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What do you do when you oust a klepocracy?
Do you let bygones be bygones? Do you pardon them for “unity?”
No. You prosecute the crap out of them and every crooked deal they ran until they are smoldering piles of ash. Then you prosecute the ashes.
@AnarchoNinaWrites How long until social media explodes with "Dolly is alive!" conspiracy theories?
@DeanFarrell man, I'm pretty sure someone is already registering the domains for that website now...
💥#AI models now work reasonably well to be useful automations across many domains
😲the <50 TB of memory used to train a frontier LLM is equivalent to < 1 year of Pornhub’s new content.
😥The mere fact there is more porn than knowledge speaks volume about our stalling progress
Judge says FIU violated first amendment rights of anti-ICE student protesters https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-news/judge-says-fiu-violated-first-amendment-rights-of-anti-ice-student-protesters/
Add John Brown and Dolly Parton to Rushmore. Well, not Rushmore. Maybe Stone Mountain. We’ll find a big rockface.
@paninid Stone Mountain is overdue for a face lift.
Well, my humbugs aside - Dolly has literally obliterated the front page of almost every newspaper I read. Her passing is quite simply "the news."
Doubt you can say the same for many other people in history - including beloved and talented artists or musicians. This almost Elvis level news.
@AnarchoNinaWrites How long until social media explodes with "Dolly is alive!" conspiracy theories?
Money is the acid of the soul.
A little helps neutralize life's bitterness.
A little more can add flavour.
Too much and it starts to eat you away.
That's why truly good rich people work to give their money away, diluting it with care for their neighbors. It's also why those who instead choose to concentrate their wealth inevitably become monsters.
Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special Operations Goons to Tail a Guy Driving ICE Out Signs
emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/s...
Stephen Miller Sent 9 Special ...
Nobody: "Hey Irick, what are you doing with your polycule for date night?"
Me: "We are 3 hours into a lecture series on Gnosticism. I provided notes."
in reverse: those who want to reduce the role of authority must (necessarily?) find ways and areas where they can reach full consensus, or alternatively if full consensus cannot be reached, a conflict resolution method that is more equitable to its subjects (such as negotiation of boundaries between zones where certain terms apply or don't apply)
if we call these zones "networks", then by the principle of free association we must allow people to be part of different networks wherever they disagree on terms. or in other words: the network is defined by the terms you accept.
various people have opined that the differentiating factor of fedi is in choosing which *legal* or *service* terms you accept, but on a technical level you also have to consider the *semantic* terms and what you are *capable* of saying or expressing
“You are enough. And anyone who tells you otherwise is not worth your time.” - Dolly Parton 💜
When the CV said “comfortable working independently”
Schon mal Gespenster üben.
Time to revisit the anti-tariff ad Doug Ford used on US TV networks? I'm sure lots of people wouldn't like this shared. Everywhere.
One of the great Dolly Parton performances is this unscheduled session from 1990.
Coat of Many Colours sung in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry, County Kerry 🇮🇪
I forgot about this one.
Rest in power, Dolly.
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