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I've never had a chance encounter with BJ.

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You'd best ask LeetheAgent about my Home for Wayward Girl musicians and van lifers.

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"The House was poised to pass a measure to end Trump's war of choice with Iran. But"rather than hand Trump a loss & stop this unpopular war"Republican leadership pulled down the vote.

They'd rather bow to Trump's will than stand up for Americans. This isn't over. We'll keep pushing to end this war."

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These Congress 'people', and I use the term loosely are intent on hanging onto their jobs and their sweet handouts and Golden Parachutes from Oligarchs and Corporations (again, I repeat myself)... but if the Speaker is having to shut down the House every other day because the Party in control can't get their --- together, it might get interesting.

Like that Chinese Curse.

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"Dreams are neurologically and emotionally real, even if they don't happen in the physical world.

Your brain processes dream experiences just like waking life, activating the same sensory and emotional centers. They are mental simulations driven by your memories, emotions, and subconscious processing."

#2 Thanks!

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lol... with all these rwing Puritan BS Ps around 'Murica, people forget who THEY say created men, women, sex, wine, and roses! (And whose God is Love and Light)

"Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love" (Proverbs 5:19).

"Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies" (Song of Solomon 4:5, 7:3)

Medium actually has a pretty good article about lust:

"Jesus isn't condemning attraction itself or our ability to notice someone's sexiness or magnetism; He's condemning hypocrisy (breaking covenant while claiming righteousness) and dehumanization (reducing another human into a boundary-less object for your satisfaction).

Hypocrisy and dehumanization = bad.

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"The problem comes later, when interpreters flattened everything to produce political capital: desire - lust - adultery - all sex outside hetero marriage.

That collapse discards nuance, erases Song of Solomon, and erases the lives of people whose longing doesn't fit those lines of hetero marriage" single people, bi people, queer people."
more at the link

"Worsham, whose right-wing ThePatrioticBlonde account boasts almost 160,000 followers on X, has long positioned herself as a proud, three-time Trump voter.

Based in deep red South Carolina, she even claims to have worked on two of his presidential campaigns.

It remains unclear exactly which of Trump's runs for office the claim applies to.

If her work for Trump included the 2020 election, her efforts would have overlapped with her time on OnlyFans, when she posed as an erotic calendar model for David Wohl, a Fox News legal commentator and father of the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, Jacob Wohl.

Back then, Worsham went by the X handle "@themagablonde."

(NO... I did not make that up! much more racy-ness at the link)

"Kyiv then suffered one of the biggest aerial assaults of the war overnight on Saturday.

Videos posted on social media showed explosions lighting up the sky throughout the night, and many Kyiv residents reported blasts rocking the city as numerous civilian targets were hit.

Russia employed dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles and hundreds of drones to hit the capital, as well as firing a hypersonic, nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile on the area of Bila Tserkva, 90km south of Kyiv.

Non-military targets such as the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv's historic district and the National Art Museum of Ukraine were damaged or destroyed. A shopping centre, a market and several residential buildings in the area of Lukanivka were also destroyed.

On Monday evening, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to evacuate American diplomats from Kyiv in a phone call, Russia's foreign ministry said."

Quick summary:

"It is worth being precise about what Koch is actually proposing, because the wider register has tended to absorb the proposal in vaguer terms than the underlying claim warrants.

Koch is proposing that consciousness is not something the brain produces. Consciousness is, more accurately, a fundamental feature of reality itself, more like gravity or electric charge than like a thought the brain is generating.

In his April 2026 presentation at the 15th "Behind and Beyond the Brain" symposium organized by the Bial Foundation in Porto, Koch argued explicitly that the persistent failure of mainstream neuroscience to explain why and how subjective experience arises from neural activity suggests that the underlying framework requires revision."

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"The framework Koch has been advocating is called Integrated Information Theory, or IIT, developed in collaboration with the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi across the last two decades.

According to the Neuroscience News coverage of Koch's recent work, IIT proposes that consciousness is measured by a mathematical quantity called Phi, which represents the degree to which a system can integrate information.

Any system with a sufficiently high value of Phi possesses, by the theory's structural claim, some form of subjective experience.

The implication is that consciousness is not exclusive to humans or animals. The implication is, more specifically, that any system with sufficient integrated information has some form of subjective experience, regardless of whether the system is biological."

much more at the link

"Disarming AI means freeing it from the mentality of armed' competition," he wrote.

"To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity," adding that the technology should be "human-friendly", accessible to all and opened to discussion and debate."

from the thread link

Here's a related article focused on the AI aspect:

Thread up last night w/ 11 posts... maybe Rogers can combine them:

- That will depend on what happens when Bibi blows the ceasefire with a full blown air attack on Iran. Again.
Lewzer will likely fall in line pretty quick. Again.

Maybe yes, maybe no... the one part of the old story that I had trouble seeing happening, as most of the others have happened... is the part where after the Covenant of Many aka the Trump Accords, has held for 3.5 years, the AC turns on Israel.

Now it makes more sense that anyone who tries to tarnish Trump's Peace Prize is liable to suffer the consequences.

(the old story has a pretty good record):