Framber was an out away from another no-hitter. Didn’t quite make it. The White Sox were one game away from infamy. They managed to win and avoid it. And the Olympics don’t seem to ever want to end. Maybe everybody involved needs to take a dip in the Seine so we can wrap this thing up. And with that I bring you…the links!
“Those sneaky Jews.” -the AP I guess they shouldn’t advocate for policies or politicians they like, according to the writer of this piece. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.
Earth-shaking news right here. Literally.
Good luck with that. Things are going exactly as this mayor planned. He ain’t leaving.
This seems reasonable to me. I’m sure the left will are against it because of racism or something. But this crazy fuck needs to be behind bars.
Really going out on a limb there, buddy. Some of us have been saying this for some time already.
The buck stops here. In a manner of speaking.
This is pretty damn cool. So I assume the government will come and shut him down soon.
Looks like San Francisco is not going to the dogs after all. It’s actually much worse than that.
These guys are always there when I need an energy boost. I absolutely love their music. Just the upbeat stuff today. Which could have been another couple dozen songs. Enjoy these two.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
That’s…. not really what I wanted to see early in the day when I opened the main page. Thanks for that there, Sloopy. ;P Good morning to ya and to the rest of ya scallywags!
I don’t think there is a time of day when I would want to see that.
Fair point.
Runs, er, limps away, hides face
Isn’t that technically an upload?
In the Army it was a “Class I download.”
Personally I’m flattered that a picture of me made it to the front page of glibs
What do you have against Sloopy posting selfies?
Just more clinging to their guns and/or their religion instead of accepting the rule of their betters and the words of their annointed mouthpieces like the AP.
I’d link the “Are we the baddies?” video, but somewhere there’s a HDD platter getting sector errors because that’s been accessed too much….
I love the proggie gnashing of teeth when they get turned out of office. See, see just how popular your politics really are?
Let’s hope this happens a lot more. Unfortunately, we’re still faced with two different flavors of shit sandwich in November.
It seems more like genuine shit sandwich vs. slightly moldy cheese sandwich.
One is definitely not as bad as the other.
Yes, yes, obsess on the presidency – let it flow through you and consume you!
Ignore the fact that Congress is where the bigger problems are.
I’m afraid I can only vote against three congresscritters and I haven’t got the spare time to go deal with the hundreds of others.
I’m not so sure I agree. The age of the imperial presidency will continue should Team Blue win the WH (because a lot of judges who don’t care about the founding documents will be installed) while if Trump wins, I think he’ll pare it back or at least put people in the judiciary who will.
Also, if Harris wins and gets control of the House and Senate, you can kiss that conservative majority on the court goodbye. And then the game is over.
JI, I agree with you that Congress is a large part of the problem. And if we’re allocating blame, both the legislative and executive branches of government should come under fire for ceding authority to a parcel of unelected bureaucrats.
Congress might be were the bigger problems are, FCVOP, but the Presidency is of a more immediate problem, and is a more adjustable position. IE it is an binary, as opposed to a gradient.
Oh, and thinking about your… position on the Enlightenment, I fail to see how that is the cause of bureaucratic sclerosis and takeover of gov’t when the same thing has happened in other cultures that are not Enlightenment informed, such as the various Chinese and Ottoman civil services. Indeed, I think you can go back and see that all such instances, be it Roman, Incan, etc. have the same root issues. Namely that as a society advances, bureaucracy advances and, like a parasite taking over the host, that is what kills the society. It has nothing to do with the reason advanced in the wake of European religious wars.
I would say structurally, Congress’s abdication of power to the Presidency (well, the executive branch/administrative agencies) is a bigger problem than who the President is. But that just means who is in Congress and what Congress does matters less.
Of course, the punchline is that the President can’t control the agencies. Neither can Congress, except by shutting them down, but it at least has the power to do that. The US government is basically locked up in a doom loop and is unreformable.
Zwak, you may have misunderstood. I agree that bureaucracy is pretty much universal and the dysfunction is hardly limited to where the Enlightenment has touched. The more interesting case with bureaucracy is where it didn’t metastasize and destroy the ‘host’. There are only a few cases of that, against the vast majority.
I think the error in most thinking about the Enlightenment is that it had but one conclusion – liberal Western democracy, or in our more specific case, our Constitutional system. The biggest problem is with equality – that’s an abstract notion at odds with what nature is (and does). And the notion of equality has evolved, partly due to what Warby calls the liberation sequence.
The US government is basically locked up in a doom loop and is unreformable.
^^^THIS
This is the real crime of Republican complicity in the system. And four more years of OMB ain’t going to change that.
Part of the problem with your analysis re The Enlightenment is your reliance on third parties to help explain your position. Don’t assume that Warby is a good point of reference as a general handwave, as many of us either haven’t read him, or don’t think he isn’t worth reading.
Now, that out of the way, you need to unpack how equality is the issue, as this is only a starting point and not an end point, which would be equity. How the move took place from one to the other, and how, specifically, the Enlightenment drove that move, is where you seem to, at least in my eyes, skip a step. Also, you do not make an argument on what, if anything, would be better. Thus we are left with only “this cannot work…” With nothing to follow.
OK, the liberation sequence is the progression of citizenship/voting-rights in the Anglo-American tradition. Expansion from those who actually had a stake in governance, i.e. property-owning males, to everyone and their fucking dog. That is equality in action and it precedes any of the equity bullshit of the last 20 years. My article on Nisbet, and of course my references to Lasch, all point to shit being identified in the 70s-80s that has come to full fruition now. And of course Nietzsche was the earliest to make the case.
