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Is Bari Weiss now Trump’s Kapos? How she can she use the term free press when she cancels Colbert’s Talirico segment? Talirico is a voice of reason and we have freedom of press. I call for a boycott of CBS News and Paramount
Wait. What?!?!?!??? Bari Weiss has a wife???? You mean there is a person in the world with lower self-respect than Tony Dokoupil? And does the anti-DEI crowd at Fascist Clown HQ know of this? How can this be? Hopefully, Ms. Weiss' spouse will not be performing a disparaging tight 10 in front of any of the Goon Gestapo, er, uh, ICE agents.
She is a creature of the wealthy and the wealthy have convinced themselves that they truly do know better and understand more than the simpletons with things like expertise, knowledge, and experience.
After all if they were anything more than dullards they would be wealthy or agree with the wealthy person. And of course there are always Bari's that exist to ensure the wealthy know that they really are the most special people. After all their ranks include the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Commenting here because I am so goddamned livid about everything else at the moment that I'm going to make myself sick and while this is infuriating and pathetic it's infuriating and pathetic in almost nostalgic way.
"TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post that he was the one shouting at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation." I hope he's suspended with pay, enjoys a few days off on Ford's time, and returns to work triumphant.
Haha, "voiced concerns to the President". Sure, I guess you can say that yelling out that he's a pedophile enabler is a way of voicing concerns. Certainly having a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and a possible pedophile in the highest office in the land is of concern to me.
𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝟭% 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟳 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝟱𝟭% 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁; 𝟳𝟯% 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗻 — Schools nationwide are cracking down on students' cellphone use. At the same time, support for cellphone bans is rising among U.S. adults.
I work with kids that age. A quarter to a half of what they're doing on their cell phones, in class, is texting their parents.
And I don't think a ban is the right solution in high school. It might be appropriate for younger kids, but the point of high school is to prepare students for life after school. Colleges and employers aren't going to keep bugging them about their phones, they're just going to fail or fire them if they can't figure out how to set it aside and get shit done. They need to learn how to start balancing this thing that will always be in their pockets and the rest of their lives. And I don't think a complete ban on phones helps them get there.
Again, a ban in elementary schools might make more sense, and might get students better prepared to figuring out that balance in their teens. But I'll listen to elementary school teachers on that question.
I mean I fully understand placing them aside during a test, but I honestly prefer to be able to contact my son when he's at school, or on his way home. And no, I don't trust him to remember to get his phone from the office every day.
I am just curious, because I am VERY OPPOSED to parents contacting their children during the school day, what do you have to contact them about that cannot wait until lunch or after school? I get very, «In my day, we didn't have cellphones!" but I am will to hear parents out.
Mainly it's contacting him on the way home ... unless he's forgotten his lunch or needs to contact us for something. Especially now that he's taking the city bus too and from school.
Wouldn't that be the people who created Gork? I mean if someone got an artist to draw a third party nude, the artist would bear some of the liability right?
This will be interesting to watch. It will affect how these tools are categorized. I suspect the FCC will say (under section 230) that the poster bears all the blame, not the company who created the AI.
Well, good! I slept MOST of last night through after waking up for a few minutes at about midnight when I ended up finishing an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I managed not to nap yesterday thereby creating the sleep deficiet I need to get through the night. There will be no nap today as I have lunch with friends at 11:30 in OKC and after that, I head down to Austin for a couple of days in the office. There will be no napping those days either. Hopefully by the time I get back Saturday I'll be back to sleeping nights through and done with my siesta phase (it was fun).
I enjoyed Mathra v. Godzilla very much last night. Great fight scenes. I happen to enjoy the guy-walking-around-in-a-big-suit era of these particular films. These's something about how the monsters' limited mobility that I love. It keeps them from being OVERLY powerful, one of my big complaints about the bad guys in superhero movies (not really a fan, personally). Tonight is another kaiju flix by Ishiro Honda, but not Godzilla.
Not looking forward to taking my tax money down to Vichy Texas. Oklahoma is ruby red, but it's not like THAT crazy place, especially Norman isn't. Austin likes to brag that it's a blue oasis, but "blue" is a relative term. Most dems in TX would be moderate MAGA GQP pieces of trash anywhere else, though I do think that social pressure is good for my boss as even she seems baffled by all that is happening.
Saturday night is the event celebrating drivers for the needle exchange. Looking forward to it. I hope lots of participants show up! I would really like to get to know some of them!
