A great new tune from master musicians Richie Kotzen, Billy Sheehan, and Mike Portnoy, with an absolutely monstrous guitar solo.
Official Music Video for “Stars” from the album III available here:
linktr.eeThe Winery Dogs are:
Richie Kotzen (guitar/vocals)
Billy Sheehan (bass/vocals)
Mike Portnoy (drums/vocals)
LMAO
What a fucking jive-ass clown.
Yeah, it’s “temporary” because all those “scrapers” won’t be back within milliseconds of reopening, amirite?
Clown. https://t.co/mZtTFGZR3A— Charles Johnson, bona fide (@Green_Footballs) July 1, 2023
There’s some new technology called an Application Programming Interface that could make the information easily available and stop the scraping.
OT: Weight loss update.
Around the end of May, I hopped on the scale and I was 143 pounds. That is probably not much to any of you but it’s the heaviest I’ve ever been (I am not a tall man).
So I’ve been focused on eating better and exercising more in June and I’ve purposefully not weighed myself in 30 days to give these changes time to have some effect.
Today is July 1st. So I hopped on the scale this morning and…
Needless to say, I’m happy! 💪🏼❤️
Now to keep pushing…
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Good job! That’s wonderful.
Moved from the last thread:
re: #336 wrenchwench
They already do ‘Show us your fruits’ at the California border. All of Florida is within 100 miles of a national border. They’ll do whatever they want until they’re stopped.
Not just that, but Florida is implementing Stasi-type crap.
There aren’t enough cops in the state to enforce this bullshit, so they’re trying to get citizens to enforce it for them: If you allow someone in your vehicle who is undocumented, you go to jail. The idea is to get citizens to enforce the law for them out of fear of being arrested.
Don’t call Republicans fascists though, it hurts their feelings and brings out the charges of “where’s the civility” from the media and centrists.
re: #1 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
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There’s some new technology called an Application Programming Interface that could make the information easily available and stop the scraping.
Elmo’s full of shit, the investors are demanding he make back some of the 59% in lost ad revenue and his “solution” is to use a “temporary emergency” to force power users to pay him the privilege of using the service.
FFS, Musk, just put a bullet in its head and be done with it. Put it out of its fucking misery.
re: #1 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I just get a “something went wrong” page from Twitter now. So, improved?
re: #5 Targetpractice
Elmo’s full of shit, the investors are demanding he make back some of the 59% in lost ad revenue and his “solution” is to use a “temporary emergency” to force power users to pay him the privilege of using the service.
FFS, Musk, just put a bullet in its head and be done with it. Put it out of its fucking misery.
I know. I was just joking about his lockdown of the API followed by this ridiculous scraping excuse. He’s not just full of shit. He’s obvious about it.
Elon Musk bought himself a $44 billion self-beclownment engine.
— Charles Johnson, bona fide (@Green_Footballs) July 1, 2023
from downstairs:
re: #338 wrenchwench
Decatur Deb got me into Penzey’s. I wish he’d come back.
Me, too. Not because of spices. I just loved how his mind works. Just like I love how your mind works!
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Congratulations!
However, be assured that we do _not_ want to see less of you here!
ETA: Oh yes, And Happy Canada Day!
re: #8 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I know. I was just joking about his lockdown of the API followed by this ridiculous scraping excuse. He’s not just full of shit. He’s obvious about it.
His only true skill — and it is a real one — is in marketing products. In the past, he had taken over companies that had not been successful in selling their products. In this case, he took over a thriving business (if you ignore its historical lack of profitability) and has no one running it except himself by fiat; he does not have the technical skills or knowledge for this role. And has worked hard at destroying all features that made it so attractive to its users.
Bluesky is running very slow now, probably because people driven off Twitter are finally using their invite codes.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Checking to see if I got an invite. I signed up months ago.
Senator Megan Hunt
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In contrast, @USRepMikeFlood and Atty Gen @mikehilgers actually got paid back MORE than they took out in PPP loans because their interest was also forgiven.
Today they celebrated the Supreme Court decision to screw over working Americans who have done everything right.
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“I borrowed $64,500 for grad school in 2008. 12 years of repayments later, I owe $108,500”
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
OT: Weight loss update.
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Needless to say, I’m happy! 💪🏼❤️
Now to keep pushing…
I’ve been sick the past 10 days. I lost 8 pounds from 144. Now I’m off to McDs to put some of that back on.
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When he was a state senator, Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE1) took out $835,592 under the Paycheck Protection Program, and was forgiven $840,306.
Since the DNC isn’t interested in advertising against Nebraska Republican hypocrisy (and he won in a very close race in a special election after Rep. Mike Fortenberry was convicted of taking foreign campaign contributions in a literal brown paper bag), he’ll probably get reëlected.
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The only person responsible to repay a loan, is the person who applied for the loan. The Supreme Court made the right decision in finding Biden’s student loan bailout unconstitutional.
Read my full statement here: bit.ly
Of course Musk is playing up “Data Scrapers” because it implies higher value for twitter content. Content being the reason people come to twitter at all.
But then he jerks the content creators, as well as us proles around, and makes accessing the diminishing amount of content difficult. And drives off the advertisers as well.
Monetizing the magats and nazis doesnt work because nobody else likes them. And because they have neither useful content nor money.