Remember, the expansion of voting is under EVERYONE’s understanding as an unalloyed GOOD. This is wrong no matter how popular it is. But it absolutely fits under that big value of equality. There is no way to back out of equality just a little bit. The whole thing has to be shit-canned. You know it isn’t right that your informed vote is of the exact same value as the vote of the idiot, worse when you know that there are more idiots than there are informed. Making that distinction is a violation of equality – morally and legally.
Err excuse me. (From the far corner of the room.) Some of us hold to that it is entirely too easy to vote in the US and attempts to further ease it with mail in ballots for all, weeks long election days, etc. should all be abolished.
Amendment XVII should be repealed and the Senate return to representing the states.
My apologies dbleagle, my “everyone” meant outside of the scope of this little collection of misfits – the great unwashed masses and the elites they so glorify.
We aren’t going to win any popularity contests saying that too many [eligible] people vote, even if that is entirely true and unquestioned here.
I understand your position, but the problem is you aren’t showing me anything, only telling me. WHY isn’t good that everyone can vote, WHY should your (presumed informed) vote matter, WHY should someone who YOU presume is an idiot count less, and so on.
You’re whole position here is an assertion. I could assert that the so-called idiot is simply someone with a different perspective than you, and that we need that difference in order to get a true look at the world and how we should govern it. And so on.
The whole point is that we need to include these voices in order to have a society that is worth something more than a simply hierarchical, class based system of freedom if the word is to mean anything. Otherwise your argument falls down as being only one class of special pleading. You could just as easily say that voting should only be done by women, as only they are able to have children, or only children should vote, as only they will live into the future. Both of those examples are just special pleading, and no different than the argument that only property owners should vote; only they have a stake in the [whatever you chose is important]. It isn’t that people dislike that argument, it is that it fails upon simple reasoning. Either you are universal in your freedoms, or they aren’t freedoms.
You are essentially making the argument for the South, for slavery.
Good morning, fellow Gliblings.
This is pretty damn cool. So I assume the government will come and shut him down soon.
I remember that movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088224/
I should have looked at responses instead of replying as I went down the links…
True — but this rather sums up my feelings on earthquakes ’round these parts:
Animal had an interesting article on how it is a great big universe and we’re all really puny that raised an interesting factoid for me — I knew about the Ozark faults and some of the lesser known Appalachian ones, but had never considered the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault and its implications… Yay!
Paywalled.
Tbh, if it was a pro-Palestinian group that dumped the same amount of money into an election that put a Tlaib or Omar type into office, I’d assume the worst about them, so I can see where it’s basically fair play to get huffy about a pro-Israel group dumping money to elect pro-Israel politicians in a country that isn’t Israel. As ever, it’s the double standard.
I was thinking about the media gushing over Harris’ fundraising.
If that were all it is, then yes. But there is a LOT more antisemitism in the US than anti-Palestinianismisting, and while not perfectly equal there is a fuckton of overlap between antizionists and antisemities.
In other words, if there’s been the Pali equivalent of Freddy’s Fashion Mart, I’m not aware of it. Is that unfair to the people who truly have nothing against (((them))) but just want to see Israel destroyed? Don’t care.
That’s the crux of it, really. I’m just recognizing my own bias, in that I’m not concerned about a pro-Israel group funneling money to their preferred candidate, but would cast aspersions on a pro-Palestinian (I was going to say “pro-Hamas,” but opted for something more neutral in light of the argument I’m making) group doing the same thing. So I can’t’ really claim to be any better than the AP in applying a double standard. But then again I also don’t pretend to be a neutral arbiter of the news.
I’ll admit my bias in that direction — but also point out that part of my bias stems from one group outside of our country being allies (of some sort… folks pointed out apparently we don’t have formal treaties with Israel the other day) and the other regularly calling for our deaths… so call me nutty that I prefer one to be bolstered by our country over the other.
And seems less likely to have rampaging (((mobs))) beating people in the streets, demanding submission, etc.
I’m just weird that way.
But then again I also don’t pretend to be a neutral arbiter of the news.
Neither does the mainstream media.
“while not perfectly equal there is a fuckton of overlap between antizionists and antisemities”
I think the Venn overlap is sufficiently large that, for day-to-day purposes, you are safe to regard anyone advertising themselves as “antizionist” as a Jew hater. I don’t recall running into any soi-disant antizionist who wasn’t applying a ridiculous double standard to Israel, for example. Or who has a plan for abolishing the state of Israel that doesn’t end in ethnic cleansing/genocide.
But there is a LOT more antisemitism in the US than anti-Palestinianismisting
OMG. What an antisemitic shithole America is. In addition to being super-racist as every prog believes.
Yes, you sound exactly like them.
Tell me, what’s the antiPali equivalent of Freddy’s Fasion Mart?
What notorious anti-Palistinian has their own shows on CNN or MSNBC?
Surely you can answer this, or do something but spew insults, right?
Otherwise, feel free to go fuck yourself. Your “I’m the only principled non-hypocrite here” shtick was old when it started.
I guess it makes me an anti-Zionist since I don’t worship the partial ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that Israel carried out in 1948 and later on. Israel’s big mistake was not completing the ethnic cleansing. Presumably, because it wasn’t strong enough at the time. A few years earlier Poland and the Soviet Union administered a full ethnic cleansing of Germans in East Prussia and nobody heard of East Prussia since then.
Yes you’re a total victim that doesn’t go around picking fights then whines when you get called on it. And you especially never change the subject.
It is nice and healthy to see the massively oversized influence of the Israel lobby being noted in the mainstream media.
Want to reduce antisemitism? Stop interfering in our politics and stop importing Muslims. (Often the same people doing both for reasons I can’t comprehend)
2024 AIPAC-Endorsed Primary Winners
So far this cycle, an AIPAC-endorsed candidate has won in every district (265 races) where an endorsee was on the ballot.
