JK
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Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
I am unsure about how I feel about this logo in a way that suggests that it will how on me
NEW: Salt Lake City's 2034 Winter Olympics will carry a new name and "transitional" logo, "Utah 2034" with design elements pulled from landmarks all across the state.
Full story + graphics ⬇️
news.sportslogos.net/2025/12/08/o...
Full story + graphics ⬇️
news.sportslogos.net/2025/12/08/o...
Olympic Organizers Reveal Name, Transitional Logo For 2034 Winter Games In Utah
The name no longer reflects Salt Lake City and now encompasses the entire state, while the logo reflects some of its most recognizable landmarks.
news.sportslogos.net
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I am unsure about how I feel about this logo in a way that suggests that it will how on me
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Elon Musk says Rep. Ilhan Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Elon Musk says Rep. Ilhan Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
Somali-Americans make up just 2.9% of Omar’s district.
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part of that is listening in a deep way — in a way that you won’t capture with issue polling. you have to ask yourself what is the underlying concern? is it that voters have a firm view of, say, the deficit? or does the deficit represent a set of larger worries. if the latter, you speak to *that*.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
part of that is listening in a deep way — in a way that you won’t capture with issue polling. you have to ask yourself what is the underlying concern? is it that voters have a firm view of, say, the deficit? or does the deficit represent a set of larger worries. if the latter, you speak to *that*.
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He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
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Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.
The skill being taught is thinking
The skill being taught is thinking
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.
The skill being taught is thinking
The skill being taught is thinking
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I think I found something.
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I think I found something.
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Started watching Person Of Interest (no spoilers please) and wondering if it was an explicit starting point for the two leads to essentially split Batman into two characters.
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Started watching Person Of Interest (no spoilers please) and wondering if it was an explicit starting point for the two leads to essentially split Batman into two characters.
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Other friend: You know a lot about this?
S: I was on the board that wrote the regulations.
It was the best “do not quote the Deep Magic to me, witch” I have seen in a while.
HOWEVER, tis the season for chuggers, so please remember...
S: I was on the board that wrote the regulations.
It was the best “do not quote the Deep Magic to me, witch” I have seen in a while.
HOWEVER, tis the season for chuggers, so please remember...
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Other friend: You know a lot about this?
S: I was on the board that wrote the regulations.
It was the best “do not quote the Deep Magic to me, witch” I have seen in a while.
HOWEVER, tis the season for chuggers, so please remember...
S: I was on the board that wrote the regulations.
It was the best “do not quote the Deep Magic to me, witch” I have seen in a while.
HOWEVER, tis the season for chuggers, so please remember...
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
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When Jews talk about antisemitism on the left, this is what we mean. If you're defending kids quoting Hitler and making a human swastika, you're defending Judenhass and pretending it's really a totally justified critique of Israel.
We didn't "invite" this, anymore than we "invited" the Shoah.
We didn't "invite" this, anymore than we "invited" the Shoah.
Behold the difference between simply being anti-Israel(i apartheid and genocide) and just straight up antisemitism/Judenhass.
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When Jews talk about antisemitism on the left, this is what we mean. If you're defending kids quoting Hitler and making a human swastika, you're defending Judenhass and pretending it's really a totally justified critique of Israel.
We didn't "invite" this, anymore than we "invited" the Shoah.
We didn't "invite" this, anymore than we "invited" the Shoah.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
I would ask to borrow Jefferson’s own Bible from the Library Of Congress — the one where he cut out all the miracles with a razor
December 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I would ask to borrow Jefferson’s own Bible from the Library Of Congress — the one where he cut out all the miracles with a razor
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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This is the problem with so many dudes shilling for "agentive AI" too. The actual work they are claiming to replace is invisible to them, especially how much it relies on relationships, informal networks, context, and the ability to bridge systems that don't interoperate.
Nothing wrong with having help for childcare, I wish everyone could. Definitely something wrong with being a billionaire snake oil salesman and pretending that the human help you rely on for childcare is actually done by your snake oil
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is the problem with so many dudes shilling for "agentive AI" too. The actual work they are claiming to replace is invisible to them, especially how much it relies on relationships, informal networks, context, and the ability to bridge systems that don't interoperate.
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congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
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never miss an opportunity to tell someone who thinks they're being clever quoting "voltaire" that actually, voltaire never said it. it's from a 1993 episode of a nazi radio show & the guy who did say it is quite famously a pedophile who was so weird even the other nazis thought he was creepy.
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
never miss an opportunity to tell someone who thinks they're being clever quoting "voltaire" that actually, voltaire never said it. it's from a 1993 episode of a nazi radio show & the guy who did say it is quite famously a pedophile who was so weird even the other nazis thought he was creepy.
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Years before other audio content on demand, Douglass set up a phone line that you could call to listen to a prerecorded digest of conservative news. Smutty textbooks in your local school, Eisenhower being a communist, the UN being a communist, fluoride being communist...
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Years before other audio content on demand, Douglass set up a phone line that you could call to listen to a prerecorded digest of conservative news. Smutty textbooks in your local school, Eisenhower being a communist, the UN being a communist, fluoride being communist...
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Just as rhetoric of reaction is parasitic on - reactive to (if you prefer: corrective to) - a basically, broadly liberal, Enlightenment-ish ethos (this needs filling in); so, the epistemology of reaction is parasitic on positive, rational norms of evidence-based, warranted belief-formation.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just as rhetoric of reaction is parasitic on - reactive to (if you prefer: corrective to) - a basically, broadly liberal, Enlightenment-ish ethos (this needs filling in); so, the epistemology of reaction is parasitic on positive, rational norms of evidence-based, warranted belief-formation.
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"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
This backyard ADU from Type Five is pre-approved by the city
Berkeley's OK means this customizable home — from a local company — can be built quickly and more easily.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Cookie cutter" housing is good. It's good when cities pre-approve designs, making it easier to add more housing. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/12/09/t...
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This plan would also open up narrative space for something I've increasingly wanted on this Cage/Defenders rewatch: The Danny Rand/Collen Wing (Iron Fist)/Misty Knight/[???] polycule of my dreams (Jessica Henwick and Simone Missick's chemistry was fire).
Like… I know Disney would never, but still.
Like… I know Disney would never, but still.
Holding out some small hope for a revival. Mike Colter— already so damn good— has only gotten better in the intervening years.
Two new seasons: 1 to finish up the Harlem's Paradise mirror the Easy Rawlins arc, and then 2 gets back into street-level stuff with Daredevil and Jessica.
Two new seasons: 1 to finish up the Harlem's Paradise mirror the Easy Rawlins arc, and then 2 gets back into street-level stuff with Daredevil and Jessica.
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This plan would also open up narrative space for something I've increasingly wanted on this Cage/Defenders rewatch: The Danny Rand/Collen Wing (Iron Fist)/Misty Knight/[???] polycule of my dreams (Jessica Henwick and Simone Missick's chemistry was fire).
Like… I know Disney would never, but still.
Like… I know Disney would never, but still.
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Tech owners got furious after white collar demands in 2020 and have been getting revenge ever since
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tech owners got furious after white collar demands in 2020 and have been getting revenge ever since