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Unless it comes with a DHD and a fresh ZPM, this is over priced.

Hey @CptCarterSG1....about that $20,000 auction house expenditure on the credit card...I swear it's worth it

I grew up inside The Washington Beltway .. in 1971 . we were forced to switch schools .. They called it Bussing .. take one busload of white kids and dump them in an all black school and watch what happens .. I am thinking of Louis Armstrong's " It's a Wonderful World " . we all sang and hugged and showed each other our pictures .. Nope .. door opened and we were unwilling participants in " Opportunistic Predation or The Running Man Game " we were on safari ... and we were the hunt .. they beat the crap out of us every day and stole our lunch money , stole , on the hour and the teachers even jumped in .. within the first week I was in the Vice Principals office .. How us whites cause problems . learning was impossible .. this explains my lapse in proper diction !! .. Dad later told us .. He had to save his children . He worked in Arlington Va for The Department of The Navy and moved me and my two sisters and mom to southern Maryland. . put us in private Catholic schools and ... Saved Us .. he made the daily commute of 2 hours each way .. Took us away from this social experiment . looking back . " Thanks Dad "

Past is prologue: "The abbeys were understaffed, and cloisters which in their heyday had housed a hundred or more monks now held less than thirty.... Monasticism in England on the eve of the Dissolution had the momentum of an established institution, but little real vitality.

Thus are the mighty fallen.

Thoughts on the British equivalent of the Community Relations Service, the self-defeating trap of unnecessarily deceptive AI agitslop, tactical wheelie bins, and parasitic political economy of anti-racism. barsoom.substack.com/p/i-don…

As a kid I didn't understand why 1984 was set in the UK, but now I do.

There’s not that much Latin online. AI still struggles to understand it. This gives us a wonderful opportunity to poison the internet with terabytes of fake Latin, which AIs will train on. Then we humans can use real Latin to communicate amongst ourselves in secret.

Author @JayMaynard selling at the Saint Cloud mall.

The academic death spiral is something to behold. Demographics are steadily reducing the size of the student body, squeezing finances and driving bankruptcies. At the same time, standards collapse is destroying the quality of the students the universities admit. We're already at the point where it's common knowledge that a degree signals essentially nothing about intellectual ability. AI is exacerbating this, since cheating is so easy now. Kids are already starting to forgo university, since they don't think the cost of the credential is justified. That cuts even more deeply into the number of students universities can attract. Universities respond by reducing standards even further (thereby accelerating brand destruction), by reducing tuition (which cuts even more deeply into budgets), and by firing professors in low-enrollment majors (reducing program variety, especially in the small seminars that are generally the most rewarding experiences for students).

Your burglar is Nigerian. Your drug dealer is Albanian. Your benefits cheat is Somalian. Your rapist is Pakistani. Your murderer is Sudanese.

The Chinese are raping the oceans with their Tyranid hive fleets, pillaging the territorial waters of South America and daring governments to do something about it. What if someone did? What if someone hired mercs to fall upon them in the night like wolves of the sea? What if someone wrote a novel about that? @frank_kidd_1 did just that, and it's fucking great. Here's my review.

Here is a story about a group of students who fundraised and worked for an entire year to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to speak at an event: "We were a small college club with around 10 members and on a whim one of our members emailed tyson's agent to see if we could book him. We found out it would cost 40k (it raised to 50k in December of that year where I think it still might be) for his speaking fee plus expenses to have him come to our college for 1 day where he'd host a small lecture, a press meeting, dinner with up to 6 people, and the main lecture and a book signing time permitting. We decided to go for it, and spent a year where our club exclusively worked on bringing him in. When he arrived, myself and others introduced ourselves and our fields of study. He went after first of us in humanities or soft sciences pretty much relentlessly from the get go. We're all used to the philosophy major working at McDonald's joke, but he wasn't trying to be funny, and spent the ride from the airport making repeated comments about the uselessness of our majors. Additionally he spent about 5 minutes trying to show that logic was stupid but he was citing logical rules and Occam's razor. The small lecture was him bragging about how famous he was, and how easy it is to pull yourself out of poverty or etc. The dinner was for leaders of other clubs so helped us raise money. He took the piss out of how one student held her fork, and was impossibly smug when giving advice to physics students. The main event was a terribly boring lecture consisting of fart jokes and fan service; teasing the upcoming TV series he was in and not much else. He spent a quarter of the time reading Sagan's blue dot, which is nice but shouldn't have cost us because it wasn't his material. He left at about 2am, and we were all exhausted because we had spent the day busy setting up and tearing down. The whole affair cost nearly 85k. The additional money being for locations, personnel, air fare, Tyson's hotel, catering, etc. We all decided he was an ass hole. I'd never want to spend 16 hours with a celebrity again." From another member of the same group: "Neil deGrasse Tyson, who came to our university, gave a crappy speech rife with lame fart jokes, was rude and disrespectful with the people who organized the event (there were a couple campus clubs working on it for about a year). He equated one of the group's member's philosophy major as a degree in mental masturbation. We were so pumped to hear a talk about the universe, astrophysics, black holes and dark matter, and instead he gave a speech on debunking lame pop media science misconceptions such as the "supermoon" because the organizing club is known as a skeptic/secular humanist society. He then basically said he did us a favor and that we "owed him one" for that. He delivered a private lecture to our group and members of the campus physics club in which he realized he had said something witty, whipped out hsi iphone, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to come up with the perfect wording for it to post it to his twitter. In the middle of a lecture we spent a year's work and $55k total to organize."

