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Taylor Weiss

@tweiss47.bsky.social

All thoughts are intrusive

created December 23, 2024

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Nirvana, Melvins and Dwarves at some one off venue in Seattle called the motor sports garage. I thought the Melvins were the best performance that night. But I was tripping balls and also remember them wearing enormous witch hats the whole show, so

29/8/2025, 2:07:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it's called virtue signalling. "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others."

28/8/2025, 11:09:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They remember the narrative and not the outcome. When most of what you do as a political journalist is rehash the conventional wisdom into column inches. That's what sticks

28/8/2025, 7:35:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It doesn't even have to be weaponized. It is indifferent to the truth by definition

28/8/2025, 6:41:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely this. Maybe we aren't really at authoritarianism until elections are subverted, but by then we are truly SOL. You need to get out of the water before the whirlpool sucks you under

28/8/2025, 6:36:56 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think they can top it. There is still time

26/8/2025, 8:36:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It generated text. The software program generated text. It didn't tell you anything you credulous knob

Headline from The Guardian.
26/8/2025, 8:04:51 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Articles like this are journalistic malpractice. AI is a propaganda term. These programs are not intelligent in ANY sense. Anthropomorphizing LLMs enables a hype machine that is consuming resources and at a staggering rate

26/8/2025, 5:28:29 PM | 47 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICE is not a reformable institution

16/8/2025, 8:04:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Newsom is a turd, but he's not governor of CA by being bad at politics

15/8/2025, 3:46:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing more inspiring than wowing Democrats at a big donor fundraiser. The change we need.

13/8/2025, 2:05:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It isn't reporting if you haven't validated it. It's advertising. Free advertising. So much news content is just packaging and publishing public figure propaganda. Pathetic.

21/5/2025, 10:58:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More than 40% of people currently support what they know of Trump's immigration policy. That has to change. And the innocence story does that in a way that the abuse of power story doesn't. They both have to be told.

15/4/2025, 5:44:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why is this doorstop still on TV? 'Conman was charming to marks' is some palm-the-face stuff

13/4/2025, 3:25:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love reading your stuff, but the rhetorical framing being pointed out is totally a thing. And not a good thing. Just say it's good stuff from Booker. There is no need to add the frame. It's standard any time someone praises AOC, for instance. Rhetorically weak and unnecessarily negs the subject

1/4/2025, 5:47:33 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"What an evil thing to do". Is he a narcissist, a sociopath? I have no idea. But he is a hollow, hollow man.

29/3/2025, 10:36:58 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Nor shall any person ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law". It's really not that difficult.

29/3/2025, 9:13:41 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elon is very bad at Math. March 2020 covid prediction says hello. People should always read this as white birthrate, because that IS what they mean.

29/3/2025, 8:52:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which is more important to emphasize, that an arrest is quite like kidnapping or that these abductions are without legal basis. I think the first point is important to make in some circumstances, but the second is essential to make in this moment.

27/3/2025, 8:19:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The language used is important particularly in the broader discourse. Using "detained" in this context for instance is incredibly misleading. For most people "arrest" is going to imply that some level of due process is being followed. The lawlessness needs to be emphasized.

27/3/2025, 8:12:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First #TeslaTakedown yesterday. Felt good to chant in front of a closed Tesla showroom. But must have seen over 100 Teslas on the road over the course of the morning. Fuckin' Seattle.

16/3/2025, 9:07:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course they tell him that. Is there a democratic senator that Republicans would rather have as minority leader.

16/3/2025, 9:01:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Resign

14/3/2025, 7:08:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The DEI line is about painting any non white male as unqualified and demanding that space.

14/3/2025, 5:03:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is a neverending supply of nonsense. Content is just content.

14/3/2025, 4:40:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's too bad that this post includes the conventional wisdom that AOC's policy positions are probably too spicy for most of you potato salad eating Dems. I can't think of a time I've thought she was wrong on policy. And she sure as hell has it right here.

14/3/2025, 3:21:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not just all of this, but a virtual caricature of the establishment Democrat. A politician whose entire career is defined by fecklessness, fundraising, and self promotion.

14/3/2025, 1:40:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view