New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary. WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

if dems take the house but not the senate (and even if they do take the senate, tbh), they’re not gonna have much to do, they should use committee investigative powers to start lining up cases for a dem AG in 2028

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Oh look, the Christofascists are have their own version of the HJ.

I’m at our annual all-hands meeting and our speaker after lunch is a physical therapist who, according to her bio, is super-excited about pelvic health and helping people with pelvic floor deficiencies. I really hope she doesn’t lead us in a group Kegel exercise. We are a housing agency.

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

@profanity.accountant I’m curious.

I’m already seeing Best of 2025 lists, which this year is a little like the Titanic asking passengers to rate their experience.

🧵 Some Instagram account sent my wife a book-themed advent calendar. Each day is a new classic book ornament (with 24 actual pages of public domain text). I gave her the advent calendar she really wanted (a romance novel where you unseal a new chapter each day), so she opened this other one. 😬

If you're looking for a good gift to buy today but you want to fight against the power of Big Tech, try my book about the horrible ideas of the Silicon Valley billionaires and how we can fight back. I'm biased, but I think it's pretty good. The NY Times called it "smart and wonderfully readable."

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you have a GOP rep and you’ve been holding off on contacting them because what difference will it make, you could be the reason the funniest thing happens

Few things funnier in life than a dog audibly farting and then getting spooked by its own fart and running away.

👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.

Looking at Mamdani with those Bubba Eyes.

I wonder if that's how he looked at Bubba

When you're a star, Trump lets you socialism

pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.

Generic Ballot Polling Among White Voters: 🔵 Democrats: 50% 🔴 Republicans: 46% Marist / Nov 13, 2025

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally. And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

Mayor Katie Wilson. I like the sound of that.

A load of damning Epstein-Trump emails have been released by House Democrats. Some here⬇️

Can somebody tell Trump there are easier ways to get Don Jr. to kick his coke habit? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

LEAD CHANGE: Katie Wilson is now ahead of Mayor Harrell by... 91 votes. That's out of ≈270K! Seattle counted roughly 39K ballots today, & they broke in favor of Wilson by 11.4%, erasing the entirety of the incumbent's lead.

Katie Wilson won 55.57% of today's ballot drop, giving her a 91 vote lead over incumbent Bruce Harrell out of 272,041 ballots tallied so far in Seattle's mayoral race. So... she likely wins.

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

There's still a lot of curable ballots from Seattle (about 1,800). Most are unsigned or signature mismatches, and most skew younger.

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

What if I don’t want my rum tum tugged, you weird cat?

A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?

To give you an idea of Prince’s absurd level of horniness, I’m listening to his cover of “I Can’t Make You Love Me”—a famously devastating song—and, against all odds, he has made it horny.

JUSTICE IS SERVED

barely a metaphor lmao

Republicans looked at the past few decades of American history, in which shutdowns have pretty much universally been electoral disasters for the GOP, and said “ah but this time is different because our senile narcissist fuhrer will say on tv were doing it on purpose so he can make himself king”

Hopefully Pelosi will lead the rest of the Boomers and Silent Generation in Congress to their respective retirements as well.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

The quintessential aesthetic of fascism

I keep seeing posts about how some SCOTUS justices have a ”sharp” or adversarial tone to their questioning of one side’s advocates or another, and I have to remember, these justices are professional Calvinball players.

I wrote about tonight's amazing news! "We should celebrate the election results. They have the potential to bring a sea change. We can look to these races for strategies in the next year and beyond. But it’s worth remembering that what happened today is just the wave. *We* are the water."

Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.

Progressives are poised to flip the balance of power in Burien, with Sam Méndez poised to win the open seat, Rocco DeVito on track to beat incumbent Stephanie Mora, and the council's two left-leaning incumbents - Sarah Moore and Hugo Garcia - likely to retain their seats.

Maybe unleashing secret militarized police on the public while taking food from the poor wasn’t the electoral masterstroke we all thought it was.

#PlainLanguage is powerful!

2026 Primary Woke Wave

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.