All 104 AIPAC-backed Democrats who have had their primary races in 2024 have won. These Democrats are strong pro-Israel voices who are also leaders in the Black, Hispanic, Asian American Pacific Islander, and Progressive Caucuses. This includes 86 Congressional Equality Caucus members, 40 Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus members, 20 Congressional Hispanic Caucus members, 30 Progressive Caucus members and 23 Congressional Black Caucus members.
161 AIPAC-backed Republicans have won their elections.
Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics.
Hmm, could it be that most voters are pro-Israel? Or does money just buy election results with no regard for the agency of voters?
AIPAC doesn’t attack Ds in the primary for being insufficiently pro-Israel. It attacks them for not being progressive enough without any mention of Israel. Dump millions of dollars of this propaganda into a district and the incumbent is primaried.
Really? Cori Bush not progressive enough? I could believe too progressive (and insufficiently pro-Israel). And I am to assume that in Republican districts it would be not conservative enough?
Honestly, if the voters fall for that, we are getting the govt we deserve. And we probably are.
Good for the politicians in the short-term. After a while being represented by a guy who cares far more about Israel than his own district gets pretty annoying.
I had in mind Jamaal Bowman. Glenn Greenwald showed the ads that were used against him and they were not about Israel at all.
Yup… going to be prison cuts? Has he seen the last few state budgets (including this one where Hair Gel responds to increased crime by taking another billion out so he can try to prop up his pet projects?)
It doesn’t work too well to have a tax system designed to give goodies to enough people to re-elect you and soak the higher end of the income scale when the higher end can easily leave — and you then make life hellish so they really want to.
Some rotten sheriff will doubtless try to frame his son.
Great minds, bruh.
I’m sure there’s some group happy about it because it is restoring Mother Gaia’s natural balance or some crap. As if humans aren’t part of nature and as if everything is Eden if we weren’t around. Delusional and self-hating… yet somehow have their hands on the tillers of civilization. Yay.
I always get a kick out of those arguments.
“This place would be Eden if it weren’t for humans.”
Hey dummy, Eden was created for man.
And their problem with that was that God was a meanie landlord.
If it wasn’t for humans, Eurasian owls and tigers would live in harmony and spend all day singing catch tunes.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Astroturf!
Awesome.
I was never really a dog person, more of cat guy. But I read a few things about how humans and dogs evolved alongside each other for tens of thousands of years for companionship and work, and as a result humans and dogs are super attuned to each other. That’s really awesome.
Preach it, brother. For some reason, Crystal doesn’t work for me — but Round & Round is always welcome. I’ll spare folks my top 10 I could easily generate… great band.
If I created a top ten, I’d probably change it a dozen times by the end of the day. Such a great catalog.
Their post-2000 output tends to lose me but for one or two exceptions.
So I hate to be gauche and go OT this early, but I’ve got to make a decision this morning on an employment offer, and I’m soliciting advice from all corners because I suck at coming to decisions.
At my current job I field chats and tickets for hundreds of nationwide and international automotive dealerships and turn them into leads. I got approached by a recruiter to do the exact same job with the exact same shift, but exclusively for GM dealerships; I’d be a W2 employee of the recruiting company, and they have an indefinite contract with GM. Any advancement would entail a direct hire situation with GM. The pay that was initially discussed would have been about 20% higher than my current job. I interviewed on Monday, and apparently the interview went a lot better than I thought it had as I I got an offer within 24 hours, and I have to accept or decline within the next 2-3 hours. However, as it turns out, the pay for this hiring round was lower than I was told previously. After factoring in the bonus structure at my current job, as well as the company 401(k) matching, the increase would only end up amounting to about 7%. Since this isn’t a job I particularly love or care about, that would ordinarily still be enough to move me, except that a few weeks ago I got moved to a high priority account group and overnight shift, so I am exempt from several of our more rigorous performance metrics, got a bump in pay due to the shift differential, and spend about half my shift literally staring at a blank screen getting paid to listen to music and read. It’s a pretty sweet setup, my immediate supervisor and department manager love me and are hinting they’d like to get me into a more advanced role down the road, and I’m presently scheduled for another lateral promotion to move into another role in our virtual retailing department, which is quite literally the only thing this company does that isn’t as boring as watching paint dry, in 5 days. That department is even lower volume than the one I’m on currently, and the work actually kind of interests me. If I jumped ship, I’d be starting from scratch, and the performance metrics at GM are a little bit tougher. The lateral promotion at my current job wouldn’t entail an immediate pay increase, but would look good on my next review in ~5 months; it’s likely I’ll end up at about the same pay level as the GM gig at that time. For the pain in the ass of retraining and changing jobs, I’m not sure that 7% is worth it. However, there’s opportunities for advancement and a permanent role with GM at the other job as well.
What say the Glibs, should I stay or should I go?
Given I’m not sure how solid GM is going to be for the next few years (forced EV mandates, etc.) and given the way you’ve described it (commensurate pay within half a year, more interesting work, possible promotion paths), I’d vote “Stay”. But I’m one of those “doesn’t look for another job unless seriously forced to” types, so take it with a grain or ton of salt.
I’ll second the having doubts about GM as an eventual employer.
Those are some awfully tight deadlines for making a decision.
Step into an unknown work environment for a 7% bump? That would be a tough sell for me.
I’d ask them to give you another day to ponder it and id go tell my boss I’ve been offered more money elsewhere for something very similar and see if he’s willing to bump my pay up that same 7%.
The unknown work environment is the part that’s hard to get around for me. Is the 7% increase worth going to somewhere that might not be as pleasant to work at?
What Sloopy said.
I’d defer on going to a boss that is really happy with you and asking for more money. As a manager, that would take some shine off of you.
