Wanly Made Mailman
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John WM Thompson. CO->OR->Bronx. Shirley Jackson Award nom’d editor of “Mooncalves” @ NO Press. No subversion, only vandalism. https://www.no-press.org for books!
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not now, kitten. daddy ate an egg that fell on the ground and a street-smart white blood cell and a by-the-book cold pill are currently fighting a virus voiced by laurence fishburne inside his body
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The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job
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"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
This is absolutely the case with books on Goodreads. By and large the further you stray from a 3.5/5 average, the less interesting the work is
My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.
The IMDb for Pulse, rated 6.5 The IMDb for bright future, rated 6.7 The IMDb for license to live, rated 6.9 The IMDb for cloud, rated 6.4
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Palestine is everywhere
Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."
Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
Which of these two options does “we have to live with each other” amount to? Asking for a major newspaper
You cannot compromise with this. You can either submit to it or defeat it.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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I’m going to say again that any strategy of a takedown that relies on republicans to admit how wrong they are and go away to fix it is not going to work.
Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies
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Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle
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Buncha MOOC bros are still influential education writers. I feel like once you’ve written “the end of college” you don’t get to keep writing about college when it doesn’t happen.
Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
Saying “women don’t like the vehicle” when I get rejected until a woman sees through this body to my radiant soul
We are the Adult Children of Immature Parents. They don’t wanna go
man i’d call this stuff elder abuse if the elders in question weren’t so gleeful about inflicting crimes against humanity until the day they drop dead at their desks
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE
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man i’d call this stuff elder abuse if the elders in question weren’t so gleeful about inflicting crimes against humanity until the day they drop dead at their desks
83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE
I often wonder if a buddy system would be a good idea. If it’s a bad / dispiriting meeting then you can go out and lift ur spirits with the friend.
When I first saw the quote I did not know it referred to a cybertruck and even though I might have guessed, my first thought was that it was a weirdly mystic way of saying “women think I’m ugly but this is only the vessel for my true soul”
"Women don't like the vehicle" is one of those rare phrases that is either poignantly stupid or stupidly poignant, whichever you prefer
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"Women don't like the vehicle" is one of those rare phrases that is either poignantly stupid or stupidly poignant, whichever you prefer
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“Varmints! … You’re all just a bunch of cheatin’ varmints!”
“Varmints! … You’re all just a bunch of cheatin’ varmints!”
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I don't think console gamers know how many free games you can get for PC, and I don't mean via piracy. zillion dollar corporations will just throw them at you in hopes you will vaguely associate their brand with "gaming." that will not happen even one time on the nintendo switch.
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steal your face right off your head
if you want a picture of the future, imagine your own face staring back at you from the chumbox, forever nymag.com/intelligence...
Virtual try-ons are actually showing up all over the place in retail — you'll find them on both luxury-brand apps and Shein — and they tend to suffer from the same issues, given that they're essentially mashing images together: The clothes don't fit quite right; the lighting is always strange; generations can take a little while; body types are approximated but rarely nailed. But they might be good enough to help rule something out or consider something new, and they're certainly good enough to be compelling and occasionally fun to use. The temptation to merge virtual try-ons with ads — to follow users around the internet not just with evidence that you know a lot about them but with actual photos of themselves using new products — is surely massive but is currently constrained by two things.
First, generating such images or videos is computationally and literally expensive. And second, putting users' faces in, say, a branded Instagram Reel would probably feel to many like a violation. (For now, Google's explainer about its virtual try-on feature marks a boundary far more conservative than that, emphasizing that the feature won't currently show up on sponsored products.)
凸 One of those constraints will probably go away as AI models become more efficient. The other is a matter of expectations and norms around privacy, which, if the last two decades are any guide, have a tendency to either erode or get bulldozed. Given the hunger for return on AI investment and the close relationship between the advertising industry and AI - Google and Meta, for example, are advertising and AI giants, and it's hard to imagine the latter holding out too long on a new technology that might improve ad performance — it's probably a matter of time before someone breaks the seal and starts using customers to market to themselves at scale. Small companies are already trying something weird and uncomfortable. The bigger ones probably aren't far behind.