“I look at things in terms of being non-abstract. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”
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“I look at things in terms of being non-abstract. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.”
We’re all comfortable directly sayinh it. I’m sure his dumb shit text group of enlightened centrists are back patting him for his “immense courage.”
Schools were a state by state thing. In Cali, we did actually close schools for a long while. Some states barely did crap. And yeah, we never defunded the police. Period. I think it’s probably a crappy slogan but no one actually did it so claiming defunding happened is bs.
I know this kinda goes without saying, but wouldn’t a functional government bother verify a claim like that before taking action? Especially given that Benny Johnson got caught taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Russian government to influence American politics?
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Plenty of both column A and column B. And some of column A are also magat idiots who won’t get what they bribed for.
Yep
Everyone knows the Kochs astroturfed the Tea Party and people with a brain know the main fury motivating members of it was racial animus generated by the election of the first black president. It drove people so crazy that the KKK essentially reformed, this time as the Heritage Foundation.
It was both. We were doing what we believed was the right move for children and adults at the time. And for the *most part* we did. Keeping schools partially closed an additional year here in Cali was probably a mistake. But a) it still likely saved lives and b) Cali isn’t swinging red!
tomorrow 🖤
That is one cute kitten.
I think that’s Hagger and he’s the mayor of a large city
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
Sometimes you gotta borrow a feeling
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
What I enjoy about this is you don’t get too many of these that feature two insane people
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
What a steal
I can
The Gilded Rage
one of my favorite moments in los angeles was when the space shuttle was transported down Crenshaw Blvd and everyone was partying in the streets in a show of neighborly delight and i'm just thinking of that lovely togetherness for no particular reason tonight
The MAGA Terri Schiavo
The dumbest, and unfortunately richest people in the country decided to hang most of our economy on this little plastic toy. So now, making them stop selling it means going to war with essentially the Dumb Illuminati.
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Just to highlight this right now: the Trump administration is currently dismantling the CDC and handing its leftovers to Thiel and the Heritage Foundation, a far right organization with its ideological ancestry in Southern white supremacist movements like the KKK.
They call it “politics” only when they want to keep discussion out. When they say “keep your politics out of my church/hobby/workplace” always refers to those things. When they cut off a child or sibling out of their life, suddenly it’s about “parenting” or “tough love.”
If Trump and RFK are going to rip the country in half over public health, Dems should polarize the living heck out of this debate on their own terms. Scour the law for as many ways as possible to protect your people from Trump/RFK's reign of mass destruction. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
i assume he was quietly transferred to another server
It’s 95 degrees here. We were having a surprisingly mild one until summer decided to show up at the end of August. It’s bullshit.
The Times essentially publishing the idea that it’s partisan to point out that a corrupt man is failing leadership of the country in very visible ways is a sign of how much control conservative partisans have over framing this moment in our country.
The position of every American and news service should be anti-Trump. The guy is deploying the American military in American cities, invading his own country. He’s on a nativist/racist tear that’s viewed as “the wrong direction” by the majority of Americans. He’s openly taking bribes. Come on.
i no longer have a cat, i have possessed basket
We’ve been conditioned by such little accountability for wrongdoing that the idea that fascist collaborators should face consequences feels revelatory and inspiring.
In nearly every special election since Trump’s election, republicans have lost even in places that should have been lay-ups. This should read as widespread rejection of the conservative project as led by Trump and the Heritage Foundation. Conservatives know it - hence the gerrymandering push.
One extraordinary thing about Pritzker's speech: saying this won't last forever and justice will eventually find the perpetrators. Shouldn't have stood out so much. But did, because way too many US elites in politics, media, business, etc. are acting like it's popular and permanent. It's neither.
@vanetti.bsky.social relevant to your interests. See also the reply about the one made in the 1860’s
If they do, they should hold the highest seated functionaries liable for their crimes against humanity. Wasting their lives on toadies is no way to do things.
3) If at any point they do have a crisis of conscious, he or one of his toadies will fire them, likely by text. It has happened many times.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror
Pete or Seth would’ve made it a good listen. They’re thoughtful people even on issues with which I disagree with them. They also understand nuance and listen to other people. Matt is … not any of those things.
It’s both, which is the worst part. If you profit but your solution solves the problem, ok fine, I can deal with that. But these bullet proof desks and backpacks and militarized police and on-and-on aren’t solving a damned thing. Just putting money on the pockets of scammers.
It’s become a ritual of mine to download BBEdit on every new machine because MS and Apple bloated their basic text editors.
It’s a good basket.
Who thought the secret horsemen were letting in the others were going to be “massive incompetence and capricious politicians?”
The entire administration is driven by the kind of “loyalty over competence” mentality during Stalin’s rule that made Lysenko’s mass famines possible. The HSS and NIH are in the position to carry out “mistakes” of that kind of magnitude. Chilling stuff.
They won’t tell his family. They won’t talk to the press. This is beyond unacceptable. The machine that this administration has built to carry this out is inhuman and unacceptable in a free society and must be torn apart.
