
Fireworks will light up the Sonoran Desert sky this Independence Day. Here’s a list of fireworks shows across Pima County.

Even in the dog days of summer, there's no shortage of things to do in Tucson. Check out these 50 fun events happening this month!

So good news: this item got procedurally removed.
Bad news? There's so much other terrible stuff in the bill now, like basically destroying the solar industry via removing tax breaks for solar projects and apply taxes to any solar from China. Musk has been freaking out about this all day as gasp, it could actually affect his personal businesses.
But unlike Google's version, Claude can accidentally regurgitate the entire text or passages from it, yes?
So it's not really internal and this judge is an imbecile, correct?
(I know that previous "AI" engines have been tricked into returning the original paintings and faces of people that they had ingested, so I assume this is also a possibility for this "AI" too.)
Ya think??
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I don't know, this is going to piss of a lot of hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts who tend to vote more conservatively too. At least worth writing your congress critters and spreading the word.
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.

I’d have ever so much more sympathy if they hadn’t just spent over a year genociding Palestine…
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Stay cool and stay safe, folks.
About freaking time someone called them on it.
That would be the dumbest thing he could possibly do to himself. Honestly I hope he is smarter than that because Putin would turn him upside down and shake him until every last nickel falls out of his pockets, and put it all into the war effort against the Ukraine.
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Nope, nope, nope. It's not like I was ever a Telegram fan, but never again, nope.
Humorous rogue cyborgs aren't super common, alas. The tongue-in-cheek humor of it reminds me of Stainless Steel Rat a bit, and occasionally Larry Niven's stuff too. His Gil Hamilton character is pretty droll at times, and it comes through in some of his short stories about him. (For pure humor from Niven, try "The Flight of the Horse".)
You might try Strata by Terry Pratchett, which is a bit in both camps? It's a one-off, but a lot of fun. Can't say it has anything at all to do with rogue cyborgs though.
Egads, I was unaware that was as thing too. That's even stupider!
I feel like that was an engineered perception based in a vocal group of idiots, TBH. I played the second game at launch and it rocked me to my core. The story was strong in my opinion.
Pedro and Bella had good chemistry. Bella without Pedro? Not so much most of the time. Which is really frustrating because occasionally Bella shows a flash of brilliance and you’re like “OK, she can act.” But too many times Isabela has had to carry the scenes it feels like.
And Abby… I know they have said she doesn’t need to be physically jacked for the TV show, but I’m sorry, I am not really buying it. No offense to the actress they did choose, just not working in this particular role for me at all.
Having said all that, I am still basically enjoying Season 2? A lot of it is really well done, TBH. Just suffering from some unfortunate character dynamics that I think have disappointed a lot of viewers more than me apparently.
400 Boys was decent, I chuckled at Close Encounters and I did quite enjoy How Zeke Got Religion despite the whole WW2 bombers thing being pretty tired as a trope. The rest of them were pretty unmemorable, alas.
I was especially disappointed at Spider Rose? I don't know how that story didn't hit harder since Sterling is one of my favorite authors.
I'll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.
Honestly I have used Blue Sky and Mastodon and Mastodon feels a lot more elegant to me, personally.
What I don't get is why anyone would ever choose commercial social media again given there are Activity Pub clones for practically everything now, where you aren't the product. So many people learned nothing from the ongoing Twitter debacle and the zillion Facebook privacy scandals apparently.
Having used my helmet multiple times it’s fairly obvious to me they actually performa a useful function. As far as I’m concerned the only controversy is whether they should mandatory or not (and I don’t think they should). But otherwise, if you choose to wear one I think you ARE doing yourself a favor wearing one.
I mean, that seems relatively obvious to me (best actor and actress being separate categories that is), and I bet they’re trying to stir up shit from a really simple statement she made? Quite possibly they also stoop to hand-wringing about “whatever category should we put a transgender person in?” too.
I refuse to read the article and give them clicks though.
It is always hilarious and strange to see the buy-in on these things. We have a single coder in his late 60s that has bought in hard to spicy autocorrect. Meanwhile, the youngest on our team (like 22) won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.
The other issue is just the morality of it. Do I know people that got rich on Bitcoin? Yes. Do I feel like they’re participating in a pyramid scheme still? Also yes. And with spicy autocorrect, where they got their training data for any and all of these models is so freaking morally bankrupt, and they’re desperate to paper over that and make it “ok” for businesses to use it.
From dance parties to crafts to a pizza throwdown, this month has something going on for everyone.

