impressive to watch a huge industry go very swiftly from “widely popular and largely trusted” to “widely considered to be as or even more evil than the oil companies that occasionally spill tons of toxic cute-animal-killing goo into crucial waterways” though

He miscounted the men.

This whole case depends on us believing that a virginia beach cop was eating pho as a paying customer and I'm not that gullible

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

RFK gonna polish that sucker off in 48 hrs flat

my friend in new orleans is telling me about how ICE is arriving there soon. she's guessing they're there to deport the honduran community so i went and read the wikipedia about them. they're here because we specifically said we wouldn't deport them if they rebuilt after katrina. jesus christ

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

genuine courage here

He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them. It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.

Sorry, but this is not enough. The Democratic Senators' posts/videos about the outrageous Thing also need to go the next step & demand his immediate impeachment & removal. No, it won't happen. Doesn't matter. Normalize enforcing the rule of law & the Constitution. Articulate what must be done.

People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon

Yes, this is exactly what happened, well done, welcome to total war.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

@algreen.house.gov is the only morally serious member of Congress. People may say “but he’s not politically serious” - but that is only indicative of the moral rot at the heart of our current political situation.

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force. You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Tom Cotton is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he's telling us it's proof that Trump's boat attack victims are drug traffickers if CNN doesn't interview their grieving relatives.

DISGUSTING: This small town university used to have 100% of its thirty students from the local community. Now merely 85% of its 6500 students are from the area.

If on the other hand the point is that it's morally wicked for one person to hold dominion over another then you get a rather different set of results

I think this comes down to how you think about the underpinning of political authority Is it rooted ultimately in the fact of reciprocal threat? Is the social contract just a modus vivendi to escape the war of all against all? If so, then the inferior, posing no threat, can be safely subjugated

The True Rust Sage Does Not Take The PL Flame War Bait Because The Sage Knows That Golang’s Parallelism Model Provides No Guarantees For Lock-Free Behavior And The Cloudflare Writeup Is Indicative Of A Human Failure To Properly Model Program Invariants

Mamdani believes he was elected to be mayor of NYC, not to wage war on the Democratic party that nominated him. This is why Mamdani won.

mr president you should do it and be a legend

one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

I spent the last two days meeting with the various neocloud CEOs and even by shitco standard these guys are all psychotically convinced that Somebody Else is going to be left holding the bag, with fingers usually pointed at either ORCL or CRWV

There is nothing equitable about lying to kids about how much they’ve learned until they run face first into a wall and have all their dreams destroyed, when they could’ve learned their weak spots many years ago and *remedied* them through targeted study.

it is frankly a *scathing* indictment of the White House press corps

He cannot help himself. Freely admitting the goal is a post-Constitutional dictatorship.

If you lost an election, it was only because you weren't popular enough. Try to be more popular next time. Maybe smile more.

It is pretty ridiculous that the Criterion Collection simply exists to go “here are very good movies that we present to you to buy and watch with some thoughtfulness” and that’s all it takes to be successful because it’s rare that anyone does that shit

Kagan Sotomayor Bryer and RBG (along with the conservatives) are unfit for the court based on that ruling alone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonne...

/3 …and now we have an administration that expressly refuses to enforce the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act (at least until a political enemy violates it) because Trumpism celebrates overt corruption as manly and shrewd.

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

call me robespierre

99-0

One of the things I emphasize to people that has informed my politics for basically my entire life is that I am a (practicing) Catholic. Hell is a real place where you will really go if you don’t, you know, respect the dignity of your fellow man

I’ve started calling edtech companies data brokers and I don’t regret that at all. I’d love to find one that is ethical. But it has been over ten years now

pretty clear a big part of the mainstream media-led backlash to #metoo is the number of people in media who take advantage of and abuse others. they made it seem like it's about fairness, but they just didn't want to face any real consequences for their behavior.

The battle lines are going to be MTG, Fuentes and Carlson accusing Trumpist of being pedos/kiddy fuckers and Loomer and co accusing them of being Nazis. The hilarious part here is no one is lying, it’s literally all true! Terrible for the country but great content as they say!

These records indicate that someone successfully impersonated the FBI in order to get me swatted. I was already aware this had happened but had to wait nearly a year to get the document that proves it. My reports to the Dallas Police Department about this have gone unanswered.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

Something I would note that is that before Trump was even in power, our immigration attorney advised our H1Bs to always carry their immigration paperwork with them. All of them have their I-797As with them, and did before Trump.

The H1B lottery is as inhuman as it gets, idk Try sitting down four people and telling them two get their hopes and dreams and the other two need to figure out how to leave the country because idk, random number generator.

I'm a fucking social democrat and next to these guys, apparently I'm the radical socialist for thinking about organizing countervailing institutions instead of believing that magic words will save the global anglosphere left