It also doesn’t help that, on top of everything else, Musk is unlikeable.
re: #371 Nerdy Fish
Twitter’s dead. Once you start implementing read limits, it’s dead.
If Twitter is dead, and no one notices that it’s dead, is it really dead?
re: #22 Ace Rothstein
re: #371 Nerdy Fish
Twitter’s dead. Once you start implementing read limits, it’s dead.
If Twitter is dead, and no one notices that it’s dead, is it really dead?
like I said downstairs…it’s just pining for the fjords
If Elmo is killing Twitter intentionally, who benefits?
re: #26 jaunte
If Elmo is killing Twitter intentionally, who benefits?
Authoritarian states which invested in his takeover loan like Saudi Arabia.
re: #19 Backwoods Sleuth
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Well, here’s apparently what’s going on:
Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site
Musk said that verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day. For unverified accounts, the number drops drastically to 600 posts a day.
Those numbers are interesting. The 6,000 number is definitely going to keep data scrapers from getting accounts and scraping on behalf of them.
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So maybe he has an arrangement to make his losses up on the back end.
The Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers (who carried the case Nebraska v Biden to its conclusion), would like you to know today he has sympathy for those burdened by student loan debt, since both he and his wife had it a generation ago when college was much less expensive.
He also had $297,043 forgiven under the Paycheck Protection Program.
re: #30 mmmirele
Well, here’s apparently what’s going on:
Those numbers are interesting. The 6,000 number is definitely going to keep data scrapers from getting accounts and scraping on behalf of them.
IMO the “data scrapers” line is nothing but an excuse. You can’t “temporarily” stop data scrapers by doing something like this; they’ll be back as soon as you lift the restrictions, within milliseconds.
I’ll take this one
Many of us feel that there is nothing that Black people can do to prevent white people from believing this nonsense
A thread. https://t.co/0HkR9mKFCP— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 30, 2023
re: #34 retired cynic
I am so privileged! I am still reading and posting tweets! You may kiss my t-shirt sleeve.
2018:
Why Saudi Arabia Would Want to Invest in Elon Musk and Tesla
“…according to Musk, who recently made news when he talked and tweeted about taking Tesla private, the investors controlling Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund have approached him multiple times since the beginning of last year. Most recently at a meeting on July 31 which, according to his blog post, Musk left “with no question that a deal with the Saudi sovereign fund could be closed, and that it was just a matter of getting the process moving.”
“…There are some ways that Musk may mesh well with Saudi investors.* As spelled out in a new series of interviews in Wired UK, Musk abhors red tape and the status quo, and will throw everything at making his vision real.”
*authoritarians
re: #33 Charles Johnson
IMO the “data scrapers” line is nothing but an excuse. You can’t “temporarily” stop data scrapers by doing something like this; they’ll be back as soon as you lift the restrictions, within milliseconds.
I know that and you know that, but the vast majority of blue checks don’t know that, and the vast majority of people who might be inclined to get a blue check don’t know that.
Anyway, thanks to whoever posted that Trump tried to push Ducey to overturn the 2020 results. I don’t respect Doug Ducey at all, but I suspect he understood that doing something like this might really upset people. And November/December in south central Arizona is *REALLY* nice weather.
Yesterday, Lincoln, Nebr. Journal-Star. TL;DR, the government is claiming a cyberattack occurred on the court system’s internal Intranet.
Nebraska Judicial Branch attacked by hackers, but no sensitive data compromised (yesterday)
The Nebraska Judicial Branch’s internal intranet was attacked by hackers this week.
But State Court Administrator Corey Steel said Friday: “There was no compromise of sensitive data related to court cases or personally identifiable information.”
He said on Wednesday morning the Administrative Office of Courts and Probation was informed of a claimed cyberattack on the Judicial Branch internal intranet.
They immediately began reviewing logs of the intranet to determine the nature and scope of the attack.
“Through the course of the investigation, a screenshot of our intranet site was found and posted by the group claiming the attack. The Nebraska Judicial Branch intranet was targeted along with governmental entities in other states,” Steel said in a statement.
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They do not name these other states.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
IMO the “data scrapers” line is nothing but an excuse. You can’t “temporarily” stop data scrapers by doing something like this; they’ll be back as soon as you lift the restrictions, within milliseconds.
From what this guy is seeing, Twitter is DDOSing itself because of the new access controls:
losing my mind if this is actually the explanation. choosing to believe this as it is the funniest and simplest answer pic.twitter.com/1bG7WdmA0Q
— yuuko from nichijou (@headfallsoff) July 1, 2023
LOL!
Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
re: #34 retired cynic
They should feel no different than us whites who have been given advantages for hundreds of years.
Stop seeing yourself as the default.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 1, 2023
You know, looking at Elmo’s latest self-beclowning, I’m starting to think that Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery doesn’t go far enough in its portrayal of techbros. Elmo has no deep understanding when it comes to all things science. He is, quite honestly, a joke. This has been pointed out as long as he’s been in public life. Scientists can tell immediately, but theTwitterati who get their information from the same place as him (presumably, Michael Bay films), simply can’t.
He has no engineering background. It’s called “business-science”. It’s an MBA with a couple 101 STEM courses thrown in.
