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A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.

Close up of a calico cat's face in motion.

HELLOOOO???

Yet for all this efficiency, for all we've done to increase the viability of mobile, desktop, workstation and server, we're burning more power than ever before on datacenters and servers for this "AI" crap that can't reliably do math.

We're burning down the world for bad math.

What the fuck.

We don't talk about it much but the last ten years have been a miracle age for device efficiency.

Yes, I know, Intel went nuts trying to jack up wattage to compete with AMD on the desktop, but overall we have incredibly powerful devices that need relatively little juice.

Now we're blowing it.

I voted for Kamala Harris. I would have voted for Ol' Joe a second time. I would vote, from Massachusetts, for a blue dishrag for president - but I don't kid myself that doing so is a particularly meaningful political act with real positive consequences in the world, and you shouldn't either.

Joe Biden's probably been through enough or whatever but he was elected to stop this world from ever happening, as were the Democratic majorities in both houses he had during his first two years.

We need a reason to believe these people can do better next time and I don't think we have one yet.

Hell yeah

Cover of The Sesame Street Library Vol 1, with an illustration of Big Bird. He's holding a number 1 and capital A and B. The subheading: "Features the Letters A and B and the Number 1"

If you're the right age this image just dragged your childhood out of the Swamps of Sadness.

"only one party can be allowed to win elections or the republic dies" sounds remarkably similar to totalitarianism

"you see, all we have to do is walk on the edge of a knife to perfectly balance the exactly correct amount of fascism so that capitalism is served and those peaky socialists don't get uppity, and do it forever without getting our feet cut"

I've said similar before, but if step 1 of the plan to avoid the end of the world is "Democrats win every election everywhere until the end of time" then it's a bad plan.

Kinda eerie how democrats went from "someone has to do it! The mad king will kill us all!" to "well glad that's over. Taco Trump amiright?" in the span of a day

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

my mother telling me just now over telephone that she found ai videos of dogs and cats wearing clothes and doing jobs amusing

So if I understand correctly:

The Strait of Hormuz will open back up except every ship passing through will have to pay $2m to Iran, when before we took a shit in their yard there was no fee at all.

Art of the Deal.

If you see this, post a character from space:

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT!!

When he finally dies, I expect this to get posted a lot.

I’m still in awe over all the dumb fuck law firms, tv networks, and universities that caved to Trump.

More or less everyone who has stood up to Trump has won and everyone who didn’t has suffered an endless series of humiliations.

Some good news to lift your night

I'm glad he's appearing to back down. I still think he should be impeached and 25th'd.

it'd certainly be more coherent

Oh. OH my God!

I see the vibes are off again.

'iran gets everything it wants, the US hands over a bunch of money and fucks off' are very good terms for both iran and the united states, but there's no way israel will accept it

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

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