Trump says data center opponents face ‘poverty, crime and squalor’

Presumably he’ll be leasing out part of Mar-A-Lago for a data center then.

Trump tells Fed to slash rates or he’ll end trade with countries with U.S. surpluses

What a fucking moron. The only good thing about this is that the resulting economic carnage at home will turn more of his previous dupes against the administration.

We need to elect a strong Democratic majority to Congress this year. We need to impeach & convict Trump. We need to bury Trumpism with a stake through its idiotic heart.

Another rainy morning in Oregon.

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Why gasoline-powered leaf blowers are still legal in this crunchy granola town I’ll never know.

I’m basically a peaceable guy, but it’s hard to remember that when the back neighbors are using a gasoline-powered leaf blower to clear the fir needles off their deck. A broom would be just as fast, much quieter, and not put exhaust fumes in the air.

People worry about the paperclip problem - what if an AI takes an innocuous directive as an excuse to destroy humanity? Personally, I worry more about the depressed teenager problem - what if an angsty 15-year-old just straight out tells the AI to destroy humanity? (Or a megalomaniac wannabe king of the USA does the same thing out of spite).

“Fish”

TIL that the old Eugene Steam Plant has a Suspish Fish inside. If you know, you know.

industrial building facade with broken windows and graffiti inside

Drizzly day in Eugene (no photographers were harmed in the making of this image).

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“Count to Ten”

Piglets at the Oregon State Fair