No Idea

Now, that is a protest sign.

I grew up where the red dot is. I live where the blue dot is.

The weather where I live now is vastly superior to the weather where I grew up.

I am happy where I live now.

From James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter

The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty.

Death and change are the only constants in life.

Prepare yourself accordingly.

Just like you would think, rural populations like Trump and urban populations do not like Trump.

An interactive map estimating Trump approval rating at the local level.

What two things give off the same energy?

Lindsey Graham has never met a war he didn’t like.

I’m tired of old white men running everything.

For those who want to preserve information before it is completely lost, the 2023 CDC recommended Immunizations:

Today’s GOP is no longer a political party. It is a crime syndicate with a flag, a hollowed-out shell that rubber-stamps whatever decrees arrive from the penthouse while feeding their base a steady diet of rage and delusion to keep them angry, obedient, and too distracted to notice their pockets are being picked.

We have steady wind of 11 mph with gusts up to 35 mph and some of those gusts feel like they’re stronger than 30 mph.

From James Clear email newsletter:

You can’t make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action.

Watched: Pixels 🍿

Better than I thought. Not good, but better than I thought. I would have loved this when I was 15 or so.

Watched: The Last of Us S2E7, Convergence 🍿

Another good season of this story. Wish there was more of it.

It might be time to play the games.

I am saddened and discouraged to call myself an American this morning.

The only way out is through.

Watched: The Electric State 🍿

I don’t think I will remember this movie. Pretty unremarkable other than the CGI needed to make it.

New Year. Same view.

This is accurate.

Tim Cushing at Techdirt writing about the “Rule of Law”

It used to mean that getting prosecuted meant getting fucked. Judges tended to side with prosecutors and rogue cops, rejecting only a small amount of cases that contained violations too egregious to be granted a “good faith” mulligan.

The Trump administration can’t follow the rule of law.

On AI:

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they’re just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

A Large Language Model is just a “what word might be next” text adventure.

Of course that quote could have been created with AI. Who knows?