If Putin is the Tsarina visiting the Potempkin villages, who is the Potempkin?
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Shevek 🌹 🇺🇦 ⚖️
Профиль VivelySpouse of librarian. Dad of student. West Nile Virus survivor. Chronic pain, reluctant medical cannabis user. Disabled (hopefully on the mend.) Schooled in history, philosophy, and agronomy. Views not reflective of my employer, because I don't have one.
Any moment now some MAGA type is going to have a hissy about this being communist. If you try to explain that the city is not taking control of the housing but instead just helping people mind their own business, they'll say you're a communist, too.
Mayor Zohran Kwame MamdaniThe most protected tenant is an organized tenant. Yesterday, we welcomed the 8609 Bay 16th St. Tenant Association as the 100th tenant union to organize with the City's support.
As a retired arborist that photo makes me shudder.
Manitoba HydroGrand Beach Provincial Park: We need to take an outage tomorrow, July 28 from around 9 a.m. to 3 p.m to remove a tree leaning on a power line. This will affect 22 customers and avoid a longer power outage if we don’t fix it now. Thank you for your patience. #mboutage
The market for used magnetrons from old microwave ovens will presumably grow by leaps and bounds next semester.
Jeff Blim Asks: Who Wants to Play Zip-Zap-Zop?ALT: Jeff Blim Asks: Who Wants to Play Zip-Zap-Zop?static.klipy.comDr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beatsYeah this "pervert glasses in the classroom" thing is bothering me enough that I emailed both my departments asking if we can get practical guidance from the chancellor & IT. What I'm really, increasingly wanting is a Wi-Fi kill switch for each classroom, but i don't know that that's in the offing.
I have so many questions. (Short thread) 1. Did the AI "know" it was in a sandbox and was it instructed to stay in it? 2. Did the prompters really not think this could happen? 3. If it was "aware" and instructed to play in the box, why did it get out? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attackIt is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.www.bbc.co.ukI wonder if North Korea will have better luck this year filling up those resorts it's been trying to get Russians to go to for vacation.
Ukraine War Brief PodcastA clear image showing the lack of power in almost all northern Crimea. Before and after. Second photo taken July 15.
It's hilarious how much faster they're marching that the formation in front of them.
Tim WhiteHow remiss of me not to wish my French followers Happy Bastille Day. Indeed, nice to see Ukraine's military invited to join in this year's parade in Paris.
Now the kids can graduate Harvard Summa Cumshot Laude if they post a video of their donations.
Universal HubBoston's long tradition of spermvertising continues into the AI age www.universalhub.com/2026/bostons... Photo by Milo Trujillo
This could be the headline of multitudes of news stories per day.
Joanne HallThe writers room are throwing curveballs during the final season of America
30 *months* to cure the rocket propellant. This makes the Biden/Sullivan dithering even worse, because they didn't bother to ramp up production of the missiles that would be available today, despite being obv. that the platform was effective and would have high demand. www.fpri.org/article/2026...
Scaling Patriot Production: The Industrial Base Crisis Explained - Foreign Policy Research InstituteOn April 10, after coalition forces had fired at least 1,700 Patriots in just five weeks, the Pentagon announced a $4.76 billion contract to acceleratewww.fpri.org