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Related to the reactionary notion that votes should be allocated by acreage.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Here in the Bay Area, indoor dining was still restricted, so no, not at scale. What is frustrating was that, based on what we now know, distinguishing indoor vs. outdoor gatherings was correct. But back in 2020, it was still an educated guess.
My friends who have attended Sturgis described both outdoor and indoor activities. I.e. bars and restaurants every night. Did SD have any guidelines for indoor venues at the time?
If a few health professionals say something you don't like, all said it and we should destroy the CDC. If a few students say something you don't like, all higher ed said it and we should end academic freedom. If the president and his party does something, that's one guy spouting off, let it go.
I default to blaming Prop. 13. (Locked-in Silent Gen homeowners dominate elections?)
This is awfully close to “that explains everything”
$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin
L. O. L. A few years later, the same friend invited me to a thing on Solano. I wondered why I could stand under the BART tracks but the nearest BART stations were a mile in either direction.
One of my first experiences in Berkekey almost 30 years ago was meeting a friend at Au Coquelet but parking next to that auto parts store/lot and walking through the strip-mall wasteland in University. My impression was “what a shit ‘college town.’”
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
A friend once told me: "There was a time in my life when I ate only the healthiest food. If it wasn't raw, vegan, macrobiotic it was poison. This was the same time in my life when I'd snort a fat line of biker crank off a gas station toilet. Made perfect sense at the time. Still does, really."
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
It's a lie. Stipulating "explicit" carries the implication that he *does* have some other kind of informal, traditional or implied authority over elections, when he does not. Don't print lies in the newspaper.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
How much protein should you consume? erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I miss the old brand #CDC
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
Hey @governor.ca.gov.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
Did a big thread about this on Twitter a few years back, about how the Columbine shooters were steeped in nazi rhetoric, including eugenicist beliefs about killing disabled people, and just how much their neo-nazism wasn't just downplayed but omitted. Text from: schoolshooters.info/sites/defaul...
I remember when the Columbine massacre happened and very serious media and political figures deliberately hid the fact that the shooters were neo-Nazis and claimed that they did it because they were bullied (they weren’t) and that they wore black clothes. Just thought I’d mention that
This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
What a fantastic development. Historical icon Amoeba Music will build housing on its site and remain a music store (and preserve the famous People's Park mural). Pretty A+ all around. Thankfully, no CEQA for infill means this project can't be fucked with. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/28/a...
If the US government persists down this current path—ignoring scientific evidence, embracing antivaccine conspiracy theories as official government policy, cutting critical research, and abandoning vital global partnerships……..ultimately making Americans less safe.”
Get in, loser, we're laughing at the NYPD!
If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Just 4 wins away from the Pioneer League record 👀⚾️ Catch us this week against the High Wheelers and see if we can make history. Don’t miss it, Ballers fans!
CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.
There’s an old Russian joke about how a peasant with one cow was given a wish by a genie and his wish was to kill one of his neighbor’s two cows. A lot of people in the US have exactly this mentality
I think it is difficult for lefties -- ok, has been difficult for me -- to really, truly absorb, on an affective level, that people like this are not mistaken about the facts. They're not confused. There's no "false consciousness" waiting for liberation. Their zero-sum values are deep & sincere.
I expect it is difficult for most people reading this to imaginatively project themselves into the mindset of someone who would take Deal 2. Why on earth would you? But friends, something like 30% of the population would take Deal 2 -- and do so, in large & small ways, every day.
I expect most people reading this would take Deal 1 and, furthermore, would consider it *obvious* to do so. You benefit, which is good, and X benefits, which is good! Everyone comes out ahead! Non-zero-sum! Why on earth would you reject that in favor of everyone being hurt?!
... in Deal 1, you profit by $10, but X profits by $20. In Deal 2, you lose $10, but X loses $20. Which deal would you take?
I recall that during the ACA debate, a conservative friend of mine insisted that we didn't need anything other than individual responsibility because "Good people don't... just get sick!"
If you’re the side of: - capital interests - wealth as an indicator of virtue/the value of one’s societal contributions - free markets - “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’” …you’re fucked. COVID just exposed you entirely.
The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways: 1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them. 2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything. 2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election. 4) Government relief proved popular and effective
Yeah it’s like the meme said the real swing voter isn’t a moderate it’s someone who cares a lot about a random issue that’s not on any candidates platform; probably isn’t even handled by the level of government the election in question is held at (like they hate their senator over a pothole) etc
HISTORY MADE. 🔥 Gabe Tanner becomes the first Baller to go the distance — 9 innings, 93 pitches, 3 runs, 4 strikeouts. The COMPLETE GAME.
Wait… I don’t remember a Baja Fresh there ever, despite working nearby since 2004. Wasn’t there long?
ugh. this cartoon is older than that kid you saw talking about the shooting on tv.
Sounds like "we're not stopping you from getting it, but we're going to spew enough F.U.D. that most people will believe they can't get it or shouldn't get it, and thus won't get it."
Risk factor: "This administration drove me to drink."
Good to see @bsky.app has emerged as the social media platform of choice for science stuff arstechnica.com/science/2025...
We need to communicate the value of understanding the underlying systems. When I try to explain modeling to laypeople, their questions always jump to individual actions and individual costs/benefits. A sensitivity study can tell you what knob to turn, even if the outcome has some uncertainty.
