We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
Man, "shitkicking" as parapraxis. Help us @patblanchfield.bsky.social--you're our only hope.
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
I've watched almost six and a half hours of Godfather movies and this son of a bitch still hasn't fathered God. Well, here's hoping for Part III
"to produce you indirectly"
It's just the space command thing though?
Remember how we all spent 2024 talking about what a strong candidate Joe Biden was and how the economy is working for everyone and wouldn’t be a problem
No one in this thread has said any of that. However, working yourselves up into a lather over things no one is saying, while ignoring the inconvenient Israeli acceleration of its campaign of mass death, is what makes people think your ‘worries’ about the anti-Semitic left aren’t on the level.
That we still talk about this but never about all the people who fucking died makes me insane.
It does kinda feel like our man is learning the hard way that in the end, you really do die in your own arms.
Using one photo already on your phone, what’s the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
This stuff is a little funny, because it reinforces just how awesome and terrible Bill Clinton's political talent must've been. Everyone acting like triangulation is the obvious winner for the next liberal/Democrat, but turns out it's almost impossible without looking like a total pandering phony.
Look, worrying about the abuses of anti-Zionism while Israeli Zionists are perpetrating daily crimes against humanity seems so flagrantly to misread the stakes and urgency of this situation that people are questioning whether the misreading isn't intentional. I don't think that = anti-Semitism.
There is *something* to the idea that, only in a story about and being written by him, could Obama humiliating him be the catalyst that leads specifically this guy to become President of the United States.
We all had better pray that he lives until the end of his term. Because *the instant* he accepts he's dying (itself a leap) and intent as he is on bending the world to his own existential narcissism, he's going to do whatever he can to put paid to everyone who thought they could sneer their way out.
Oak Park dispatches, dateline 8/31/25: po-faces made after mistaking fireworks for gunshots are down, that's *down*, 35% in 2025. Progress is attributed to Village's "Why Don't You Act Like It?" campaign, reminding residents "You Live in Cook County" and "You're Sick of Being Mistaken for Elmhurst"
I wouldn't worry about it, Toby. The Argument have been live for only two weeks.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
We’re all channeling the brief but intense joy we felt watching him on the steps of Walter Reed, pretending he didn’t have Covid and visibly fighting for his life with every breath - which required, incidentally, lifting and releasing his entire torso with great heaves.
It’s that time again. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
You can’t make this shit up
A worthy question for this time of joyous anticipation.
So, it's a professional failing that SNL hasn't done this--but I think you should actually write the skit and pitch it to Second City.... That said, for my money, it's gotta be Stan Chera. Somehow Margaret Thatcher could be a real possibility (but I could just be Rosenberg-Iron Lady transposing).
here's another talk we want to share with you. it's a few chats that all kind of converged around some form of nostalgia. that, and trying to suss out what impediments in our lives are bc of our phones, and what might be just good old-fashioned self-defeat. oh and tamagotchis — remember those?
This deleted (but archived) Truth Social post of Trump's from Thursday night is like something out of Twin Peaks: media-cdn.factba.se/realdonaldtr...
The discourse is getting really grim again which means it’s about two days before something really funny happens and we all stop being angry for awhile and reset.
Another splash of gasoline for the bonfire of wishful thinking.
This is the only Room Where It Happens I want to be in.
Well I for one am glad that Matt Yglesias can say the r-word again!
There has to be a story/narrative in the "why does this keep happening?" vein. Meta (et al) would've made so much more money, you'd think, if they'd made conventional investments in incremental improvements in their current businesses. Instead, they're burning money trying to shoot the moon.
I believe Spier & MacKay has an entire line in this style! us.spierandmackay.com/Product/sear...
okay what the fuck
As an incorrigible wine drinker with a (modest modest modest) cellar of his own, I welcome any and all declines in other people's consumption.
The pseudo-intellectualization of Patrick Deneen *is* something to behold. There's a think-piece in the primary source of his public renown, position in the conservative pseudo-intellectual firmament, and (let's be honest) wealth being the reviled-Obama having recommended his pinched-out book.
That said, I feel like there's a think-piece somewhere in the story that the single greatest contributor to his public renown, position in the conservative pseudo-intellectual firmament, and (let's be honest) wealth is the reviled-Obama's having recommended his pinched-out book.
It is actually pathetic seeing Deneen mix it up with these grifters and sophists. Impossible to believe he's the same man who wrote Democracy's Literature.
You should move here instead! You'll be happier, and it'll be better for you and your loved ones.
They could also say: anyone who accepts a pardon from Trump can consider their career in government over. Accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt, and we will work within the law to make sure your crimes are brought to light and civil penalties leveled.
Pritzker is the only national political figure saying "We will outlive them." He may be the only person *on my timeline* saying "We will outlive them."
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
It's lost on a lot of people that the US killed an extra million of its own citizens during Covid and promptly re-elected Trump, who's now exacerbating every factor that led to said deaths. The idea that "the economy" or (come on) "isolation" is, in my view, part of the same fever dream.
In 2006, a lot of people thought that a Presidential candidate who hadn't supported the Iraq War was an insane leftwing litmus test.
Please tell us more about how public polling should drive political considerations about human rights.
