you know, a witness is someone with informatoin an informant, well, that has different implications
I measure out my life in conference rooms. Leaving the bird site for here
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you know, a witness is someone with informatoin an informant, well, that has different implications
Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?
California and Delaware warned OpenAI on Friday that they have “serious concerns” about the AI company’s safety practices in the wake of several recent deaths reportedly connected to ChatGPT. thehill.com/policy/techn...
lmao
Folks like you are why we’re headed to a recession.
I have seen those helmets before
As far as I am concerned, monarchists do not belong on the Supreme Court.
in fairness, just about everyone in Trump II is like this. An inhuman absence of even a shred of humility.
This is because they are liars. Their commitment to free speech and inclusion was completely fake. They never bothered to think through real or potential harms, or the tradeoffs these questions raise. They simply wanted to attack people who annoyed them, and echo whatever their friends were saying.
Somehow, the constellation of highly-educated and influential people who spent years extremely concerned about things like inclusion trainings seem mostly unbothered by the creation of an ideological regime that uses the power of the state to punish even trivial expressions of liberal tolerance.
You now live in a country where if you support an idea like "Trans people should have equal legal rights" or "Black people suffer from the effects of discrimination," your government will openly persecute you, including by firing you if you work for it, and even looking for ways to prosecute you.
the immediacy of being made fun of on their pocket computers blinded them to the titanic horror that an unrestrained state can produce
they've created this entire delusional bubble cult and they have no choice but to keep setting cash on fire until it all collapses in a glorious fireball these are men without ideas building a simulacrum of innovation, all propped up by grifters cashing in on the front end of the hype cycle
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
The thing about Nate Silver is that he can't stand the idea that at any given moment, someone somewhere online is in strong disagreement with him. That's what he means by Blueskyism. There are plenty of folks on here who disagree with each other. Mr. Silver just can't handle disagreement.
As of right now Tesla's total market cap is $1.09 trillion. Where exactly is the money coming from for this kind of pay plan?
been enjoying these videos by Elephant Graveyard on how Joe Rogan's anti-woke Austin comedy scene is a cult, presented in the style of an Adam Curtis BBC documentary
Bluesky, which is a very tiny dying network that no one cares about and is just a liberal bubble, is so powerful that it's going to destroy Democrats' chances of retaking power. - by Nate Silver
Say a prayer to those poor Europeans, stuck taking fast, reliable transit through their dense and well laid-out cities instead of paying an oligarch $35 for the privilege of sitting in traffic on a 24-lane highway to get to the Chili's out by the interstate
Mediocre white lady cannot hide her contempt for her smarter black woman co-worker… Supreme Court Justices, they’re just like us!
No. Freaking. Way.
open.spotify.com/track/3y4Uza... “I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail / Poisoned in the bushes and blown out on the trail / Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn / ‘Come in,’ she said ‘I'll give you shelter from the storm.’” Sigh. Genius magic songwriting.
Having studied the Epstein case closely for many years, I've come to the conclusion that the number one reason why he got away with so much for so long is wealth inequality and rape culture bullshit--not an Epstein-specific conspiracy to let him off the hook.
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
The media is going to frame this as part of the horse race, so I think it is worth noting the actual substance of Pritzker's words -that the federal government is actively planning on destabilizing an American city and endangering its inhabitants as a pretext for a military crackdown- is a BFD.
of course she doesn’t. the (republican) president is rightfully, by her lights, an elected dictator. trump is doing nothing that the constitution does not give him the power to do, according to her and her republican colleagues.
spraying on a pint of sauvage so girls at the club know i smell like the sort of guy who'd deck vanessa paradis
Everyone in Philly hates parabolic mics
I'm ok with Department of Worf
This person is no longer capable of operating in the real world and it is time folks started saying so.
oh I’m sorry your city doesn’t have CULTURE
MORE LIKE THE BRAVE CAVE FOR THE VALIANT EFFORT HE GAVE CASE CLOSE
The subtlety
It is almost like all these anti-Thomas Massie people are getting paid
If you're not thinking about Rodrigo Duterte, well, you should be.
Hard pass on Jain’s bullshit. If you don’t think I’m a person worthy of self determination, then I’m going to self determine that I don’t need you in my life. Asking minorities to take abuse in order to ‘persuade’ tells me that you don’t think we’re people either.
At least three of President Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Ah yes, the base all sailors already call 'Great Mistakes'
no I don’t like being friends with people who don’t think I’m actually fully human this really does not need to be a complicated conversation
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
fascism is not the righteous fall of neoliberalism, and I wish people would stop treating it as if it was. 1
The dumbest justice
"launch operations???" - the military should not be launching operations in the US and the Washington Post should not be acting like this is perfectly normal.
Nope - he’s worked out his angle & made coin. This idiot had his mom & dad pay off his credit card debt when he was on the DC Circuit & he was baby teeth
I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
He’s the dumbest Justice
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
look, you don’t get the abundance without the liberalism. we’ve established that pretty firmly over the course of the last century. so maybe if you want abundance your time would be better spent talking people who currently want abundance but not liberalism into liberalism.
He was an asshat in law school too
Six year anniversary of this debate of substantive legal issues
Particularly notable given that Bove is now a judge on the court tasked with deciding whether or not Alina Habba legally has a job
Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.
