Screenwriter/Storyteller/Journalist/Red Sox fan/DEMOCRAT (Frivolous, Roast of Paul Hogan, Avon Ladies of the Amazon, The Replacements, Desperate Housewives, Ms., Pipeline Artists, Southbay, etc.) Full of equal parts: Creativity, sarcasm, and iced coffee.
DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
A flowering plant has been confirmed as a new carnivorous lineage, says research in Nature Communications. Findings show Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, & digest insects, and absorb nitrogen from them, supporting prediction made by Charles Darwin: spklr.io/63323EuqgT #Biology 🌾 🧪
Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence - Nature CommunicationsCarnivorous plants capture and digest insects for nutrients, an adaptive strategy typically found in wetlands. This study identifies carnivory in the alpine Saxifraga plant lineage, supporting Darwin's hypothesis of carnivory in this genus.spklr.io
Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
"A president without a moral compass and advisers whose true north is the extreme right, helming a government with unparalleled legal, technological and financial resources, can implement...political repression that Joe McCarthy...could not have dreamt of," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social.
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith LevineTrump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful toolswww.theguardian.com
We destroyed Irans military then had to go back to fighting the non existent military but had to stop because we were using too many expensive missiles attacking the not-military because we weren’t flying over the country with no military because their non military was still a threat to our planes.
Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models. n.pr/4vM0L1r
Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement rulingSome say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.n.pr
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the ScenesLearn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.www.propublica.org
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f... This nails it. And note his first in a list of motivations. We can marry it to better impulses -- even some of the best -- but any writer who won't admit they're trying to bring the best tale to the campfire just to show they fucking can is full of shit.
Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."www.orwellfoundation.comJohn ScalziI suspect most writers have that one authority figure who was snide about their writing, allowing that writer to be fueled by spite for years if not decades. My version was the creative writing prof who was dismissive about science fiction. I sent him a copy of Old Man's War when it was published.
I think the Governor of Kentucky has every right and responsibility to either see Mitch or declare the seat vacant.
Jonathan Swan says that when President Trump returned to office, he pressured the intelligence community to produce some kind of evidence proving that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Trump’s Thursday night address was the best they could do.
Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
OSSOFF: I heard a president who is, as always, focused on his personal shame and humiliation, and above all, focused on his personal fear of the accountability that will come when we win this fall
Before the president gets on television tonight to peddle lies and conspiracy theories, here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen. We won, and he lost.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.