-day expenses that his wages would normally have covered. Any amount, or even sharing this message, means more to us than words can express.

Thank you,

The Vasquez family (Donate here)

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“That same wickedness — the original, undemocratic wickedness of America’s original, undemocratic Constitution before it was transformed and reborn through the Reconstruction Amendments — was really the thing to which “Rededicate 250” was dedicated. It was dedicated to the rejection of the great task Lincoln described and to the reversal of that cause for which the Americans who died at Gettysburg gave the last full measure of devotion. That is what “MAGA” means and that is, ultimately, all that it means.”

— Fred Clark

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70s ICONS. Linda Ronstadt and The Gorn sing "You're No Good" on an episode of The Sonny & Cher Show in 1974.

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The Moon Falls a Thousand Times by Naeemeh Naeemaei

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What is this hot mess? AI is a disservice.

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What we call “AI” is in fact a statistically sorted output derived from the entire internet. Put more succinctly, “AI” is Collective Intelligence. Open AI began as a non-profit, and that was the moral way to approach the technology. We all should own it. However, a great tide of investment money swept away the better angels of our technicians, and so now AI is “proprietary.”

I declare. As soon as our tech overlords can craft a method of charging rent for Air® and Water™ you may expect to receive a bill for your subscription to these services.

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AI Is A Mass Psychotic Delusion

Damien Walter:

Silicon Valley operates on the fundamental, unquestioned belief that the cosmos is merely a highly complex computable mechanism, that human consciousness is just a by-product of scale, and that if we simply stack enough processors in a warehouse in Utah a digital messiah will spontaneously emerge. But this mechanistic world view is fundamentally false. It is a reductive, brutally limited framework masquerading as objective science.

In a few centuries historians will look back at our gigawatt data centers with the exact anthropological pity we reserve for ancient altars.

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I’m taking things apart and putting things together.

Join me on Bluesky! Link above 👆

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About Musk’s disruptive proprietorship of DOGE the journalist T.C. Sottek writes, “A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.”

Full article at The Verge