The man shouldn’t be near a computer.
re: #34 retired cynic
For those who can’t read the tread at Twitter because everyone without an account is still blocked, it can be read on Twitter’s syndication site.
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I love you, white people.And now, now that I’ve said that. You can’t complain about anything I’ve ever said in life. See how it works?
This thread is race-neutral.
syndication.twitter.com (thread, fifteen tweets)
re: #44 teleskiguy
And as Aristotle once wisely noted, “When you’ve lost Catturd, then it’s game over, man.”
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
You know, looking at Elmo’s latest self-beclowning, I’m starting to think that Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery doesn’t go far enough in its portrayal of techbros. Elmo has no deep understanding when it comes to all things science. He is, quite honestly, a joke. This has been pointed out as long as he’s been in public life. Scientists can tell immediately, but theTwitterati who get their information from the same place as him (presumably, Michael Bay films), simply can’t.
He has no engineering background. It’s called “business-science”. It’s an MBA with a couple 101 STEM courses thrown in.
The man shouldn’t be near a computer.
I could say that about a lot of executive management at the outfit I work at. It seems the further up the food chain people get, the less they understand (or want to understand) about the software/hardware nuts and bolts that underlie what we’re doing. We have a new person in charge of Technology
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Viral video shows a raccoon getting a doughnut from Dunkin’ drive-thru 🤣🍩
pic.twitter.com/97hFV8W2zx— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) June 1, 2023
re: #19 Backwoods Sleuth
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Disruptive!
“…Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, Platformer has learned, leading to a high-stakes conflict between the companies that could result in Twitter’s trust and safety teams being crippled.
While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.
Twitter has been trying to renegotiate its contract with Google since at least March, the Information reported that month. It had also delayed payments to Amazon Web Services, leading the company to threaten withholding advertising payments.
platformer.news
Twitter sez:
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re: #48 ericblair
I posted this to Mastodon and boy howdy it’s doing numbers.
@bencollins.bsky.social
*two-thirds of the way to Mars* Rate limit exceeded.
re: #56 wrenchwench
That was the message I was getting this morning.
Around June 21st Twitter was reported to have started paying Google again. I haven’t seen anything since.
June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg News reported the news earlier on Wednesday.
A report from Platformer earlier this month said Twitter had refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract came up for renewal.
Linda Yaccarino, the social media network’s new CEO, helped restore Twitter’s relationship with Google, and the two companies will explore a deeper partnership that involves Google’s advertising spending on Twitter and its use of the social media company’s data access tool, the source said.
re: #53 teleskiguy
Not reaching any rate limit on TweetDeck.
My number of twitter follows/followers are barely half of his first limits for unverified users. I’ve never bothered with twitter, just use tweetdeck.
re: #61 Backwoods Sleuth
My number of twitter follows/followers are barely half of his first limits for unverified users. I’ve never bothered with twitter, just use tweetdeck.
I suppose this is why I’ve never had problems with twitter.
Oh and I am very fond of blocking eejits who like to show their asses when responding to people I do follow.
Makes for a relatively sane TL.
Whatever’s really going on at Twitter, Elon Musk may be stupid but he’s also crafty because the “data scraping” lie is just technical-sounding enough to get most people to take it at face value.
#FUNFACT You can (currently) get around the latest Musk buffoonery in ur scraping code by fooling Twitter into thinking u are Tweetdeck. Just pass this user agent in ur HTTP request:
“curl/7.25.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1c zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.22”— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL (@th3j35t3r) July 1, 2023
Angry Staff Officer’s 2022 Battle of Gettysburg thread. July 1st
First phase -
Buford’s Union Cavalry Division rides in front of Union Army to find Lee’s Army. Buford selects the hill lines West of Gettysburg for his defensive position.
(Lee’s Army, having marched North along the Shenandoah Valley is approaching Gettysburg from the West. One Union goal is to keep the Union Army between Lee’s Army and the Eastern Seaboard cities as well as Washington, DC.)
In twitter, the thread starts at
twitter (dot) com/pptsapper/status/1542833223100686336
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Congrats @elonmusk
A move so bad it holds EIGHTEEN of the top 20 trending spots with only Canada and Bobby I’ll Show You The Bronx Bonilla sneaking through pic.twitter.com/9nVxRx9TAh— Keith Olbermann↙️ (@KeithOlbermann) July 1, 2023
re: #67 Unabogie
I never followed @jack so I don’t know if this is normal. But do CEOs regularly play the role of outage reporters on websites? Like does Jeff Bezos announce AARs on AWS outages? Is Elon the most overrated and underskilled SRE in the world?
Jack never posted very much on Twitter. On the other hand, Musk seems to be addicted to it.
Too late. I deactivated my account. Fuck that place.
re: #66 ckkatz
Angry Staff Officer’s 2022 Battle of Gettysburg thread. July 1st
First phase -
Buford’s Union Cavalry Division rides in front of Union Army to find Lee’s Army. Buford selects the hill lines West of Gettysburg for his defensive position.(Lee’s Army, having marched North along the Shenandoah Valley is approaching Gettysburg from the West. One Union goal is to keep the Union Army between Lee’s Army and the Eastern Seaboard cities as well as Washington, DC.)
