We intentionally killed the Rules Based International Order and now are mad that another country doesn't want to follow the Rules.

And no, I am absolutely not defending China here - but pointing out the increasing absurdity of any argument that hinges on assuming that people will intuitively agree that the likes of Musk and Zuck are more honorable and trustworthy when it comes to protecting Americans than Chinese authorities.

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Thank you. Please never forget that fascists and bigots are liars. Never accept anything they say at face value.

a cool thing about waking up early on the U.S. east coast is catching the tail-end of the “What Tentacled Horrors Emerged in UK Politics Over the Last 24 Hours” wrap-up on this website

Let’s not beat around the bush. This isn’t creative application of text. It’s brute force writing explicit white supremacy not just back into the constitution, but scribbling it over the reconstruction amendments themselves.

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

My apple for #OliveArtClub in oils on Procreate. #noAI #digitalart

(sigh) I'll be writing more extensively about this soon, but there's really 2 things that he's talking about here, one of which was a legitimate problem a few years back which was already cracked down on awhile ago; the other is a complete crock of shit. 1/

He pointed out that: --typically ~15% of enrollees in *group* (employer) coverage never file a claim/yr, and... --the *individual* (ie, ACA exchange) market naturally has a higher % w/out claims because it has much higher churn, w/many only enrolled for part of the year. 8/ x.com/MattAFiedler...

The fact Trump is turning to Pulte shows some combination of: * the bench is incredibly thin * he does not think DNI is a real job * he only trusts absolute loyalists, and that circle is small Its a measure of a weak and dysfunctional personalist regime.

So much of the dysfunction of modern American governance (& really American life) is downstream of * The federal workforce being frozen at its 1970s size * The national policy moratorium we’ve been living under since the 60-vote filibuster became universal in 2007 We don’t solve problems anymore

After reading it in high school, I was extremely happy to learn that the stuff about women being so stupid that they accidentally kill their husbands by bumping into them was very much satire, and the author was an advocate for women's higher education.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

The heart of a true poaster beats along with uptime, and regrets the fact of that beating.

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i feel like we get one of these cycles periodically where a big-name director goes, wow, this would be really useful for intermediate product, because it's obviously going to be really useful for intermediate product, and a bunch of people get mad that they're selling out their craft

The glass half full read of this news is that the Trump administration is making do with the dregs. People don't want to work for him, he doesn't trust new people, so they are stretched thin, making do with utter incompetence.

St. Louis taxpayers were still paying for the new stadium they built for the Rams until 2022… six years after the Rams moved to Los Angeles. Kudos to Gov. Pritzker for standing up to the Bears’ attempted extortion. These franchises should be building their own stadiums, not shaking down taxpayers.

2. Already registered to vote? You sure about that? Eligible voters can be removed from lists if they moved, changed their name or haven't voted in a while. You can find the link for checking your status at npr.org/vote

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

“Everybody thinks.” “We don’t,” shouted the Lethargarians all at once. “And most of the time you don’t,” said a yellow one sitting in a daffodil. “That’s why you’re here. You weren’t thinking, and you weren’t paying attention either. People who don’t pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.”

While traveling outside the U.S., I have found genuine comfort in recent years by chatting with other people from countries with super fucked-up and corrupt governments. We can commiserate together.

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still need to make tee shirts of this

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

There’s a certain type of white person — you find them everywhere in progressive/leftist spaces — who is somehow made *worse* by learning all the social justice concepts, because the thing they never do is unpack their own *internal* sense of supremacy and now, armed with this new arsenal, they…

This #PrideMonth I want to remind everyone that love is love, but good ol' sex for its own sake is valid too. We should not have to perform our sexuality in "approved" ways in order to be treated with human dignity or granted rights.

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if Ancient Romans had had screensavers, they’d have been little flying winged dongs making flapping-noises instead of little flying toasters. (someone needs to animate this idea so we can make this screensaver real).

Imagine how angry Americans would be if the media had adequately explained to them that Obama had secured a deal that was preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and Trump blew it the fuck up.

מיינע און אונזערע פייגעלעך, מיט אַלע קאָלירן: אַ פרייליכן שטאָלצן חודש 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦚

"Across the Spectrum." Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.

This was mostly just me getting annoyed at a post that was dismissive of Pride events that are just about fun and community.

what this shows is that it has always been within the power of congressional republicans to say no to this man, and they must be held accountable for all the times they did not

The Good scenario: Corporations support Pride because they want to The tolerably good scenario: Corporations support Pride for profit The acceptable scenario: Corporations do the minimum Pride thing because they fear bad PR The Very Bad Scenario: Corporations do not celebrate Pride at all

its true pride was a riot, but to insist everyone has to be a brick thrower is pretty ableist at the very least. and our goal should be to be happy and live our lives, not to be a product of rage 24/7

I am so tired of the idea that being queer is necessarily revolutionary. Yes, yes, Stonewall was a riot. But the more minority sexualities and genders are accepted in public (yay!) the more this kind of rhetoric just feels exclusionary. You don't have to be a revolutionary to be LGBT+.

When looking at how we are using LLMs, I am reminded of the early days of electricity tech. There were genuinely good uses (and more as time went on). There were also crackers which advertised that they were made with electricity. And quack devices to cure baldness or talk to the dead.

This reminds me of a genuinely good teacher in high school. (Catholic school, again). Biology teacher. One day she closed the door and told us we could not tell the principal what she was about to teach us, because she would lose her job.

The amount of fawning on here over particular politicians makes me think that some of you need more (non-abusive) religion in your life so you stop making false idols.

Love Wrapunzel's sale on rainbow tichels but they're all winter weight 😔

This is an AI photo, so I deleted the post and blocked the account so I don't make this mistake again.

one of my longtime convictions as an ideology researcher is that the ‘prosocial’ aspects of historical conservatism (obligation, responsibility, reverence for the noble & transcendent) are very often functionally incompatible w/ the core right-wing political goal of preserving hierarchy

He's happy to spew it on Fox, because the Overton window on the right has shifted just that far. "This is who they always were" - no. I mean, maybe in their heart of hearts this was always available but getting to the point where it was open and proud was a PROCESS.

A 7th grade history teacher assigned an "easy" bonus question on a test - "Hitler was evil T/F. Then got upset when the smartest kids in the class started arguing with him over whether a person can be evil (this is a philosophical question). He got so flustered he made one cry.

When looking at how we are using LLMs, I am reminded of the early days of electricity tech. There were genuinely good uses (and more as time went on). There were also crackers which advertised that they were made with electricity. And quack devices to cure baldness or talk to the dead.

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One day when I really want to get cancelled I'm gonna say that the basic idea of the rainbow flag including all the colours sufficed to signal "everyone" and the various editions to mean "but really really everyone this time we mean it" were trying to solve substantive cultural issues via symbolism.