It is extremely good if Mayor Pete, generally perceived to be as middle of the road as they come, is talking about packing the court and DC statehood.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

What if 6-7 was a prophecy? Wouldn’t it be funny if it happened tomorrow?

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

I swear to god that the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars song “Uptown Funk” song was secretly written back in the 90s as promo music for ABC’s TGIF lineup. They just changed “Friday night” to “Saturday night.” Tell me you don’t picture Jaleel White dancing when you hear “Don’t believe me, just watch.”

gotta say it's pretty easy to stay motivated when your opponents are the worst people alive

Resisting a tyrant seems like a good way to bring 250 to a full circle

NDAs, presumably, would have stopped Daniel Ellsberg or Mark Felt. 🙄

unfortunately, it appears that at the top of maslow’s hierarchy of needs is Posting

As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website

If a Democrat wins the next election, we will still be in the fight of our lives. We do not pack up and say "ah, well, we fixed it, cool."

We're taking a first step to delivering Seattle’s number 1 and number 2 priority: creating clean, accessible, and safe public bathrooms. Today at 1pm I'll be in Pioneer Square for a toilet paper ribbon cutting to open these new facilities. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

naturally

Weird that so many people resist a technology that promises to ruin the environment, steal your data, ruin art and make you unemployed. Buncha luddites.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

for some reason I read the excerpt of JD Vance’s book in USA Today but I was rewarded by this being the ad at the end

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

The Pundit's Fallacy is basically ubiquitous now. No one even tries to avoid it. For those unfamiliar: the pundit's fallacy is when you say, "the way for [politician or party or movement] to succeed is by [doing my exact policy preferences."

Elvis is the goyische Neil Diamond

I named this episode so you should listen to it or watch it.

re Platner v Collins... It's 2026. If you can't understand why even a deeply flawed Democrat is preferable to a party line Republican, you're beyond help and there's no sense in arguing about it.

This is pretty fundamental community organizing strategy, too. You organize not by hyping people around politics in the electoral sense but by focusing in on a problem the community has the power to change. And then you organize people and you change it.

The target audience for AI companies isn’t the general population. They’re selling to upper management, exclusively. Every other push for generative AI is just to manufacture consent.

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

if it was staged people would have placed insider bets on it

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

8675309 is now terrorism. Sorry, that’s the new rule.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Episode 3 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com is up! This week's guest is KIM STANLEY ROBINSON (!!?!??!!!!), so listen to me try real hard to be cool and not fanboy out at him as we talk about science fiction and maintaining hope for the future. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

Finishing up The Fellowship of the Ring right now and it's striking how much Boromir sounds like an LLM apologist.

The only presidential ballroom I ever want to hear about again is that phone call where LBJ ordered pants from Joe Haggar.

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

Ugh. Don’t threaten me with a good time.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

On episode 2 of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com, @chanda.blacksky.app and I talk about Star Trek, the power of labor unions, and fascist footwear. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

If we get to determine what people who get money from the government buy for groceries, and demand that they justify their lives? Make it start with every Federal elected offical and judge, and their staffers. We pay their salaries, they can provide receipts for every meal and grocery bill.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Just finished @adambecker.bsky.social’s phenomenal book MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER. Every single person who cares about AI and Silicon Valley should read this book (and even if you don’t!). I cannot recommend this book more highly!! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

When I look at a map, I'm always surprised at how far away Bermuda is from the Caribbean. In my mind, it seems close to Aruba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys.

The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

John Apple

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

When I have trouble logging into my work computer, I troubleshoot my internet connection and then contact IT. I don’t assume I’ve been fired. But also, I’m good at my job and am respected and liked by my coworkers and boss. And none of them have ever seen me drinking, much less drunk.