in 10 years ChatGPT will be either burned to ashes by a multitude of foreign regulatory environments, or it will be bought out by one of the bigger players. you simply cannot run a company like this, completely unwilling to engage with the necessary risk mitigation that the tech obviously requires.

it's simply not healthy to look directly at the rays. that's not a "blue sky" that's Cherenkov glow. some tweets should have "DROP AND RUN" engraved on them.

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

as a gay man who actually works for Big Tech, despite this piece's focus on a small group of men who are the ones doing this, I just couldn't get past how it managed to channel that into a much worse homophobic broadside against ALL OF US who work in tech.

One of my greatest pains the past decade is that I ran to the defense of journalists in the face of attacks from CHUDs despite it all and it still flags as a major dogwhistle even now But honestly, at this point? They’re all right about them for the wrong reasons. This is unsustainable.

hell, I didn't go to j-school, and even *I* know that, "posing for a photo grants consent, this is what he asked for," is something that they teach is EXTREMELY fucking unethical. what a bunch of hacks. every single post everybody from The Verge throws out makes this worse, fuck these guys so much.

1. any writer who uses the non-word "BookTok" in any sort of unironic context has to be banned from publication forever, sorry I don't make the rules, that's just how it is. 2. I know we're not supposed to judge others like this, but this man LOOKS like the most repellant personality I've ever seen.

On top of the fact that there's tons of fantastic interior Mexican food there, New Mexican cuisine ranks right up there with Tex Mex as some of the greatest regional cuisines on the face of the planet. Green chiles will make you cry for joy.

Absolutely trash move by The Verge, you should all unfollow every one of them. This sort of shit should get a publication space lasered out of existence.

also with the added wrinkle that he's probably going to do it during Ramadan, something the Very Serious people in the op-ed sections of the NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and every other paper of record have spent *weeks* assuring us he wouldn't do.

stancil agreeing to be profiled as part of a piece covering the situation in minneapolis, but then it only being about him, really gives away that our established media/political class *only* care about content and how it plays on twitter/etc. they don't care about policy, they care about posts

this new backlighting & downlighting was very clearly slapped together to deemphasize his quickly deteriorating facial features. he knows he looks so damn bad that he's making them try lighting hacks to hide it.

It really is a testament to just how a lot of ppl--in news media, in the commetariat, and just regular schmucks online--are just deeply invested in grading Trump on a curve that they watch his signature economic/foreign policy policy get shredded & their first thought it "wow, what a win for him"

Remember when SCOTUS shredded student loan forgiveness & Biden had to figure out a Plan B to salvage it--knowing that it too would face litigation & also do nothing to lessen anger from its opponents or ppl that felt it didnt go far enough--& political commentators were like "this is a win for him"?

yes to this a million times over. it's important to note that *he is still going to have plenty of options to impose new tariffs*, and he is going to keep pursuing them—all while this continues to all blow up in his face & destroy the GOP's electoral chances. he will NOT let this die.

mhm. we're about to bomb the hell out of Iran, aren't we? I was just about to post exactly this, but yeah, he's going to do something fuckin *craaaaazy*, right? he is not a rational or restrained man even when his emotions are in check, and right now his emotions are NOT in check.

So the bottom line is a 6–3 decision that Trump's tariffs are unlawful. All six join key parts of the opinion invalidating them. There is a 3–3 split about whether to invoke the major questions doctrine, with the liberals saying no. The majority does not say whether tariff refunds are now owed!

Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito dissent. Roberts writes the lead opinion. With Gorsuch and Barrett, he invokes the "major questions doctrine" to strike down the tariffs. The three liberals say the major questions doctrine isn't needed to find the tariffs unlawful. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

can't wait to find out what our wonderful SCOTUS has fucked up today!

so, Stitt is obviously running for president. he's just making a bet that jumping on the anti Trump train before a midterm wipeout will put him out in front, and tbf he might not be wrong on that account. they *will* eat Trump eventually, it's the only reliable outcome for these people.

This is just a brutal profile. It's worth noting that FL-7 is only an R+5 district ... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm usually a committed 'kids are alright and are actually hard done by by society' guy, but whenever I hear how zoomers are running prequels revisionism, I'm like, maybe the youth deserves that RPI +3% student debt

I'm very neutral about the idea of a boycott because it materially means nothing, but this is definitely the strongest argument in its favor. watching him come unglued about it would be satisfying on a visceral level, so much schadenfreude!

The word "Congress" is no where to be found in this NYT piece. The reporters/editors don't seem to care I guess and oh BTW ... this "would be at least the seventh American military attack in another country in the past year, and his second on Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

I'm sorry, but why the fuck are we even entertaining a story about a Democratic House member *from Florida* commenting on NY state tax policy?? is The Hill really running this low on material? his opinion on this matters as much as mine—which is to say it doesn't matter, at all.

