I suppose this is summer now? - June 02021

Good day. Let us begin with an old idea given new form yet again, this time the part of the cycle where men believe they can retain their life force and power by not ejaculating. This time around, however, they're aiming for being able to have orgasms, just not to ejaculate. Also unsurprisingly, having created their own mythos, they are contemptuous of the places that spawned themselves and consider themselves superior to them.

The Methodist Church in England has voted to allow same-sex marriages, but also gave local clergy the ability not to do them if they have conscience objections.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took to the Internet to accuse some authors of having ridden her coattails to success and then insulted her. Akwaeke Emezi, one of the authors not mentioned by name, chose to speak up and recontextualize this as being about wanting to distance themselves from Adichie's transphobia, and not about being ungrateful wretches.

Donald Rumsfeld, architect of two disastrous wars, liar profoundus, and owner of a plot of land and buildings where slaves were tortured to try and break their spirit, is dead at 88 years of age. His legacy may live on far after himself, and his name should only be spoken in derision or other negative contexts.

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Last for tonight, a story of the robots that were made to have short lifespans creating dinosaurs that would last nearly forever in response, and a story of the artificial intelligence that now must grapple with the elements of humanity that seem to be essential to their continued evolution.