“Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.” - Lemony Snickett, The Wide Window
mf doomposting
I have gotten MF DOOM lyrics stuck in my head literally every single day since 2003, but now when it happens there is a tinge of sadness :(((
Like whenever I hear a word that is also in a DOOM lyric, my brain free associates over there. I do not associate "All Star" with Smash Mouth, I associate it with "And while he's runnin down to All-Star Weekend to ball / I'm comin with the U-Haul"
Ass big on my story
https://oulipo.link/S1a71b
Computer-generated literature
In Brazil's main newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo, I argue that microblogging itself and National Novel Generation Month as initiated by @darius are more important to computer-generated literature than particular technologies like GPT-2 and -3 https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2021/01/robos-ja-escrevem-de-poemas-e-microcontos-no-twitter-a-romances-inteiros.shtml
TIL There's a bot that toots clinical trials when they're "suspended, terminated or withdrawn". Might be a good research tool on its own to see certain trends
This is where I ended up with my pierced creamware study last night, planning to revisit it the next time I need a palette cleanser.
uspol, twitter video
Video that seems to show cops just opening the barricades and allowing the rioters in https://twitter.com/moonddng/status/1346924307692318723
uspol, twitter video
cops taking selfies with the rioters
https://mobile.twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520
uspol, gun violence
Friend-of-friend in the neighborhood of the Capitol building reporting shots fired outside her home, "Proud Boys are roaming around with guns, and the police said lots of similar calls are coming in"
https://mobile.twitter.com/k_ringrose/status/1346912728095596554
uspol, twitter photo
Yamiche is back on the PBS feed, always worth tuning in for her https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ypJdgMEwOrGW
uspol, twitter photo
@darius That's the "Q Shaman", a known figure in the QAnon movement or whatever you want to call that.
uspol, twitter photo
more random white guys on the Senate dais
https://twitter.com/stevennelson10/status/1346909795564060674/photo/1
uspol
hahahaha PBS anchor just accidentally revealed an off-the-record source, a high up military official whose name and position I did not catch
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