In twitter, the thread starts at
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Buford was, arguably, the greatest Cavalry/Dragoon officer of the US Army. It’s a real pity he so unknown these days. His delaying action on July 1, 1863 saved the Union by giving time for Meade to gain the high ground.
re: #67 Unabogie
I never followed @jack so I don’t know if this is normal. But do CEOs regularly play the role of outage reporters on websites? Like does Jeff Bezos announce AARs on AWS outages? Is Elon the most overrated and underskilled SRE in the world?
No. Seriously, this is nuts. Microsoft had a *huge* outage of Teams earlier this week (ask me how I know, I got rudely awakened, that’s how) and no, Satya Nadella is not announcing there are issues. AWS has regular issues, and no, Jeff Bezos is not out there announcing problems. You certainly won’t see our execs announcing that online banking is down. That’s what your press team is for. Musk thinks he can do it all. I keep hoping he trips over his dick in a big way.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
I can’t see Bastet disturbing her many followers by doing that.
re: #71 Charles Johnson
Is it just me or is that really a zipper?
Attention gardeners! Bumper crops of zucchini and summer squash?
Here are some ideas besides zucchini bread:
Easy Marinated Zucchini Thin slices, like pickle chips
Marinated Zucchini thin sliced lengthwise like stackers
Refrigerator Zucchini Pickles garlic and dill, how can you go wrong?
Marinated Zucchini Tomato Salad
why, yes, we are trying all of these and more from now until the end of summer…
re: #321 wrenchwench
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So how soon before the State Police set up “Show your papers” stops at the state borders?
Just toss him a pack of Zig-zags and move on.
re: #72 William Lewis
Buford was, arguably, the greatest Cavalry/Dragoon officer of the US Army. It’s a real pity he so unknown these days. His delaying action on July 1, 1863 saved the Union by giving time for Meade to gain the high ground.
Interesting! I’m not sure where in Illinois he was from (if he was, or just heading that unit), but I was born near a little town called Buford, IL.
brucethemoose2
Also, taking Elon’s word at face value for a second… is Twitter really worth scraping for AI training or whatever?
Its a hive of misinformation, disinformation and toxicity. Its succinct I guess, but nothing is eloquent or descriptive because of the character limit. And its full of repetitive “filler” information.Who wants that in a foundational LLM dataset?
re: #83 retired cynic
Interesting! I’m not sure where in Illinois he was from (if he was, or just heading that unit), but I was born near a little town called Buford, IL.
He was from Kentucky and I believe the Illinois town is Bluford.
Finally got a friend to give me a BlueSky invite, and not a second too soon!
(Don’t have any invites to offer yet, but when I do ..)
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re: #48 ericblair
Twitter HQ hours ago:
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I still smile thinking about the time Homer had to run the simulation in the classroom, after he was forced to go back to college: “Don’t worry” the professor says, “It’s a simulator. You can’t actually create an emergency.” Cuts to scene of klaxons and red sirens, while people in hazmat suits are clearing the building.
re: #65 Backwoods Sleuth
How the hell do you post that nonsense into a URL?
OK this is kind of funny.
— jack (@jack) July 1, 2023
re: #70 BigPapa
Too late. I deactivated my account. Fuck that place.
i closed out my first account, but then got drawn back in because it became difficult to follow Ukraine updates, and I have a morbid fascination with the dead Russkie daily totals. There’s just part of me that is like “how the fuck do you lose 600 soldiers in a day and not have somebody back home screaming bloody murder?” The only problem is I can only get it to work on my desktop because my username and password, which I very carefully wrote down, wont’ work on my phone or ipad. So this just really sucks. And no, I am not setting up a third goddamned account just to try to solve it.
Twitter has improved. They’re back to throwing a sign-in page. Still can’t get past that though.
The Twitter Syndication page now returns a black screen.
re: #91 steve_davis
over on Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman does a first rate comprehensive round up every night on what is taking place in Ukraine.
here’s a link to last night’s entry….
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How the hell do you post that nonsense into a URL?
it’s not nonsense if you know what it is (hint: it’s not an actual URL thing)
— Tabatha Smith (she/her) 🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@GrrlGirl) July 1, 2023
Argh. What the f**k, Wordle… xD
Wordle 742 6/6
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re: #95 Backwoods Sleuth
it’s not nonsense if you know what it is (hint: it’s not an actual URL thing)
It’s all Greek to me. That said, Greek speakers would probably dispute that.
#BlueMAGA are “dissident liberals” who launder right-wing talking points in their criticisms of “the Left.” Examples include Bari Weiss, Sam Harris, Jesse Singal, Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Schellenberger.
— James William Garrett 🇺🇲🇺🇦 #HighHeeledBoots (@JamesWGarrett1) July 1, 2023
“rate limited exceeded” will be the last thing people on elon’s space colonies see when they run out of oxygen
— Al Shipley (@alshipley) July 1, 2023
Prigozhin’s media empire is shutting down.
Director Evgeny Zubarev says the infamous troll farm had existed since 2009 and confirms the many investigations into it were correct:
“It was important to discredit opposition journalists. They were trying to destroy the country!” pic.twitter.com/taOhZIxYRW— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 30, 2023
A crapton of cars and trucks are pulling up to the church parking lot, and parking on my side of the street.
