kirby {k∉k}

truth is beauty, beauty truth.
covenants enjoyer.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

https://t.co/Cm0oB8t6cw

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@bourscheid So, you are saying that you'd solve all problems with $1T spent one time. I think you should be really upset at the government for spending $7T PER YEAR and not being able to solve any of those things you can solve with just $1T one time.

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@Mormonger @HolisticNicole there is a repeated pattern where being ex-mormon correlates with not understanding basic mormon theology.

[Mason @webdevMason]

Jesus extracted a veritable clown car of demons from a sinner and was like "okay, let's not have any more of THAT but welcome, fam" then continuously went full aggro on the priests and lay teachers of the law

This is the sort of thing Christians are meant to meditate on

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@gaptoothdummy Martin Luther was considered to be a heretic by the Pope for saying that burning heretics was against the will of the spirit. That's just 1 of the 41 propositions that the Pope declared to be heretical.

[Ryker @RykerJackson97]

Dear Bricks & Minifigs:

GIVE THE FREAKING LEGOS BACK!!!

Sincerely, a concerned Latter-day Saint.

If you’re a member who wants them to do the right thing, repost this.

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@KaiSchwemmer Yes! Give the legos back

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

my frustration is that i took my kid out of high school and crafted a curriculum for her to have maximum AI use. i told her to use AI as much as she possibly can in order to create her project (she's creating a full documentary on astrophotography with her making all the art/images).

but now she's on this wagon of ai being bad for humanity and she doesn't want to use it! arrrgggh!

it appears to be a generational thing

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@Judah0451 @EricCMeadows

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@SherylJensen69 @kariwarburton plz get help

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@j_divis 9

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@travis4nh @tracewoodgrains I used to think this about weed legalization. "It's not going to happen so why are we spending so much time focused on it?'

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@uapdog @FleabagMoroni @ThoughtfulSaint doing your best to prove the "we're definitely not" part?

[Cosmos Institute @cosmos_inst]

Over the last few weeks, our latest cohort of grantees (including the truthseeking track we run with @TheFIREorg) have been presenting their research and prototypes. The projects ranged from new benchmarks to classifiers to an encyclopedia.

We're bringing you a few highlights.

First up, the replication crisis hit psychology first but is spreading. The standard response is to discover which individual studies don't hold up – but by then, decades of work may already rest on bad foundations.

Rhea Karty built Replication Radar – a knowledge-graph tool that detects epistemic fragility at the field level before the crisis breaks. It ingests papers, scores them, and looks for warning signs: tightly clustered author networks, citation rings, institutional monoculture, whether retractions propagate to citing papers, and small sample sizes.

She validated it by showing it could flag most of the papers from the psychology replication crisis using only pre-crisis data.

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@stackerco @CurryBlur @Primary_Pianist

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@glukianoff great job in getting a measure of justice. i would be more satisfied if whoever made the choice to persecute Larry spent 37 days in jail.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme on Facebook.

I’ve been doing this work for 25 years, and I can honestly say this is the worst First Amendment case I’ve ever seen.

Not because Larry threatened anyone. He didn’t. Not because he committed violence. He didn’t. Not because this was a close call. It wasn’t.

He posted a political meme — the kind of thing millions of Americans do every day — and local officials decided to treat it like a crime.

And because they had badges, prosecutors, jail cells, and the terrifying machinery of the state behind them, they got away with it for 37 days.

Larry is a retired police officer and National Guard veteran. The meme he shared quoted Donald Trump’s “we have to get over it” comment after a 2024 Iowa school shooting. Whatever you think of Trump, the meme was plainly political commentary. Perry County officials knew what it referred to. They knew it wasn’t a threat against a Tennessee school.

They arrested him anyway.

In the middle of the night.

They set his bond at $2 million.

He lost his job. He missed family milestones. He sat in jail for more than a month before the charges finally collapsed — because, of course, there was no crime here.

Today, @theFIREorg secured a measure of justice: Perry County agreed to pay Larry Bushart $835,000 for violating his constitutional rights.

This case should scare the hell out of people across the political spectrum.

Because if the government can jail you for a meme by pretending not to understand obvious political commentary, your rights are only as secure as the good faith of the most authoritarian official in your town.

That is exactly why we have the First Amendment. Not for speech everyone likes. Not for opinions that flatter the powerful. Not for the bland, safe, committee-approved stuff.

It exists for moments when fear, outrage, politics, and authority all line up and say: “Surely this is the exception.”

No. It isn’t.

I’m incredibly proud of @theFIREorg’s legal team. And I’m even prouder of Larry Bushart for refusing to let the government get away with treating his constitutional rights like a suggestion.

But despite the correct verdict, I'll probably always get angry every time I think of this case.

Let’s make this the last time anyone in America is arrested — let alone thrown in jail — for a meme.

Celebrate your independence. Defend your First Amendment.

https://t.co/7ADQTxeHsL

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@webdevMason yeah, this isn't the technical definition of inflation but can be effected by things like tariffs and fuel/oil cost depending on what local options your region has for given staples.

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.