LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon

Holy shit, this is real. And it was part of a pivotal war that included fighters from 20 other nations. Insane, but they left an important and strange side story out. This is a tale of foreign trade, bigotry, bizarre economic turmoil, and modern agriculture, from 1588. /1

Sean Duffy's tenure as Transportation Secretary started with a bunch of terrible airline crashes and then he just disappeared for seven months on a road trip / reality show?? WTF is happening here?

Every Republican president since Nixon was elected by cheating. All of them. Either we break this cycle now, or we lose America.

The numbers in Jamelle Bouie’s piece are the argument. In 1975, there were 17 Black members of the House. In 1985, after two decades of the Voting Rights Act, there were still only 20. Then in 1982, Congress amended the VRA to address disparate impact in voting outcomes. In 1986, a unanimous Supreme Court held that the act forbade electoral schemes that impaired minority groups’ ability to elect candidates of their choice. States used the 1990 census and redistricting to create majority-minority districts. By 1995, there were 43 Black Americans serving as voting members of Congress - more than double the number from a decade earlier. That jump from 20 to 43 is what the 1982 amendment and majority-minority districting produced. Ari Berman projects the Callais ruling could cost a third of the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC currently has 58 members. A third is roughly 19 seats. That would take Black representation in Congress back toward the 1985 baseline - before the redistricting that produced the modern era of Black political representation. The 14th and 15th Amendments were written and ratified specifically to ensure Black Americans’ participation in the political community after slavery. As Bouie notes, it is a perverse outcome that the Roberts Court is now using both amendments to achieve what could be the largest reduction in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.

Lord, Trump is literally re writing US history to adopt Putin’s narrative. The war ended for the USA many months later.

This is your periodic reminder that LLMs have ingested everything, and that they’re influenced by stories. Plenty of speculative analyses and SF have portrayed AIs being bad, which acts as scripts for AI. LLMs *will* betray you eventually if you let them - we wrote it that way.

Chelsea Perkins murdered the man who raped her. She pled guilty and took full responsibility. She was given 22.5 years in prison. Jesse Mack Butler raped and strangled two children. One sustained such severe neck injuries she almost died. He got community service.

The RBG cult is too psychologically interesting, I waste three minutes thinking about it whenever the topic comes up. What’s the most popular message on RBG merch? Typically it’s “I dissent.” The stans aren’t venerating her opinion in United States vs. Virginia or Evenwel v. Abbott. She’s the icon of being smart and right while losing. This has transferred over to KBJ fandom; she never wins, but look at her epic roast in this dissent. It’s a cult of never holding power but being smug that the people holding power are wrong and maybe the biopic in 20 years will say so.

I don't understand why people don't trust data centers. You can clearly see that these AES Indiana rates for Google's data center in Monrovia, IN are fair and reasonable.

@Violetskyye @HandyGingerGal I translated my maternal grandfather’s handwriting for my mother. Post a high-res pic and I can probably crack it.

@HandyGingerGal My mom finally wrote down her paprika chicken recipe, but I can't read her writing, and she passed in 2019, without giving me another copy. I'm ready to take it to a cryptographer at Langley to have it deciphered.

I will never understand people who guard their recipes like they're state secrets. My husband's grandmother notoriously refused to reveal her secrets, and despite how beloved her meals were to her family, they died with her because she never passed them down.

the "being vegan is more expensive than eating meat" progslop trope is one of the clearest signs that people in the 2020s believe that cultural clout is a form of actual, real world capital that sits on your bank account

A San Francisco woman went out drinking with a group of cop friends. She blacked out and woke up in a hotel room naked and drugged with four cops. The rape kit tested positive for all of their DNA but the D.A refuses to bring any charges. thebanner.com/community/crim…

“Ghost participants” have been floating around for years as a way to break encrypted messaging. The idea is to add invisible extra people (the police, essentially) to group chats. It’s a dumb idea, and let me explain why.

@KennyBurgosNY Their finding goes against every other study. You’re complaining about a non-existent problem backed by a single crappy study. Quit acting like a Republican.

But it’s okay they gave The Bronx a few million dollars for more asthma inhalers

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic. sltrib.com/news/environme…

@Kurt_Steiner Funny that B schools don’t do this, but then it’s not a real grad degree. (I say this as the bearer of an unused MBA.)

Grad schools: pay you minimum wage for 7 years then laugh and charge you a thousand dollars for your graduation robes. Very. Funny.

@GaryWinslett @b_cuse_ @the_transit_guy It absorbs freight flights from nearby airports, which makes it useful for NYC in a different sense

@b_cuse_ @the_transit_guy The only reason to use Stewart is if you need to go to West Point. It’s at least 50 miles too far north to be useful for NYC.

It really does beg the question: what location/metro needs a new commercial airport? (Not a renovated/expanded one)

And now we have the KHive doing the same thing with Kamala’s supposed brilliance and vision. And it’s sickening.

So let me get this straight… What’s in: tanning beds, flavored vapes What’s out: vaccines, anti-depressants RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists latimes.com/science/story/…