Again, I have some mild concerns about universities paying for unrestricted access to this technology to every single undergraduate on campus!
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
I'd argue Politico is far worse than The Hill. Politico is all-in on Trump and has even done cheer-leading for him. The Hill is just not very relevant anymore.
is that what i think it is
It's profoundly disappointing that when you pointed out that he was encouraging Netanyahu to blame America to keep his coalition happy, he refused to acknowledge that it was essentially keeping that coalition in power. Also that he wouldn't address whether keeping that coalition happy was productive
The biggest use-cases for AI so far seem to be killing children, driving people insane, and kids making deepfake porn of each other. I have no idea why this industry is treated even remotely credulously.
I have stopped using Excel because I believe that typing data into a table is a violation of the Excel document’s autonomy, and, now that I think about it, my keyboard’s
Does your autocomplete function suffer? One of the great questions of our times, truly.
This is the rest of that conversation. If there’s a human mind behind that account, it’s not one I can comprehend. I guess I’m glad someone is keeping the spirit of insane internet nonsense alive.
One day these AI guru dingdongs are going to name a product “Killroy” in true torment nexus fashion
Mean looked at you?
Indeed. What in the actual fuck
The profile of that guy. I read it as “ineffectual belligerence” at first. Seems correct.
North Korea is run by an authoritarian regime known for its cult of personality. This isn’t anti-Asian racism. Neither is it “anti-German”m bigotry” when their tactics are compared to the Nazis or “anti-Russian bigotry” when their tactics are compared to Stalinism. Chill the fuck out.
I like how in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Almost Got 'Im", Batman fights a cassowary. It's not mind controlled or genetically enhanced in any way, it just attacks Batman because cassowaries are assholes.
i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
Why is hell in quotes
His style remains “too shitty to read.”
Real leftists cheered when the Red Sox broke the curse and then got bored of the Red Sox and moved onto hating the Dodgers because the Yankees aren’t good enough to hate anymore.
When fascism comes to America, it will be wearing a cross, wrapped in the flag, and so dumb you’ll be surprised it knows how to stand up without knocking itself out.
Literally just doing a control-F to try to make science more racist
For reasons that baffle even me, I just thought of the phrase “large variety of large adult sons” when I read this
I love how it ends with conclusive proof that Jay B. is a lying sack of dicks.
I guess we could go with “people with eyes and brains” but I’m told it’s “woke” to use your brain.
Leading with optimism and vision instead of hatred or low expectations? It’s 2008 again but just for NY.
If mom didn’t squirt, the afterlife is nothing but dirt.
“Critics doubt Trump’s pretenses for deploying American military domestically” gets right to the point I guess
I didn’t make this but it’s great.
If I was a journalist, I’d grill his representatives on the basics - it’s not the military’s role to fight crime. They’re prohibited from that action. Asking why, on the record, they’re not talking about cities with higher crime rates if they’re worried about crime.
If they want to make it sound “impartial,” just go with the obvious headline: “Trump wants to deploy military in domestic cities, citing combatting crime, but critics doubt his intentions” and focus on criticism. Starting with domestic military deployments by a man who pardoned Jan6ers being lunacy.
The pattern here might be moderates or liberals who were driven nuts by 9/11 and slowly recovered from that to their earlier, less objectionable views. That kind of person likely thought Trump was a charlatan in the 90’s and had no reason to change their position on him now.
Kristol also spends time elsewhere, including here. I think the big thing with him is he *hates* Nazis and their sympathizers. Even though he has said and done lots of pretty terrible stuff, he is so negatively polarized to Nazis that seeing their posts pushes him away from their positions.
None of the fascists became more liberal but a lot of liberals have suddenly gone really soft on the ideas like immigrants being good, black people being productive and equal members of society, or white nationalism being a really big deal.
I spent all day yesterday moving and I sure am glad I missed all this discourse. I don’t know who Jerusalem is, but she appears to be trying to sell people on staying on Twitter, the site operated by a shitty white supremacist who bought the last election.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
i'd like to start a new subculture for people like me who are apartment dwellers and aren't allowed to have a gas or charcoal grill. we'll be like barbecue guys only for microwaves. we'll wear shirts to work that say "i'd rather be microwavin'!" and share microwave steak recipes and stuff
He can’t. Just look at him.
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The Brits tried a deal like this and it was shot down as extravagantly expensive and pointlessly cruel. So I guess, we’re in? Deporting non-criminals - mostly working people - to a country they’re likely not from? For millions? It doesn’t make sense. It’s just hatred run wild.
I’m part of everybody. Where are my mozzarella sticks?
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
“Capital punishment for crimes against humanity” is the social-media-friendly lingo
Indeed. Roving, masked, gun-toting paramilitaries with a loose leash generally don’t stop doing their thing just because they can’t find targets. They start expanding the definition of what their targets are.
As a professional computer guy, I think if I get to this point, they’ll have to send me to the glue factory
Whey Standard 