Aaron
985 days just to prove their dad correct
Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.
Fuck off Minnesota, that wasn't the question! New Jersey you get a pass, no one likes you, you don't like anyone.
Every US State’s Favorite State Besides Their Own (With Arrows) Credit: Matt Shirley It's surprising how few states reciprocally like each other. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/fav-us-st...
I have the unusual experience of having been in cognitive decline from liver failure during this then getting a transplant, so experiencing the texts while mentally vulnerable then while mentally competent.
Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
I get all my news from Alt National Park Service, and I VOTE!
As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.
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Why are you having to work in a digital factory if the AI controlled robots are doing the work?
NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES
We never buried the Confederacy, Reconstruction was ended far too early, we encouraged fascism to fight the Cold War starting with Truman, we won the Cold War but were the bad guys and lost a chance at peace when we expanded NATO to include Poland and the Baltics
Did we really win the Cold War? Defeat fascism? Bury the Confederacy? In retrospect, thanks to Trump, MAGA and their enablers, perhaps none of those things. My latest. Hope you’ll give it a read. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/so-as-it-t...
Before the early 80s, a large portion of jobs included an annual cost of living raise and prior to 1983, inflation included the cost of rent and healthcare
If we have to have health insurance, then minimum wage should be based on health insurance costs. It should be illegal for your job to pay you less than you need to afford the healthcare they're offering you.
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This is a little relevant for my own transplant. My donor was a large man with a large liver, and fewer than 1% of people on the transplant list could have fit that liver, which saved my life (though we were also very compatible, same blood type with only 1 of 12 additional antibodies reacting)
The algorithm that ranks candidates just got an update and the results are in. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The BBC wrote an article today saying that the claims have no evidence, and like any good MAGA patriot, I know that the mainstream media is a lie, therefore that makes me a bot and I am now offline. QED. www.bbc.com/news/article...
After Ukraine struck Yandex servers, a claim spread that the attacks knocked out Russian propaganda bots. But is there any proof? We investigated. 👇 www.snopes.com/news/2026/10...
Oh hey, they changed it to be less car-brained by making it say that the the motorcyclist was killed. Still the car acting on its own though.
SFC headline changed Was: Motorcyclist dies in East Bay crash with Tesla Now: Motorcyclist killed in Tesla crash was a beloved Oakland city employee https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/east-bay-crash-tesla-motorcyclist-dead-22475575.php
what? no. this is basically religious talk, same as "god isn't real" having to be proven instead of "god is real" needing the burden of proof. conscious computers should be possible one day, i don't think we have the evidence to say we're there now. the burden of proof is on whoever say we're there
Again: “AIs aren’t conscious” is a strong, affirmative claim. It implies a lot of specific things about consciousness. It requires strong evidence. “We can’t say for sure if AI is conscious” is a weaker, cautious claim. It doesn’t make any particular evidence about consciousness.
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Like I would at least strongly consider that to be a possibility! Trump has ordered people to be killed before. He had motive to kill his former criminal associate Jeffrey Epstein. He had the means, as the guy at the head of the federal government which had direct jurisdiction over Epstein's jail.
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I don't have any proof that Trump ordered Jeffrey Epstein to be strangled to death in his cell but idk there sure is a lot of fucking fishy shit in the official story! Cameras turned off, missing minutes of footage, a strange shape seen on one of the cameras that was on, guards asleep etc
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