Thanks for the Autocracy

 

We are there

Supreme = Sour cream

Panel of a Jen Sorensen cartoon found on Daily Kos

The balls in your court, Scrotus. 

Follow (me to) your leader

...the founder of Uber has said that he feels like working with a chatbot has helped him come close to making new discoveries in theoretical physics. Musk thinks that Grok hallucinating information about material science (or to be more generous, Musk simply doesn’t know how to look shit up in real books) that he has never seen in books is an indicator that Grok is thinking. 

One of the lessons of LLMs is that faking coherence is not that difficult. Even when LLMs hallucinate, they sound convincing when they do so.

...people treat these word calculators as friends and therapists. 

...we should be much more serious about regulating these systems and in thinking about what intelligence really means.

from this post in Daily Kos

Bloodletting

Billionaires who perceived themselves as middle class also expressed anger over healthcare expenses, lamenting in particular the skyrocketing price of on-call concierge physicians, routine full-body MRIs, anti-aging stem-cell therapies, jawline surgery, and continuous infusions of blood from a healthy young person.

Fun with The Onion

Never running out of stock!

 

Hot off the presses-in stock now

 

tshirts for sale! tshirts for sale!

 

T-shirts, here! Getchur T-shirts!

 

DEI DUH

DEI programs weren't created to give women, Blacks, Latinos, and others an advantage; they were made to give them a chance. 

from Ending the American Dream by Mark Sumner

Summer solstice surprise!

First sounds of cicadas!! 7:50 pm

Happy Friday the 13th

 

Protest idea

Ghoul faces in black cloaks costumery
Take an oath of silence
Hold finger over lips in the ssshhh signal
Carry a black candle
Move creepily, ghostly in a group
Shush the craziness, the wrongness, the tantrum 
Lull the child, the immaturity
Be a collective force to silence the madness

Just wait badaduh badaduh badada dada daduh

female Mr. Mom is my steal
I can only notice funny, I think
can't generate it
well, not on purpose

 

more money to be made, so there's nothing we can do

 “Another year, another record,” Ralph Keeling, a professor of climate sciences, marine chemistry and geochemistry at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said in a statement. “It’s sad.”
        --from NBC news article, Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years

A decade with you

 

Your face makes me smile

from the inside out

still growing but already so much

feels like yesterday, feels like tomorrow

why why why

so wild

time

stand still

for just one day

on the decade

with you

first lightning bug sighting this year

 It blinked its way towards me

Remigration is rich

 Coming from actual immigrants and an 'anchor baby'

AI not available for search

Native, Indigenous people of the Americas 
would like a word.

Enlist your local genealogist, pack up and 
go back to where you originate...Good Luck Mutts!

Everythingsfire

 Everythingsfine

To a Daydream Believer

 

apple cider vinegar woman

 for surgeon general 

Mar-a-lago

 

projection

Lovin Benjamin Forgey critique style

 

"a pleasant shock... Seven ghostly spaceships appear to be hovering comfortably above its front yard, keeping watch over an orderly gathering of white-rimmed, ground-hugging disks shouldering healthy mounds of grass."

a brooding, strangely graceful concrete honeycomb."

from a 1998 Washington Post article about the Marcel Breuer designed Robert C. Weaver Federal Building

Blind Blonde, Blonde Blind

Rubio said that while Khalil's “past, current or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful," the provision allows the secretary of state alone to “personally determine” whether he should remain in the country.
April 10, 2025 NBC news

Just let this sink in.  Free Speech and Due Process are under attack.

Constitutional Rights of our nation's land.

No person shall be....deprived of life, liberty, or property, without

due process of law  -5th amendment to US Constitution

No person, it says, ..doesn't indicate US citizen.  It applies to non-citizens.

Rubio's actions are unconstitutional.

Hilarious imagery

You think Newsmax wouldn’t be holding an exorcism live on air while Marjorie Taylor Greene screamed into a candle?
Daily Kos diarist, shespeakspolitics, writing about Pope Francis dying right after a visit from JD Vance and Republican/right wing response if it was Kamala Harris instead

Blessings

“I know religion better than the pope, believe me! And Romans wouldn’t have crucified anybody on my watch! Weak! Sad!” —Twitter war with Pope Francis, Sept. 5

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee: “Of course Donald didn’t mean the Savior was weak. His choice of words was unfortunate. I think the point Donald was trying to make is that religion has been under attack from liberal, activist judges from the beginning of time, really. You can draw a direct line from Pontius Pilate to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I believe Donald will protect our religious liberties, which is why I support him.”

From Aug 4, 2016 Yahoo News article, Is there anything Tr#%p could say to make his party cut and run? https://www.yahoo.com/news/anything-trump-could-party-cut-000000585.html

Job well done, Pope Francis

Also, remember to watch John Carpenter's The Fog
five minutes before the witching hour of April 21.

A severe

 

Friday egg ritual begins

 

the musk fella

 A Whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

Someone using a IP address from Russia used the same password created by a DOGE engineer minutes before to try to access NLRB data.  Access was denied due to IP location.

Top House Democrat says DOGE data access at NLRB may be 'technological malfeasance'

SpaceEx, Tesla and X have cases pending before the NLRB

Data is being extracted and security controls are disabled. 
What is the end goal with the data?  Why make our governmental systems more permeable?

 
And you shall have a tiny house,
A beehive full of bees,
A little cow, a largish cat,
And green sage cheese.

- Kate Greenaway

Thanks John Roberts

 The president can illegally manipulate markets.  Oh well!