"People seem to think there’s some modern American exception to the ease with which human beings can turn to violence on a mass scale, and the pleasure they will take in it, once they receive sanction from on high to do so. It can happen here. It might."
Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by an Infamous Mind-Altering Parasite
"A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader.
The research shows that the effects of this parasite in the wild have been horrendously understudied – and its role in ecosystems and animal behavior underestimated."
The other half is gearing up to revive her YouTube channel. It was started in 2008 with short clips of the plants she lovingly tended in her garden. She was into her “third season” when a bushfire came through in 2011 and much of the garden was engulfed by the flames. The bushfire became her last video uploads.
Now, over a decade later, and Cilla is finally picking up her passion again, and plans to return to Cilla’s Garden. She’s currently doing time lapse videos of the cleanup. The gardens and pathways are all overgrown and she’s been inspired by lawn mowing time lapse videos of people cleaning up overgrown yards.
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In addition to saying "Not True" during Obama's 2010 State of the Union, flying pro-insurrectionist flags at two different residences, consider that after attending Trump's inauguration in 2017, Alito joined Trump in skipping Biden's inauguration in 2021.
Impartial, my ass. But Alito claims (and has) the sole power to decide whether he has a conflict of interest, without anyone being allowed to second-guess him.
Thing is, GenAI is just a method. It's a technique. It's a brush. It's way more accessible and forgiving than brushes of old (which I try as I might, fail to see as a bad thing in the grand scheme of things), but still - a brush is only as good as a person holding it. If you don't have a creative side, if you are not an artist, if you have no ideas, you will suck, and your art will ring hollow, AI or not.
@dave@davew By the way, you said "blogging", and I would say... Adobe Flash.
Remember this fucking thing? You're old enough, you must.
Yeah, it democratized multimedia on the Web, big time. It enabled a wave of creativity, the VAST majority of which was low-effort ugly at times racist crap. It was absolutely fucking revolting.
But for a LOT of people, it was either THIS means of expression, or none at all.
In the depth of all of this cruft, though, there were culture-defining diamonds forming. And after the shitstorm went away, the diamonds stayed. And a lot of creators moved on to greater things.
And that's almost any creative technology under the Sun.
Maybe I try to look for the sunny side of the street too often, but this is just funny to me. Many of the January 6th Insurrectionists now have felony records, and can no longer own a firearm. THEY TOOK AWAY THEIR OWN GUNS! LOL
Just throwing it out there now, preemptively: any suspect flags you see hanging from my house, any insurrections that I may or may not have taken part in, any World War II or civil war memorabilia that you may find prominently displayed in my house...
My wife did it! Blame her! That woman doesn't know how to act!
@mekkaokereke meanwhile at my place there's a 100% chance that any spite flags are my fault
Exhibit A: the pride flag I started flying because a first floor neighbor had someone come up on her patio and rip hers down. Bought her a replacement and got one for us too and we will get gayer every time someone tries it
(So I can actually relate to spite flags; just not to being a fascist dillweed)
#halflife #halflife2 #portal #blackmesa #gaming #ai #althistory #analoguehorror #analog #horrorstories #scifi #alien #aliens CBS report on the Incident at t...
