The Walking Dolbow

The killings will continue until attitudes towards Americans improve.

A fine choice. Probably my favorite for use in a Monte Carlo.

Microsoft Teams

Michael Stipe Joins Shannon Narducy YouTube video by Sanna Sharp

Michael Stipe showed up in NYC tonight for the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy show and sang @remhq.bsky.social "These Days" (!!!!) and "The Great Beyond." 😭 😍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiouUSsOIs

reversion to the mean

Operational excellence!

Certainly possible, but this is Jake Tapper we’re talking about here.

Nothing quite like a couple of jackasses cracking jokes overheard by an inmate to keep the tin foil hat set going.

We stopped watching it after Spacey’s personal skeletons came to light. It just felt gross continuing with it.

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

I don’t think so. That’s giving them way too much credit.

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

I am so sorry. Every single one of these kills me. Loss at the hands of some kid who didn’t appreciate anything any of these scientists were trying to accomplish, their expertise, the impact of the work, etc. Galactically stupid.

He can be insufferable.

Hey Kruse how’s that working out for you? 😈

“hope” is doing a lot of work here

Claude knows

Claude’s take on the school strike

What Claude has to say:

Thank you, Chris.

Thank you, that’s very clear.

Isn’t the war crime here not the sinking of the ship but rather abandoning the shipwrecked crew subsequently? That was my reading of the article. Admittedly the title is misleading.

mango lassie with boba, and dry ice around the perimeter

A very cool (pun intended) dessert from our dinner last night in Singapore:

Big if true.

Fair

Let’s see the crust there, Papa John

Claude’s interpretation of how the US managed to bomb a girls school twice.

Definitely thankful for my own EV these days.