Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

And now for something completely different: adversarial anti-camera hoodies: https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie

Look, you don't need Sc*ott Ad*ams. I wrote the best dilbert ever, myself.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/requiem-for-a-dil

@cstross @lauren

Here's how I envision their first meeting.

#3Dprinting for frogs.
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RT @Brieyonce
Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week.
https://twitter.com/Brieyonce/status/1630051041524760576

This week, we'll appreciate New Zealand's first lagerstatte, the Foulden Maar. This site yields a bevy of arthropods and plants from a Miocene rainforest, 23 million years ago.
#FouldenMaarWeek #Paleontology
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03115518.2016.1206321?needAccess=true&journalCode=talc20

You can't shame, surprise, or correct these conservatives (including their supporters) using gotcha moments and hypocrisy. Every single issue - you can catch the right making disingenuous arguments. They don't care. Coherence and consistency of rhetoric and action is not their goal. Power and hegemony are their goals, and hypocrisy is just one **strategy** for accomplishing it. In fact, it's become a sport for them: rack up the most points, and any opposition focused on your words will never be able to hold you accountable for your actions. Kayfabe and theatrics.

I beg everyone. We are wasting effort focusing so much on gotchas, and instead focus on **getting out the vote.** Focus on right-wing **violence, treason, tolerance of domestic terrorists, and apathy for real problems affecting middle and lower-class Americans**. Pointing out hypocrisy does almost nothing - it arguably makes it worse. The people you accuse don't care. Reactive discourse like "Trump says X, but does Y" is not a viable strategy for promoting political agendas. We need to focus on issues, and not the hypothetical positions of our opponents. Promote the bolstering of our **voting rights, climate change readiness/mitigation, infrastructure development, education, worker's rights, non-violence, and affordable healthcare**. Promote issues that affect the working class, and repeat these points often. It's a waste of effort to engage them on their talking points if they are based on false presuppositions and they care not for evidence, unless we also intentionally divert the conversation away from their dishonesty and toward the common good. We should make a concerted effort to frame them as the enemies of the common good.

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Attempts to build a trainable deep neural network based on an avian connectome unfortunately fell fowl of a parrotty error.

I’ve become old enough to realize Walter Peck from the EPA was 100% right to try to regulate the Ghostbusters’ storage containment unit.

1836. When Texas declared independence from Mexico after Mexico outlawed slavery, the early government was so devoted to slavery and to white supremacy that they wrote it down, explicitly and at length, in the constitution of the new republic.

To teach students a race-blind history of Texas is simply to lie to them.

#Texas #WhiteSupremacy