"My knees are kinda bad. Could one of you guys get down there and roll him for his wallet?" ino.to/BLzBXPN

"But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with 'more than 100 Republicans' planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to 'get in front of what’s coming,' reported Schuster." newrepublic.com/post/202813/...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Trump said that Republicans are “getting killed” in the shutdown and that the GOP will become a “dead party” if they don’t end the filibuster to resolve the shutdown. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Also, for dealer types this turns every interaction with police into a life or death situation. It would start a massive wave of violence. (And then in turn cops will get even worse with every interaction they have with people, because they might be an armed to the teeth dealer)

Breaking News: A jury found a man not guilty of assault for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington.

Bad news for folks who want to circumvent paywalls. Fortunately, there are plenty of other utilities for it.

BTW, "without appeal" means if you were convicted because the cops planted evidence or coerced perjured testimony, you're fucked. This is record levels of toxic Nancy Grace-brain.

What kind of abusive, screaming red-faced authoritarian piece of shit did this guy's dad have to be, for him to go this far off the right end of Adorno's F-scale?

Listen, there is very much to criticize about Pritzker, but the fact that we have reached a point in our politics where a sitting governor has told the president (and his cronies) to "fuck all the way off" is something. We should not underestimate the power of symbols to galvanize resistance.

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Earlier this year I got a check for $80 in the mail, and it turned out to be because they'd somehow caught the guy who ran over my mailbox several months before.

My favorite intercultural confusion is when people from other countries come to the US and get confused by our mailboxes. And like everyone in the US is like mailboxes are sacred because "you don't want to fuck with the postal service"

Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/

"Why are they pushing AI so hard?" Them: "We need $2 Trillion by 2030." That's $2,000,000,000,000. By 2030.

Meta needs $234.7bn+ in AI revenue by 2030, and doesn't appear to have any AI revenue right now. Mark Zuckerberg is burning so much money, and doesn't have a strategy other than "burn more." It's one of the most insane things I've seen in corporate history. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...

Based on GPu depreciation, debt and capex, I estimate big tech must make $2 for every $1 of capex. They also have a time limit, because in four years many of their GPUs will be end-of-life - and likely lead to billions in impairment charges when they're sold off. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...

Google is in a similar position, needing $294bn+ in new AI revenue by 2030, and the number increases every single quarter they decide to pile in more capex. Google has made it clear they intend to burn more money, and we need to start asking why they're doing so. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...

While I've said big tech needs $2Tr+ in AI revenue by 2030, the reality is that it's likely much more with depreciation, the cost of running these services, and the fact they've all ramped up future capex. It's one of the most egregious wastes of money in history. www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...

I agree. Nobody should HAVE to put their 6-week-old newborn in daycare. That's why there should be at least 6 months of full-paid maternity leave.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

I'm just kidding you can critique all you want I'm just not gonna listen. Behold, Bella the Cat in the style of Matisse's "Green Stripe"

feels like everyone should see this dog that ate a bee

That whole thing about how The Art of War mostly just says stuff like "be sure to feed your soldiers"

Someone should paint a fake door on the outside of the Oval Office and tell Trump there's a giant pile of big macs in there

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

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

just want to reiterate that the first amendment isn't something you "hide behind," it's something that constrains the government's ability to limit your inalienable rights. that distinction is very important

me: who's this??? is this mommy's handsome boy?? mommy's handsome boy:

Why is female joy so terrifying to weirdos and losers?

"in honor of the passing of our dear and beloved friend across the aisle, we would like to sacrifice one more minority group to further alienate our base and ensure the ascension of both fascism and the stock market." - james carville and a half dozen other useless assholes the moment they heard

who would have guessed that the dumbass who won the popular vote by a sliver because median voters just thought of him as President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January would be eating shit like this, after not solving any problems and kidnapping many defenseless people for fun

If we want more figures in leftist and progressive circles to talking about this we must encourage and show that we will support it. We must also specially push against those puritan comments that talk about "Porn addiction" and how evil is porn.

Time is now as much a zombie rag as Newsweek.

Read this and wrap your head around the way white institutions so often want marginalized people to present their stories in weak, hyper-personalized, depoliticized ways.

I hope you can publish the original version in a different outlet and it gets Streisanded into ten times the number of views, like the article David Zaslav tried to suppress.

4 pm I get a message - they want more edits. They aren't going to publish it for tomorrow morning as promised. Could I please continue to work with them? I let them know in no uncertain terms that they should be ashamed about this process, and pulled the piece. 7/

All day long we edited back and forth. I refused to back down on any of the central points. No byline is worth any negotiation on integrity. She said we were coming to a con consensus. The day dragged on, I asked her to please not waste my time if they weren't going to take it. 6/

I wrote them Sunday that I was withdrawing the piece. This morning, the same editor wrote back, apologizing, saying it was her boss that made these edits, and that she understands my position. She said she still wanted to work with me, could I please give them more time. 5/

Instead, they asked me to expand on parts where I talked about violence my own family members experienced. They wanted me, in short to be a token Muslim and write a fluff piece about representation, not dehumanization. 4/

On Saturday night I click to take a look - the piece has nothing to do with what I wrote. This version changed my argument into a fluff piece on Muslims “belonging” – mentions of Cuomo's legal suport for Netenyahu, US imperialism, threats to Mamdani’s denaturalization etc all removed. 3/