Augie Ray“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
— Pablo Neruda
| Drugs of choice | Mozart and black-pepper potato chips |
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I follow U.S. politics, which is why I bake cookies. And eat them.
legraLeGraRE: https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/116477022610444161
I swore an Oath the Protect and Serve the Constitution of the United States.
But I have spent the last two weeks in purgatory on
“Administrative leave for investigative purposes”
While NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I am back tomorrow.
More on the 1st Amendment for civil servants:
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pickering-v-board-of-education/
McSpocky
@bhhaskin @elaterite @ai6yr A friend put his chicken coop above his compost pile, so the chicken shit dropped through into the compost, and the compost kept his chickens warm through the winter. Ingenious. (I'm not sure how he turned it, though.)
@DemocracyMattersALot The Dred Scott decision of our day.
@benroyce I got a good dose of Bernie voter misogyny during the Clinton campaign, so I am not even slightly surprised. Some of those bros are so hate-filled, they are naturals for MAGA.
SelzeroNot sure who wrote this, but I love it.
The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAl, which is completely closed.
His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods".
Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that said that it will do no evil.
@futurebird @Moss So odd. I'm a boomer. I have zero nostalgia for the '50s. Some nostalgia for '60s music but nothing else for that era. Zero for any era after that. I listen to my contemporaries go on about TV shows from 1957 and I'm baffled.
Electronic Frontier FoundationCBP wants to install an AI-powered surveillance tower in San Clemente capable of tracking individual people through residential neighborhoods. Residents and the city should reject this proposal. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/california-coastal-community-must-reject-cbps-ai-powered-surveillance-tower
California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods. The proposed tower is Anduril's Sentry, part of the Autonomous...