Seems that everyone in KC were among the gunmen. All those good guys with guns. All of them good. Until suddenly not good. And then you're in a tightly packed crowd with a lot of armed people and they hear the shots. .
America needs to get over guns.
https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-62e69a17b469b854afd7bcc3f548d1fc

Look, I get the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive dictionaries, but if words have any value that elevates them beyond mere mouth noises, it can only be their ability to transmit concepts from one person to another.

Words that are used to mean even subtly different things distort our ability to understand and be understood. That's important because it defeats the purpose of communicating.

Thankyou for coming to my TED talk.

s anything more than the sound it makes

While I don't think this is what's meant by climate justice, there's a certain poetry to watching the financial consequences of climate change start to bite for a state that still refuses to acknowledge it.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/citizens-property-insurance-to-cover-all-floridians-under-proposed-plan-florida-saves-florida

This is a glorious little ditty on the absurdity of Trump's followers given his behavior.
https://youtu.be/xDI6KsXfUcM

And here's how the DOJ describes the same event. Quite a difference, isn't there?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-defendants-convicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic-entrances

Bigots stunned to find themselves bearing the consequences of their actions. 😆
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/six-pro-life-activists-convicted-of-federal-face-act-charges-face-over-a-decade-in-prison

While there are many who hold career politicians in disdain, I'm personally comforted by the idea that a spiritual advisor and self-help guru has just dropped out of the presidential primary. We need more rationalism and less magical thinking.

Coming soon to the house of representatives: a loyalty test resolution declaring that black is white.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4451345-gaetz-stefanik-offer-resolution-declaring-trump-did-not-engage-in-insurrection/

Congratulations to the Dixie Chicks on their continued existence.

Happy Sunday folks! Why not enjoy Satan's Guide to the Bible?
https://youtu.be/z8j3HvmgpYc

My dog just ate my invisalign. They were on my desk next to my son. My son is laughing.

Well, f#*k.

Time for a 30mg edible, I think.
Happy Friday!

Well played, Satanic Temple!
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-proposed-satanic-school-helped

I work in a team developing generative AI applications, but even I'm having my comfort levels pushed with this advert.

I'd love us to move from
"If you're right, I want to know"
to
"If you're right, I want to know how you know"
then finally
"If you're wrong, how would you know it?"

The world would be a better place.

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” – George Orwell

Yikes. Iowa Republicans want public schools to hire untrained Christian chaplains
https://open.substack.com/pub/friendlyatheist/p/iowa-republicans-want-public-schools

E Jean Carroll to spend $83m defamation award on 'something Donald Trump hates'

That doesn't rule out much, does it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68131209

So, I'm high and pondering all this. Considering for the first time in my life that the timeless pull of gravity on my bones is akin to a dented arc of spacetime that suspends the sensation of acceleration towards the ground and draws it out over eternity, perpetually accelerating and yet going nowhere.

Man, this is great weed.

I'm high right now, so I decided to find out how Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity that time and gravity are related.

Turns out it started with his use of the Equivalence Principle, which suggests that an observer cannot distinguish between the effects of gravity and acceleration. Kind of like those fighter simulators that simulate acceleration by tilting the cabin up.

This principle led him to consider the gravitational field as a curvature of spacetime.