Neil de Grasse Tyson is a horrible human being. But he provides a useful service. If someone is a huge fan of his, I know that I can safely dismiss anything that person says. Quite the timesaver. My only interaction with Tyson was when I was testifying in front of the Aldridge Commission in 2004, and he angrily challenged my claims that the private sector would lead the way in exploring the Moon and Mars. NdGT loudly stated that only government employees would ever go to space. Any role for the private sector other than as contractors for NASA or the DOD was just foolishness. (Note that this was in March 2004. Charlie Walker flew to space as an employee of McDonnell Douglas in 1985, and Dennis Tito visited the ISS in 2001 as a paying tourist. Spaceship One would complete its first suborbital flight in June 2004.)

Stargate SG-1 Writer Joseph Mallozzi calls out executives for treating fans poorly: "Throughout my career, I've been dismayed by the contempt some genre executives have held for fans, routinely underestimating their power to make or break a show. I've watched this repeat too many times, across too many shows, to be talking about any single one of them. Yet despite the mounting evidence over the past few years, they continue to dismiss the data, repeating the same miscalculations time and again. But technology has rewritten the rules, and the power dynamics are shifting. Today’s fans are organized, strategic, and highly data-literate - effectively turning the platforms' own metrics against them. As the bets get bigger and the audience grows sharper, it will be fascinating to see how this plays out." Is it about time these corporate suits get with the program?

I’m incensed I didn’t come up with this image

The executives at Amazon reportedly think that Stargate is too small of a franchise for people to have heard of. So let me ask the question: Have YOU personally heard of Stargate before? Let’s shock them with our numbers! #SaveStargate

Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

The hero we always needed! Let us welcome @dhewlett to the growing list of Stargate actors lending their name to the fight to #SaveStargate Thank you sir! The fandom stands with you! Hear us @AmazonMGMStudio and @PrimeVideo

The official line is that they were a Norwegian trade delegation. Technically accurate, because they are Nordic, and there was trade. But they are also seven feet tall, telepathic, and arrived on the South Lawn without a vehicle. I am the Deputy Director of Visitor Logistics at the White House. I logged them into WAVES as FOREIGN DIGNITARIES (3), NON-TERRESTRIAL, NO MOTORCADE REQUIRED, and the meeting went extremely well. The Pleiadians requested the audience in March. They communicate telepathically, which the President respected immediately, because it meant nothing was in writing. They traveled 444 light-years to deliver a warning about our trajectory as a species, the kind of warning a doctor gives a patient who keeps asking if he can smoke in the waiting room. Atomic weapons. Ocean collapse. Machine intelligence. I did not take complete notes, because the meeting ran 25 minutes and he spent the first eleven asking where they got the jackets. Their opening offer: clean fusion, the cure for every disease, the propulsion equations. Free. Contingent on planetary disarmament. His advisors begged him not to negotiate against a species that reads minds. It turned out he is the one man alive with nothing to find. They reached into his mind expecting layer upon layer of deception and found a single image, perfectly clear: him, wearing one of their jackets. The delegation conferred for a long moment and informed us that in eleven thousand years of contact, no species had ever tried to buy the uniform. They called it coherence. They did not mean it as a compliment. He has already trademarked it. He countered. Landing rights, retroactive to 1947. Eighty years of unauthorized airspace use, invoiced with interest. Legal added a line item for the weather balloon story. Narrative services. We billed them for our own cover-up, and the tall one went silent for nine seconds, which I am told is how their species weeps. Greenland stays in the deal. They did not want Greenland. He said that's how he knew it was valuable. What kind of advanced civilization passes on waterfront? Then UFC Freedom 250. This Sunday. Seven bouts on the same lawn we were standing on. His birthday, which he assured them was a coincidence the universe keeps arranging. He offered them galactic distribution rights. Then he looked at the tall one for a long time and offered him the co-main event. Seven feet. Reach like a cathedral door. Walks around at a weight our scales log as an error. Someone said the commission would never sanction it. He appoints the commission. The tall one declined. He lowered the offer to the prelims. This is a negotiating technique. They asked if staging a cage fight on the negotiation site was a threat display. He said it was a Flag Day celebration, and also yes. I should note that an environmental group has sued to stop the octagon. Nobody has sued to stop the aliens. I forwarded this to Counsel as proof that the permitting process is working. Protocol required a gift exchange. They presented a small silver sphere that shows the holder the full consequences of his choices. He looked into it for four seconds and asked if it came in gold. You have all seen the photo. A groundskeeper took it through the magnolias. We told the press pool it was a costume rehearsal for a streaming series, and the pool, to their credit, wrote that down. The groundskeeper now works at the Department of Energy. I am told this is a promotion. There is also footage. He spotted the camera mid-meeting and pointed at it the way you'd point at a waiter whose name you intend to learn. Instead of having it confiscated, he licensed it on the spot. The leak is now official merchandise. Every time you share it, a royalty accrues. You have probably shared it. Have you checked? He thanks you for your business. The deal collapsed at dusk. The Pleiadians withdrew the fusion offer when he asked them to walk out before the main event as Special Guests of the Octagon. They said humanity was not ready. He had Counsel log that as a verbal option to renew. Final tally: our species declined the cure for every disease and counteroffered with pay-per-view. The delegation received two tickets to the Ellipse screening area. Not cageside. He does not give away cageside. They left without sound. One moment present, then elsewhere, like a fee disclosure. Two things before Sunday. The walkout jackets for the main card are red with gold embroidery. Licensed. The fusion fell through, but the jackets closed in an afternoon. And there are three seats on the South Lawn logged as HOLD, GUESTS OF THE PRINCIPAL, DO NOT ASSIGN. I did not enter that hold. The system says I did. He says everyone comes back to the table. We're the only planet with the belt.