outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 10/07/2026After 1.5 billion years, algae is having its moment. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 09/05/2026So, I asked ChatGPT a simple math problem: so solve 4 equations in 4 unknowns. Back it came, after a number of computations with what it announced as the solution. It was incorrect. 100
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released" In this administration any kind of approval process can only have as its purpose extortion and bribery, and nothing else. You thought it was about AI safety? You wanna play, you gotta pay. And we know you got plenty to pay with. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Had this problem with random colorings and suddenly this particular set of colors appeared and the thing hit me like a piece of modern art representing a distorted face, one red eye on the right, blue eye left, dark blue nostrils and a rivulet of fanciful colors running down the face in between. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Yeah, evil, mind-destroying Chat GPT can also do this. 000
Reposted by @outtaflushing.bsky.socialPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse” 273064937
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 16/01/2026And, right on time (Inside Higher Ed): Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner "...the 57th consecutive annual MLK dinner, which was first convened in 1969." This was on Tuesday, in a letter to the campus from the Chancellor-the dinner is not mentioned until literally the last two lines. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Krugman has a nice post on Venezuelan oil: the accepted level of "reserves" is a sham, and the oil is too heavy to be profitable to refine - oil prices now are too low. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-empero...paulkrugman.substack.comThe Emperor’s New Oil WealthThe truth behind Trump’s black, sticky fantasy 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I recall how I used to love seeing Federal buildings, and the Great Seal of the United States near the entrance. My country. The seal, a modest identification, and nothing more is needed, you know what it stands for. The Constitution, justice, order, backed up by unshakeable institutions. 100
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Random encounter: "Our experience of extremes (happy Emerson, black‐hearted Melville, light and dark as simple as virtue and wickedness in a Congressman's election speech) makes all Americans radicals. Our normal view is that if everything isn't terrific, it stinks." 1972, John Gardner, NY Times 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 18/12/2025NY Times: Three senators who quit on why Congress won’t stand up to Trump (on the other hand, who better to ask...) 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 03/11/2025"World Liberty Financial might want to sell to the broader public, but what they essentially serve as is the drop box for people who want to give money to Trump. That means, UAE princes, sovereign wealth funds and financial criminals from overseas.." Jacob Silverman w. Krugman on K's substack 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Opened the NY Times. Saw this. Closed it. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 14/10/2025"[V]iewpoint diversity ... is anything but a plea for real 'intellectual diversity.' It is a duplicitous performance, ... needed to provide cover for the real aims: eroding the core mission and functioning of the university." www.chronicle.com/article/view...chronicle.comViewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA PlotDefenses of the policy miss the political point. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 30/09/2025NY Times: "President Trump’s posting of a deepfake video mocking and insulting the top two Democrats in Congress underscored the lack of progress toward any deal to extend funding." Oh, that's how we underscore lack of progress these days? Via racist, ugly, deepfakes? The new NYT standard. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025To all the MAGA governors offering up their children to show allegiance to Trump: Leviticus 18:21: "You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God". Not that it matters to them of course. Either as Christians or humans. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Carlos Alcaraz demands of his team to explain why he is the only public figure who was forced to comment on Trump attending the US Open final - everyone else just dived for cover. (PS: He did a petty good job dancing around that one.) 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Ok let's compromise: The Department of War, What is it Good For. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Suddenly relevant: Phil Ochs, "Love me, I'm a Liberal": Sure, once I was young and impulsive I wore every conceivable pin Even went to socialist meetings Learned all the old union hymns Ah, but I've grown older and wiser And that's why I'm turning you in So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal 021
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 04/08/20251) If political correctness has achieved one thing, it's to make the Conservative party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language. 2) There's a whole generation who've confused political correctness with health and safety legislation. Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand-Up Ever! (2008) 010