You're quite right about TexASSSSSSSSSSSSS. I unfortunately lived there at one time and your characterizations of Austin (destroyed by techbros beyond recognition now, alas) and Democrats in Texassss are exactly correct.
Is Bari Weiss now Trump’s Kapos? How she can she use the term free press when she cancels Colbert’s Talirico segment? Talirico is a voice of reason and we have freedom of press. I call for a boycott of CBS News and Paramount
I'm starting to think 60 Minutes is never going to air this CECOT segment.
Have I mentioned in the last 24 hours exactly how pathetic Bari Weiss is?
Wait. What?!?!?!??? Bari Weiss has a wife???? You mean there is a person in the world with lower self-respect than Tony Dokoupil? And does the anti-DEI crowd at Fascist Clown HQ know of this? How can this be? Hopefully, Ms. Weiss' spouse will not be performing a disparaging tight 10 in front of any of the Goon Gestapo, er, uh, ICE agents.
She is a creature of the wealthy and the wealthy have convinced themselves that they truly do know better and understand more than the simpletons with things like expertise, knowledge, and experience.
After all if they were anything more than dullards they would be wealthy or agree with the wealthy person. And of course there are always Bari's that exist to ensure the wealthy know that they really are the most special people. After all their ranks include the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Commenting here because I am so goddamned livid about everything else at the moment that I'm going to make myself sick and while this is infuriating and pathetic it's infuriating and pathetic in almost nostalgic way.
Or, as they like to call themselves, "Our betters".
Bari Weiss: The "nurse trainee Pittman" of journalism....
Ugh, BariUM ENEMA Weiss is a lesbian? We do NOT WANT HER (or her emetic wife.) Take her back!
Tony should have kept his old job as stay at home house husband.
I'm sure he had to be better at it than he is with this gig!
Bang! Zoom! To the moon Alice!
*canned laughter*
If there weren't double standards they'd have no standards at all.
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The Ford worker has been suspended for making a good point. Trump, who responded by swearing and giving the guy the finger, is keeping his job.
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrlurie.com/post/3mceya4glhc2r
Funny, when Ford workers heckled Obama, there were no repercussions.
"TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post that he was the one shouting at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation." I hope he's suspended with pay, enjoys a few days off on Ford's time, and returns to work triumphant.
Investigation of what, exactly? Speaking the truth, I guess.
Glad I've never bought a Ford.
Here's the Go Fund Me page.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ford-worker-tj-sabula-during-suspension
Currently at $279,921
Bummer. Suspended "without pay."
If he's permanently fired he better get a life preserver before the flood of donations drown him.
I'm guessing there will be job offers, too.
Haha, "voiced concerns to the President". Sure, I guess you can say that yelling out that he's a pedophile enabler is a way of voicing concerns. Certainly having a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and a possible pedophile in the highest office in the land is of concern to me.
Of course nothing he said to McShitspants was incorrect. Hope the union gets him back pay
Also, not gonna help you Ford. He’s already said out loud what he thinks of auto manufacturers.
He already has a GoFundMe. As he says...
"I don't feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that."
Well dump is a pedo protector. That’s just a fact.
"I'M GETTING RICH OFF THIS."
I dunno about "rich" but he might not have to worry about paying his bills for a couple of months.
Currently at $279,921
Well, I can't put it off any longer.
Walkies, followed by breakfast. Later, all.
Are you on a massive protein and non-carb diet right now?
Because then you should twizzle your wanger at your neighbors.
o_O
He can twizzle and be free!
Okay. It’s early in the morning. And I recognize that a lot of folks are getting ready to do whatever they do.
But I found this 30+ minute video fascinating, although not encouraging. I have added the channel to those I will follow who are making good trouble.
https://youtu.be/5Idb_D4Tdu8
Make Good Trouble has a whole new connotation now
Early morning conundrum.
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I like big butts but I lie constantly. I don't even like big butts
https://bsky.app/profile/jackbern.bsky.social/post/3mceum2f2v224
Very confusing..So are big butts good or bad?
Yes.
Big Butts are relative. And my favorite video - Sir Mix-A-Lot with the Seattle Symphony. Just look at all those butts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyVUF470hPs&list=RDAyVUF470hPs&start_radio=1
If I asked your friend whether you liked big butts, would he buy me a pint and insist we ignored your stupid ass for the rest of the day?
