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My career goal is to become a cowboy at a “wild west” roadside attraction. I want to be the guy who stands with a shotgun at the top of the stagecoach and gets shot and falls off.

Minnie goes down 13 steps. It’s a lot for her to process. We do this a couple of times a week.

Google shows off AI “news article” writer to newspapers, leaving newspapers to wonder who did the fact-finding, investigating and reporting boingboing.net/2023/07/2…

Rob Beschizza: Google is “pitching a tool to _rewrite _news that’s _already _been published” and the target market is the publishers who originally paid for creating that news.

Florida is requiring schools to teach how slavery benefitted the slaves, and require teaching “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans” when studying race massacres. www.cnn.com/2023/07/2…

These include the Ocoee, Fla. massacre where 40-50 Black people were killed by a mob of more than 250 whites, to prevent the victims from voting in an election. And the Tulsa, Okla., massacre, when white mobs killed up to 300 Black people. And in the Rosewood, Fla., race masscacre, in 1923, a white mob killed six Black people and two whites, and burned down homes, businesses and churches.

Via boingboing.net/2023/07/2…

Donald Trump warns that “it would be very dangerous” for Jack Smith to jail him. boingboing.net/2023/07/2…

Mighty nice country you got here. Wouldn’t want nothing to happen to it.

I bet a lot of people are found dead in the act of Googling whatever killed them. “Is this spider poisonous?”