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The least believable part of the new Superman movie wasn't the flying Kryptonian. It was public opinion changing because of a single newspaper story when an army of mutant monkeys were shitposting on Lex Luthor's behalf.

Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.

Joe Davidson, a longtime Washington Post columnist, says he resigned after a column he wrote about Trump's policies was blocked for being "too opinionated" (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wapo-columni

WaPo Columnist Flames Jeff Bezos After Quitting in Protest
Joe Davidson said he left the paper after it spiked political commentary from his column.

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

This does say a lot about how easy it is to trick our brains into thinking that something is a person, just because they produce words.. I am quite surprised that the friends and family don't push back more though..
"‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots"

Recently I had a flashback to me telling a friend that I was about to start learning a new concept in programming. Classes. I remember feeling nervous because I felt it was this huge complicated topic, and I already felt my brain was 'full' so-to-speak with programming knowledge. Well that was years ago and now I can't imagine not using classes. It's amazing to look back and see progress! #coding

On the Jan. 6 attack, Republican leaders keep failing basic tests of self-awareness (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jan-6-attack-republican-leaders-keep-basic-tests-self-awareness-rcna217527
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p92#a250708p92

1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”

AI Angst

Your feelings are valid.
Just because your feelings are valid, it doesn’t mean your thinkings are valid.
I would very much like people to learn the difference.

Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.