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DECT @ | 7436 |
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Hello friends, and thanks for your patience!
We are pleased to announce #PancakesCon 6: Family Brunch will occur on September 21, 2025! Here are some important dates to remember:
Call for Volunteers Opens: 28 June, 2025
Call for Volunteers Closes: 28 August, 2025
Call for Papers Opens: 26 July, 2025
Call for Papers Closes: 9 August, 2025
Call for Papers Results Provided By: 23 August, 2025
Call for Sponsors Opens: 28 June, 2025
Links to all the above will be posted on our social channels and Slack!
Again I stand by what I said.
"I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s."
We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
A reminder for Pride Month
I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor.
But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.
If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.
Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.
Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."
That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."
This copy of The English Physitian on the Internet Archive is filled with pledges by one Thomas Cooke to stop drinking in 1743. And 1744. And 1745. And...