Apparently Hunstville, Alabama is the PERFECT spot for Space Command because Huntsville is directly below space.
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Apparently Hunstville, Alabama is the PERFECT spot for Space Command because Huntsville is directly below space.
I'm so excited that Space Command is finally returning to its ancestral home in Hunstville, Alabama.
If a foreign leader was doing this in another country, this is not how you would be covering it.
Except for people on the periphery and a few insane policies, things haven't started affecting people yet, but we are completely untethered, even if most people haven't noticed yet. I'm worried that when something big does happen, it'll be too late and we'll be too far gone.
The wheels have come off American government. In six months we've blown through all the protections put in place to keep the President from becoming a dictator.
This is 100% right. Throughout my life, deployment of our military within our country was, except for the most narrow cases, a big red line. It can't happen, I was told, it's illegal. Not here. And it's happening now and it's not even the top story, and even Democrats don't want to talk about it.
These are bullshit charges. Trump's trying to take over the Fed because they won't bend to his bullshit.
He's not looking for a scapegoat, he wants to control the Fed, largely, I think, because he thinks they can cushion any economic pain from his policies, but mostly because he's a straight up dictator. You have to start talking about him in those terms.
ChatGPT and other LLMs aren't about to produce superintelligence, but if this is it, it's still changed the world. Not necessarily for the better. I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
"Belief in the coming of artificial general intelligence (AGI) approaches messianic, driven higher by investment-seeking hypesters, heavy drug users, and millenarian true believers, all of whom can reference science fiction, but not necessarily get it."
Not only is this a great line, it appears in a very good piece.
NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said âspecial circumstancesâ may require ICE agents to go into schools. Thatâs how fascism creeps in: by normalizing fear, making classrooms feel like prisons, and putting children in danger. They don't need to do "wellness checks" in schools.
Modern Times made me realize I could have a career thinking and writing about film and why it matters. Twisters got me into a doctoral program.
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
"Quit whining about the end of democracy" says the newspaper editorial board in a city currently occupied by the military. I feel like we're on this train until it crashes because no one wants to admit we need the emergency brake. What will our rock bottom look like?
I think we've reached a point where there's no going back if only because so much of the media and our political establishment have invested so much energy insisting ALL of this is "normal" to ever be able to admit just how awful our country has become and how complicit they were.
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The Kurt Vonnegut letter to those high school kids is never wrong -
I just get the vibe that everyone on Sullivan's Crossing is an anti-vaxer.
This is an infinite loop of illogic.
But at this point, even I question taking my advice -- although I am still incredibly willing to give it.
Is it just me? Is everyone else completely together and flawless all the time? Or are you bumbling through a series of events called life, too?
Keep that in mind when considering the things that I post.
For the record, most of the things I do are wrong!
NEW: Inside the culture of fear that has taken hold within Smithsonian museums in D.C., as White House officials wage an authoritarian-style censorship campaign to âensure alignmentâ with Trumpâs preferred version of American history. "Everyone is so scared." www.huffpost.com/entry/smiths...
"A Jan 6er is running the Bureau of Labor Statistics" is hard to top. Seriously, what's left.
A must read thread.
I also got this email and immediately unsubscribed, and left in the comment box âI donât give money to campaigns that give money to James Carvilleâ
This is obviously basically the funniest thing that can happen to something you posted online. So I will just add that it appears Laura Loomer hired as her lawyer Larry Klayman, possibly the worst attorney in America, who conducted this deposition of Roger Stone.
Elections infringe upon the President's Article 2 powers.
The bad news is that these enhanced Executive powers will disappear if a Democrat ever becomes president again. The good news (?) is that these enhanced Executive powers make it unlikely that a Democrat will ever be allowed to hold the office again, so no worries.
In the old days they would actually make you win an appeal first, but apparently now waiting for the judicial process to play out is a violation of Article 2.
So what's the rule here? Are you allowed to ignore court orders if you think the judge overstepped, or are you only allowed to do it if the SCOTUS later rules against the order? Fun times with legal Calvinball.
Also the rise in prominent media and political figures who will tiptoe around and even platform these powerful antivax individuals
they want to be accepted as mainstream so badly. people like gutfeld, hannity, glen beck, limbaugh (still dead) wanted to be comedians but couldnt hack it so they took the easier course - be a right wing media asshole. but in their hearts they want to be in the mainstream circle.
