A Secular Sacrament

That Lonesome Road --James Taylor

Walk down that lonesome road all by yourself

Don't turn your head back over your shoulder

And only stop to rest yourself when the silver moon

Is shining high above the trees

If I had stopped to listen once or twice

If I had closed my mouth and opened my eyes

If I had cooled my head and warmed my heart

I'd not be on this road tonight

Carry on

Never mind feeling sorry for yourself

It doesn’t save you from your troubled mind

Walk down that lonesome road all by yourself

Don't turn your head back over your shoulder

And only stop to rest yourself when the silver moon

Is shining high above the trees

Bake The Cookies, Eat The Cookies

SCOTUS handed down a decision that said a corporation is a person, so OpenAI is person. As such, that person can be arrested, charged, put on trial, and if found guilty, they can be sentenced.

If OpenAI assisted in the planning of a murder, then OpenAI can step up and do the dangle dance like any other person.

Their rules, not mine.

Erika Jordan

No, we're not to blame for what our forebears did. But we are responsible for what's happening now - possibly as a consequence of what they did.

So we need to stop being whiny-butt pussies about it, and reckon with it.

Hawk

125,000 followers on Instagram actually

We Havin' Fun Yet?

MISSILES FIRED AT DUBAI

TENSIONS RISE

VESSELS ATTACKED IN STRAIT

SHIPPING CONFUSION

FERTILIZER FEARS

OIL JUMPS

IVANKA THE REAL NEXT TRUMP CONTENDER?

Search continues for missing American soldiers in Morocco

Alarm bells for Trump as Canada joins European summit

Rattled Kremlin tightens security around Putin amid assassination, coup fears

US Army's 'Big Experiment' in Arctic Cold

Video captures moment plane landing at Newark strikes bakery truck

BUFFETT WARNS: WE'VE NEVER HAD MORE PEOPLE IN GAMBLING MOOD

Schumer Says House, White House Must Ban Prediction Market Bets

REPORT: Swalwell Sent Women 'Videos of Him Masturbating'

The world is

a fucked up place

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Work for better

Today's Belle

HR 1761

Donald J Trump $250 Bill Act

HR 3432

TDS Research Act

HR 1395

Trump's Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act

Hr 691

Renaming Washington Dulles Airport to The Donald J Trump Airport

HR 5766

The President Donald J Trump Peace Prize Act

HR 792

Adding the figure of President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore 

I've Had It Podcast

Mussolini didn't "make the trains run on time." He put people in charge who would lie about them being on time.

Good Question

My original gut reaction stands:

However:

I'm sorry you've had to go through all that - we did warn you. Remember that.

What you have to do now is admit you got took, come out of the darkness, and help us tear down the #EpsteinClass so we can start to rebuild what they've been destroying over the last 5 decades.

We've got a metric fuck ton of work ahead of us, and you get to do your share of the heavy lifting.

Democracy Is

It's been going around for some time now, that it's not Red vs Blue, or Conservative vs Progressive, or even Good vs Evil (although we've seen a lot of that too)

And there's certainly a Class vs Class element to it - a big one actually.

But what it's come down to is liberal vs ill-liberal. Do we want our version of democracy to work for us, or do we want a version that just requires us to obey - and work for - the government?

I have one basic bone to pick with Mr Frum - he left out the yang:

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals - and you know it."

--Agent K, Men In Black

And that's the eternal paradox - the necessary rights of the individual, and the necessary commitment to a collective society every individual depends on.

A Quote

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.

--Hanna Arendt