2025-11-18 03:50:49
Furious progressives swarm Schumer's job as Democratic leader (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/schumer-democratic-leader-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p168#a251117p168
Furious progressives swarm Schumer's job as Democratic leader (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/schumer-democratic-leader-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p168#a251117p168
"It is a sin to interfere with another community’s ability to fulfill its covenant with God. Hills cannot shout for joy if their tops have been sheared off by strip-mining. Fish cannot swarm seas boiled by an ozone-depleted atmosphere."
—Professor Gregory Mobley writing in the new issue of Reflections, in a piece titled "God’s Eco-Network of Covenants."
Calen Bullock: 'Everybody knows we are the best defense' after Texans swarm Steelers in blowout win https://www.nfl.com/news/calen-bullock-everybody-knows-we-are-the-best-defense-after-texans-swarm-steelers-in-blowou…
Over 130 immigrants arrested in North Carolina as agents swarm churches in deportation crackdown | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlotte-nc-ice-trump-crackdown-b2866966.html
There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
Don't believe ICE claims that the woman in Minneapolis was trying to run them over. Eyewitness contradicts the lie:
https://www.fox9.com/news/police-swarm-scene-federal-law-enforcement-shooting-minneapolis
Squirrels at War: Drone Swarm
#writingcommunity #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Our attack on the pod ship had revealed our precise location to anyone who was paying attention. Gentle Ripple shifted course and accelerated. It was…
What is it like to live here now?
A message comes through from a neighbor about a swarm of ICE agents in a home just a few blocks away — gone by the time I was there to check it out. Nobody knows whether ICE abducted anyone there.
A message comes through from another neighbor trying to find support for a pregnant woman whose husband was just abducted. She cannot even figure out what she wants to ask for; she is in shock. I have no way to verify this story.
Group of vehicles at this restaurant, at that library, in this suburb. On and on.
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LIVE UPDATES: ICE shooting in Minneapolis leaves woman dead (Howard Thompson/FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul)
https://www.fox9.com/news/police-swarm-scene-federal-law-enforcement-shooting-minneapolis
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p88#a260107p88
🔥 UAVs already over PUTIN’S head! Swarm over MOSCOW! The Baltics anticipate WAR: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/uavs-already-over-putins-head.html
I spent some more time on AI coding evaluation tooling using the new #AWS open source Standard Operating Procedure system, and now I have an automated leader board. It rates the #Claude-flow hive mind version as better than the Claude-flow swarm version from a month before. Next step is to run some more …
I'm sure that VMS is completely documented, I just haven't found the
right manual yet. I've been working my way through the manuals in the document
library and I'm half way through the second cabinet, (3 shelves to go), so I
should find what I'm looking for by mid May. I hope I can remember what it
was by the time I find it.
I had this idea for a new horror film, "VMS Manuals from Hell" or maybe
"The Paper Chase : IBM vs. DEC". It's based on Hitchcock's "The Birds", except
that it's centered around a programmer who is attacked by a swarm of binder
pages with an index number and the single line "This page intentionally left
blank."
-- Alex Crain
Squirrels at War: Drifting Hulk
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #visualinspiration Earlier installments can be read from this page. *** Stone swarm still had 2…
ICE continues to terrorize MSP. It continues to be distressing and exhausting; the incredible volume of counter-organizing and community action continues to give me heart.
One thing that’s not surprising but I haven’t seen covered much: ICE is redlining. They swarm over very specific neighborhoods; the abductions (so far) happen almost entirely within clear boundaries. Those boundaries don’t entirely correspond to where immigrants live. They do, however, seem to correspond pretty closely to •political• boundaries that are / are not heavily white.
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Army № 39 Anthony Paradiso jumps in front of Cornell Quarterback № 18 Stefano Luis moments after Luis passed the ball in Sprint Football under the lights this Friday
#photo #photography #football
Baltimore:
Cops swarm and handcuff a student after an AI tool mistook his bag of Doritos for a weapon | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-gun-omnilert-high-school-student-doritos-baltimore-b2851977.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Expansions
Swarm Intelligence:
🎵 Deviant (Laven Remix)
#SwarmIntelligence
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://purehatetrax.bandcamp.com/track/deviant
https://open.spotify.com/track/41q85Ge100Inui4apKsS08