On top of that, the department head for the virtual retailing role I’m moving into told me a couple months ago when they first approached me about the opening “This isn’t going to get you rich, there’s no pay increase with the title, but they love to see people that are interested in developing interdepartmental skills.” Not too long before I was hired, our company was acquired by Reynolds & Reynolds, which does the backend software for damn near every auto dealer in the country, and the pay schedules are set at by the parent anyway. They can put in a good word, but some faceless corporate shithead is the one who ultimately decides.
The boss likes me because I don’t ask for more money is not a good long term strategy.
CPA – this isn’t a long term issue. But personally, I was willing to change jobs to make more. If I wanted stability, it came at a cost.
If you stay you know what you have, changing may be better or it may be worse. I’m not too adventurous, I’d stay but I have a family. Also I never followed my own advice.
Given the nice situation at your current job, the minor pay differential which will likely be made up at your current within the next year, and the tougher metrics at GM, I would likely stay. As you described it there wouldn’t be enough incentive for me to make a move at this time.
Yes. The 2-3 hour decision window is ridiculous. That’s a flag, but my assumption is that is recruiter driven.
One thing I tell people looking to move early in there career here at my Fortune 100 company is do not discount the credibility that you have worked hard to create. You will have to start all over at your new organization creating that credibility. Make sure the opportunity is worth that price.
Never move just for the cash, although I understand that not everyone has that luxury.
The 2-3 hour decision window is ridiculous. That’s a flag, but my assumption is that is recruiter driven.
Yup, recruiters want their commission, so they will push you to jump by creating an artificial sense of urgency.
That was my impression; they’re the ones responsible for the actual employment contract. I interviewed Monday at 10 AM, got a call from the recruiter Tuesday at 7:30 AM with the offer, called back around 11 AM, asked to be sent the full compensation details to mull it over, and was told they’d like an answer within around 24 hours. I agreed, and I’m a man of my word, so I’ll make the decision by then.
I was already leaning strongly toward staying put, and every other person I’ve conferred with on the matter has agreed with the consensus here, so I believe I’ve talked myself into following my gut.
This has been my biggest anchor keeping my at my current company. My department loves me and, more importantly, trusts me. It would feel like starting back at square one if I were to lateral or even go one step up the seniority ladder at a different company.
That said, im well due for a promotion and we have been under a promotion freeze on and off since before covid. New boss isn’t a very good people manager, so I’m having to repeatedly remind him that I’m due and he needs to find a way. Especially since I just got an upgrade in workload.
My anchor has been the impression of stability.
It’s difficult to get rid of me, so as long as I’m not causing problems I can count on an income until the inevitable collapse of the PDRNY.
I’d stay put.
Sounds like a good gig, and the GM thing is an unknown.
I interviewed with GM years ago as a fresh grad and they warned me not to drive a non-GM rental car to the interview because the union would destroy it.
There is a very unhealthy Union vs everyone else dynamic at GM.
There is a very unhealthy Union vs everyone else dynamic at GM.
US Steel was the same way when I interviewed with them. I thought I was gonna get molten steel dropped on my head.
Between the frosty reception, the shithole location, and the lame jobs responsibilities, I hastily thanked them for the plant tour and ran like hell.
I can only echo the pretty consistent advice you’ve got so far. Current gig is known, 7% to jump to unknown staff, environment, metrics, etc., when you’re satisfied where you are doesn’t seem wise. Plus, as pointed out GM faces a lot of uncertainties and mostly political pressure over the next months and years. You’re too big to fail until suddenly you’re not.
Good luck, whichever way you decide!
if you have to answer within 2 hours, i would say no.
The unstated third option. Tell them you’d do it for the 20% you were first offered. See if they’ll sweeten the pot.
Unless you feel like you’re rotting while you sit at your desk, free time can be a great blessing. Much more of a blessing than a year of COL raise in advance. In your shoes I’d have a hard time leaving the current job.
I used to be a GM fanboy. I don’t think I’d hitch my wagon to them alone anymore, at least not for 7%. Also, GM is notoriously monolithic as an employer.
Stay. Bird in the hand and all of that, but the new company BSed you about what the pay is like. If they start off doing that, they are going to keep doing that. Also, there are always new jobs available, it sounds like, at the job you have.
Yep. My guess is the next bs is the perm hire by GM.
“apparently the interview went a lot better than I thought it had as I I got an offer within 24 hours, and I have to accept or decline within the next 2-3 hours”
Well, that accept or decline deadline is a massive red flag for me.
“the pay for this hiring round was lower than I was told previously”
And, there’s another one.
I would stay.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in on my employment conundrum. I just left the recruiter a voicemail declining.
I lacked the courage to actually recommend that, though it is where my brain went to.
I do wonder if they will have the APC ready for the riots.
You could be prosecuted if you said this in the UK. The trial and sentencing could happen this week.
https://x.com/peterstefanovi2/status/1820913276764483642?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
That’s the kind of justice system you’d expect in a commie shithole, in my opinion.
Supposedly (and I’m not seeing video / direct quotes, so stress on the supposedly), there are some idiots in the UK who want to extradite you anyway.
That’s not at all tyrannical….
want to extradite you anyway
[Julian Assange has entered the chat]
“two-tier Keir”
*snort*
Its going to be a failed state soon.
Some cool – too local – news that has nothing to do with politics.
You say that — but this is just a metaphor for the rise of India pushing out Russia and other old Eurasian powers maaaan!
You’d think you might do the bird training perhaps in an enclosure or building of some sort, or at least a significant distance from the large apex predators…
We’d seen how the Asian parts want to take over everything.
“First they came for me and I didn’t say anything…”
The Asian parts can’t conquer shit because they keep crashing when trying to drive.
Is this code for Chinese hegemony?
I’m sorry but that just sounds awesome.
