So youāre telling me the people who are only trying to āmake elections more secureā and not prevent people from voting by passing a strict voter ID law just made it harder for New Yorkers to get said ID? Hmmmā¦
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Kevin Kortum
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š£ Regime Change Is Blowing Up A School Full Of Children
You wouldnāt trust anyone in the Trump administration to water your garden properly, and yet they get to decide who and what gets blown up. Everyone else has to suffer the consequences, this time none more greatly than those girls and their families.
The draft dodging head of the Board of Peace who said no more wars in the Middle East and that only terrible negotiators would bomb Iran, just bombed Iran, turning an already devastating situation in the Middle East with the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, into an even bigger chaotic mess, likely to start more war. Maybe his plan is to start as many wars as possible so he can then āstopā all the wars and win his Nobel prize.
šø Buddy Guy ā Tiny Desk Concert
A living legend and at nearly 90 years old, heās still got it. Iāve been lucky enough to see him live twice, both times over a decade ago, at Claptonās Crossroads Guitar Festival, and then at Buddyās Legends club in Chicago. Seeing him at his small, intimate club was one of my favorite musical experiences ever.
Also, very cool to see him bring out Miles Caton from Sinners for a couple songs.
š¤ OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
āTwo of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems,ā Mr. Altman said. āThe DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.ā
From one liar to anotherāso you know it has to be true. They somehow have the same principles as Anthropic, but magically came to an agreement despite those principles being the only thing killing the Anthropic agreement. More likely, OpenAI has been chomping at the bit to get at that military industrial complex complex money so thereās actual some money coming in that they can point at for their investors to oooh and ahhh at and continue to pretend they are somehow worth over $700 million.
ā°ļø The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God by Gorillaz
They knocked this little short film/music video out of the park. I havenāt listened to the whole album yet, but Iām hopeful this might reverse course from their more recent dance albums and return to the greatness that was Plastic Beach, which might be my favorite Gorillaz album.
What we really need is a Gorillaz movie. Theyāve built up so much lore with the various locations theyāve set their albums at to the point where Iām dying for someone like Joe Bennettāwho did Common Side Effects and Scavengers Reignāto get involved and build on everything Gorillaz has done over the past two decades.
š mist
Iāve talked before about my desire for a Google Docs alternativeāone where I could share docs with writers, suggest changes, etc.āand I even wrote up some requirements for it in the hopes that someone might magically decide to build it for me.
mist is 95% there. I couldnāt find a note about it being open-source, but Iām dying for someone to run with this and add file organization to it so I don't have to worry about the 99hr expiration.
