BodyBySisyphus

A 2023 report for the Department of Canadian Heritage recommended that 330 of the 553 names listed on the monument's Wall of Remembrance be removed due to potential links to Nazis or fascist groups

Heck of a vetting process they had there.

Addendum: The unintentional metaphor has more layers than a mille crepe cake:

A December 2024 internal report by the National Capital Commission estimated that the lifetime cost of maintenance had increased to at least $1 million from the original $240,000. The report also indicated that cracks had already appeared that had been repaired at an approximate cost of $17,000.

If you burned a bread loaf is it a catastrophe or is weeping so falling down a hole of hyperbole?

Lmao, the biodynamics one is gold.

Wired has been running a lot of paid pro-AI content along the lines of "a small cohort of early adopters has cracked the code and if you don't hop on now you'll never catch up" so I'm assuming there's a wave of doubling down coming.

I'm sorry, have you not seen how much materiel (cw: lib) Ukraine has destroyed lately? Russia's economy is in free fall, their defeat is inevitable.

Seriously, though, it's gonna be denial til the collective amnesia kicks in just in time for the war with Venezuela to kick off.

Coolidge Effect enjoyers stay winning

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"You can do anything when you want when you grow up.""J/k you were an idiot for believing that, should have learned to code.""J/k learning to code was pointless, have you tried throwing your body into the imperial war machine or eating shit and dying?"

Is the takeaway here that people whose academic talent as children allowed them to be functional enough to go without mental health treatment that probably would've helped prevent them from being unable to manage when all the structure and scaffolding support that previously seemed invisible is abruptly removed in adulthood is analogous to a reasonably good high school football player whose career ended due to an injury that likely occurred because children are being pushed to play on a similar level to adults whose lives are effectively over at 35 due to the compounding effects of successive brain injuries?

Am I missing the forest for the trees or are these two distinct symptoms of the same failing system?

That can sometimes backfire on the prosecution, though. OJ Simpson got acquitted.

Yeah, point being that even the privileged tier of the healthcare system can't do much to protect you from long Covid, so now the way that society is treating female bodies is being presented as a newly salient issue when less privileged femmes have been discussing it for a while.

There were men too—Fauci, of course, among others—but Biden’s women seemed to play a specific role. They offered confident reassurance and normalcy, especially to other women, who had reason to be concerned about Covid....I call these propagandists Biden’s “handmaidens,” because of the sacrificial role they played on the frontline of Covid minimization, an essentially patriarchal project....I’d like to propose a fifth wave of feminism that is really grounded in our bodies and aware of how all of the structures that build our society are designed to benefit men and their bodies.

I get the point that the author is making - the selection of Kamala Harris as VP tells us all we need to know about the Biden admin's cynical use of identity to engineer compliance with its policies, and it seems uncontroversial to conclude that the fact that many of the prominent officials responsible both for promulgating covid policy and absorbing the inevitable blowback were women is not a coincidence. But the "fifth wave of feminism" part seems to overlook the conversations that have already taken place about this topic. Covid normalization might be a novel manifestation, but for Black women the idea that their bodies are of secondary (or worse) concern is probably not a revelatory one. The novelty is now that the consequences - largely because they're being administered by a virus that doesn't respond well to the implicit social conventions governing the value of a human being - are hitting privileged women, too.

You played an impressively long game

Right now I'm feeling like I'm working through a lot of frustration related to the fact that even if LLMs don't actually and never end up actually working, if they're good enough to fool enough people who make actual decisions (which seems to be the case in part because those people are particularly vulnerable) then things end up going to pot anyway.

I gave it a second look, and it really is just the guy giving himself permission to do something he knew he wanted to do via a computer, isn't it?

Arresting cop does not find gun and manifesto at the scene.Arresting cop turns off body cam.While body cam is off, arresting cop meets with another cop.Gun and manifesto miraculously found.

They're so incompetent at this and the only thing that could possibly lead to conviction is juror stupidity.

It's also funny given that they're all promising to build these massive data centers that haven't even broken ground or are sitting totally empty.

Publishing all those excerpts probably had the opposite of the desired impact.