I'll note that no one is proposing, for example, that ChatGPT coach Michigan Football.
This continues the AI industry's trend of attempting to replace people that we have an abundance of who aren't particularly well paid. Meanwhile, the cost to answer "Why is my dishwasher making that sound?" remains equivalent to the price of a new dishwasher.
I assume GPT-5 will answer questions outside its areas of expertise with clarity and concision, while answering questions within its area of expertise with "Well, it's complicated..."
I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
He can get around it with 5 SCOTUS and he has 6.
Does anybody remember when Bill Clinton saying "hi" to the AG when his wife was being investigated was considered a major scandal?
Noticing a pattern here.
Grok is now creating AI video deepfakes of celebrities such as Taylor Swift that include nonconsensual nude depictions. Worse, the user doesn't even have to specifically ask for it, they can just click the "spicy" option and Grok will simply produce videos with nudity. Video from @theverge.com.
Jump!
had Biden randomly wandered on the White House roof shouting at reporters about nuclear weapons, Jake Tapper would drop everything to pitch a new series of books and Hannity would anchor ongoing special coverage until 2029 but when Trump does it it's just Trump being Trump!
The BLS did exactly what it's supposed to do: provide accurate, nonpartisan data. When the numbers showed Trump's "economic boom" was actually a bust (33k jobs vs claimed 291k), he fired the messenger. After all, when it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists.
Every day I see at least one clip like this from @atrupar.com and I am like
âAm I a joke to you, Susan?â
I tried to make a poster that was like, approachable, inviting, cute-bad, and I'm afraid what ended up happening is that I just created a mess lmao but I'm TRYING ok. Come to my event there's gonna be free beer. I had that on the poster but it looked too cluttered. RSVP, it's FREE. lu.ma/1dv3p3ji
There was a time when I confused understanding someoneâs behavior as empathy for the inevitable pain or fear that caused them to treat me poorly. Today I told someone that was enough and blocked his contact. I understand why he is being mean to me but so what? I also understand atomic bombs.
Consider the âslow-AIâ systems that underpin âmodernityâ: markets, bureaucracies, and democracies; necessary social technologies fundamentally alien to individual understanding, making complex coordination possible, but terrifying to those caught in their gears. Henry Farrell sees MAMLM-driven... 1/
can you imagine how bad it smelled inside the trojan horse
I think in their minds they don't think they fucked up. They think he should be in jail, somewhere. They think all of "those people" should be in prison just for existing. They ordered the code red and they'd do it again.
DHS Declares Abrego âWill Never Walk Americaâs Streetsâ Hours After Judges Order His Release Here's how you know the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case represents something fundamentally broken in government accountability: within hours of two federal judges ordering his release and explicitly warning theâŚ
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop thatâs been set up inside of a butcherâs delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The fuck?!
So all these people were like ok it's the 50th bday of our friend, who has an island of child sex slaves that is like his hobby? Let's write him fun letters with "jokes" like signature-pubes to celebrate? And one of them is the sitting U.S. president? Is that honestly what is going on
my political philosophy best explained in the movie patton
Epstein is just a distraction from the REAL scandal, abuse of the US atty appointment process.
It happened this morning. Thanks for checking in though.
We signed up for our kids and it was wonderful. Truly a great program.
but they also said he had sex with satan, which you can tell is at the cutting edge of satire because it is a 20 year old bit from their own show
Anyway this is my way of saying I finally have the right script for movie two and if you have $500k or so, please let me know.
Trying to do the calculus on making an independent movie is a lot like trying to figure out if you can afford just one first class meal on the Titanic while itâs currently sinking.
Some assholes think they can ride this out profit from the chaos. Some think if we just keep giving in, maybe he won't demand too much. Some are getting ready for the fight. But we're all just waiting.
I feel like for six months the whole country (ok the non crazy half) has been holding its breath for something to seriously challenge Trump to see if we're going to leap into fascism or just continue this slow-ish slide.
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âthe party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitalsâ is a true statement
Also think later Scorsese is overrated. He still does great work but it's not as artistically exciting.
I wish we had gotten Spielberg's take on WSS rather than his take on Wise and Robbins' take on WSS. But for what it was, it was well done.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. The president's job is to "faithfully execute" the decisions we've made and he has signed into law. He may not impound, redirect or confiscate money outside federal law.
