Notices by Play Ball and Fight Fascists (cafechatnoir@mastodon.social)

Trump says the only guardrail we need for AI is a "smart president" - WELL WE SURE AS HELL DON'T HAVE THAT, DO WE?

Jesus Kentucky Fried Christ.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm70d91rg7l4t

OK, so Sean has a bendy straw and he's also playing with it on the packing paper, and he's basically just happily losing his mind over there.

He paused for a photo. 😻

Got a great shot of Jorge supervising my work today.

I am sure they'll have some lame ass excuse like "we didn't want the workers doxxed" - conveniently ignoring the fact that any threat would be coming from the right.

Wake up to see they put up a tarp on the Kennedy Center?!?!?!?

WHAT A BUNCH OF WEENIES.

Fuckers can't even give us the joy of watching the letters get ripped off.

I'm also now wondering if they damaged the wall taking the letters down and don't want anyone to know.

Are they just gonna leave that damn tarp up forever?

"If we can't have his ugly assed name up there, we're just gonna ruin the facade for everyone."

@nomdeb @jeridansky

Possibly, but if the letters are down, then the scaffolding can come down too, and they had all day to do it, unless they're waiting until Monday, but honestly, just rip the band-aid off and be done with it.

And this ceramic wine glass from Alissa Barbato ceramics.

She had these at the big Del Ray fair last year and I thought "I will get one of those on the way back down the street" and they were all sold out, so I was very stoked to see her yesterday.

I love how the circles are all kind of messy and ooze into the rest of the glaze.

https://www.alissabarbato.com/pottery

I have held up my tradition of not being able to attend an arts & crafts fair without walking away with some bit of ceramics.

This mug is from Peter Holden - I also have a berry bowl I got from him that I use as a yarn bowl. (I can't find anything other than an instagram account for him.)

I love how delicate the little flowers are.

https://www.instagram.com/peterholdenpottery/

@Mastodon @imanijoy

It's late & I'm tired, so it may have already been mentioned - but the link preview says "Something went wrong" - not sure if an edit/refresh would fix it. Some would say it does not inspire confidence, me - it's just kinda funny. :)

Love spending the day wondering if we're going to nuke Iran for no other reason that the president is a fucking pedophile.

And none of this will still be enough for Republicans to do jack shit about it.

#USPolitics

@seachanger

MIT recently released a study on the long term cognitive effects of AI use. (Spoiler: they're not good effects.)

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/

Jorge has decided again to get in my lap and block my access to the laptop, LOL.

Little dude, I really would like to keep an eye on the radar as this last bit of storm front comes through.

Jorge: Purrs louder.

@jeridansky

I usually do, but it's been a month of donations to every girl scout troop I see, so it had to be topped off, LOL.

I'm hoping the snow just stays on it's side of the mountains.

Ran out and hit the ATM machine in case I need apocalypse storm cash, and they were saying on the radio - I shit you not - "there could be some snow on the back side of this front."

I'm sorry, but NO THANK YOU.

@jeridansky

And it's a half finished basement, so I don't even have to sit on the concrete next to the washing machine, LOL.

I hope it's not too bad for all the good reasons, but I also don't want the power to go out because I don't want to lose the Chinese leftovers, or the big side order of roasted potatoes I got when I picked up with breakfast from the diner this morning.

Or the mini Dove ice cream snacks I just bought. Priorities, ya know?

@jeridansky

Yep, we have a basement here, which is a VERY nice thing to have, and I have no qualms about spending time down there.

@jeridansky

Thanks. It's frustrating when there is so little you can do to be ready.

But everything is charging and allllllll the various and sundry insurance is up to date.

So, we have apocalyptic storm coming tomorrow, yaaaaay....

Not much of anything I can do other than charge all the various & sundry electronics tonight and move the trash bins closer to the carport walls in the morning, and then go work and pretend like everything is fine.

I do not have mental energy for this.