I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

So the implication he’s making is “don’t do something perfectly legal because we might indiscriminately kill you because we aren’t good at our job and are fine with that”

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

Happy Bastille Day!

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Opinion | America is a nation of stupid assholes and our laws and institutions should reflect that.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

The act of writing is the act of thinking. You could, of course, interpose an AI generated thing at any point in the process, but it wouldn’t actually save you time. If you know what needs to be on the page, you will write it better than an AI. If you don’t, the only way to find out is the writing.

I had been calling this the argument against so-called AI from "craft", but it seems to be broader than that. More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.

On an individual level, people hear criticisms of Trump and they think "well i'm a Republican and I wouldn't do that" or "I'm a Republican and I don't believe that," and then bc they identify with him, they assume he's the same way and therefore his critics must be lying. bsky.app/profile/norm...

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

Ted Stryker levels of concern for security: youtu.be/6O1KTMOOFcA?...

Nobody white in the US is ever supposed to be grateful, though. No, they're just entitled to everything they have, and probably should have more.

I don't think so, because there's strong evidence most MAGA faithful don't actually believe much of what they say. Instead, they believe they're in on the con. It's less "I believe Trump's lies" and more "we must collectively lie, because that is our weapon in the war against liberals."

it's only doomscrolling if it's from the mount doom area of mordor, otherwise it's just sparkling panic

There are genuine questions about who is carrying out all these sweeping illegal actions within the federal government. It's not Trump (golfing continuously) or Musk (posting continuously). So it's a bunch of 20-something cybercriminals?

We are doomed to relive every stupid thing about the 80s. Only this it’s not just the mistakes of the 1980s corporate greed. It’s also the 1880s post reconstruction environment, and the 1780s love of slavery. :(

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

In other words, effectively 12 year olds LARPing as manly men

I am personally not interested in fighting over whose fascism wins.

Sam Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam was 🤌🏾✨

In next weeks news, Trump signs EO adding his face to Mt Rushmore, with construction of mansion on top called Eagle’s something or other

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

We are in the dumbest worst timeline

They all know what they're doing is illegal because lawyers and relevant experts tell them it is illegal as they do it. In any future functional government they end up in jail. They know it. They behave as if they don't expect to ever be a future government other than their own.

Elon Musk is like the chosen one of South African apartheid he's like if South African apartheid desperately sought a human form in its weakened state in an attempt to regather its former strength

I'm going to need you to stop comparing this coup to the Handmaid's Tale as if Margaret Atwood didn't pull every bit of that book from things that had already happened in the real world. It's not feeling like the Handmaid's Tale. They're pulling from a historical playbook.

With the Jesus reference, my brain reinterpreted “pilot” as Pontius Pilate. We now need the story of how ChatJudea mistakenly convinced Pilate to kill Jesus

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

Someone coding fast doesn’t make me trust them with my personal banking details, but even if limited to coding, if you have “many stories” of some guy rewriting deleted codebase very fast, and no stories of him whipping out a backup, I don’t want him making unilateral changes to Treasury code.

Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

This 🧵 = perfection

There’s juvenile humor used to satirize societal taboos and boundaries (South Park) and there’s juvenile humor used to mask hateful rhetoric (Musk). Musk wants thinks he is human South Park, but he completely misses the mark

I think Trumps ploy to end birthright citizenship is intended to fail to give SCOTUS an appearance of not totally being his lap dog

Welp 😵‍💫

i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are

Seems like this comports with the “college ‘indoctrination’ is largely about exposure to diverse populations” theory.

This is on brand, couldn't even change the @vp info.

God help us

I mean, I have below zero actual expectations, but what. the. actual. fuck.

TT knew new admin wouldn’t enforce TT legislation, but temporarily and performatively shut itself down just to claim Cheeto saved the day. Bigger ick than Meta/Zuck at the moment

So basically nothing changes 🤷‍♂️