don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

It takes a real lack of political self-respect to attend & be lied to, abused, & gaslit. Nothing is gained by attending. It confers an unearned dignity on Trump's speech & sends the dishonest message that you think things are normal. Dems should stand up for truth by refusing to sit still for lies.

Attempting to seize the Capitol vs. attempting to seize the capital.

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This gets at something I wish more people understood: In a real & profound sense, LLMs *CANNOT* innovate. They can create the illusion of innovation by generating seemingly-novel combinations, but it's always going to be limited to recombining what's come before in a kind of constrained randomness.

People dismissing agentic code are perhaps underestimating our capacity (whether that's a good thing or not) to tolerate terrible software.

I had an idea on a slick way to do gift links in Ghost and I think I’m gonna build it

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It’s fascinating, but only in the way that studying the placebo effect is fascinating. Whatever’s going on is in the observer. The sugar pill is just a sugar pill.

Selling pardons to financial criminals is such a clearly impeachable offense.

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VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

the theater is screening DOS Boot

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I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

I can't get over how weird and gross this image is, and the Clawd/Moltbot developers *chose* to put it right at the top of the readme to represent the project raw.githubusercontent.com/moltbot/molt...

Making a complicated design based on vibes and bringing it to a stakeholder to ask "hey what do you think?" is the behavior of a junior UX designer, and wastes everyone's time until they are trained out of it. With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

while i do appreciate a technical correction the proper response to "this is not like anne frank, actually" is "if you are making legalistic arguments to distinguish your actions from hitler you are already losing"

Dems are gonna miss last week when they could've grabbed for "abolish ice" sorry now it is "imprison ice" keep up

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

ICE actually needs less training because ICE shouldn’t exist

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

abolish ice is the centrist position, the position moderates will take to appeal to the center

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

"Warren is well known in MA's LGBTQ community for showing up at Pride events and dancing around in a feather boa. But when her queer and trans constituents asked her to meet with us about legislation that could harm the most vulnerable members of our community, she wouldn’t even look us in the eye."

“Abolish ICE” is such a clear and powerful message and it’s the *populist* one. People really don’t like what’s happening! I thought these bozos were all about polls?

It’s actually worse that you let ICE use Flock data even though you don’t have a contract with them. You understand how that’s worse right?

MPD and Mayor Bowser have been dodging responsibility for their support of ICE so long that even Brooke Pinto is fed up

Senators from states where Trump’s Gestapo have killed people should publicly commit to rejecting unanimous consent in the senate until the House holds public hearings on what happened and the people responsible resign.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

it is outright murder. talking about it on here means bracing for the inevitable "they do this all the time," which is true!, but probably not a useful comment, as the point is not to engender dialogue & analysis, but to join together in outrage at state violence

How can you even measure public support for an impeachment case that has never been made to the public? “Public support” is fungible and can be rallied. There is a lot of value in trying to do that!

We have to impeach him.

DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.

for no reason whatsoever, feels like a good day to promote this stellar, independent, local media

Why is Tim Kaine

mr stephen miller sir, have you considered taking up boxing

Many people have explained to Dick Durbin that this is a terrible idea that will make many things worse and children less safe. The generous explanation is he sucks at figuring out who to listen to. Not great for a policymaker!

always remember: 1. sending someone a text message is 1000x more meaningful than a social media post 2. a phone call is technically assault

Spotify is responsible for a lot of bad things but every single app having a “wrapped” might be the worst

it's almost indistinguishable from the human Colin Jost