I can never keep New Order, New World Order and World Order straight.
Why am I picturing New World Order as George HW Bush’s New Order cover band?
He thought about going public with it — but it wouldn’t have been prudent at this juncture.
Not gonna do it.
Are you talking about NWO Hollywood or NWO Wolfpac?
Sorry MA Glibs.
Massachusetts Puts Student Failure on the Ballot
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/massachusetts-teachers-association-graduation-requirement-test-mcas-ballot-measure-a5242b37?st=wvp61hazlnj05ht&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Minnesoda started requiring kids to pass a test before they could get their high school diploma about 20+ years ago.
My kids were just starting elementary school and it was a huge topic. The teachers were all wailing about how unfair “high stakes” testing was and how kids were going to die in the streets.
Then during parent/teacher conferences the teachers would show you how close your kids were to passing that outrageous test. All my kids were proficient enough in math by the third grade to pass the HS test. By 4th they were hitting the target in English.
Yeah, that is some hard test there buddy. Fucking teachers.
It is the same “we have to teach to a test now” BS. Of course you have to teach to a test, that is how the world works, you idiot, that is the whole point of having public schools. Otherwise you would have classes on following butterflies and writing furry erotica.
No, they are punishing him for severely beating and hospitalizing a woman, you lying bint.
And not the first time that he has been in trouble for violence.
At some point in the future he’ll probably get shot assaulting a cop and then we’ll have the Brendan Depa riots and beatification.
+1 Gentle Giant
Not following rules is his disability.
I don’t know, those eyes suggest there are some other problems at work in that dome.
Oh fuck off. I’ve seen your beaches. Puppers are the last problem.
Just the upbeat stuff today.
That’s a great one. Hook is a douchebag but man he can play.
Is he a douchebag? I’ve read his side of the story, I feel like I should read Bernie’s book to get the other side.
I didn’t enjoy his book at all. Unfortunately.
But really it was a similar situation when I read Trouble Boys. It’s probably best to just enjoy the music and not get to know them.
I’m just the opposite. I really enjoy the back stories about things I lived through, be it sports or music or whatever. It’s why I liked the Steve Jobs book so much. I remember all the things happening and the product releases, and it’s fascinating to see what was going on behind the scenes. Same with Jeremy Roenick’s two books and Chris Chelios’ book. I was a huge Hawks fan at that time and all their stories were great.
I liked Peter Hook’s book. Sure he was drunk and high most of the time so a lot isn’t true, but dropping all the names and him crossing paths with other bands and celebrities of that time was really fun to read about.
Nice rant.
Joe Biden, Agent of Chaos
If the election is so important, why has it become a 90-day crapshoot?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/joe-biden-agent-of-chaos-why-if-the-election-is-so-important-last-minute-drop-out-1f22107b?st=snyfwhloaw17tbm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I love the New Order songs. That’s my favorite band of all time. I haven’t seen that second video, it’s got a better ending of the song (I still prefer the album version). The first part of the video is repurposed footage from Perfect Kiss.
I think this is my favorite NO song.
But Brotherhood is my fave album.
Brotherhood is my favorite too. It’s one of those albums that gives me a serious flashback to my high school days and it’s great.
#metoo
I couldn’t possibly pick a favorite track but several of them are on that album.
Here is another which isn’t.
Here is another which isn’t.
Yes! Amazing song.
Many thanks to those who commented on my anniversary yesterday.
FWIW, the wife and I spent five days by the ocean, then packed up and went to a lakeside resort for four nights. Highly recommend both places (and the timing was just right to avoid the hurricane that went churning by.
Heading home today for a long weekend of cleaning up storm debris.
Missed it, but happy belated anniversary! When I initially hovered over your first link I thought it said sealand.com, and was going to say a) that’s about the most libertarian anniversary spot I can think of, and b) your wife must be very tolerant. As it turns out, the site for Sealand is actually sealandgov.org
Both look like lovely spots. Glad you had fun and good luck with the cleanup!
Also happy belated anniversary. Wish you many more good years.
RD
GARMS was the topic of some discussion yesterday. Here’s a bit more.
I’m prepping for a meeting where I want to narrow down why a project has stalled. I’d been reviewing it in my head during that time prior to actually falling asleep last night, and I am convinced I had come up with four general items to get into.
Yet as I write down stuff to get it in order I can only recall three. I hate it when I have a mental checksum error like that. Did I misremember my half-asleep brainstorming? Did I forget an entire category?
😟
That happens to me fairly routinely as well. The insomniac’s curse. I wish my brain had logs I could go check the next day.
In redux news:
Jane’s Addiction has got teh original lineup back together, at least for a single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLI3vuD5bOc Perry Farrel has lost something, Eric Avery has not.
There is a second season of Kleo.
Kleo? The gun-selling robot? Or the psychic hotline woman?
The cute but disturbing Stasi agent.
Tackling Complex Election Laws: The Battle to Clean Up Nevada’s Voter Rolls
Last Sunday marked the one year anniversary of my move from Nevada to Texas. I wonder who I’ll have voted for in Nevada this November.
“Lawyers and legislators have made them that way on purpose.”
Exactly. We have complicated laws, our elections can’t be audited, and there is a huge incentive to cheat (Trump is Hitler and will end democracy). It’s certain there was cheating last election on some level, and this time it’s guaranteed that anyone with the opportunity to cheat, will.
Same, wondering what my vote will be…and I too am coming up on my one-year anniversary of leaving the state.
Congrats! I remember our moves coming around the same time. Will the last Glib leaving Nevada – turn out the lights
Mrs. Suthenboy has come around big-time to what I have been saying for years. On nearly every issue, even ones she knows little about, she could fix things in five minutes. It is very clear that the pols create most of our problems and actively try to make things worse.