I don’t have any information about it, but my guess would be a funeral.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A crapton of cars and trucks are pulling up to the church parking lot, and parking on my side of the street.
I don’t have any information about it, but my guess would be a funeral.
Just as long as the funeral isn’t yours.
Assuming they don’t aim their Fourth of July fireworks at your house again this year.
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The most important thing you understand about war is to treasure every moment. pic.twitter.com/ewowYXHhBV
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) June 30, 2023
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A crapton of cars and trucks are pulling up to the church parking lot, and parking on my side of the street.
I don’t have any information about it, but my guess would be a funeral.
watch out for celebratory fireworks.
just saying…
Weekend weather for us. Currently it’s 79°F (26°Commie) at 1530 MDT.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 57. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast after midnight.
Sunday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Sunny and hot, with a high near 90. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 59. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the evening.
Monday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 93. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Independence Day
A slight chance of rain between noon and 3pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Some of the storms could be severe. Partly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night
Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before midnight, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Some of the storms could be severe. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Chance of precipitation is 70%
squash slices have been salted for a while now…getting the marinade started.
looks like we’ll have a couple of quarts.
MrBWS is loading up on the garlic cloves in the marinade (they will end up in the jars with the squash slices).
‘More chickens coming home to roost’: Legal experts pounce on Trump over bombshell Arizona phone call report
“More evidence of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Title 18, USC Section 371 for those of you keeping score at home.”https://t.co/02ujvHAKPB— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 1, 2023
awwww that’s too bad!
‘They booed him when he arrived, they booed him when he left’: Lindsey Graham taunted by South Carolina Trump crowd
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) got a rough welcome in his home state on Saturday when he tried to address a crowd in Pickens, S.C., that showed up to see former president Donald Trump speak at an early July 4th celebration.
According to the Greenville News, “Graham, from nearby Oconee County, said he was going to help Trump win the 2024 general election and even pointed out that he was part of the Senate Judiciary Committee that helped bolster the Supreme Court’s conservative sheen,” and then added, “Despite that, the crowd remained unmoved and the booing continued for just over six minutes of Graham’s remarks.”
According to a commentator from Right Side Broadcasting Network which was there to stream the event and the former president’s speech live, “I think one of the most noteworthy things that we witnessed was the booing of Lindsey Graham.”
Gee, I wonder why that wimp gets no respect?
re: #74 mmmirele
No. Seriously, this is nuts. Microsoft had a *huge* outage of Teams earlier this week (ask me how I know, I got rudely awakened, that’s how) and no, Satya Nadella is not announcing there are issues. AWS has regular issues, and no, Jeff Bezos is not out there announcing problems. You certainly won’t see our execs announcing that online banking is down. That’s what your press team is for. Musk thinks he can do it all. I keep hoping he trips over his dick in a big way.
My tongue was most certainly firmly in my cheek on that one. ;-)
re: #110 Sherlock Hound
Trekkies will remember the episode where Starfleet fits the Enterprise with a new computer. Spock suggests to Dr. McCoy, sarcastically, that the doctor’s engrams should be fed into the new computer, “The resulting flood of illogic would be highly amusing!”
So yes, at this moment, 4Chan and 8Kun are being fed into some sleazy LLM hosted in Thailand, next to the burned-out remains of a Bitcoin mine. //
re: #112 Unabogie
Larry Ellison never says much of anything when my little Oracle Cloud Instance goes down. (That’s a good thing; I despise One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.)
re: #80 jaunte
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I keep forgetting that.
There were 2 billionaires on that vessel but Stockton Rush was not one.
re: #109 Captain Ron
‘More chickens coming home to roost’: Legal experts pounce on Trump over bombshell Arizona phone call report
“More evidence of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Title 18, USC Section 371 for those of you keeping score at home.”https://t.co/02ujvHAKPB— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 1, 2023
I wonder what the over/under is for total number of criminal charges against Trump. We’ve got 34 counts in Manhattan, 37 in Florida with another 45 possible. So maybe 116 so far. We still have Georgia and the Federal Jan 6 indictments. Could Arizona add some more? Could we hit 200 charges?
Not to promote blog-on-blog acrimony, but “bmaz” over at Emptywheel has a complete rage-on over Fani Willis and her investigation into Trump’s 2020 felonies. He constantly calls her names and accuses her of being a “climber” for the crime of seeking to use the law to hold Trump accountable for crimes he committed in her district. Frankly, it’s an absurdly privileged perch to sit on where you pledge fealty to The Law™ as if a bunch of rules made by human beings is more sacrosanct than right and wrong. Some readers of the bible make this same mistake, and frankly it’s why I’m an atheist. The law is as good as its outcomes. Any system that produces bad outcomes on a consistent basis is a bad system and doesn’t deserve our undying loyalty.
/rant
re: #118 Unabogie
I’ve encountered that guy; he’s an asshole. Blocked him on birdchan years ago.
re: #119 Charles Johnson
I’ve encountered that guy; he’s an asshole. Blocked him on birdchan years ago.
What’s worse is he constantly shuts down any challenges under threat of banishment. Thin skinned, quick to take offense, and vaguely racist. 0/10. Would not recommend.
re: #119 Charles Johnson
Upding for Birdchan.