USA TODAY: â.. The president is wildly unpopular, and he is creating a crueler version of America that a sizable majority of voters reject.â @usatoday.com @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
This is considerably worse than Bushâs handling of Katrina
Must have a check stub with "dance, monkey" in the memo or it doesn't count.
"Oh shit, we elected a pedo? And we knew that at the time? Both times? Oops." -America
They're both going to disgrace themselves?
Those are the people who reject any admission criteria that can't be achieved by pouring a ton of money into Kaplan and private tutors.
Yiiiiiikes
To be reminded that, except for brief coalitions, through most of its history America has resisted equality. We really have to fix this.
So yeah, to see in raw numbers how White Americans have pushed for this since 1964, that a majority of white women for God's sake voted for this timeline, yeah, we have some shit to work on.
There are some Trump voters so angry at the status quo that they voted for the man most likely to smash it. They're furious that after years of picking options dedicated to not upsetting the Powerful in this country that their lives somehow became more powerless. So let's vote for Elon Musk!
Some Trump voters wanted to jam it down the throats of Blacks. And Palestinians. And immigrants. Someone. Make them shut up shut up I am not a bigot, I just operate in a bigoted world.
We are a racist and greedy and unfair country, committed to the proposition that power should be allowed to crush the weak, they deserved it, and terrified that they might lose the few dwindling scraps of comfort if they make things more fair.
If you put to a vote tomorrow a law that would make suggesting a decrease in law enforcement budgets a thought crime, a majority of Democrats would vote for it. There was never any possibility any Democrat in a position of authority would try to defund the police. But fuck people for asking.
People claimed some activists using the slogan "defund the police" caused people to support Republicans. Are you kidding me? After decades of "tough on crime" being a mandatory Democratic Party platform? Increased budgets, state of the art policing? Indifference in the face of racism and abuse?
By 2024, America fully reverted into its racist, oppressive shell. A white man somewhere wasn't promoted fast enough, so we'll vote Trump. There are more law-abiding immigrants than we are comfortable with, so let's elect the man who will put them in alligator-infested concentration camps.
A lifetime of Democrats not upsetting that apple cart, not embracing change, not living up to the rhetoric, not even defending the ideals, really. All my life, the fear was: try to change things too much, and America will reject you. So we tried to change nothing, and have been rejected for THIS.
Even the super-woke Biden administration wouldn't even consider not fully supporting Israel in Gaza, not to open that can of worms. I'm just saying, even the Biden admin wasn't beholden to the left.
Obama was only a hair left of Clinton. His race and her gender created an identity political dilemma (America went for the "get out of racism jail free for electing a Black man once while at the same time putting women in their place" choice, of course) but better than a commie like John Edwards!
His VP couldn't give voters anything better to do with a government running a surplus than commit to fulfilling our commitments to social security -- and some thought THAT went too far!
Maybe Mondale and Dukakis were a bit more liberal - and they lost, and liberals were vilified, and we ran right back to a moderate southern governor who could feel your pain but figured if you just learn to code at 45 you can dig yourself out of it, now let's go reform welfare. (Also a sex pest.)
Every Democratic President of my lifetime came from the center. I don't think there's been one major candidate for noninee except Bernie who could be seen as wanting to depart from the status quo. Carter seems so much more progressive now, but he was a moderate southern governor.
Over time we kept having to apologize for abortion, make sure to say it's icky, allow some restrictions here and there. Maybe Roe was right but decided wrong. Let's just find a compromise that makes the extremists satisfied. Support for Roe became very wink-wink.
Abortion was something you didn't talk about in polite company, but Roe was held up as a hard-won victory. There were a lot of people proud of it. That changed.
We abandoned unions. They were too corrupt. Never mind that Capital has been more corrupt and that hasn't stopped us worshipping it. But then we abandoned teachers and public sector unions just because why should the person I entrust my child to 70% of the year have a decent retirement plan?
When I was a kid, politicians talked about fighting poverty. POVERTY! Poverty was seen as a social problem. One that government should try to solve. Not as part of "creating jobs" or "fixing the economy." Poverty itself was an seen as an illness. Sometime between then and now it became a vice.
Not just now. For decades. Almost every Republican Presidency has moved rightward and been worse. And the country followed.