Rob Kimbro

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

Meanwhile

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

I’ll look at it thanks.

I think the real novelty is a leader who believes that deepening voters’ understanding will benefit him.
Which is also wild.

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person.

We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now.

Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

I just keep staring at this picture. His hat. His little backpack. The hand holding it like a claw.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Getting to iterate a new class in the next semester is the best. I always feel like it takes two cycles to figure out how a class should work.

Interesting article, but I’m am particularly struck by the framing of the need for skeptical generalists. It seems very on point, if only because LLMs intrude on one of the primary domains of the generalist: bullshitting.

Once again, decades of ludicrous ‘Drug War’ and ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric and policy laid the groundwork for this. These are the sorts of things that must be uprooted.

Illinois and Chicago have reduced crime with smart investments in police and community violence reduction programs. Meanwhile Trump cut federal support for both.

No matter how many lies he tells, we will keep standing up for truth and against his abuse of power.

This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."

A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.

B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

Nice Scooby-Doo pull

I think the previous poster was confusing LA and Boston?

Stealworkers

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

This is excellent. Did my last lecture in Intro to Theatre today. Talked about how apt I find it that Anne Carson entitled her Euripides collection Grief Lessons and how stories are ancient tech allowing us to learn from the experience of others.

I’m currently enjoying the third book and I agree. MRK clarified in a later post that she was looking for wheelchair users specifically, so I think Olli is outside the remit here. But a great character in any case.

It’s a bit of a stretch in a couple of directions, but a main ensemble member in Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture series uses mechanical walkers/exoskeletons, including a badass one she calls The Scorpion, to adapt to her mobility challenges.

Possibly comforting:
“It’s silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it as like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account that one is dead….. which should make all the difference. Shouldn’t it?”

Also - Batman without Alfred is pretty much canonically a psychopath. And I’m nervous about the Avengers without Jarvis.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places: