If Trump demolishes the Kennedy Center…what will Congress do? How about the Washington monument? Jefferson? Lincoln Memorial? What stops him from demolishing everything? This is LAWLESSNESS.
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Since I recorded this on TUESDAY, Susan Collins pushed ANOTHER anti-abortion judge through. She's an extremist who doesn't give a damn about your reproductive rights.
Yudkowsky is rationalist in the sense that his arguments are derived from pure reason, with no real basis in epistemology. When he writes about AI, he is writing about imaginary computers in his head. And these imaginary computers are mostly influenced by sci-fi stories, not actual tech.
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · last wk.The best and the brightest.
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
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Is it newsworthy that the President of the United States publicly led his supporters in a pledge to cheat like hell in an upcoming election?
It's time to plan an art heist It's time to rob a zoo It's time to eat a bagel and arrest Winnie the Pooh
Joanie Labine played records in a suspended booth next to the Whisky a Go Go stage and danced along to the music. Beginning with a Johnny Rivers’ set, she pioneering 'go-go' dancing in her self-made fringe dress that became a go-go fad. Photos from 1964.
when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 2w agoI spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...
The only reason that some people are demanding Mayor Mamdani skip the 9/11 ceremony is pure Islamophobia. Period.
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Every single Republican interviewed from now through Friday needs to be asked about Trump’s 9/11 lies. Anything less is journalistic malpractice.
"navier-stokes pronunciation" "navier-stokes for dummies" "other math problems with 1 million dollar prize" ... "other math problems with 100 dollars prize" ... "used math textbooks cheap"
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
He said he'd be too busy to play golf, yet 25% of his time is spent at his golf resorts, & overcharging the SS. He said he wouldn't start any new wars....yeh, sure. He said he'd release his tax returns...still waiting. He said he'd release the Epstein files...riiighhht. Just a few of the lies.
The Department of Defense is now the Department of Don’t Call It A War Because We Would Have To Pay Benefits To Widows
Sometimes a story is just..."well that didn't really work, but here is all our data showing that, and the only real result is that a bunch of companies are lying on their labels" Won't publish in Frontiers or MDPI or their ilk, but not sure who else will consider it. Ideas? #chemsky
Again, the president has a chance to lead by example here and have these centers constructed next to his shitty golf courses and his tacky senior center in Palm Beach
Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
Oh-ho! We’ve finally found those “real americans” they’ve been talking about for years!
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the new Reuters/Ipsos poll, 7% of Americans said they “strongly support” changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. 7%
We’re talking here about Col. Josh Gaspard, who parachuted into Bashur during the 2003 invasion as a 2LT, then a year in Afg, then company command in surge-era Iraq. His Columbia degrees aren’t even in the “woke” social sciences, they’re in industrial engineering and engineering management systems.
Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · 3w agoWell, that can't be good for LeTHaLitY
PRO-TIP: Purchase albums from your favorite bands and musicians BEFORE they pass away.
An idle imagining: And also an independen, nonpartisan, body for selecting their clerks. Last stage is judges interview five top candidates and pick from that pool. Or something.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4w agoJames Clyburn says on @meetthepress.com that he supports adding four seats to the Supreme Court: “A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court.”