Three hard passes when dating: smokes, doesn’t like Campari, quotes Gladwell without sneering.
BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
The Second Amendment has always existed only for white cis males.
“Why take no for an answer? I bought dinner”
We share myriad facial expressions with our simian cousins. Among the most common are those engendered by happiness, anger, surprise, fear, sadness, and kale.
So about a half century ago, the Rolling Stones took a pop-culture beatdown for the original album art on "Black and Blue." Now comes Sabrina Carpenter showing us that either we overreacted, or it isn't for men to make the joke. To quote Nigel Tufnel, it's "a thin line between stupidity and clever."
Also too: It's really only the Left that is ever supposed to do the hushing to protect peace and civility thing, due to the fragility of the Right.
If it helps to be able to say “encouraging him to join __ in calling for resignation/impeachment,” Senator Warnock (my old senator!) had a real banger statement:
This is a rift we shouldn’t let pass us by, & he’s not breaking with the party line alone (Cassidy & others also voiced concerns). Let him undo the damage he did by voting RFK in. Remember, RFK doesn’t have the authority to fire a CDC director – this was a coup, all because Monarez *did her job.*
I have a naive question re "trans bathroom bills." Women faced with long lines at crowded sporting arenas or concerts have used men's room for decades without anyone caring, and once in a while men use woman's restrooms w/out incident if theirs is out of order, being cleaned, etc. WHO CARES???
he’s doing what biden and the west did before putin’s invasion of russia. it’s smart. if you want to perform the role of a leader, you gotta give people a narrative - where we are, AND where we are going.
Such incredibly harmful, bullshit statements. From a man who doesn’t actually give a damn about suicide or mental/behavioral health.
Enough with the backroom scheming. If Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly.
The good news about BMI being very stupid and bad is that it's easy to claim to be clinically obese and get it
Eric Schmitt's speech was cribbed from Samuel T. Francis.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-schmit...
2/ You might as well be ditching the germ theory or antisepsis for surgeons. Sure the elites talk about microcrobes. But have you seen any? We’re so far gone.
You see even Sen Barrasso saying dude, I’m getting freaked about what you’re doing, Bobby. And we’re so deep into bullshit world that part of me thinks, wow even Barrasso who’s a doctor. And then after half a moment I remind myself just how insane this timeline has gotten.
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
Some crew to hang out with, when being sworn in as neutral independent judge.
The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.
Today, Senate Republicans refused to have RFK Jr. sworn in under oath to give his testimony. I find it telling that Republicans refuse to take even symbolic steps to show they care about transparency and truth from the man in charge of the agency tasked with America's health.
BREAKING: Sen. Warnock gets RFK Jr. to admit that he demanded that then-CDC Director Monarez fire CDC officials before her firing.
My summary of the RFK Jr. hearing: The danger he poses to the United States was made clear by Democrats. Two Republican Senators, Cassidy and Tillis, appear to grasp some of the danger. I do not believe any action will be taken to address the egregious destruction of HHS by RFK Jr.
Who in the real world would actually say out loud that they were an untrustworthy person? Did he confuse the CDC head with Littlefinger from Game of Thrones?!
this is such a shitty thing to do to people trying to read a book, jesus christ
Wild when New York Times reporters are or are not allowed to opine. If you think antivax lunatic RFK Jr. "makes good points" about COVID and vaccination, you can say so. If you think the Trump administration's egregious rights violations are bad, you keep that out of the paper, don't be biased.
After RFK Jr. says he doesn’t know how many people died from Covid and doesn’t know how many lives were saved from the Covid vaccine because the CDC data was too bad, Sen. Mark Warner: “How can you be that ignorant?”
This wouldn't be necessary without RFK Jr. or anti vaxxers. Watch out, Polio could be next to make a roaring come back?
Bradley’s brow-furrowing over partisanship and personal attacks is rich coming from someone who has used her judicial opinions to personally attack public health officials, by name Don't let the door hit ya where evolution split ya!!
Selectively revoking constitutional rights for vulnerable minority groups is a GIGANTIC red flag. The reddest possible flag.
Barrett declined to give interviews to CNN and *Newsweek*, but ran the first authorized book excerpt in the internet's sloppiest anti-woke blog. Conservative media has been poisoning the Republican justices' brains for a while now, but this is something else, man ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Gun ownership may be the single “right” the GOP has considered inviolate for over 40 years. That they are willing to even consider denying this right to trans people shows how far they will go to remove their humanity. Fuck these people all around.
Still experiencing cognitive dissonance over the fact that "performative male" seems to mean "guy reading a book and drinking matcha at a coffee shop while minding his own business" and not "guy taking videos of himself doing deadlifts."
RFK Jr. must resign.
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In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
If we lived in a world of small 'l' liberal politics, then this would obviously be a non-starter with self-described conservatives. But because we now live in a world where our "conservative" party has embraced the illiberalism of Schmittian "friend/enemy" politics, the US right will be fine w/ this
House Ds need to try to get an impeachment vote on Kennedy immediately
Seems like the RFK hearing went about as well as everything else related to RFK.
The NYT is trash.