The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams
Police body cams w/ automated "AI" report writing integrations. "AI" trained on what again? That's right: Parsed & tagged datasets made of police reports… which are themselves written based on cops' memories. Everything is going to go wrong w/ this because it starts from a place of utter wrongness
100% No job is worth your human soul.
Springfield News-Sun Editorial Board: “We believe his conduct over the past week is unbecoming of a U.S. Senator and violates the public’s trust in the esteemed office … Senator, Ohioans need your help, not your hate.”
The hometown newspaper of Springfield, Ohio: “Sen. Vance’s lie is remarkable for a politician in that he not only outright admits to the falsehood, but that he is willing to do it again if it leads to the result he’s looking for.” www.springfieldnewssun.com/ideas-voices...
“If a leader does what it takes to win power and keep it, his methods will always be reckoned honourable and widely praised. The crowd is won over by appearances and final results.” - Niccolò Machiave...
I have a collection of Tolkien calendars starting in 1974 (my birth year) and well into the early '00s 😊
Nice complement to what I'm learning from my read of An Immense World. ❤
Fascinating! Elephants give names to each other and speak local dialects. 🐘 theconversation.com/female-eleph... #PsychSciSky
Male elephant society is much richer than previously thought.
"(I didn’t feel the lack of a poem)" @snullr.bsky.socialpsalteryandlyre.org/2024/09/23/i...
by Susan Robertson
As steel mill after mill shuttered in the last two decades of the 20th century, people began to leave the communities to find new work – mostly service jobs in larger cities. But why did so many others stay even as the local economy collapsed?
When southeast Chicago’s steel industry collapsed, the loss reverberated through neighborhoods built around the mills. Former mill workers explain why they stayed as the local economy fell.