Voting: Show up in person on voting day. That’s right…one day to vote. Show ID. Vote on a paper ballot. Ballots counted by hand with watchers from candidates watching. Absentee voting on voting day for military personnel in places where they are not registered.
The only cleaning up of rolls would amount to removing those who have died and make sure no one is registered in more than one district.
All good, but I also like the idea that voting day should be a federal holiday.
Is the mandatory drinking before or after voting?
During.
I mean the whole method of chosing between candidates in colonial times was to assess which offered the most and better free booze. (I am not making that up)
We should honor our national traditions!
The Australian ballot is unAmerican.
Bleah.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 08/07:
*22/22 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 08/07:
*40/40 words (+4 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 15% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 500
Ahh, so this is where I got turned on to Squardle; I had forgotten how it began. Squaredle, Squaredle express and Quordle are how I burn off my first half hour or so at work most days.
Jesus wept, what an idiot.
The corporate media will happily pretend that never happened.
“Freeman has pleaded not guilty to a federal bankruptcy charge and is considered by some trustees to be a potential whistleblower.”
That there is some mighty fine legal reporting, WGN.
I accuse you of being Federally Bankrupt! How do you plead?
I sent WGN a “Suggested Correction” – then I go look at the “Found a Tank” story… its an APC. They even mention that in the story, but still call it a “tank”.
By God’s teeth, these people in the media are dim.
these people in the media are dim
So dropouts from the education programs in college?
Innovative medical care
Abortion was slightly more common across the U.S. in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a report released Wednesday found.
A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states enacted laws to protect doctors who use telemedicine to see patients in places that have abortion bans, according to the quarterly #WeCount report for the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion access.
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Fallout from the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has remade the way abortion works across the country. The #WeCount data, which has been collected in a monthly survey since April 2022, shows how those providing and seeking abortion have adapted to changing laws.
I thought millions of women were dying from untreated “problem pregnancies” every day
You’re thinking of Long Covid.
Speaking of:
https://thesicktimes.org/2024/08/06/sen-bernie-sanders-introduces-10-billion-long-covid-moonshot-legislation-to-support-research-healthcare-education/
Holy crap that is a goldmine of derp.
“I thought millions of women were dying from untreated “problem pregnancies” every day”
They are. With 7 out of 5 women raped 3X per day what do you expect?
Long cooties. I dont remember, who cooked that one up?
enacted laws to protect
doctorsdealers who use telemedicinesales to seepatientsbuyers in places that haveabortiongun bansAccountable to no one
Elon Musk is “the one person who is accountable to no one” and his impact on public discourse should not be underestimated, the U.K.’s technology minister said in an interview with the Times newspaper, adding to recent criticisms of the technology billionaire from senior government officials.
Peter Kyle, secretary of science, innovation and technology, said in the interview, which was published Wednesday, that Musk has the power to influence major world affairs — even the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Kyle added that the relationship Britain has with companies such as X and other major social media firms, “is much more akin to the negotiations with fellow secretaries of state in other countries, simply because of the scale and scope that they have.”
Elon Musk, international supervillain. How dare he look his rulers in the eye?
Is he saying that is a bad thing? I dont quite follow.
secretary of science, innovation and technology
How did they manage to leave out prosperity? That should certainly have come before innovation. Pretentious twat.
Sounds like a bureaucrat who’s not accountable to anyone.
“No, Mister Kyle, I expect you to die!”
https://x.com/NerkNews/status/1821191204047872196?t=rCH7KSQVRsqTby4k_6X2Zw&s=19
Anyone got a link to Froot Sushi’s old article I could share? Not sure how to find it now.
So Hogg is campaigning for Trump?
Could someone fluent in that subgroup translate WTF Davey is trying to say/imply?
The more relevant hypothetical is if you are stuck downtown when the city is being set alight, who would you rather have coordinating the response?
I want Kamala because I value DEI.
Uhh, JD Vance, by a lot? Not that I’ve needed help changing a tire since I was 15?
Disclaimer: I live in Indiana. But every man I know can change a tire, and probably 50% of women can too.
I know how – but I sort of… kinda… don’t know where the jack and tire iron went.
(oh, and this stupid car doesn’t even have a spare)
Mine has a spare, but Ford designed a shitty mechanism to lower it from the underside of the truck bed. The mechanism is so rusted that the spare wont move.
Naturally…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/venezuela-disputed-election-result-nicolas-maduro-jews-zionism-antisemitism-13801757.html
And the thing is, who wouldn’t pick Vance over Walz to help them change a tire?
You have to be willing to destroy Paradise in order to save it
After the deadliest fire in modern American history, Maui’s government is taking similar steps. Fire officials are drafting new rules for large landowners on clearing vegetation around buildings. A new law will impose tougher financial penalties on those who don’t comply. The fire department is also adding new staff.
Still, fire experts say Maui has a long way to go to reduce its wildfire risk, especially in adopting policies that other fire-prone states like California have. Of 50 recommendations made in a post-fire report from a Hawaii legislative working group, only a handful have been implemented so far.
“We need major investments and top-down support and it needs to be prioritized,” says Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, a non-profit that works on fire policy. “Because we’ve heard for years that we just don’t have the money for that, but this is about shifting around priorities to save lives and to protect our people and places.”
Dispossess the land owners and pave it all, with Soviet style concrete residential centers for the workers.
I know you are joshing, but talk about suicidal ideations, if Maui were to expel the wealthy there would be next to nothing there. Wealthy tourists and the Zuckerbergs et al are the entire thing there, Oahu has a bit of industry and the MIC, but the outer islands would completely fail should they go full October Revolution.