1. In hindsight, Queen Elizabeth covering for Andrew for decades will go down as a historically awful & *deeply* immoral stain on her reign. 2. This is basically the royal equivalent of Charles saying, "fuck my brother, get his ass." Good on him for staying aggressive on this matter.

The Trump administration is like “sowwy we’ll put back the awticles on the website” and “sowwy you can do DEI” and some of you are still like “they are masterminds who are going to steal the midterms through surgical application of force? Have some self respect.

I legit seethe with frustration every time I read an article that just blandly repeats that Trump has 'not made up his mind,' as though moving the largest concentration of air power that the world has seen in a quarter century is not as sure a sign as we're gonna get. this is happening.

I am shocked that this is happening. it's not a charge that brings proper justice for Epstein's victims, but it's something that needs to happen, all the same. (also, Charles must *really* be done with him, no way this happens without his explicit permission.)

1. no way in hell this can be legal, right?? how can you detain someone who's already here under pending refugee status? 're-vetting' is not a thing that exists! 2. I'd bet a month's salary that those white "refugees" from South Africa don't have to go through this.

I've been reading pretty much nothing but classic literature since I turned 40, and it's honestly been one of the most enriching experiences of my entire life. I should've started doing this when I was 20. Adults should read ALL the old books!

Girl why is your hinge sounding like something off of LinkedIn

Yes, though like OJ before him, Orange Trump is looking for the "real guy" who did it. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

could he win the primary, tho? well, we have a historically high number of 'undecided' GOP primary voters this cycle, so yes, he could absolutely come out the winner of a tight three-way race between two fairly unpopular but well known GOP quantities IF they vote for the third option.

been seeing A LOT more ads attacking Wesley Hunt in just the last couple weeks from supporters of both Cornyn & Paxton, which tells me that they're nervous that Republican voters might look to the third option (who actually had a temporary lead in a number of polls last fall).

I think a lot of people who are seething about being "tricked" by Fetterman just really don't want to admit they didn't give a shit about his massive red flags, and their coping mechanism to avoid introspection about their unconscious biases is blaming the people who warned them.

Important thread, read it

Alright Texas! Early voting has officially started. It’s time to show this nation exactly what Texas is made of. Make a voting plan—get to the polls and make your voices heard.

Broke: Bernie Sanders' welfare proposals would be center right in Europe Bespoke: European welfare systems were originally premised on ethnonationalism

once upon a time, I made a joke that he'd be willing to declassify potential evidence of alien life if he thought that it would get him out of trouble for something lolol. I mean, I don't actually believe that we have *definitive* proof of aliens, but I wouldn't put it past him to try this, anyway.

I mean, she's competing for China because, like other reporting has made known, they've paid her an ungodly sum of money (like $10+m *in addition* to companies that do business in China providing her paid endorsements). I mean, fuck JD Vance, buuuut there's an ethics debate to be had here, for sure.

its the perfect issues to go hard online about cuz they are aggresssibve divorced from reality and will never happen so you get to be morally superior with needing to worry if you ideas might actually function

Love the implication that anyone who is not for "open borders" and "prison abolition" (two concepts that are utterly meaningless in the first place) is a fascist. Amazing website

yeah, you don't move resources like this unless you're planning to do something for real. we've heard shockingly little about Bibi & Trump talked about when he was at the White House last week, but I'm gonna guess that Netanyahu talked him into a major attack on Tehran & the regime.

“Kamala Harris will kill puppies if she’s elected” “No, wtf?” “she COULD kill puppies if she’s elected, plenty of other people kill puppies” “I guess but she’s never shown any interest in that plus she’s constrained by her party” “You blue anon posters are all the same, I’m just raising awareness”

nice to see all these cishet people who'd have *nothing* to lose after the wipeout elections that puts the GOP into amend-the-constitution territory if the Democratic party goes full 'open borders.' what have I been saying about people On Here radicalizing themselves to 'no immigration enforcement?'

can't wait for this dipshit to be reelected by double digits again this November because nobody in this state can be bothered to give a fuck 🤷

excellent development; this will also give hefty diplomatic cover to other states who don't want to participate but are scared to say that out loud. Leo doing an overall pretty great job of keeping up with the lofty standards of international relations that Francis set before him.

1. yes. I've been incredibly annoyed by this, too. 2. Talarico is going to lose, maybe by double digits, and this damn site is not going to take it well. his campaign is specifically targeting GOP & white voters, and I simply cannot overstate how thoroughly such a campaign is doomed to fail in TX.

okay so I guess we're just all gonna sit here & watch the Oslo accords just wither away in real time, and not a single person who could stop this will do anything to prevent it from happening. we *really* need to know what Bibi promised Trump at the White House last week in exchange for his silence.