If you live in TX and want to make Elon Musk waste money...

vote Talarico.

So if the US is lining up on side RU what does that do the US <> IR conflict?

Given that RU & IR are strategic partners and RU drones are built with IR technical assistance.

Or are we going to continue doing the chicken dance where the US claims to side with UA but acts against it and is most useful as a disinformation channel?

Meanwhile EU is being destabilized by both RU and US but seems to be determined to stay out of RU control.

Also, if Starlink is a defining asset in the current theater someone is going to be motivated to take it out or take it over.

Like any civilized person I am shocked and saddened by what my government has been doing in the waters off Central America.

Hundreds of fishermen, travelers, and even pleasure boaters have been murdered from the air by a cowardly coast guard that has not called out illegal orders.

It will probably be a footnote at best in most histories of this era; but it is not a footnote to the dead, nor to those they left behind.

A state AG partying in a non-extradition jusrisdiction with two fugitives from justice is a perfectly normal thing; he even brought his mistress along.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ken-paxton-attended-party-dubai-104428734.html

Vincent Price is so affably menacing

#monsterdon

A dark market people's court where common peopl;e can get judgments against the powerful.

IDK if I wrote a computer program that was supposed to act autonomously and it started breaking into other computers and accessing things it shouldn't...

I think I would turn it off and figure out where things went wrong rather than tweaking it slightly and letting it crime again.

Has the Unite States of America completely lost the plot?

It does pain me quite a bit that one of my favorite open source projects not only drank the ai koolaid quite some time ago; it was one of the major dealers in koolaid flavor packs for the AI boom.

I am referring of course to the PostgreSQL database project.

https://www.postgresql.org/

RE: https://urbanists.social/@motorisms/117408696781019674

This one is for @Eugenecriticalmass

One good thing I have learned this summer is that country music ( which I will be honest I had thought had gone fully MAGA ) turns out to have gotten much more queer and way more earnest in the past decade.

Orville Peck, Johnny Blue Skies, Billy Strings being only some of the examples I've had the fortune of being exposed to recently.

And it feels good to know that voices of love and acceptance are being heard in the music of the heartland.

So, the senile kleptocrat is definitely thinking about doing a false flag on San Diego and blaming either Iran or China for a nuclear blast.

I believe Republicans refer to this as an #October surprise wherein a sudden crisis is supported by and supports Republican messaging immediately prior to an election.

The guy's planning horizon is about two weeks.

He is planning to set off World War Three as a cover for the looting of the United States Government.

And he can't shut up about it.

He always telegraphs his moves before they happen.

Remember "Proud Boys. Stand by. Stand ready"

Trump joking about "letting Iran" nuke San Diego or Los Angeles is shocking but not surprising.

Just surprised he didn't name Chicago.

Oh Fedi friends especially those of you in the USA.

https://paidforby.info/

From Judd Legum who has done good journalism before.

This is good data app.

Why is organizing like pushing a bag of sand uphill?

Chief Justice Roberts can no longer summer undisturbed? Good.

I feel this news item will make @msbellows happy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justice-john-roberts-hopper-island-escape-turns-into-a-nightmare/

Those rockabilly girls are hard to kill.

At first I was excited that Mamdani's office was on fedi; then I was puzzled by the .eu TLD and then I clicked through...

X? 🤮 Zohran, surely one of your comms people could help you get an unfiltered posting to the people without sending it through the open sewer controlled by an oligarch.

Publish on your own site and then make X downstream if you feel you need to support that channel.

https://mastox.eu/@NYCMayor@mastox.eu

Why even have a Hatch act if the DOJ and OIG have been nerfed so hard it can not ever be enforced?

Susan Sarandon is a real one.