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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees…” [prisonjournalismproject.org]
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees…” [prisonjournalismproject.org]
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Elon Musk is floating the idea of a third party to change American politics.
In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold.
The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC…
In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold.
The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC…
July 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elon Musk is floating the idea of a third party to change American politics.
In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold.
The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC…
In Anatomy of a Purple State, I wrote a bit about the possibility of a 3rd party taking hold.
The context of the book is #ncpol, but the same thing applies in CA, TX, MN, ME, AL, NE, MI, SC…
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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
June 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes
June 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the neighbour who was here yesterday pitching a fit over the length of my lawn came back 10 min ago to tell me that he's been watching news and I should not worry & long as he lives here they will have to go through him first and thing is, it wasn't just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore
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Incredible follow-up on Hurricane Helene victims from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘Everything we had floated away’: Hurricane Helene survivors help each other as disinformation swirls
Mountain communities in southern Appalachia begin rebuilding after climate crisis-fueled disaster
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Incredible follow-up on Hurricane Helene victims from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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just as odin gained the gift of wisdom through self-mortification, so also will we be blessed by touching the stove
February 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
just as odin gained the gift of wisdom through self-mortification, so also will we be blessed by touching the stove
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saw a guy whose kayak was almost falling out his cyber truck the same summer i saw a guy casually biking his CANOE up a hill looked sturdy as shit
As a car the cybertruck is a shit car.
As a TRUCK an ebike with a trailer is a more effective vehicle.
As a TRUCK an ebike with a trailer is a more effective vehicle.
February 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM
saw a guy whose kayak was almost falling out his cyber truck the same summer i saw a guy casually biking his CANOE up a hill looked sturdy as shit
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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
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Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On
Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On
Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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please meet my beautiful son, Life’s Rich Pageant
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
please meet my beautiful son, Life’s Rich Pageant
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I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
November 21, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
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Crazy that blue sky has 20 million users. That's pretty close to half the amount of records nickelback sold
November 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Crazy that blue sky has 20 million users. That's pretty close to half the amount of records nickelback sold
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Reader, I do not know the demons that haunt your dreams, the frustrations and insults of life that have brought you to your knees, the sadness you battle in your heart.
But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it.
Today, I got such a peek.
But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it.
Today, I got such a peek.
November 17, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Reader, I do not know the demons that haunt your dreams, the frustrations and insults of life that have brought you to your knees, the sadness you battle in your heart.
But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it.
Today, I got such a peek.
But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it.
Today, I got such a peek.
Working in education with NPS in Alaska in 2008, the message on climate change data was you see it in the coldest places, coldest time of year, coldest part of the day, ie when you isolated changes in average winter-season nighttime lows, the change was punching you in the face even in pre-2010 data
No, it’s not just you.
As a product of the Great Lakes region (Youngstown → SE MI → Lansing → Columbus → Cincinnati → Lansing → Cincinnati), the patterns, temperatures, and rhythms of the season feel unmistakably altered.
Graphic via @climatecentral.bsky.social
#climatesky #energysky
As a product of the Great Lakes region (Youngstown → SE MI → Lansing → Columbus → Cincinnati → Lansing → Cincinnati), the patterns, temperatures, and rhythms of the season feel unmistakably altered.
Graphic via @climatecentral.bsky.social
#climatesky #energysky
November 15, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Working in education with NPS in Alaska in 2008, the message on climate change data was you see it in the coldest places, coldest time of year, coldest part of the day, ie when you isolated changes in average winter-season nighttime lows, the change was punching you in the face even in pre-2010 data
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Finding out that Lake Superior "Never gives up its dead" because it's so cold that the colonies of bacteria that decompose corpses can't survive in it so those bodies never fill up with gas and surface, all because I looked up the lyrics of a 1976 folk song, is what the internet should be more like.
November 11, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Finding out that Lake Superior "Never gives up its dead" because it's so cold that the colonies of bacteria that decompose corpses can't survive in it so those bodies never fill up with gas and surface, all because I looked up the lyrics of a 1976 folk song, is what the internet should be more like.
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me when you get me a little treat
June 10, 2024 at 5:46 PM
me when you get me a little treat