RIP Pope Francis. One of the good ones. great review of the start of the American Revolution by Heather Cox Richardson

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Two years ago I used the prompt with diffusionBee, "a cat with black and white features and tentacles from a snake's body rising out of water in a photorealistic style"

I asked ChatGPT, using whatever DALL-E 3. I guess it's technically a lot better but damn the old one was so cool. I wonder when (or maybe already) we can ask modern image makers to look like the old weirdness.

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I don't disagree that I'm often preoccupied with incredibly stupid shit, but frankly, cultivating the capacity to find joy in incredibly stupid shit has much to recommend it.

the doge dodge

2025.04.18

DOGE is a ridiculous tool for giving Russians confidential data.

"The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created...
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd."

ready for being left with the worst

2025.04.17

leftist preppers

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the dumbth of this administration knows so few bounds - During WWII the US deployed a Naval ship whose sole purpose was to make, store, and provide ice cream to troops actively deployed to heavy combat areas. Now you can't even have 9 ball

sigh

2025.04.16

stressed these days. maybe pre-trip anxiety? at least my time with my financial advisor went ok. still hanging tough despite stock wackiness, and years of being an ok worker bee and doing the whole 401k thing should put in an ok place

Courage

2025.04.15

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.