Reposted by @outtaflushing.bsky.socialMike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Yesterday, I joined MPP Bobbi Ann Brady and Drew Spoelstra, President of OFA, in Hamilton to present a farmer-led vision for protecting farmland in Ontario. 1/2 22210
Reposted by @outtaflushing.bsky.socialShawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me? 32077726299
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Nice column by Paul Krugman on his substack today, arguing for a robust European response to Trump's trade/tariff threats. As usual, credible, informative and reasonable and perfect for the economically untrained such as yours truly. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...paulkrugman.substack.comA Letter to EuropeYou’re stronger than you think. Act like it. 021
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 14/05/2025NY Times. Any comment by me would simply detract from its perfection. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 25/04/2025How have we arrived here? Saw this earlier but now it's everywhere and taken seriously, everyone quietly panicking. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Rubio yells nonsense on ABC 1) "[Z.] wanted to come over on Friday to sign this commercial deal" ?? 2) "[Trump's] trying to get Russia to the table..we haven't talked to them in three years." Huh? (see 2/19 US-Russia talks) 3) "Zelenskyy..found every opportunity to try to Ukraine-splain" WTF?reuters.comUS and Russia forge ahead on peace talks, without UkraineU.S. and Russian officials held more than four hours of talks in Riyadh. 020
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 17/02/2025This morning's roundup of the past weekend's stories, in the Guardian UK. : Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The attack on data, part n. Not crucial yet (midst govt chaos, corruption, and job loss) but part of the plan. The more hidden, the less we can resist, the more they pick and choose what to show. Shutting main source of ed. data access, aggregation research. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...insidehighered.com$900M in Institute of Education Sciences contracts axedThe National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. 030
Reposted by @outtaflushing.bsky.socialImmunopolitics @immunopolitics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Nothing quite beats using all the benefits of the British state and education to "escape" to an authorative petrostate which uses indentured servitude of hundreds of thousands of people to help keep your income tax low. Makes you feel patriotic 🇬🇧 1817
Reposted by @outtaflushing.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Compare Bondi's memo, which characterizes DOJ attorneys as "the president's lawyers," with this memo that Ted Olson, who was then Reagan's OLC chief, sent to AG William French Smith in 1982. knightcolumbia.org/documents/jw... 22799310
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025A question: So, when will Trump try to revoke the citizenship of Americans, e.g. a threat to the homeland, or as "enemies of the people"? If they're naturalized, revoke and deport. Citizens by birth, seize their passport, freeze financial accounts, require registration. Who stops him? 031
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Gotta say Bluesky is like a delirious party today of wacky Trump/MAGA clips, media slamming, Biden bashing, a competition of dystopian futures, knowing that everyone is going to have to wake up tomorrow and get "marched...back down to the beans". ("Riot"/Bukowski) 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Lordy! Don't need any more Tik Tok discussions, keep it, can it, don't care. Meaningless videos, insipid or clever so what. Petabytes of Chinese data about nothing. Take credit, give blame why agonize about who gets either? The absolute nadir of issues. Thank you for listening. Or for not. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Report from X: Clicked on X for a look. Bad drivers, herd dogs, then a post from Greg Abbott mocking Biden for announcing FEMA's $770 grant. I thought, "What's this crap?" Reader corrects, noting it's only for immediate assistance. Whatta cesspool! Then remembered I was on X. Bye bye. 020
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024First thought: Do not turn the sound on. DO NOT TURN THE SOUND ON. 010
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Ok, gotta ask a couple of obvious questions: Why does the future of our country, seem dependent on two private citizens, Marc Elias (legally protecting the election system) and Peter Hotez (authoritatively speaking for the vaccination system, developing new vaccines, advising on pandemics)? 120
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Guardian seems much better - i.e. more normal, relatively - than US papers. I haven't noticed them trying to euphemise away a lot of glaringly outrageous comments, actions, nominations of Trump & the MAGA hordes. Nowhere near NY Times territory. 000
outtaflushing.bsky.social @outtaflushing.bsky.social · 02/12/2024And next Dem president can appoint Hunter as ambassador to Ukraine. 010
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