New English naturalist descended from generations of privileged white European settlers, now living on lands of the Pocumtuck and Nipmuc. Anti-racist, anti-fascist.
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Last Notes npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1u3t…c6ug They do care about children. As cheap labor. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne Despite what its supporters claim, “Pro-natalism” is just Eugenics with an uglier, whiter, more privileged face. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne It’s a start, but it does not go far enough. A schedule 3 drug is still a controlled substance. While nobody has ever died from a cannabis overdose, the dangerous drug alcohol is completely unscheduled, despite its proven potential for abuse, addiction, and overdose. 178,000 people a year die from excessive alcohol use. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1zle…38k8 That’s a great next step, but Cory Booker is right, there is still a long road ahead of us. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 They are protesting for divestment of University endowments from Israel, just like we protested for university divestment from the former apartheid South Africa. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 Damn. Same here. And I pay for the family plan of YouTube Premium. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1k7q…3lrw I heard your gender yesterday in the woods behind my house. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 Well, you can at least turn off notifications for a thread (at least in Mona), but I agree, it would be great to be able to mute a thread entirely. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne I wish I could enable notifications for a specific post and its replies. This would make it much easier to follow someone live blogging a court case or other event without having to see notifications for all their other posts. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Americans should be financially compensated during our election years! Can’t we just limit expenditures bynor@on behalf of a campaign to September 1 through Election Day? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne We have a well drilled deep into the fractured bedrock of the Berkshire Hills. It is slightly acidic and moderately low in minerals (electrical conductivity of 50-100 μS/cm). After filtering through a bed of calcium carbonate to protect the pipes and sweeten the water (de-acidify), it is absolutely delicious. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Thank you for noticing! Am I correct that you are, in fact, of the extroverted persuasion? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Oops. I got the order wrong didn’t I. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Yep. That’s a 33% increase in votes for Mastodon. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1l69…rsjd @npub1gmx…atcq I certainly hope someone called the health department so nobody gets sick. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 The Allies also firebombed cities in Germany during WWII. Darmstadt, Dresden, etc. with massive loss of civilian lives npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 Nah. You woke up at the same time as usual. The clocks just said it was later. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Thanks for asking this. I think you are spot on! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1v2s…mqq5 Unfortunately, he won’t be able to move forward with the appeal until less he can pay up first! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1a84…wlgu That offer a two year warranty replacement: https://support.anovaculinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/201710434-What-are-your-Returns-Exchanges-and-Warranty-Policies npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1nyy…n8nm @npub1zru…0r7t @npub183g…vrj8 Agreed. Governments here in the US states where it has been legalized have likewise done a terrible job explaining it. The good news is that unlike alcohol where you can kill yourself by drinking too much, the worst that is likely to happen to you by eating too many edibles is that you will freak out and have a panic attack. Edibles should never be recommended for first-time consumers of cannabis, as they are the hardest to dose correctly, take seemingly forever to take effect (so people take more and more, thinking it isn’t doing anything) and the effects can last for many hours (especially if you take a lot). npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1nyy…n8nm @npub1zru…0r7t @npub183g…vrj8 Exactly. If I was going to drink whisky (40% ABV), I might have a standard 45ml shot for a dose of 18ml of EtOH. If I was going to drink ale (8% ABV), I might drink a standard 500ml glass for an EtOH dose of 40ml. Note, I would get twice as much alcohol in a pint of beer than in a glass of whiskey, even though whiskey is much stronger. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1nyy…n8nm @npub1zru…0r7t @npub183g…vrj8 If I drank a 750ml bottle of 40% alcohol whiskey, you would see me on the news too. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq “Real psychiatric consequences”? Such as? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1zru…0r7t @npub1mmf…eknq @npub183g…vrj8 What studies are you thinking of that suggest THC is “dangerous” when consumed by adults? I am not aware of any results that suggest that. In contrast, we now have numerous studies showing that using any amount of alcohol is dangerous, and that consuming even small doses of alcohol can cause numerous health problems. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub15zu…s7lx I sure hope that law allows 50g PLUS the amount grown from three plants. Depending on how big you grow them, it is perfectly conceivable to yield 100-1000g of dried cannabis flowers per plant. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne From Judge Engoron (Mr. Robert is Trump’s attorney): npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1v2s…mqq5 Regulating human sexual expression is just another technique for the oligarchs to control people. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub19lt…qfjk Waiting for FCS… npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub19lt…qfjk Where did the option appear in the app? I just need to know where to check on the rollout. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1s0u…r2ew @npub1mmf…eknq @npub120n…7g62 Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, I learned that Zionism was irredeemably linked with fascism and racism, as determined by the United Nations General Assembly in 1975. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1jv5…e22d Is that ActivityPub on tvOS? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1v2s…mqq5 @npub1ccn…czwu #AltText npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 As a longtime AAPL shareholder, it warms my heart to see all of the free publicity everyone is giving the Apple Vision Pro! Please, keep ‘em coming. My retirement account needs to grow! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1k4q…3lsq Clearly you should have crossed the wires and connected them up to each other. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1a84…wlgu @npub10k7…lp63 Not yet. The fake story is still going viral. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1a84…wlgu @npub10k7…lp63 Turns out not to be true. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu I say, I say, He’s a joke, son! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1psd…9sr7 I want to know how long it takes before they are inundated by the spam accounts that admins here have been battling. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1k4q…3lsq Maybe a container of gasoline/petrol? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1k4q…3lsq I think what they have successfully designed is a deadfall trap. The structure is designed to emulate a garage under a residence. After an unwary wild car is coaxed into the tempting “garage,” it bumps the supporting post and the weight of the shipping container crushes the car beneath it. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne Railroads for freight and passengers are too important in the fight against the climate emergency to allow big industry to mess them up by cutting staffing and ignoring basic safety measures. We must nationalize all railroads in the USA, and get the grifters and oligarchs out of the picture. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 As usual, Fast Company buries the lede: “The obverse or heads portion of the coins all depict George Washington”. WTAF? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1a5q…p249 Just fine through glitch-soc and @npub1svs…p66u . Hmm. I wonder if we can convince Junyu Kuang to add geotag support… npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1rdc…jdax @npub1k4q…3lsq You can also use a 12 foot ladder to get over most paywalls. Just add https://12ft.io/ before the URL. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne Even if you don’t read Alissa Quart’s book Bootstrapped, at least read @npub1hyk…3p33 ‘s essay on it. https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111845245046789288 npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq I wanna be a fly on the wall in the meetings that the CIA head is holding with Israel. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq I didn’t know you were on Mad Men! Cool! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1m9q…7ssd @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1e7x…m97p @npub1pcg…9h92 @npub1xkf…p8p3 Neopagans is not an especially useful label in this case. There are theist neopagans and atheist neopagans. There are religious neopagans and secular neopagans. I am one of the latter in both cases. My personal believes can be roughly described as atheist animist, but for me, those beliefs are not religious, any more than my beliefs in the desirability of humanism, kindness, compassion, acceptance, and collaboration, or my personal observations of the efficacy and accuracy of the scientific process. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq And the WaPo “breaking news” is literally just a paragraph with nowhere near the detail you provided! All they said was npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq Thanks for keeping us informed. I read exactly nothing about the decision in the WaPo this morning. Oh wait. They just posted an article. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1wf7…9q4x @npub1g7t…n6x7 @npub1p2h…qhw8 #AltText npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xkf…p8p3 @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1pcg…9h92 I love that they call us “Religious Nones” which makes for a wonderful ambiguity in spoken language. I am quite happy as a None, thank you. I guess that means I live in a nonvent with my none-spouse. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne Here are the real results out of Iowa. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1wqh…wwzl @npub1hyk…3p33 Tech workers in USA have been brainwashed into thinking they don’t need unions, convinced that their superior abilities would always make them indispensable, simply because for years there was more demand for their skills than supply. Now that companies are laying off tech workers, it becomes clear why tech workers should have organized their workplaces when they had the power to do so easily. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1swy…snpj Dying is a death cult. 😂😂😂 npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xed…yg9w @npub10dv…3quy No. Websites should not be setting font sizes at all. The user agent should determine font size. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xed…yg9w @npub10dv…3quy By the way, the frequently heard claim that you need fried sites to make them “mobile responsive” is absolutely bollocks. Here’s what that ancient baked site looks like on my 2023 iPhone, in Reader view and non-reader view using the embedded Safari browser in Mona. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1typ…c8hh My point was that based on that diagram, the door plug seems to be designed opposite to that. Nothing in that diagram shows any structural elements that would prevent the plug from falling OUT. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1typ…c8hh Looking at that drawing however, it appears that the “stop fittings” and “stop pads” are designed to top the door plug from falling IN to the plane. Now, maybe there were bolts holding the pads to the fittings, but I don’t see them listed on the diagram. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1dxd…pwzl @npub1ccn…czwu Um. I’d say the original was just as risqué, if you think of the double entendre. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1pgx…636r @npub1zdp…vqv8 #NoseEggs npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1pjm…3adk Could become a trend. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1y9e…fqtl @npub1ccn…czwu I don’t know which of the 50 States you are talking about, but I have never heard anyone here in Massachusetts say “God bless.” Seriously, not once in 60 years of living here. Okay, minus the four years I spent in Connecticut, where I also never heard it said. I also spent a year in England where I attended a state school that had mandatory prayers and religious songs at the start of every school day, and a year in a Gymnasium in Germany, where everyone was assumed to be Christian, we had a religion class, and we took school field trips to religious sites. Massachusetts schools did none of these things. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu This. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 @npub1343…saj4 @npub1s3q…ayl3 Nobody said that. But if you buy a copy of a book, you should own that copy of the book, not just a license to read it for as long as the seller decides to maintain the software infrastructure. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1alm…57vz And please note, that paper was written in 2022 and they estimated 9.6 million people in the US with long covid. Recently released 2022 data (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/survey-18-million-americans-say-they-have-long-covid), show that we had 18M long COVID sufferers in 2022. So double those cost estimates. And then add on the cost of all the additional long COVID cases in the past year. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1hyk…3p33 Great to see you in this place! I literally just re-read EST yesterday. It has aged well, but I was amused to note that this time I interpreted it as much more of a dystopian cautionary tale. I think my earlier techno-optimism blinded me to that when I first read it almost 20 years ago. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 It’s not raining or cold in the Starbucks, now, is it? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ykg…g4jv @npub1g6x…4rvz I can’t see it either. If I click on the mosseri link it just takes me to the threads website. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1xpc…3t05 I started losing my hair 20 years ago. So I bought Oster Professional Fast Feed clippers, and buzzed what was left down to a comfortable fuzz. Long enough not to itch and short enough that you can see my entire scalp through the fuzz. I rarely shave my face, so trying to do my head would be Too Much Work. I try to buzz my head once a month, although since getting long Covid I’ve only done it a few times in the last year. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1yyx…qa5g Mona is my absolute favorite. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1mmf…eknq @npub1k4q…3lsq Any government communications in wartime should be assumed to be nothing but propaganda. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1358…8w9s @npub1ccn…czwu Well, Luke 1:38 claims that it was consensual: npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1s69…l9l2 My take: npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub19fc…ay3c If they will still let us across the border, I’m game next December. Can we request asylum while we are there? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub19fc…ay3c I’m not sure, as my definition of consciousness is still undergoing empirical revision. There are a few things that I am relatively sure of. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1k4q…3lsq Wait a minute. This sounds like an event from when I played with Thom O’Malley as DM back in 1975. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1euu…dgnk @npub18ev…nr8u @npub1k4f…hjgz @npub1lvu…3ua2 @[email protected] You are kinder than I. I blocked them. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ykg…g4jv @npub1uzr…9fu3 Wow. Just did this for a job I am hiring for, and damned if that cover letter from ChatGPT-4 (Bing) didn’t read just like the cover letters we got. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1euu…dgnk @npub18ev…nr8u @npub1k4f…hjgz @npub1jw3…h3v8 @npub1lvu…3ua2 We are unlikely to succeed against the oligarchs without nuance. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu @npub18ev…nr8u @npub1k4f…hjgz @npub1jw3…h3v8 @npub1lvu…3ua2 Agreed npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub18ev…nr8u @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1k4f…hjgz @npub1jw3…h3v8 @npub1lvu…3ua2 Such a tease. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1hvz…mle9 I thought, “Haha, Mignon put a fake shopping advertisement at the start of an episode about Black Friday!” Then I realized the Bloomingdale’s ad was real. Ah well. Thanks for making the transcript available! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1v2s…mqq5 @npub1ccn…czwu My heart goes out to President Carter. We love you, Jimmy. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1psd…9sr7 Ohhh. This is their way of asking about abortion‽ That thought literally never entered my mind. Why do these fundies spend so much time fantasizing about abortion? Their preoccupation with one specific set of medical procedures is really bizarre. At least the Christian “Science” practitioners have the intellectual honesty to avoid all medical procedures. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1psd…9sr7 I’m not sure what is so hard about this one. The whole “talking, skydiving, baby” thing and the prompt to “imagine,” make clear that I am in cloud-cuckoo land. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub17a9…mv9a @npub18sk…dnf8 The town’s Council on Aging is a great place to start, because their primary role is to help aging residents connect with the services they need. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub17a9…mv9a @npub18sk…dnf8 Does she live in a large city or a small town? Here in our rural town, in addition to state-run programs to deliver food, we have a tow council on aging and various private support groups who offer weekly communal meals, informal “mutual aid”, and regular wellness checks. We have many people in our town who live at home and intend to do so until they pass. Sometimes, they pass for reasons that others might see as being because they are “no longer able to care for themselves.” From their point of view, they are living out their last days in the place that makes them happy and where they plan to die. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne A few people to follow: npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1j5y…alaj “It shows either startling ignorance or callous disregard for the ramifications." npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1vys…ej9w @npub1r3p…dz2z Trust me, that “hole” is apparently designed to make it impossible to get your snickers out when you need to. Especially if you have an urgent need. Then it is essentially a process of sticking your fingers through the fly in your pants to try find the tightly fitting, overlapping flaps of cotton, searching around for your snickers, and then bending your snickers around a couple of 90 degree turns. Also, those aforementioned fabric flaps? They then press on either side of your snickers, which is uncomfortable and counterproductive to the task at hand. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1w5r…y4x3 @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1wsj…swju @npub17aq…3dh0 @npub13c3…mnws @npub15jg…3c3f Also why loctite exists. And lock washers. And lock nuts. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1wsj…swju @npub1ccn…czwu @npub17aq…3dh0 @npub13c3…mnws @npub15jg…3c3f The auto-repeat threw me as I couldn’t figure out what was making the bolt pop back up like that. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1swv…mzpd @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub13z6…p8ce Well, that sucks. npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1927…62ks Where’s the flowers? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub1ccn…czwu Many of the most influential figures in my life have been fictional. How does that chant go? npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub16ru…m0h5 @npub1ccn…czwu Good advice from Christ himself! npub18jt7vx3r7cj4pq95eq9p5tq8ms7ps53ty7e3zmtypcd7hdjyq47q5qv76g Brian Hawthorne @npub19fc…ay3c It is bothering me as much as every war does, because of the thousands of every day people being killed and the millions of ordinary inhabitants of the world having their already precarious lives overturned and thrown into possibly unsurvivable turmoil that is completely outside of their control.
