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the same number of troops have died in this war that died in the evacuation of afghanistan fyi, weird how the media has decided that isn’t a point to drive home this time

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

the medium is the message, etc

Tips to save on Gas #israel #us #uspol #iran #satire

Another absolutely corker of a night at #calbaseball #gobears

the thing that the BLITs and the Snow Crashes of the world did not forsee was that the basilisk would be slow rather than fast, that you'd have to *keep* staring at it for months, and that people would willingly do so, mostly because although it tore their minds apart, it was also moderately […]

"What occurred on Thursday and Friday was a U.S. citizen detained with no cause," said Kevin Morrison, a Cook County Commissioner who represents the 15th District. "All she was told was that there was some curious travel history but they had no cause to detain her for those 30 hours." […]

Amazing evening for a ballgame, #gobears #calbaseball

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@justinsheehy/116183071456776853 @atpfm @marcoarment really interested to hear Marco's take on releasing apps based on this.

If you "vibe code" something, or otherwise get a GenAI system to provide an output (image, code, text, whatever) based on your prompting, you ought to understand that you do not have any ownership in either the copyright or patent sense of that output. You didn't make it! This means that you […]

RE: https://zirk.us/@Doomscroll/116176974306670223 Attn @aglimme

Hey bike folks (including @notjustbikes), I'm talking with Berkeley city staff regarding bicycle safety on a busy shopping street near my home. They've asked whether there are any good studies of how making cyclist access safer affects commercial traffic and revenue at businesses along those […]

just had the thought that it should absolutely be knowable why the epstein plea deal happened at all, like, acosta didn't die, did he? and then i looked up where he is these days and holy moly i want to d*e

if i ever get fuck-off rich my hobby is going to be running for state legislatures that pay legislators $30,000 a year. top agenda item will be raising pay for legislators so normal people can afford to serve. as soon as i achieve that i will resign to live with my model wives on a yacht

in a free market, X would be dead and Elon Musk would not be able to open a credit card. This is not a free market, and the people who tried to organize a boycott against a bad website got sued out of existence.

small brain: free markets produce free press normal brain: consolidation of media into monopolies makes the press unfree large brain: despite media consolidation, media consumption is more diverse than ever galaxy brain: media fucked because of phone

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

My experience with generative-AI has been that, at its very best, it is subtly wrong in ways that only an expert in the relevant subject would recognise. So I don't worry about us creating super-intelligent AI, I worry about us allowing that expertise to atrophy through laziness and greed. I […]

Dear World, We’re sorry Grandpa’s babysitters lost him again and he grabbed the people with the video cameras and threatened you. He’s back with the sitters and we’re begging Congress to stop this madness. With our deepest embarrassment and apology, The United States of America

I do not wish to be mean, but if I hear you in the year 2026 claiming that Elon Musk "saved free speech" from "leftist censors" I am going to question your judgment on pretty much everything else, because you do not live in reality.

Imagine being a poor kid from a redneck county with an addicted mom then finding a way to attend Yale Law School, then writing a bestselling memoir that gets turned into a highly popular movie starring Meryl Streep – and then somehow turning yourself into JD fucking Vance. The man is the biggest […]

I’m on the board of directors of Cityside Journalism, non-profit parent company of the newsrooms Berkeleyside, The Oaklandside and Richmondside. Enormously proud that two of our newsrooms have been ranked among the top 25 in the nation by Nieman Lab. Honestly I think it should be all three! […]

While AI hype teeters, folks working in quantum computing are making steady, measurable progress toward genuinely useful systems. This Nature article is pay-walled, but you can read a fair bit before you get to the gate. Briefly, there's been great progress in making qubits fault-tolerant and […]

I know this seems like a really trivial detail to get stuck on but this degree of escalation of force combined with zero warning is something I've never seen. For that to get unleashed on normies just moving along in broad daylight? Christ.

Witnesses described that arching trajectory, I watched a video that also showed a similar arc, then I personally witnessed the arc about 2 hours later at the same site. They did this to kids.

As of yesterday there is an injunction that stops the use of tear gas etc (except when a fed thinks they're in imminent harm etc). Even if the injunction is followed, this merits an investigation. It's outrageous that they shot tear gas like this at anyone, let alone a family-friendly march

I also can't speak to what's being launched in the video but the munitions launched over me were definitely tear gas.

Tear gas (which should not be used on children) (which was not justified in use against any of those people) (which should be illegal in general) should be skipped on the ground. They're launching it into the air. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Saturday's teargassing is now part of the national conversation.

I genuinely cannot imagine this kind of scale and this suddenness being my first experience with tear gas. I am pretty astounded at the crowd's discipline, that no one panicked or trampled each other in that massive cloud.

I've never had tear gas launched at me straight from over my head until now. That's also what happened to these unmasked, normie daytime protesters. ICE is shooting the tear gas up in the air so it arcs and falls way across the street and into the next block.

I think it would be reasonable to estimate that something like eight canisters of tear gas were unloaded on these people all at the same time, with no warning.

I've been tear gassed a bunch of times. I talked to a lot of people for this piece, watched videos, visited the scene less than two hours later. I was shocked at the sheer scale of the gassing.

This account from someone a few blocks away really gets at the sudden escalation. This was a family outing to a park on a relatively warm Sunday afternoon — kids on bikes, the family meeting up with grandma. Now you have to explain tear gas and police brutality to your 8-year-old.

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE. He records them and shares it with the world. What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing? Here the […]

Oh gee, the author of "The Bell Curve," a racist book that racists love feels "hostile" that a Black woman was cast as Helen of Troy? Also, the Odyssey is not "a historical setting" Gosh, perhaps he was just racist all along, rather than a political scientist "just asking questions."

DOJ has broken the social contract under which they deserved a degree of deference. Serve the public and enforce the law, then courts, lawyers, and the people grant the presumption DOJ is trying to do that. The Trump DOJ, in words and actions, rejects that in favor of lies and aiding lawbreaking.

Om @Onmyom Malik calls this correctly: Tim Cook's board of directors and shareholders virtually force him to appease the President. That same pressure applies to all public-company senior executives. Get the government mad at you, it targets your business and your stock price falls. Shareholder […]

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans […]

Every state in the U.S. should pass a law like the one now proposed in California, disqualifying ICE agents from working in state law enforcement and public schools. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php

2025 mood continuing in 2026.

Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"

Took a necessary mental health break, but every news out seems to agree with our/my original analysis, Multiple videos show federal officer disarmed 37-year-old ICU nurse #alexpretti before fatally shooting him. #statesponsoredterrorism #trump #law #murder #extrajudicialkillings #minneapolis […]

Enormous protest now in the District of Columbia at DHS building. Picture sent by a friend who is there.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

California has now joined the WHO. Every state in the Governor's Public Health Alliance should join the WHO too. You'll have to ask other Governors why they've allied with Trump and RFK on health instead. What would really help public health is universal […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

which I guess goes to an actually concrete consequence of trumpism — no one wants to visit this godforsaken place lol, because it sucks and also DHS keeps assaulting tourists at the airport. that's not even getting into the medium-term effects of insane visa policy and tariffs making everyone poorer

Thank Goddess for the rationality of the EU, they seem to have defused Trump for the moment. I say we are totally square for WW2 now, ;p. It is difficult to describe how ashamed I feel about the US at this moment.