https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven

Standard is a stretch.

This is a new pattern that I am seeing. C suite is required to launch AI initiatives because of market expectation, tech staff expected to launder their work through Claude

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Have tried to exterminate Jordan Peterson recommendations for years to no avail.

I wonder if YouTube lets these plugins through because it doesn’t want to attract antitrust suits

I think it was Buckminster Fuller? And Bertrand Russell? Who made similar predictions. What about the last hundred years had indicated to Mr. Gates that the number of hours worked will change?

U.S. Holocaust Museum: “Never again”

U.S. Holocaust Museum: “Takie backsies”

Oops, *L.A., not U.S.

Could be but could also be a kink for living free. By that measure, I am very, very kinky

British authorities: you not only have to decide that approximations of a representation of an outlawed group are illegal, which is shaky ground at best, but you would also have to decide that open support of a group that is guilty only of vandalism of military assets is also illegal. To do so, without encroaching on the fucking Magna Carta, which y’all invented, would require an assertion that direct action on behalf of a subset of members of the group disallows the freedom of expression to support the group writ large.

UPDATE: apparently the Magna Carta had to deal with power dynamics between the crown and various lords but was symbolic in that it reduced the power of the crown in its formerly dictatorial approach.

Apparently censorship is a complex ass topic in English history and has undergone continuous stepwise changes over the centuries, in areas as diverse as theatrical plays, print media, and speakers corners in Hyde park.

Y’all still be a bunch of bitches when it comes to freedom of expression though. The country of Orwell my hairy ass.

I’d definitely rather deal with Carabinieri, they’re usually just twenty-something year olds from anywhere in the country doing a little military service and that give varying degrees of a shit. Maybe not at airports and landmarks. American cops are jumpy and hyper aggressive always. You can get that from the Carabinieri but it’s half-hearted, not baked in to their identity.

Hazing is the reason I decided not to become a doctor or an academic or a frat bro. Well, that and bad grades.

It is justifiable homicide.

“The victim must reasonably believe, under the totality of the circumstances, that the assailant intended to commit a criminal act that would likely result in the death or life-threatening injury of an innocent person.”

The only part in debate would be “criminal act”. I think the former CEO’s conduct rises to that level - murder of a depraved heart, perhaps:

“In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a “depraved indifference” to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill.”

That is a disturbing and surprising level of confidence in the police. I’m definitely in some kind of bubble.

This is not a generational thing if you live in Bakersfield or Visalia or Fresno. Most of the time I’d agree.

Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink

Learning precedes legislation

I have been volunteering feeding homeless for a number of years and I was never happier than when I was tasked with throwing away compromised food. The sadism of it mixed with the altruism, sweet Jesus.

Your cat’s genitals are on your head. I legit do not understand my fellow white people that do this. And kiss dogs on the mouth. Very gross.

Depression is not this. It is far more complex.