I've driven by it during construction on my way to U Chicago. It wasn't until very recently that I read the design was supposed to represent hands (mitts) with fingers pointing up that it started to make a bit more sense. We will tour sometime..

(begin thread drift) @Steve-Miller said: but the article reads like AI to me Interesting bit in Atlantic: The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI Look closely and you’ll see that every part of the text is not quite right. https://archive.is/YJsGK

I knew fog was creepy. Did not know it was infected.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters “we don’t need a weaponized” director of national intelligence when asked about President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, the homebuilder and director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), to serve as acting head of the nation’s intelligence services. Thune pointed out that Pulte, who has come under sharp criticism from Democrats for pulling up mortgage information to investigate Trump’s political opponents, would have to undergo the Senate confirmation process to permanently take over as director. “If they nominate him to take the position permanently, he’ll have to go through a confirmation process and hearings and everything else, so we’ll see,” Thune told reporters. When asked whether he has concerns that Pulte would “weaponize” the position given the role he has played during Trump’s second term in plumbing mortgage records to see whether Trump’s political adversaries have committed fraud, Thune said: “We don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.” https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5905615-senate-thune-pulte-dni/

Erin Brockovich gets involved: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/erin-brockovich-says-people-angry-165957745.html For now she's not taking side (at least not overtly). She's just advocating for more transparency and crowd-sourcing information about plans for data centers.

Good use of ill-gotten gains. I've read that the wine industry in Georgia is booming. Never had one but I'm sure we will.

Well, "science" is a interesting topic but like any sub-branch of any epistemological system, science is not an exact science (pun intended). Questions like these aren't "solved" and then set in stone or displayed in a glass case. "Measurements suggested the giant planet's rotation rate was changing over time, as if Saturn were somehow speeding up or slowing down. That puzzling result left scientists searching for answers." I'd venture to say it appeared to be "changing" in fact because it was and is always changing. This isn't so much a mystery as it is the nature of the universe. I just posted about this topic in my Chronos and Kairos thread. https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3681/kairos-the-ancient-greek-art-of-knowing-when-to-act#:~:text=Kairos%3A The-,ancient,-Greek art of We human beings have to be vigilant continuously about what Karl Marx (the writer whose work is canonical among intellectuals, not the "communist" we all love to hate) called reification. Reification involves setting up a continual feedback loop where we "play back" what we think we know in a way that the only outcome is our belief, whatever it was when we started believing it, can only end up being fallaciously reinforced. The planets, the galaxy, the universe-- are never static and if a human being truly wanted to map their machinations, he or she would die trying...

Highd up to 89, scattered showers. Lows around 80, but for some reason the lows are are going to drop to low to mid 70s for several days. That will be nice. Not worried about hurricane season. I'm actually more worried about tornadoes after experiencing one.

I'm a layperson and even I can tell you the applicable law is as plain as day.

He took the Commissioner of Social Security (or Acting... I should know this) and gave him a second job sinultaniously with a new (never existed before) title-- "CEO of the IRS." He was going to dispuse the monies through SSA payments.

Oh ye of little faith, it's 5-D chess.

It was only a matter of time!

@rontuner Yes I agree, combined with pedalling skills. I mean, it varies from a slowly pressed and held key of a Chopin nocturne, all the way to the heavy impact of a Fats Waller's fast left hand stride. Combined with pedalling effects.

Wow, great work!

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I thought this was maybe him energetically off to see buldozers start on his 1.5 billion golf course, hotel & residential complex in North Vietnam. Land there is owned by the people, but managed by the state. Authorities keen to appease Trump, are forcibly moving the living and exhuming the dead from a 990-hectare area. Money talks, but there are some very unhappy locals.

So recording the voices of other people as well? I thought wiretapping was illegal.