Timothy Swan

@timswan
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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
The “Undo” icon on Apple Newton MessagePad contains more whimsy than the entire current macOS.

Did you know that ICE pepper sprayed a sitting US Senator yesterday?

Not if you get your news from the New York Times, you don't.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-kim-ice-immigration-pepper-spray-delaney-hall-b2983455.html

US Senator pepper-sprayed by ICE outside immigration detention center: ‘It’s just burning’

Families of detainees at the facility have complained that their loved ones have been served spoiled or rotten food at the facility, according to a report

The Independent
They found money for war, a ballroom, and January 6 traitors, but not for you. 💸
Shell, BP, TotalEnergies and Aramco made US$ 23 MILLION AN HOUR in just three months, even before the Iran war had fully kicked in, while people everywhere were told to “tighten their belts"
Even a broken clock is right two times a day. Mitch McConnell on the Trump slush fund: "So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong--Take your pick."
Can the American people bring a class-action lawsuit against this administration for the harm they have caused us? The grift is something to behold.
What happens to a country when every word out of the President's mouth is a lie? We're finding out in real time, and it isn't pretty.

"...hallucination isn't a bug to be fixed; it is how the system works. The same machinery that produces a poem produces a confident lie, and cannot tell the difference."

Reuben Steiger, The Contrarian. https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-triple-threat-of-big-ai

The Triple Threat of Big AI

Monopoly, autonomy, hacking: can artificial intelligence solve more problems than it’s creating?

The Contrarian
It appears that the Trump administration, and its co-conspirators in the Supreme Court and Congress, is going to allow the Confederacy to win the Civil War after all. Abraham Lincoln is rolling in his grave.