As our community's only open-admission shelter, we have the largest selection of adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens waiting to meet you.
From the link, which is terribly presented…
Join Pima Animal Care Center’s clinic staff as they bring their mobile medical unit, Karen’s Karing Van, to Summit Park, 1800 E Summit Street, to provide FREE services on May 1, 2, and 3! (7am to 2pm)
Available services:
On May 1: Check-in beginning at 7 a.m. (40 spots available): Spay/neuter, vaccines, and microchips. Large-breed female dogs will get first priority; other pets will be accepted based on availability.
On May 1, 2, and 3: From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (150 spots available each day): Vaccines, microchips, and wellness exams.
Vaccines provided will be FVRP and rabies for cats and DHPP and rabies for dogs.
This event is for Pima County residents only. Cats should be in carriers and dogs should be on leash. There is no limit to the number of pets one person or family can bring, but please be aware that you will be waiting in line and only bring the number of animals you can safely handle in that scenario.
Please plan to arrive early and wait in line.
Just Bel doing Bel things. I nearly pulled something laughing at this one, though. 😹
Neal Asher has a new book out called Dark Diamond. The dedication page in it is quite frankly pretty horrifying.
>Five years ago, I watched the two Falcon Heavy side boosters come into land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Honestly, it was like something in a game animation and seemingly too perfect to be believable. Others, I've seen landing on drone ships with names taken from lain M. Banks' Culture books. Just recently, I saw a huge booster for the Starship come down to be caught between two metal arms - y'know, they caught something the size of a skyscraper like a dropping stick - and that was an astounding feat of engineering. But these are not in isolation, since SpaceX, as of last month, has launched over a hundred rockets in 2024.
>Meanwhile, the guy who brought this about, the guy who is aiming to make humanity multi-planetary by putting us on Mars, has a few other projects on the go, like building electric cars, burrowing tunnels under cities, putting up a satellite internet system and, perhaps the most important of them all, preventing the totalitarians of our world from killing free speech.
>So thank you, Elon Musk, for bringing to reality, right before my eyes, those things I read and dreamed about as a teenager.
That… is a REALLY unfortunate, given Musk's apparent aspirations to be a Culture-level Bad Guy™. It's like Asher's paid absolutely zero attention to the fact that the Starlink is considered pollution on a massive scale, from an astronomy perspective and numerous environmental aspects. And that Elon's Boring Company is widely acknowledged to have been a ploy to stop Cali from approving light rail projects. And that his purchase of Twitter was in fact a splurge to destroy a free speech platform and bend it to be another disinformation platform instead. Yuck.
I should add that while I personally don't really enjoy Asher's books all that much to begin with, I was utterly unaware of his politics until now. I will strongly recommend against him going forward, much like I do with Orson Scott Card, despite an extreme fondness for some of Card's earlier works.
Do you guys worry much about the politics of the authors you enjoy, or is it more of a me thing?
Stolen from Reddit, with all credit and thanks going to u/dgeiser13 for collecting these.
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Best Novelette
- “The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video” by Thomas Ha
- “By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars” by Premee Mohamed
- “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer
- “Lake of Souls” by Ann Leckie in Lake of Souls
- “Loneliness Universe” by Eugenia Triantafyllou
- “Signs of Life” by Sarah Pinsker
Best Short Story
- “Five Views of the Planet Tartarus” by Rachael K. Jones
- “Marginalia” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is” by Nghi Vo
- “Three Faces of a Beheading” by Arkady Martine
- “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” by Caroline M. Yoachim
- “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim
If you enjoy the works published by these online outlets I highly recommend sharing some of your hard-earned ducats.
What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: Cyclovia, film fest, wine fest at the zoo, beer fest, touch-a-truck, 2000s party, folk fest and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro

Cyclovia returns to midtown Tucson on April 6.

Everybody get out there and enjoy! Looks like cooler weather ahead too, so should be a great day for it.
What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: tattoo expo, markets, plant swap, STEM expo and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

What's going on in Tucson, Arizona: Holiday light shows, local markets, tamal festival, tree lightings, vegan bash and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this November: All Souls Procession, Celtic Festival, Dusk Music Festival, Jurassic Quest, El Tour de Tucson and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

Tuesday was the last recommended day to mail ballots back, so if you mail it now, it might not arrive in time to be counted.
You can drop it at any polling place in the sealed, signed and dated inner ballot envelope. (Outer envelope is not required for this activity.)
Credit to u/SubGothius on Reddit; just cc'ing this info on here for anyone that needs it.
What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this October: Halloween haunts, Tucson Meet Yourself, Cyclovia, fall plant sales, insect and reptile festivals and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

Pima County voters should prepare for a long ballot in the Nov. 5 election, with many more races at stake than the presidential contest at the top of the page.

What's going on in Tucson, Arizona this weekend: Charli XCX dance party, burlesque festival, Grandparents Day celebrations, stargazing and more in Tucson, Marana and Oro Valley.

Just in case you need to verify your voter registration or register to vote!