The thing about trying to get the blood off of one's hands is, as Lady MacBeth taught us, that bloodstains have a transmissible quality but not a transmutable or expungable quality. That is, you might give others the same stain you bear but in the process you can't change or eliminate your stain.

Tapping the sign

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.

when God sings with his creations, will AI not be part of the choir?

Pope: lol no

It’s weird when the brain thinks “fucking” is an adjective but it turns out to be a verb … the real world of context is getting crazy

“For a 1971 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, my family was asked to pose for a Thanksgiving photo shoot re-creating my grandfather’s painting Freedom From Want. We had to sit for hours at a dining table at the local inn, staring at food we weren’t supposed to eat.

People who want to “lead” without leading deserve to hit the wall when they find their tools are still them

If AI is the get out of jail free card for big money — all fault is the ai’s judgement and that can be fixed or replaced — then of course all the moneys will be spent making it work and making sure it is generally accepted (not laughed at).

What a comfort! One of the recent horribles went to the same school as me, and that felt like shame. Now I can laugh.

Mirabile dictu! Mirabile visu! It’s amazing that all we get different decks of cards to play during life and it’s for rich card-rich people to decide whether it fits with their choice-view of the world to share (if, like, into that kind of thing). Mirabile! /sarcasm