‘Makes me so angry!’: Trump’s ex-press secretary lashes out at his sloppiness with docs
His former White House press secretary is not happy and has seen firsthand at Mar-a-lago his display of classified documents. She is not happy about that at all. Hope she is one the witness list.
re: #83 retired cynic
Interesting! I’m not sure where in Illinois he was from (if he was, or just heading that unit), but I was born near a little town called Buford, IL.
Six months after saving the North’s bacon at Gettysburg, he was dead of Typhoid fever at the age of 37.
He was born in Kentucky, but raised in Rock Island IL.
Although it’s hilarious that Elon’s move caused such a clusterfuck because it was implemented as a hack without the implications being fully understood, if it had been implemented correctly, 600 tweet views per day seems like plenty.
re: #38 mmmirele
I know that and you know that, but the vast majority of blue checks don’t know that, and the vast majority of people who might be inclined to get a blue check don’t know that.
I caught a great Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) video earlier about mentors. Realize I need to start explicitly thanking the LGF community for literally 20+ years of teaching me so many things that have been critical to my personal and professional life!
In the case of Twitter and Musk, I’m in the position now where I’m influencing the social media strategy of a global telecommunications company. Y’all have helped me articulate to their leadership exactly why they need to be rapidly preparing for a post-Twitter world. So, thanks for that … 😎
re: #122 silverdolphin
But she was ok with it when he was her boss?
re: #126 GlutenFreeJesus
But she was ok with it when he was her boss?
If she had complained then, it would have negatively impacted her income.
re: #126 GlutenFreeJesus
But she was ok with it when he was her boss?
Love to hear the answer to that question?
This looks promising, and I can’t say that I disagree with the logic of any of it.
“THE 🇷🇺 REVOLT IS NEARING”
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a 🇷🇺 nationalist who played a key role in Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦, just wrote his 900K Telegram followers something important.
Key parts:
📌 A week since Prigozhin revolted, which shot down 6 aircraft &… pic.twitter.com/UepycHJa2Y— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) July 1, 2023
re: #126 GlutenFreeJesus
But she was ok with it when he was her boss?
Yep. She wrote a book published in 2021 that was less than flattering to Trump and Melania:
In her book, titled “I’ll Take Your Questions Now,” Ms. Grisham recalls her time working for a president she said constantly berated her and made outlandish requests, including a demand that she appear before the press corps and re-enact a certain call with the Ukrainian president that led to Mr. Trump’s (first) impeachment, an assignment she managed to avoid.
“I knew that sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic,” Ms. Grisham writes, offering a reason for why she never held a briefing.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
So for 300 tweets a day does that mean they appear on your screen when you scroll, or do you have to click into them?
Someone who does Twitter every day please do a Ctrl-H and search Twitter and see how many rows you get for a given day.
re: #131 darthstar
I get about 10-12 mastodon URLs a day but I don’t click into most toots. I just read them in the stack and like/boost accordingly.
re: #131 darthstar
So for 300 tweets a day does that mean they appear on your screen when you scroll, or do you have to click into them?
Someone who does Twitter every day please do a Ctrl-H and search Twitter and see how many rows you get for a given day.
I’ve heard conflicting reports, but supposedly scrolled tweets, not clicked on. And the limits are now higher: 10k, 1k, 500
re: #129 JC1
This looks promising, and I can’t say that I disagree with the logic of any of it.
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Indeed it does look promising:
📌 A week since Prigozhin revolted, which shot down 6 aircraft & killed “more than 10 (no one knows for sure) 🇷🇺 soldiers - no measures have been taken to punish the rebels.”
📌 Rather, Prigozhin travels around and freely enters Russia - and everyone behaves like “this is normal.”
📌 None of the “incompetent or cowardly” government leaders, nor those who ran away when Prigozhin showed-up, have been punished. AND the “President” doesn’t even talk about it.
⚡️⚡️⚡️📌 “The result??
ANOTHER REBELLION IS NOT FAR OFF. WE ONLY NEED TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER DEFEAT AT THE FRONT AND THE REBELLION WILL BEGIN .”
⚡️⚡️⚡️📌 “It does not matter who starts the revolt - NOW NO ONE WILL RESIST AGAINST THE REBELLION. NOBODY AT ALL.
IT MAKES NO SENSE RISKING YOUR LIFE DEFENDING SUCH A USELESS AND MISERABLE GOVERNMENT.”
📌 You cannot save a country whose leaders are so “rotten that they have lost even the elementary instinct of self-preservation. They prefer to do nothing.”
re: #134 JC1
I’ve heard conflicting reports, but supposedly scrolled tweets, not clicked on. And the limits are now higher: 10k, 1k, 500
The numbers will have to be adjusted. Scrolling through 500 posts is like 40 minutes worth of browsing.
Louisiana Republican-backed anti-LGBTQ bills vetoed by Democratic governor
Three anti-LGBTQ pieces of legislation have been vetoed by Louisiana Democratic Governor John Bell Edwards, The News & Observer reports.
According to CNN, HB 648 “would bar those under 18 in Louisiana from receiving gender-affirming surgeries, puberty blocking medications and hormone treatments, and punishes health care professionals that provide them with the revocation of their license for a minimum of two years.”
