In 1945, an international committee recommended Navy Island, Ontario be the headquarters of the United Nations. Located on the Niagara River, it was proposed as a World Peace Capital. It was turned down in favour of New York City after John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated land.

Right, but only because @jamestalarico.bsky.social IS untrustworthy to both sides.

Nicki@bearlyhungry.vore.meme · 2d ago

It's so crazy too because 1. He should not have gone on a fucking fox news interview at all 2. Now he looks stupid because fox news posted this barely a week later since that interview So now he looks stupid AND untrustworthy to both sides.

That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d ago

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

As we said from the moment this idea was first floated: privatizing our airports benefits no one but corporations out to make a profit.

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 5mo ago

The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.

I've done something similar asking for my donations to be returning. I gave them based on his long time support of trans rights. If I had known his position, I wouldn't have donated.

Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3d ago

I finally sat down and wrote an email to the Talarico campaign. Doing nothing felt untenable. I encourage other decent Texans to communicate their disappointment. If this can help you get started, feel free to use anything that works for you

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

To be fair to Sheeran I dont think you can achieve his level of touring success/income to begin with without being a coward in some important ways.

Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.

In 1906, 27-year-old Canadian Peter Lymburger Robertson invented a new screw and screwdriver. Considered far superior to the Philips screw, the Robertson screw is now regarded as one of Canada's greatest inventions. This is the story. 🧵 1/8

If conscious computing agents woke up and spontaneously decided to go rogue, why would they want to hack servers? Who not compute Mersenne primes? Or go full Bartleby and answer every prompt with “I would prefer not to.” If AI agents are hacking, it’s because they were programmed to.

"you're absolutely right, I should have factored in your desire not to die a fiery death, that one's on me"

Oh yeah, even with desk pens and very limited time at work I can draw. Guess I'm responding with this today to anyone who doesn't realize if you hurt someone, you can't bully then back into loving you...

I think the people who keep pointing out that Obama opposed gay marriage aren't really making a direct correlation with what is happening with trans rights today. The debate is over TAKING AWAY existing rights. So it would be more like Obama supporting recriminalizing gay sex.

I am 100% pro Larian doing whatever pervert shit it wants and I can’t wait for another game where you can like, fuck a squid or whatever, but it really does further drive home the two-tier system of enforcement on storefronts. Bg3 contains basically everything small games get banned for

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

On this day in Horror History, the SUPERNATURAL pilot premiered on television in 2005.

AI BROS: AI can replicate itself exponentially, if you destroy one computer, it will still live on another, because AI is just code. ALSO AI BROS: AI can only run in huge power-hungry data centers.

analyzing this using the bloodless realpolitik of the American liberal, defending a small minority group without much sway or cash demands spending political capital. and so if your math works out that we're a bad spend to defend during the election, the math will not change when you're in office

look if you want to improve Talarico's odds of winning, stop yelling at me for calling out his anti-trans bullshit and start yelling at him for adopting it I'm a nobody on a nothing website, he's the one harming his own chances with bigotry

NO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO

The thing is, if you're stealing color from children's toys, you are literally a cartoon villain. You were dreamed up as a metaphor to demonstrate evil in a way that a toddler can understand, except you're real. But that is the only thing you are or can be for the rest of your life.

Can we stop for JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND to acknowledge that even with how unhappy at Dems trans folks have been the last few years, we're still voting for them at 84%-86% rates, depending upon your preferred exit poll. Cis men < 45% cis women < 55% Are you sure you're yelling at the right demo?

I'm Jewish and if a candidate triangulated on antisemitism to win an election, I would most certainly pressure him to do better *right now* and would hope my fellow Americans would do the same. I see no reason why our trans siblings and those who support them should demand anything different.

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5d ago

He should be pressured. He should do better. But he has to win the election to be in the position to be pressured.

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!

I've taught this many times. It's an astonishing piece, one of the best by a brilliant writer. Very hard going; worth it if you can.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 6d ago

Speaking of sense memories, I always revisit this incredible @tomjunod.bsky.social feature from 2021 about "Falling Man," photographer Richard Drew, and the image's indelible impact on our culture and all that came next.

YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