Free Covid tests are back: special.usps.com/confirmation

Will it try to match its mission of writing "educational" racist screeds with lots of (random) capitalization? We'll have to watch and see! 2/2

Interesting. VDARE Foundation was one of the big-5(-ish) tax-exempt organizations whose tax exemption was basically founded on the racisms. As of 2022, it had net assets of ~$2 million. If it's shutting down, it's going to have to distribute those assets to other tax-exempt orgs. 1/

FBkenwhite.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 11:05pm

As VDARE shuts down, I remember the time that they sent me an unsolicited communication, I responded inviting them to die slowly of cancer, and they wrote a whole post about how terrible, terrible that was.

I'm old enough that I've embarrassed my kids by using "on fleek." They're old enough that they'd not only be mortified by hearing me use skibidi, they'd be mortified to use it themselves.

(VP debate) MODERATOR: What is your favorite sports blooper? TIM WALZ: July 5, 1989, Paul O'Neill on the Reds bobbling the ball and kicking it to the first baseman because he thought the game was over and accidentally preventing a run JD VANCE: Women should be required to wear tracking collars(VP debate) MODERATOR: What is your favorite sports blooper? TIM WALZ: July 5, 1989, Paul O'Neill on the Reds bobbling the ball and kicking it to the first baseman because he thought the game was over and accidentally preventing a run JD VANCE: Women should be required to wear tracking collars

I'm so sorry--hope they're all doing as well as possible! My in-laws in South Carolina seem to be fine right now, which is always a relief!

Crypto Bros reddit seems to believe that SCOTUS ending Chevron somehow makes block reward non-taxable. These people are delusional.

I haven't checked them out on reddit, but my working assumption is that crypto bros believe that literally anything makes crypto non-taxable.

But then how would we make operating prisons profitable?!? oh

Bbolts.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 11:01pm

Incarcerated workers in California make as little as $0.08 an hour. Even recent reforms only raised that to $0.16 an hour. A new ballot measure aims to end forced prison labor in the state altogether. boltsmag.org/califor...

The California Ballot Measure That Could End Forced Prison Labor

Prop 6 would amend the state constitution to ban “involuntary servitude” and prohibit state prisons from punishing incarcerated people for refusing a work assignment.

"Diverting just 10 percent of Nebraskan irrigation water would be enough for every single American to use GPT-4 about 24 times per day." ok this fact does absolutely nothing to convince me that AI water demand is not a problem

RCryanlcooper.comSep 30, 2024 2:44pm

"Almost half of all the irrigation water in the Colorado River Basin goes to cattle feed alone. A modest diversion from this industry would free up more than enough water for Southwest cities and data centers alike for the rest of the century at least." prospect.org/environment/...

Water Is Not the Problem With Artificial Intelligence

Data centers are nothing compared to cattle farming.