Analogous to public works: Oakland rebuilds/replaces the public restrooms at the local park (in a long, complicated funding process) every 7-10 years rather than just hiring someone to regularly clean and fix existing ones.
Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
I should invite him to an Oakland Ballers game. @oaklandballers.bsky.social
I tried to talk about baseball to a non-US coworker and he’d only heard about 1st, 2nd, 3rd bases in terms of sex.
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
imo trump should just wear a single glove, like michael jackson
DOGE, you may recall, secured access to our Social Security data thanks to an unsigned, unreasoned shadow docket order. The Roberts Court dropped it on a Friday afternoon and barely anyone noticed.
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Attorney for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says he is filing a lawsuit to challenge President Trump's attempt to fire her. https://cnn.it/4lHikuB
President Donald Trump’s administration is set to spend nearly $100 million, or 14% less, on the research arm of NOAA than the level mandated by Congress for this year. https://scim.ag/47LMfhO
Good headline that conveys consequences of Trump’s action and uncertainty about his power.
Blocking interleukin-6 to prevent the inflammation underpinning cardiovascular disease, genetically informed, without increased risk of infection www.nature.com/articles/s44... www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I mean Trump is literally trying to destroy the American free-market economy, the most successful economy in human history, because he wants to shake down our trading partners, he wants all corporations to pay him a personal cut, and he wants to directly control the money supply
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
On February 3, 2010, argentine president Cristina Kirchner fired the head of the central bank, setting off a 15 year spiral of inflation that would eventually peak last year at 220%. Let's say, on that day, you bought lunch for $20 argentine pesos. Today, that same lunch would cost you $4,156 pesos
Trump is desperately looking for a scapegoat to cover for his own failure to lower costs for Americans and firing Lisa Cook is his latest move. It’s an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and any court that follows the law will overturn it.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Q: "You called Kamala Harris a communist. But the Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you're doing to Intel...Is this the new way of industrial policy?" Trump: "Ya. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can."
Ouch.
this was an entire bit on the latest episode of South Park
Trump is presented with an honorary badge by a sycophant who talks to him like a toddler
Must be because the humanities department of Moderna took unpopular stances on issues of gender and race with voters, which is the *only* reason why STEM funding is being cut
ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.
In DC earlier this evening, US Marshals—one carrying a long gun—were patrolling the green/yellow line at the Gallery Place metro station. Photo shared with me (gun strap is visible but weapon out of view when pic was snapped, per witness):
"I dislike Biden because [thing Trump did], and I miss Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I want [thing Harris promised], but I hope Trump doesn't do [core Trump campaign promise]."
We just got through an election where voters told us they voted on egg prices and thinking Biden was President in 2020 and people are arguing Dems lose because of “Latinx” and let me tell you that’s the most online stupid fucking shit I’ve ever heard in my life.
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
Also millions of educated "good liberals" who aren't extremely online or connected to actual scientists ended up internalizing "the vaccines were a failure" and "the pandemic is over" and "nothing more we can do." They'd "believe the experts" but aren't hearing from them in this media environment.
They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility.
"Trump’s audience are his supporters mostly living in suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas. He’s priming them to accept outright war against US cities. In this case, it might be as simple as 'they hate us for our freedoms.'" — @playtyperguy.com
Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
When even a Supreme Court justice is using the term “Calvinball” it feels like we can drop the pretense that laws are real
#calimander
Dillon Tatum sends everyone home with a WALK-OFF TATER in the bottom of the 9th! Final: 9-8 Ballers #oaklandballers #letsgooakland #tatumtater #walkoff
It’s insane how these people are very clearly not trained officers of anything - they’re just aggro dudes wearing face masks shoving on doors.
TIL The Onion distributes more papers than the Boston Globe.
Wow: "A federal judge in Miami gave the state of Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz" because of "the environmental impacts the makeshift site was having in the federally protected Everglades." wapo.st/4lCcmes
She's already suing the farm! And get this, she says she didn't drink the raw milk bc she bought it for her toddler son. He got so much diarrhea, she caught it from *him.* (translate: from breathing in & swallowing the toddler's poop splatter)
It’s 74F during an evening baseball game. Bay Area fan is confused.
48 home games is not enough.
Seems like a problem that most every smart liberal and left wing writer, researcher, analyst, and NGO worker I know is unemployed, grossly underpaid, or in a super unstable job, while a bunch of 20 year old Nazis with the talent and expertise of ass hair are getting paid $300K to post on Twitter.
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest…. except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
When I couldn't add a kid's Clipper card, I called customer service and was told to create a new account. I couldn't use my existing email address on that account, so I had to create an email alias. The kid's account bills to my credit card, but it's still a separate account. @bart.gov
I just remembered: the stupidest thing that was my kid's account couldn't use my email address or be attached to my accounts. A 5-year-old kid does not have their own email address! Was able to create an alias, but seriously.
My kid got a Clipper Card as a 5th birthday present. However, Clipper needs to make it easier to get youth cards. I think it took 4-6 weeks to get ours via a complicated by-mail process.
I just finished reading about how MIT went around asking businesses that implemented AI how it went. 95% of time the business considered it a failure. lol