Pew Research Center:
𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: 𝟰𝟭% 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟳 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝟱𝟭% 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁; 𝟳𝟯% 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗻 — Schools nationwide are cracking down on students' cellphone use. At the same time, support for cellphone bans is rising among U.S. adults.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/13/about-4-in-10-teens-support-cellphone-bans-in-classrooms-fewer-back-all-day-restrictions/
30% couldn’t be surveyed. They were on the phone.
I may have loudly disagreed to this if I was their age but: This decision is not theirs to make.
Agreed. Part of being a child is having to turn over decisions to people with more wisdom and experience.
yeah right, that never worked for me!
Take their phones. Give ‘em weed. You’ll still see a marked improvement on standardized tests.
I spend enough time waking kids up as it is.
Bags and bags of Cheetos.
I work with kids that age. A quarter to a half of what they're doing on their cell phones, in class, is texting their parents.
And I don't think a ban is the right solution in high school. It might be appropriate for younger kids, but the point of high school is to prepare students for life after school. Colleges and employers aren't going to keep bugging them about their phones, they're just going to fail or fire them if they can't figure out how to set it aside and get shit done. They need to learn how to start balancing this thing that will always be in their pockets and the rest of their lives. And I don't think a complete ban on phones helps them get there.
Again, a ban in elementary schools might make more sense, and might get students better prepared to figuring out that balance in their teens. But I'll listen to elementary school teachers on that question.
Also, parents and adults need to support student by NOT FUCKING TEXTING THEM WHILE THEY ARE IN CLASS.
I mean I fully understand placing them aside during a test, but I honestly prefer to be able to contact my son when he's at school, or on his way home. And no, I don't trust him to remember to get his phone from the office every day.
I am just curious, because I am VERY OPPOSED to parents contacting their children during the school day, what do you have to contact them about that cannot wait until lunch or after school? I get very, «In my day, we didn't have cellphones!" but I am will to hear parents out.
Mainly it's contacting him on the way home ... unless he's forgotten his lunch or needs to contact us for something. Especially now that he's taking the city bus too and from school.
Nice start, but much more is needed.
𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀
The bill allows the victims of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes to sue the people who create and host them.
https://www.engadget.com/ai/senate-passes-defiance-act-for-a-second-time-to-address-grok-deepfakes-212151712.html
Wouldn't that be the people who created Gork? I mean if someone got an artist to draw a third party nude, the artist would bear some of the liability right?
No. He’d get rich off the paintings. But yeah. True.
This will be interesting to watch. It will affect how these tools are categorized. I suspect the FCC will say (under section 230) that the poster bears all the blame, not the company who created the AI.
Ah but the AI is doing more than hosting it, it's creating the photo.
Well, good! I slept MOST of last night through after waking up for a few minutes at about midnight when I ended up finishing an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I managed not to nap yesterday thereby creating the sleep deficiet I need to get through the night. There will be no nap today as I have lunch with friends at 11:30 in OKC and after that, I head down to Austin for a couple of days in the office. There will be no napping those days either. Hopefully by the time I get back Saturday I'll be back to sleeping nights through and done with my siesta phase (it was fun).
I enjoyed Mathra v. Godzilla very much last night. Great fight scenes. I happen to enjoy the guy-walking-around-in-a-big-suit era of these particular films. These's something about how the monsters' limited mobility that I love. It keeps them from being OVERLY powerful, one of my big complaints about the bad guys in superhero movies (not really a fan, personally). Tonight is another kaiju flix by Ishiro Honda, but not Godzilla.
Not looking forward to taking my tax money down to Vichy Texas. Oklahoma is ruby red, but it's not like THAT crazy place, especially Norman isn't. Austin likes to brag that it's a blue oasis, but "blue" is a relative term. Most dems in TX would be moderate MAGA GQP pieces of trash anywhere else, though I do think that social pressure is good for my boss as even she seems baffled by all that is happening.
Saturday night is the event celebrating drivers for the needle exchange. Looking forward to it. I hope lots of participants show up! I would really like to get to know some of them!
You're quite right about TexASSSSSSSSSSSSS. I unfortunately lived there at one time and your characterizations of Austin (destroyed by techbros beyond recognition now, alas) and Democrats in Texassss are exactly correct.
Suitmation is the best!
And that was hard work, those were heavy suits.
Yes, you can tell by the way they move that it's cumbersome!