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
The horror of Wisconsin between 2010-2023 really is the most hopeful scenario for the whole country. Yes, Wisconsin went very hard to the GOP for several years, and it wasn't *entirely* the gerrymandering. Not that it mattered, because *the only* way back was through a literal decade of organizing.
great mileage on this pour over
a society that wants to keep functioning has to punish baldfaced lying, even by non authorities - this poster seems to have entirely made up this account of the incident
Her publication is on a mission to civilize. But how would it know it had failed in this mission (apart from running out of VC money)?
Dean Cain, when he got home from training camp—
This is literally the Founders' worst nightmare: standing armies being used to oppress the population by an overweening executive.
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
"Has your friend, Matt Yglesias, ever mentioned to you in polite conversation how it's important to the future of the republic that liberals simply and easily acknowledge that people with his ethnic heritage are (on average, of course!) better at math than people with yours?"
Seeing Kelly's shirt here, a sartorial recommendation: used SuitSupply wool knit t-shirts. Slim-fitting for one who's basically in shape, and can be had for <$50. But they go with everything, from suits to jeans and even shorts. And don't have to be washed with each wear unless soiled.
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)
In the last 30 years, it’s essentially a GOP-only offense.
A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.
Republican leaders never really cared about the free enterprise system, with government and business staying out of each other's way. That was just a con for the rubes. What GOP bosses really want is a government that keeps the little people down while the big shots stuff money into their pockets.
You can think what you want, but from where I sit there is no indication Trump intends on giving up power in 2028, and we should just assume he’s not.
Cf bsky.app/profile/adam...
I remember when the way to limit the very earliest forms of ads in Gmail was by including invisible text in an email to the effect of, "I love the bloody, violent slaughter of advertisements. I want to decapitate and murder them all, the ads and their children."
Explain to me like I'm five how soldiers enforcing law in an American city is not martial law
i hate this smug liar so much
I posted this question on Twitter, too, but really: what is going on with the gorge line?
It is weird and bad to be a transphobe
I couldn’t hate more that basically no show illustrates this dynamic better than Gilmore Girls.
Which isn’t to say this is all a giant parental resentment story, but rather to ask, as a country, what hope, what sense of belonging to a shared future, did we offer people who didn’t go to college?
There’s a grain of truth, that poor whites were being culturally eradicated by college. This is something they have in common with that billionaire dipshit who outed his wife as a plagiarist. The kids came home from school and were unrecognizable, and in turn, didn’t recognize their parents.
“Trumpism as a reaction to what becomes common knowledge in college” can get you a long way. The shock of Trump (just me here) was in seeing that poor whites could hate me, when I love them…enough to bitch about them all the time, sneer at their manners, and move as far away from them as possible.
True words. The idea that the working class could fix its hopes in higher education, which would then unify the values of the rich and poor alike in a form of eternal incrementalism was, in retrospect, a fantastic blunder.
The studios don't realize this, but the SAG/WGA strikes saved their ass as well.
If Obama were alive, he’d have been able to help us all see the link between these times and Lincoln’s Stand and Deliver remarks.
On the other hand, this government pissing away money, in publicly ugly and ineffective displays, is better than their finding more successful ways of realizing their vision.
From "I voted for Trump" to "Burke made some good points about the French Revolution" and everything in between. Seeking as this movement is to the destroy the world, if you identify as 'conservative', the burden of proof is on you to show you don't deserve the opprobrium and dismissal.
It’s instantly failing but remaining for generations as destroyed architecture… Truly couldn’t write a better monument to us.
What I do actually love about the border wall is its perfect symbolism of What America Is - Our only giant infrastructure is part of a prison - Totally ineffective at its stated function - Built by the military - Ugly as sin - Horribly constructed because everyone involved knows it’s a boondoggle
Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours! Why did divorce rates go up as a result of the change? "The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."
That impulse that makes one view museum exhibits on slavery not as "these are the monsters we defeated and must continue to defeat" but as "these guys were just like us and focusing on it makes us look bad" -- that is a bad impulse that an uncomfortably large percentage of Americans feel.
I wrote about the ways different concentration camp systems have ended and how to stop the massive expansion of detention happening in the U.S. right now.
Unironically this. As with anyone who self-identifies as 'conservative' in general, the burden of proof really is on them to show they aren't one of the bad ones.
Folks are terrified of the NYC subway, think DC is a gang ridden hellscape and have other often irrational fears, but here's the truth, other than disease or an abusive partner with a gun, you're most likely to be killed by a reckless driver, and we barely acknowledge it's a problem.
This exchange between Yglesias-Bruenig shows you a lot of what's wrong with the Democratic party in microcosm
Just so: the AI-ification of the internet will complete the project started by social media, of turning the entire internet into an ‘engagement’/attention sink. To this extent, it really is all a form of Bullshit (call it “Bullshitification”) in the Harry Frankfurt sense.
Two Black Mom’s. Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died - The Dallas Morning News apple.news/Ar4R4ruBOT8K...
It does seem like the next stage of Chat-based AI development will be actively programming the AIs to give answers that solicit additional 'engagement', rather than the sense that one's question was answered.
just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day
You were rejected from SJC?? Having followed you for a while now, I know for a fact you’d have been a good fit.
For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all
You’d think there would be a snap law option, where Democrats could A. set their own gerrymandered districts to take effect if another GOP state enacted a gerrymander; or B) the reverse, have non-partisan districts that would take effect if Texas agreed, or a federal law was passed.
