To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I realize it is not the most useful piece of analysis but I feel like we don't talk enough about the plain fact that a relatively large chunk of the country has just kinda lost their minds

relatedly, i know lib/left types sneer at free marketeers but a lot of them do genuinely believe what they're saying which is why places like Cato are holding the line on tariffs/etc. some others are too (jessica riedl is basically fighting alone at manhattan institute, aei notably slipping a bit)

okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting

"Hey, man, what message should we push today as we deliberately deny millions of Americans their food benefits?"

The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor

accuses Mamdani (who has campaigned primarily on affordability, housing, and transit) of monomania over Israel. writes an entire column about why Mamdani's views on Israel — including some from a decade ago! — outweigh every other issue. they should invent an accusation that isn't a confession

Closing slide of a tech policy presentation from literally two hours ago. The Butlarian Jihad art/merch must flow!

I'm more of a

the left has been burned a lot before by electing people we thought were good and turned out real stinkers but i think zohran is the genuine real deal for bringing her into the fold

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

Many people have correctly answered "hell no" but it's actually worse than that. Dude was on the oleaginous conservative op-ed beat his second year of college, and it was a glide path from there. Monomaniacally focused on being a wingnut apologist from his teens on.

Cheney croaked, Zohran won, and sandwich guy is free. All time great week imo.

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

i hesitate to put it on a specific timeline, but treating reading as an exercise in extracting literal singular meaning from text seems like it really became a dominant approach in the last 25 years, kind of concurrent with NCLB / standardized testing

I need a bluesky label that I can apply to my own posts that reads "Post contains subtext" so that people stop responding to my posts explicitly pointing out the subtextual component as if I didn't realize it was there and hadn't put it there on purpose.

"once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish.”

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life? We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.

Oof. blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

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The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

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Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this? Embarrassing. Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins." Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

I don’t think Tech Bros realize how hated they will be if they get the feds to bail them out. Like, bankers in 08 will look like saints next to Silicon Valley.

lol

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

One incredible thing about LLMs is that they encode a bunch of best-practice knowledge you would otherwise only pick up through apprenticeship, or by spending months digging through blogs and docs. any% speedruns in new domains are much faster now.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Gregory Bovino is on tape telling Border Patrol agents "This is OUR fucking city." Bovino grew up in North Carolina. Until January he was Border Patrol Chief for the El Centro sector in California. To my knowledge, he never lived or even worked in Chicago.

Bahahahahahaha

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”

<arches fingers> actually it's pronounced like this bsky.app/profile/divy...

your basic idea is that an Indian Muslim whose father was expelled from Uganda for being Indian and whose maternal grandparents lived through the violence of the Partition, on the wrong side of the border, is predisposed to believe that countries have a right to maintain an ethnoreligious majority

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

there's a weird double standard where it is socially acceptable to be bad at math ("it's not for everyone") and its a crime that people can't do content analysis of media. it comes from the sense that math is something too esoteric for normies to master but everyone is equally able to do reading