Looks like Trump verdict is in…this from yesterday:

Anyway, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi says “The jury’s refusal to go home between closing arguments might have been a good sign for former President Donald Trump..”

Am thinking Trump is found innocent quickly (by tomorrow) or gets a hung jury. Imagine having to go thru a trial *AGAIN* is one of your best hopes…Jeez!?

Doesn’t look like hung jury – sooOOOooo, Maybe…just maybe!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vy9oyjsagLo

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}}} South Korea attacks North Korea – North Korea strikes back w/ Biological attack! (sarc/)

Kim Jong Un drops hundreds of balloons filled with faeces and trash onto South Korea in retaliation for propaganda leaflets scattered over North Korea ‘which require effort to clean up’

Have to say, seems reasonable and proportional as a response. 😛

No. This is Deep State propaganda designed to keep the gullible TDSers in line.

This Real Big player in elections is Chinese money and the way it buys the silence of the Ruling Class. From tens of thousands of Chinese illegal immigrants, to money funding pro Hamas protests to monies buying Uncle Joe and his crime family — and those are merely tips of the iceberg.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/05/what-film-or-literature-is-useful-for-making-sense-of-the-ai-moment.html#comments

There are interesting answers.

Mine is the Russian SF series from several years ago, “Better Than You.” The premise of this family squabble turned noir and menacing is that the first robots mimicking human intelligence have arrived among us in the near future.

I found it arresting enough to re-watch middle and later parts; plotting gets dense with characters spread out over 15 or 18 episodes. Maybe, I will soon give it another round.

My discovery — or perhaps re-discovery? — is “Novacine.” Coming out in 2019, the book’s author was the late James Lovelock, and his last book at around age 101. (He passed a year or so later at 102.)

Lovelock was a physician turned atmospheric chemist, who gave us the Gaia Hypothesis — not the claim that the biosphere functions like a unified organism, but that in some or many or most ways literally is like an organism. A possibility with pregnant implications.

Big Thinking, even if you can poke holes in it. Novacene looks like a similar Big Think, but applied to the consequences of AI.

Funny stuff.

It reminds me of an old joke from some comedian – I forget who said it – that instead of getting married again, he’ll just find a woman he hates and buy her a house.

ah david corn, purveyor of the danchenko hoax, the romney 47% tape and other ephemera,

I mean they should be ashamed but are they ever, only the likes of kurt eichenwald, and for a time,

The director of national intelligence recently warned that Russia remains “the most active foreign threat to our elections.”

Seriously?

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1795892991221010622