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Artisan Rorschach wallpaper printer
I’m sure farmers paying $7 per gallon for diesel during harvest time will be delighted to know their tax dollars will be used to pay the lawyers who will try and fail to defend this in court.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says he's "banning the free press"
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have now withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.
1989 Weird Al vehicle “UHF” still really works. It’s a stupid, fun, zany movie that’s plenty worth seeing again (maybe for the first time). Local TV used to be a thing, and had some magic!
Make a band edible Porkishead The Toad-in-a-holeies Breakfastica Speedy Ortiz Sardines
assigned cromulent at birth@cleanwindows.bsky.social · last wk.Make a band edible patisserie shop boys
Pirate radio is fun and virtuous. All teens need to be able to anonymously broadcast their own “screw you, parents!” take.
No Context Achewood@achewoodnc.bsky.social · 2w ago
Looking forward to the Kai Bird book about Roy Cohn. Thanks for reminding me how much I hate his guts, PBS News Hour!
@tante.cc: 'Those “proofs” are about narrative building. Which is why especially people with no b/g in math keep using them as definite proof of LLMs being “more than just stochastic language models” which is just factually untrue and the mark of deeply unserious people.' tante.cc/2026/09/07/t...
The function of LLM-based math "proofs"
There has been quite the uptick in “AI” labs’ claims of their LLMs “solving complex math problems”. I wondered why that is, especially given that LLMs are not exactly built for the kind of rigor that ...
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We're all living in man-made societies. Nothing is inevitable. All of these structure were the result of man-made choices. Other choices were - and still are - available.
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸@resistrebelrevolt.net · last mo.Should we be following in the footsteps of Vienna, Austria's social housing projects? 🌳🏘 This socialism blasphemy 😉 has made them the world's most livable city, with renters paying a third of what people pay to live in London, Paris, or Dublin!
Someday, sooner or later, Trump’s arch is going to be a cool post-apocalyptic ruin (assuming any part of it actually gets built). You might get to fight a ronin or a cyborg there one day!
Posting my pretty dinner: cashew chicken. It didn’t even run all over the oven!
Buddies brought us a beautifully ripe fig (zone 5, a “Chicago hardy”). Absolutely delightful! If you live somewhere where you can grow a fig tree, you should do yourself a favor and plant one. 💋🤌
Took the kids for a trip to the mall before school starts. I’m pleased that Junji Ito seems to be having a moment: special JI niche at the Barnes&Noble in the manga section, and several spooky JI shirts at Hot Topic.
“Coyote vs Acme” is really funny! My least favorite part was the 30 min of trailers before the feature for movies that looked less good. Well worth the visit to the theatre!
Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.
Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
It's Democrats' job to explain what's coming and who must be blamed by November.
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Michigan Advance@michiganadvance.com · 3w agoMore rural hospital closures would mean long drives for pregnant women seeking obstetric care michiganadvance.com/2026/08/28/r...
LFG!
Tenants Together@tenantstogether.bsky.social · 4w agoCollege students are tenants too–and they’re organizing like it! Across the country, student #tenantunions are taking on unsafe conditions, rising rents, and unscrupulous landlords. When tenants organize, they win! inthesetimes.com/article/why-...
Two pretty cool ones: “There Are No Electrons” in roughly 6th grade, and “Snowcrash” in roughly 8th grade. Also “The Outsiders” in 6th grade. Each formative and great.
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4w agoIn honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.
“Throughout her 58 years as a proud member in good standing of Local 257, she set the gold standard for supporting her band and fellow musicians..." Everyone deserves a safe workplace
AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