Earlier this month, CNN reports, Edwards said during a press conference, “I will tell you that on those issues, the judgment of history, I believe, will be very clear. It will be as clear as the judgment of history has been on those who didn’t want civil rights in the 50s, for example. But I am not going to wait until then to say that it’s wrong. My judgment today is that those bills are wrong.”
During the waning days of Louisiana’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a series of controversial bills: a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors that includes puberty-blockers, hormone treatment and surgery; a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that broadly bars teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation in public school classrooms; and a measure requiring public school teachers to use the pronouns and names that align with what students were assigned at birth.
The publication further notes:
Edwards vetoed all three bills. Edwards — who is in his final six months of office, unable to seek reelection this year due to consecutive term limits — has repeatedly described the bills as wrong, divisive and targeting a vulnerable group of people. State lawmakers will soon decide by majority vote whether they will return to the Capitol for a veto session, which would begin July 18.
When the Court acts unconstitutionally
Kagan’s defense in Nebraska v Biden is a thing of profound beauty. Not because she riffs on legal references regarding loan forgiveness. It is the outright unconstitutional actions of the conservatives. They did not like the perfectly clear instructions form Congress and the legitimate actions taken by the President. So the conservatives simply played Calvinball and made new rules.
This is not the law.
this zucchini marinade is to die for…omg.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Whatever’s really going on at Twitter, Elon Musk may be stupid but he’s also crafty because the “data scraping” lie is just technical-sounding enough to get most people to take it at face value.
Really it’s “data deglazing.”
re: #109 Captain Ron
At this point the question should be “what law hasn’t he broken?” He even went out of his way to violate the US Flag Code (the stunt raising and lowering the flag over Sen. John McCain’s death).
re: #124 JC1
Although it’s hilarious that Elon’s move caused such a clusterfuck because it was implemented as a hack without the implications being fully understood, if it had been implemented correctly, 600 tweet views per day seems like plenty.
What is he counting as “tweet views”?
However many people you are following are tweeting retweeting and exceed 600 before breakfast.
re: #120 Unabogie
What’s worse is he constantly shuts down any challenges under threat of banishment. Thin skinned, quick to take offense, and vaguely racist. 0/10. Would not recommend.
Bmaz has scolded me a couple times in the comments section of emptywheel for asking for clarifications on some of the esoteric and difficult parts of Dr. Wheeler’s articles, usually with something like “we don’t hold the hands of the uneducated here.”
Skiing, always on my mind.
You can’t stop scraping until all excess wax has been removed from the ski base, then after that you have to polish the bases with fine brushes and I like to finish off the last scrape with cork.
Keep your skis/snowboards waxed, people! https://t.co/lZWceDOQ1K— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) July 1, 2023
re: #146 teleskiguy
I’m surprised he hasn’t banned you for your Twitter handle yet.
I have to know what tea pic.twitter.com/RdafUZIESx
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) July 1, 2023
Linda Yaccarino must be thinking about all the times that NBC would tell viewers they were cut off because they’d watched too many sitcoms
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) July 1, 2023
re: #118 Unabogie
Not to promote blog-on-blog acrimony, but “bmaz” over at Emptywheel has a complete rage-on over Fani Willis and her investigation into Trump’s 2020 felonies. He constantly calls her names and accuses her of being a “climber” for the crime of seeking to use the law to hold Trump accountable for crimes he committed in her district. Frankly, it’s an absurdly privileged perch to sit on where you pledge fealty to The Law™ as if a bunch of rules made by human beings is more sacrosanct than right and wrong. Some readers of the bible make this same mistake, and frankly it’s why I’m an atheist. The law is as good as its outcomes. Any system that produces bad outcomes on a consistent basis is a bad system and doesn’t deserve our undying loyalty.
/rant
That dude is an asshole.
José… You’ve been reporting this for six years now and you still don’t know the facts? And Dave? Comey’s OPINION doesn’t matter-he was NOT THE AG OR SPECIAL COUNSEL. He was fired justifiably for exceeding the scope of his job.
— Lisa Glass (@LMplusG) June 12, 2023
This article was from January, but nothing ever changes with the media, so it’s completely relevant. If you want to quote Comey, quote what he said under oath. pic.twitter.com/5Lub0jWRyu
— Lisa Glass (@LMplusG) June 12, 2023
So the truth comes out.
Twitter’s cloud contract with Google ran out. Seems Twitter was unable to move its infrastructure off of Google fast enough. Todays outages are the end result.
Elon is LYING when he claims this was brought on by data-scraping. https://t.co/fcrb0MKD9b pic.twitter.com/VuR0qzoadl— Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) July 1, 2023
re: #153 EstebanTornado1963
No, there was a more recent story that the CEO whatever-her-name-is had patched things up with Google and they paid their overdue bills.
When the anti-abuse tech vendor is an abuser.
June 21, 2018
Twitter acquires anti-abuse technology provider Smyte
@seldo
A vendor notified us of their acquisition at 6am this morning and shut down their APIs 30 minutes later, creating a production outage for npm (package publishes and user registrations). The sheer unprofessionalism of this is blowing my mind.
re: #122 silverdolphin
‘Makes me so angry!’: Trump’s ex-press secretary lashes out at his sloppiness with docs
His former White House press secretary is not happy and has seen firsthand at Mar-a-lago his display of classified documents. She is not happy about that at all. Hope she is one the witness list.