“Police brace for 100 more riots: Britain boards up and City workers are sent to WFH for the week amid fears tonight will ‘be the busiest yet’ for chaos – as chief prosecutor warns tough sentences handed to thugs are just the ‘tip of the iceberg'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13718769/UK-riots-WFH-chaos-thugs-sentences.html
A bit surprised this hasn’t received more coverage.
The follow up article should be “cheif prosecutor found swinging from lamppost wearing ‘traitor’ sign”
Well, mobs don’t tend to be well behaved, and this appears to be falling into that. Funny how that suits those in power so well.
Love the white-knighting article about Castreau in the sidebar.
I hope the riots continue until the government collapses. With any luck, the next government will pardon/commute the protestors persecuted by the current government.
If the only way out is through, fire up a Caterpillar D-9.
The Powers That Be can take advantage of violent opposition, until they can’t. I hope this “spirals out of control”, for the long-term heath of Britain.
Yuck. As if Fort Irwin isn’t miserable enough already.
If I were on the side of the road with a flat tire and JD Vance stopped, I probably wouldn’t feel compelled to beat him with a tire iron. I can’t say the same for Walz.
Walz would never stop. If you’re lucky he’d swerve to avoid damaging his bumper by hitting you.
If you’re lucky, Walz isn’t too drunk on this trip…
Defend your scrotum:
“Okla. cops cuffed, slammed dad to ground for taking morning walk with autistic son, 6, disturbing bodycam video shows”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/okla-cops-cuffed-slammed-dad-john-saxton-to-ground-on-walk-with-son/
Sounds like both daddy and junior got a valuable lesson.
Walking while white?
Well that cop made it home safely after his shift; does anything really matter more than that?
Could you have a more perfect/explicit example of FYTW?
Note the Sherriff’s reactions differing from the town cop:
It’sahardjobyouarealwaysdealingwiththeworstinsocietyyouneverknowifyouwillmakeithomealiveafewbadapplesafewbadapplesafewbadapplesafewbadapplesafewbadapplesafewbadapples
And of course that Hawaii story put this in my head
Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by 404 Media show.
When asked about legal and ethical aspects of using copyrighted content to train an AI model, Nvidia defended its practice as being “in full compliance with the letter and the spirit of copyright law.”
https://archive.fo/YkL6o#selection-827.0-831.201
https://www.404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-model-cosmos-project/
I am not an IP lawyer. I have some understanding of patents as an engineer, but only limited experience with copyrights due to the need to reference other people’s IP in engineering documents.
Still, I don’t see how “training” an AI with copyrighted content that is visible to any person on the internet is a copyright violation. It can only become a violation if it produces a new creative work that infringes on an existing creative work.
Please feel free to explain why I am wrong because I am an idiot. Thanks in advance.
The copyright claim is arguably defensible. The violation of the terms of use is pretty clear cut.
Everybody usually uses the copyright stuff as misdirection.
The code for the learning model, as well as the data it produces, are independent, copyrightable creative works that are arguably derivative of the copyrighted input data used to train the model.
That’s an interesting thought – how can copyright attach to a product of AI, since it isn’t an author?
Fuck you, that’s how.
Firstly, there have been plenty of examples of AI spitting out large blocks of copyrighted text verbatim. That is clearly an infringement.
Violation of terms of use sounds like a legitimate issue that the copyright holders can seek redress for.
Copyright does not cover ideas. You can read someone else’s work, understand their ideas, and express those ideas in your own words without violating copyright. Plagiarism, on the other hand, covers using other peoples ideas without credit.
In my very, very limited understanding of how AI works: you read lots and lots of ideas from other people, develop rule sets for how to pick and choose between a myriad of ideas and then how to apply a combination of relevant ideas to a new question, then answer a new question.
This should be neither a copyright violation nor plagiarism unless you end up grabbing one idea from one published work and make that your own answer.
IANAL, but have spent a little time delving into copyright for various reasons. The primary issue, I would assume, is the derivative works problem. Going back to your example, you could read a book and then write a summary or review, even extensively quoting the original work, and not be in violation of the copyright. You could even write a parody of the book and probably not be in violation of the copyright. But if you write a new book using the characters from the book, you most likely would be in violation of the copyright, because your story, while distinct from the original, uses the names and characterizations of the original copyrighted material.
So in an “AI” context, that means if your model responds to the query “What is Infinite Jest about?” by summarizing Infinite Jest based on the text of the book that you fed into it, it probably didn’t output anything that would violate the copyright, but if that model also responds to the query “Write a book with Mario Incandenza as the protagonist” and the model spits out a novel based with the character of Mario Incandenza as the protagonist based on the text of Infinite Jest, it most likely created a derivative work.
So in an “AI” context, that means if your model responds to the query “What is Infinite Jest about?” by summarizing Infinite Jest based on the text of the book that you fed into it, it probably didn’t output anything that would violate the copyright, but if that model also responds to the query “Write a book with Mario Incandenza as the protagonist” and the model spits out a novel based with the character of Mario Incandenza as the protagonist based on the text of Infinite Jest, it most likely created a derivative work.
I agree.
Thus, training on copyrighted content is not a copyright violation. Generating derivative works that infringe on existing copyrighted works is.
Not all derivative works infringe. As you noted, parody is fair use.
“how can copyright attach to a product of AI, since it isn’t an author?”
The courts are currently chewing on that. If you use an AI to produce something, they have ruled you don’t own the copyright in what the AI produces, just in your enhancements/edits (at some point, of course, those are extensive enough that you own the entire finished work).
Presumably, whoever owns the AI owns the copyright in its work product. That is pretty much a “work for hire”. I don’t know if the courts have actually said that clearly – this isn’t my area, either.
Copyright can be violated in ways other than producing a new creative work that infringes on an existing copyright. Just flat copying it verbatim, without permission and beyond “fair use”, is the core example of a copyright violation. I assume that the AIs create copies of these other works for their own training databases – that alone might be a copyright violation.
