Marv Clowder

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Pounder of Keys, Swimmer of Seas, Enjoyer of ZZZzzzzs.
If you really want a Barbie and Oppenheimer crossover, it was made in 1995 and it's called Tank Girl.
When you think about it, it's the worst possible place for her to sell seashells.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

But Nina, if you don't take the time to patiently and painstakingly respond to every single person who's Just Asking Questions, however will they learn anything?

Because they'll totally learn if you talk at the 'patient listening' mask they put up while they're freebasing Matt Walsh podcasts and pour money into Tucker Carlson's pockets, that's how this works, right?

Civility is not care, but it pretends to be; civility is the affective shape of administrative violence.
Russia's Duma, the lower house of the parliament, has passed unanimously a law banning gender transition,  in its third and final reading.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/07/14/russian-duma-passes-law-banning-gender-transition
it was amended to prohibit people who have changed their gender markers from adopting children, as well as stipulating that marriages where one member has changed their gender markers would be annulled
Russian Duma passes law banning gender transition — Meduza

The Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has passed a law banning gender transition in its third and final reading.

Meduza
Anybody else still curious who planted the pipe bombs, disabled Mike Pence’s key card, removed the panic button in Ayanna Presley’s office, and shared the locations of non-reinforced Capitol windows?

"Rishi Sunak will announce on Monday that he will CAP the number of students wanting to study "low-value" degrees."

Want to know what I think?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees

Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees

Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say

The Guardian
"The question then, isn’t so much why Musk has jumped into the business of monetizing eschatological anticipation, but why his transparent religion-peddling is still seen as part of the (ostensibly) rational world of science and capitalism"

Excellent essay by
@niedermeyer on Musk, AI and religion

https://niedermeyer.io/2023/07/14/the-end-times/
The End Times

What rough beast, it’s hour come round at last, slouches toward Silicon Valley to be born?

E.W. Niedermeyer
Leaving a watermelon on someone’s doorstep in the middle of night is a pretty inexpensive way to occupy a portion of their mind forever.

@tbluvoter
@hannu_ikonen

Dang, once you needed a Nuremberg Rally for that.

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