On a lark, I tried getting Copilot in Edge to explain a name someone posted that I did not recognize. It generated a giant wall of text vaguely referencing various things on the webpage, but provided exactly no information about the name. These things are so terrible.

Strange tweet from CBS News chief WH correspondent:

Come on, we're not that lucky.

"As the White Walkers marched inexorably south, nearly 90 percent of the Realm insisted on calling them monsters, abominations, and evil incarnate. The Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms cautioned against such language." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Instead of saying "It has to stop" he should say "WE WILL STOP THIS."

Just heard someone on a podcast talk about needing to use an LLM to figure out what their values were. What.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Kalshi cannot operate sports-prediction market in Massachusetts, judge rules reut.rs/4pKOkQr

I'm sorry, what? Canada, get your people out.

Folks I must again insist

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Anti-ICE rally at Copley Square #Boston #resist #ICE

I’m sorry but no. If you can make Joe Rogan mad about Minneapolis, you can make anyone mad about Minneapolis. They are not even trying. That is stupid.

There are a lot of people like this in first and second generation communities and BlueSky is often very uncomfortable acknowledging this.

anyway, a fun aspect of this is that it provides an ironclad argument that all Trump's pardons are void, along with the legislation and executive orders he signed. you gotta follow the rules, you see

I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation

I think often about how many people (lawyers, law profs, etc.) tried to come up with reasonable reasons to *not* apply Section 3 to Trump, and SCOTUS ignored them all to choose the least defensible rationale possible for it.

"At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?" could you just say it instead of asking questions

Holy shit. HHS says the Africa CDC "is a powerless, fake organization attempting to manufacture credibility by repeating its claims publicly. It is not a reliable source, and its statements should be treated accordingly."

Healey kicking can on clean energy sums up 3 ways stand-for-nothing centrism hurts Dems: 🏭 MA keeps missing climate targets 🤷 Dem base wonders why bother knocking doors 😂 GOP says, see, we were right, they don't care & it really is just virtue signaling! commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/heale...

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

periodic reminder that this account is one of the worst engagement farmers on here and X—which is saying a lot I know—and you're better off ignoring their exaggerated, bait-y aggregations (the Bloomberg story does not say "may," this is merely speculative analysis based on a few stray comments)

This is a moral and ethical argument, not a strategic 12-dimensional chess answer. More federal-level Democrats in relatively safe seats must speak like this (a few have), and more often. It's not based on ideology, but decency, and moderates and progressives should both be able to do this.

America was coasting to economic, scientific, and cultural victory conditions and a few people tossed it all away in the last few turns because they thought the conquest victory condition would be more fun.

The Founders (rightly) thought financial corruption was so concerning they banned it in the Constitution three separate times: the two emoluments clauses, and the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Starting in 2017, America decided it just kinda didn't matter anymore, whatcha gonna do.

omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)

Going back through DMs, we first spoke May 31st. I told her I was actively in cancer treatment and couldn't work or engage. By June 2nd she was pitching for herself. By the 6th she found a publisher and explained why, although in process of a PhD myself, I didn't qualify as a co-author. One week.

Weak.

The most important thing to understand about TACO is he doesn’t *always* back down. He backs down when he’s scared of the consequences So, to get up him to TACO is to stand up to him and show him consequences. He won’t TACO when people acquiesce to him. He’ll only TACO when people stand up to him

@professormusgrave.bsky.social is back! musgrave.substack.com/p/the-old-wo...

Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement https://theonion.com/stephen-miller-reminds-picky-eater-son-that-there-starving-kids-in-basement/

An awful sign to everyone in Minnesota, in Greenland, in Europe: Senator Democrats will not fight for you.

The hard truth is they don't have the stomach to do what's necessary to force accountability now.

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

This. If a CEO was surrounding himself with "bad advisors" and listening to them, that's a bad CEO!

BELGIAN PRIME MINISTER: “.. We have to wake up, we have to rearm, we have to integrate our market and we have to seek new alliances. .. He can make us slaves.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/trum...

what I really like about the way he frames this speech is that he doesn't naively describe the old international order as one without inequities or with wholly fair application of the rule of law, but as one where the gains were worth accepting those gaps

POV: you realize the US is serious

I'm going to sporadically repost this because people really, really need to check themselves before spinning out.

Most "drone sightings" will be this. Unless you observe unusual motion, it's probably a plane. Also, FlightRadar24 has an AR mode. People can point their phone at a suspected drone to see if it could be a plane.

just a complete failure to understand that human beings have psychologies and the psychology of Trump and the people who like Trump is broken and twisted in ways that make normal diplomacy impossible he'd be more likely to strike a deal with you if you leveled mar-a-lago with a missile strike

At the end of the day, "how to best run against the president" is an empirical question, and "just talk about the cost of living" is not obviously the best answer

It’s so weird to me how people can see a democratic statement pleading with republicans to handle Trump and think it’s a strong statement

"A road to conquest" jfc these headlines

Where is Congress?

It's not totally irrational for the Euros to think they can suck up to him in-person at Davos and that might calm him down, it has before. The problem is even if that works, it only lasts a few days at best. You can't beat the creeps actually in the West Wing at the "last person he talked to" game.

I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.

This too! Was it iMessage? AOL chat? Signal? WhatsApp? bsky.app/profile/pith...