True enough, although I can imagine a potentially persuasive argument that gathering the copyrighted material for the purpose of using it to train a model that will inevitably create infringing works could be construed as a violation.
As you say, the violations of TOS is a stronger case. Depending on how loosely the .gov wants to construe the law, they could possibly even work that into a “unlawfully obtaining information from a protected information system” charge like they did in the Aaron Swartz case.
Just flat copying it verbatim, without permission and beyond “fair use”, is the core example of a copyright violation.
Yup. That gets to the next question — damages.
I photocopy a book so that I can take it with me hiking and the book won’t get damaged if I get caught in the rain. Copyright violation — yes. Damages — the value of the 2nd book I didn’t copy.
This is where the courts went bonkers on music copyrights. Just having a digital copy of a CD on your hard drive was presumed to be intent to copy and distribute vast quantities of the copy without permission.
I still wonder how you make this sort of thing that is enforceable and not create a legal paradigm where say, John Williams can be sued by the estate of Tchaikovsky for using themes and devices inspired by the latter.
AI training exposes a system to as many inputs as possible to create novel but thematically similar output, just like an artist in any media does.
Tchaikovsky died in 1893, his work would have fallen into the public domain before Williams began his career.
It was intended as a thought experiment. Swap out Hans Zimmer with John Williams and move Williams over to the aggrieved party, if you must.
I was waiting for that UnCiv.
Tchaikovsky just didn’t have the clout of Disney.
Model for the Uniparty:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkmdd4vevxo
There has been a lot of talk about AI writing articles.
Take a look at thus one:
Alex Morgan Posts Simple Reaction to USWNT Win Over Germany https://athlonsports.com/olympics/alex-morgan-posts-simple-reaction-to-uswnt-win-over-germany
This is the sort of story that fills google and MSN news feeds. It is a click bait headline and an article written about a tweet.
The entire text of the tweet is:
LFG!!!
That’s it.
Either someone is getting paid to stretch a 3 letter tweet into an article, or someone trained and greenlit an AI to write and post this crap.
Either way…. oof.
“X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced on Tuesday that the platform has determined to bring suit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media. This came after the House Judiciary revealed during hearings that the group had systematically organized boycotts against X. “We tried peace for two years,” X owner Elon Musk said, “now it’s war.”
“I was shocked by the evidence uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee,” Yaccarino began in a message to X users, “that a group of companies organized a systematic illegal boycott against X. It is just wrong. And that is why we are taking action.” She then announced an anti-trust lawsuit against GARM as well as “four of its key members and the World Federation of Advertisers.”
Musk said “I strongly encourage any company who has been systematically boycotted by advertisers to file a lawsuit. There may also be criminal liability via the RICO Act.”
YouTube rival Rumble announced that they’d be joining the suit.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/now-its-war-elon-musk-x-sues-shady-ad-tech-group-after-house-judiciary-reveals-boycotts-against-platform
There’s nothing illegal about boycotts. Either stupid phrasing or a stupid suit. Since they’re talking about RICO violations and anti-trust, I’d imagine the legal argument would be in the realm of restraint of trade.
An organized boycott by companies can absolutely be an Illegal restraint of trade, Pat.
Aye, but that’s the rub; at the point where collusion against a competitor rises to the level of illegal restraint of trade, it’s advanced to something beyond the ordinary meaning of a boycott. I’m inclined to be nitpicky about the language only because it would be bad precedent to get people primed for the idea of making boycotts illegal.
COCAINE!
She don’t lie.
“Kamala Harris Chooses VP with Deep Ties to Communist China: Tim Walz Visited China Over 30 Times, Had a Special Work Visa, Set Up a Student Program to Travel in China, and Even Honeymooned There”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-chooses-vp-deep-ties-communist-china/
Why am I not surprised?
I can overlook some of that but a “work visa” of any kind doesn’t happen without CCP input. That’s certainly unusual.
He’s a Midwestern Bernie Sanders.
Anti-government gun nuts
A Florida mother whose family is accused of ambushing law enforcement officers, killing one and injuring two, had sought to lure neighbors who she believed were pedophiles into a fatal trap at her home but was interrupted by authorities, law enforcement officials said Monday.
A search of the family’s home in Eustis, northwest of Orlando, revealed more than 20 high-caliber rifles, shotguns and pistols that had been staged around the living room, Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell said at a news conference.
Authorities also found a stockpile of ammunition, body armor, gas masks, ready-to-eat meals, ghillie (camouflage) suits, anti-government propaganda and media promoting conspiracy theories, Grinnell said.
“This was nothing short of an ambush. The evidence will show that,” Bill Gladson, state attorney for Florida’s Fifth Judicial Circuit, told reporters.
More crazy people doing crazy people shit.
Unhinged cop story
Looks like the town is going to take care of business.
https://x.com/Imposter_Edits/status/1820855065462423625?s=19
Bullet points
Unmarked car w/ out of uniform officer pulls over lady for expired sticker
Again, expired sticker
Refuses to show badge and pulls gun when she won’t exit the car
Lady pulled about 30 yards to mom’s house because crazy dude with gun claiming to be cop. Called for minister neighbor to help
Elderly minister neighbor says cop almost hit him driving up, then got out and pointed a gun at him and cursed at him and his wife
Cop gets sledge hammer and goes to work on lady’s window
Lady gets out the other side and gets body slammed for her trouble
Spends 5 days in jail before multiple felony charges are dropped.
Again… expired tag.
Important note…. because neighbor pulled out his phone, police cannot wait a year to release dashcam video that shows nothing relevant.
This got the town riled up, and they are holding a town meeting to figure out what to do.
This is why libertarians prefer to keep government small and close to the people.