Keith Edwards
@kedwards.bsky.social
Author, librarian, book designer, drawer, beer enthusiast, polytheist, father of 2, He/Him.
Leo sells it though and everyone in that movie is just on point.
And they’ll run 85 year old Joe Biden again to signal a return to civility.
If the US government can’t function in its current state without massive amounts of graft, corruption, and human rights violations then that means it should be radically changed, not the rest of us conditioned to accept criminality in our leaders as the norm.
The gulf between their stupid little sci-fi ideas and actual human biology is so wide, I'm not worried they'll succeed, just horrified at how grotesquely they're going to fail. As far as they're concerned, we're all just monkeys waiting for them to stick wires in our brains.
The epitome of masculinity is just being confident, apparently. Either that or British. One or the other.
Dracula becomes really interesting when read this way, as a fear of Eastern Others slipping into England to drain its upper class of lifeblood. Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary makes this explicit by casting a Chinese dancer as Dracula (it's a ballet, if you're interested).
Biden regards pro-Palestinian voters the same way he views all lefty voters: they don't have any alternative, so they don't need to be catered to, or even really acknowledged. We will vote, if not for him, then against Trump, which is the same thing.
We went from "The human brain is *LIKE* a computer" to "let's let apps program us!" so gradually, no one noticed.
(Okay, everyone is noticing, and also tech bros don't understand the first thing about what they're even trying to achieve, which is kind of reassuring, in its own way).
It’s not the most efficient method, but I’m fully on board with sacrificing 1-2 billionaires a year to the angry ghost of the Titanic.
A real estate billionaire in Ohio is planning an underwater voyage to the site of the Titanic shipwreck, where a submersible imploded on its approach to the sea floor a year ago, killing all five passengers on board.
Billionaire Plans Dive to the Titanic in a Newly Designed Submersible
Larry Connor, 74, who made his wealth in real estate, said he’s building a new acrylic-hulled submersible that will be certified and rigorously tested to show that deep sea exploration is safe.
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Today’s weather:
100 degrees with a hest index of 109, may 28. We've had 100 degree days every day for the last 4 days.
I’m miffed I’m one generation removed from being eligible for Irish citizenship. My grandmother refused to divulge any family details that would allow my father to claim citizenship so I can’t either.
We’ve been telling them this was the reality since they bombed that first hospital and denied doing it. They were lying then and are lying still!
Got stuck in the IKEA time warp. Went in to look at one item and grab lunch. 4 hours later, we’re still here.
I hope everyone is paying attention to the fact that we’ve had tornados pretty much weekly for the last month or so, and the other day a plane fell out of the sky because of turbulence because this? This is our new normal. And it’s only going to get worse.
And once a book is produced it is carbon neutral for the remainder of its life, which can be decades, and then recycled or composted. Ereaders require rare earth elements and a constant flow of electricity. They leave behind toxic chemicals and plastics.
It’s just disingenuous for them to pretend that the internet works in any that it clearly doesn’t and never has. It these are the same people who built an AI speech bot that assumes humans make only factual statements. Terminal engineer brain shit from top to bottom.
I think this really nails what’s wrong with AI. About half of what humans say is non-factual. Not lies (though there are those) but hyperbole, metaphore, satire, sarcasm—this is simply how we communicate. AI/LLMs are built on a false premise: that communications is fact based.
For someone who works at Google they seem awfully naive about how the Internet works. This is the place that gave the world, Boaty McBoatface, Dril, and a hundred thousand daft memes. Gaming tech to produce weird fringe results is what it does!
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Im pinning this so o can track it later. I’m guess img were goin fro have 100 days this year where its 100/feels like 100+
It’s the bare minimum but I guess it’ll have to do. Though we all know if the roles were reversed, that a GOP-led senate would’ve started hearings yesterday.
Stereolab popped up on a playlist and I’d forgotten how awesome that band is.
Was Charles Durning ever young? We watched O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) the other night and tonight we’re watching The Muppet Movie (1979) and he seems roughly the same age in both.
The steepest one I ever saw was in our little town here in rural Texas: bank—>vape shop.
The steepest one I ever saw was in our little town here in rural Texas: bank—>vape shop.
In my tenth grade English class we spent an entire semester just writing essays. Every day sat down wrote an essay on the topic written on the board. That’s how you learn to write, same way you learn to run, or lift weights or do a martial art: practice.
For the price of 1 Marvel movie you could make 10 films in different genres. That’s ten crews and ten casts getting paid instead of 1, and 10 opportunities to make a splash. Sure some will flop, but the law of averages says at least 1 will be a hit, and maybe 3-4 more will be sleepers or long tails
So much emphasis has Benito n the day. Or week of release, for games, movies, and books that it has broken our ability to think critically about any of our media. In depth reviews a few weeks or months later, with an emphasis on long play or repeat enjoyment would be awesome.
Ever since they switched to HD signals, you don’t get nearly as many dimensional crossovers on the TV anymore. Shame.
Charlie Daniel’s did play in GTMO, I saw that show as well. But yeah they went down hill fast. But USO shows are awesome in general.
To be fair, so did Johnny Cash. I was there and it was a hell of a show.
What part of, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,“ do you not understand, Jason Aldean?
Dig up Kissinger like they did that one pope and try his corpse.
Other browsers don’t have the API reach of Google and my day job requires a lot of open web research, but thanks for playing the part of tonight’s smug jackass.
It’s gonna be a lot of fun in about ten years when the sky is too turbulent to allow commercial flights.
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