Now that things are falling apart she comes forward. Not impressed with her courage to call out his crimes.
June 21, 2023
Twitter Resumes Paying Google Cloud, Patches Up Relationship
- New Twitter CEO Yaccarino help restart Google Cloud payments
- Under Musk, Twitter stopped paying a number of suppliers
bloomberg.com
Sky News, three days ago
TL;DR, they used the Bible to justify beating their child to death slowly over ten months.
Christians are out in force saying this is the result of “atheism” and “nihilism” (nevermind that they used the Bible to justify beating a child and called the child a “demon”).
Jacob Crouch was 10 months old when he was pronounced dead in his cot at home in Linton, near Swadlincote in Derbyshire, as a result of peritonitis - an infection of the lining of abdominal organs caused by a traumatic bowel injury.
Jacob was found to have 39 rib fractures and 19 visible bruises at the time of his death, on 30 December 2020.
His mother, Gemma Barton, 33, and stepfather, Craig Crouch, 39, are standing trial at Derby Crown Court for murder and child cruelty offences, which they deny.
The couple are said to have “encouraged and applauded each other” as they assaulted Jacob “on a regular basis”, the prosecution told the court.
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Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake
Quran was burnt in Sweden leading to Swedish embassy in Baghdad being stormed
re: #153 EstebanTornado1963
Elon’s inability to manage the finances of his companies makes him a bit of a national security risk and I don’t know that the US Government should continue contracts with his companies without hands-on oversight.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake
Quran was burnt in Sweden leading to Swedish embassy in Baghdad being stormed/?sort=old
The thing is, the guy who did it is an Iraqi…
re: #159 darthstar
I’ve hung out with that dude and his wife at shows. Small world.
re: #162 Teukka
The thing is, the guy who did it is an Iraqi…
I fixed the link for sorting comments.
I suppose if the fellow is an Iraqi, he’s probably no longer a Muslim if he burned a Qur’an. He’s probably also in great danger from Muslim fundamentalists.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I fixed the link for sorting comments.
I suppose if the fellow is an Iraqi, he’s probably no longer a Muslim if he burned a Qur’an. He’s probably also in great danger from Muslim fundamentalists.
Also, police is trying to get him on hate crime charges.
re: #159 darthstar
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One of my hangups is that I don’t like having a whole bunch of apps, especially since those apps don’t run on desktop OSs. I liked the days when we used one app, the browser, to access the information.
My wife is listening to a live stream on YouTube from two atheists (Godless Granny and another) against two Christians. Holy crap it is a firehose of Lying for Jesus about everything from slavery to gender care to sex education.
The Christian woman is doing the majority of the “debate” from her side and she sounds like a parrot of every apologetic I’ve ever heard.
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Whenever in such a situation, I recommend going straight to one or two issues:
1) theodicy - for example, ask them about Noah’s flood, and if they think it was real then point out that their god water-boarded, tortured, little children.
2) flat-Earth - ask them why they don’t believe in a flat Earth, like Paul, Jesus, and Moses did.
A bobcat was killed after it attacked a camp counselor who was sleeping in a hammock during a summer youth expedition in Connecticut, state officials say. https://t.co/y9Rl4xNxO5
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 1, 2023
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife is listening to a live stream on YouTube from two atheists (Godless Granny and another) against two Christians. Holy crap it is a firehose of Lying for Jesus about everything from slavery to gender care to sex education.
The Christian woman is doing the majority of the “debate” from her side and she sounds like a parrot of every apologetic I’ve ever heard.
The thing is, that’s violating #2 in my book (Not taking the name of The LORD in vain)…
My first experience of AQI as “poor”: Things were bad here a few weeks ago, but I was in Illinois at the time. Today we went to Portsmouth on the coast and it was beautiful. Got back and took the dog for a walk; couldn’t understand the haze and my watery eyes. So I checked and indeed we’re getting the drift for the time being from the Canadian fires. On the seacoast the westward wind from the Atlantic is keeping them in the clear for now.
re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Whenever in such a situation, I recommend going straight to one or two issues:
1) theodicy - for example, ask them about Noah’s flood, and if they think it was real then point out that their god water-boarded, tortured, little children.
2) flat-Earth - ask them why they don’t believe in a flat Earth, like Paul, Jesus, and Moses did.
She’s all over the place. She said in reference to children “she doesn’t want anyone to die” and clammed up both on suicide statistics of trans children and on the death penalty.
re: #171 Teukka
The thing is, that’s violating #2 in my book (Not taking the name of The LORD in vain)…
A lotta cherry-farming going on there.
Elon! Blyat! Troll farms can’t operate. #TwitterIsBroken. https://t.co/IqNQFtQ9Nk pic.twitter.com/LxddGDXKVd
— Roman Romanovich (@Romanovichphoto) July 1, 2023
I tried scrolling through 500 tweets to hit the limit…got bored but found the above.
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A lotta cherry-farming going on there.
Yeah. Like, many believe it’s the literal sense (cussing, using the names of the deity, etc.), but it’s also about behavior, and using religion as an excuse to commit evil. At least that was how I was taught.
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