“I wish the rest of the electorate were vacuous sheep with room temperature intelligence, like me.”

But he’s talking to Glenn Beck, who would be a human trafficker if he could get away with it.

"We learned how to use technology to kick ourselves in the balls" is a solid metaphor

Important distinctions!

Anyway, whenever you see someone being toxic for a cause you believe in please consider that person may not be a particularly strong ally overwhelmed by emotion they may just be an asshole

In other words, MAGA men are a bunch of sniveling whiners. In other news, water is wet. And the Pope, despite being woke, is still Catholic.

Any super-rich schmuck can buy a yacht. But, if a wealthy person aspires to be more than just another Kardashian, one asset rises above the rest: art.

All prices and price trends in housing are always a crisis. It's just a question of whether it's a crisis for renters or rentiers. It's a reliable heuristic that anything good for rentiers is bad for everyone else in every other sector of the economy, and vice versa.

Still, when we can tease the threads apart, George's point remains true. "Capitalists" cause more problems than they solve if they are focused on extracting economic rents (including the sale of appropriated naturally occurring consumable resources).

Say what you will, Dr. Bronner was clearly a poaster

“Have you noticed that MAGA has restarted the Civil War and are you prepared to try to do something about it? Or at least acknowledge it?”

* and a profound misunderstanding of how “innovation” turns into actual value. The techbros and ownership class thinks that “new” = “useful”, which is stupid if you think about it for more than a few seconds, which tells you something about how much thinking they do alongside their grasping greed.

Exactly - my main point is that most people aren’t using them “right” and also do not have time or energy to figure that out themselves. This is understandable and predictable!

This is so true, and it’s 100% on the LLM hyperscalars that they have failed to do this. LLMs are an entirely different class of information technology. They run on computers but are not deterministic like traditional computers so people (quite reasonably) have entirely wrong expectations.

This is a very well-reasoned thread penned by a congressman that completely dismantled a brainless “thinkpiece.” Some pundits want the left to reject progress & civil rights & become GOP-lite, but Dems lose when they bow down to oligarchs & fascists. We only win when we fight for a better tomorrow

will say it is nice that for once, at least momentarily, even if only for one night, the president being senile seems to have saved lives rather than ended them

Ronald Reagan was President Grandpa (And Carter was Dad. We elected Grandpa because we didn’t like it when Dad told us to put on a solar panel.) The current office holder is, I dunno.. President Embalmed?

At least it’s clearly intended to be temporary.

It's my goddamn country too and I'm not gonna let these fucking bastards take it from me without a fight

The Trump-Kennedy Center would be a great name for a Federal prison for white collar criminals.

Any time you get the urge to fight a liberal/leftist about your hobbyhorse, I will simply smile and tell you to meditate on this image

Murderbot for President. Or at least for Senator.

I've released in the last year or two that I don't give a damn about the distinction between liberalism and socialism. I believe what I believe, no matter the label people would assign to me for it. "Left liberal," "liberal socialist," "democratic socialist," it doesn't matter much to me.

AI is a remarkable technology. It can be genuinely useful, and also quite dangerous. It is a sharp sword with no handle, and a very small tang. It is the ultimate narissitic trap. The mirror-mirror on the wall that will tell you whatever you want to hear, if you ask it the right (wrong) way.

Mr Rogers and Carl Sagan are gone so I honestly dunno.

"America is bad" is true in relation to what nation in the history of human civilization? That is, which nation is good? Or if you think no nation is good, what nation is better?

Our Constitution's preamble explicitly says the People formed "a more perfect Union" - implicit in that phrase is the knowledge that our nation is not perfect. The task of each generation of Americans is to build on the foundation thus laid - to continue the unending task of perfecting our Union.

Somehow they forgot “Everyone hates you” which for that sad-sack piece of shit would be the worst slight of them all.

Now do it for #ClimateChange

If nothing else we can all take comfort in the certain knowledge that all these fuckhats are utterly miserable.

It really does bear repeating that with the cowardice of basically every institution this year, he probably could have consolidated power if he wasn’t a total moron and didn’t attempt to crash the economy for no reason

"I support Trump's threats. I'm afraid of Trump. Standing up to Trump is scary and I'm a coward."

@grahamiancummins.bsky.social food for thought

Top items for average people is tough because you’re asking two questions at once: 1. What technologies/policies/choices are good/useful? 2. What can I as an individual do to promote those things? I’m stronger on #1 than #2, partly bc #2 is personal/contextual. 🧵

Bronze Age Pervert seems to be what happens when an obsession with “masculine” virtues and (misunderstood) Ancient Greek misogyny collides with latent homosexuality and intense internalized homophobia. It’s a case of wanting to have your dicks and eat them too.

😂

That’s not an ornament, that’s a weapon.

I don’t normally engage in these sort of mass grave-pissing events, but the virulent righteous hypocrisy with which MAGA has wrought serious life-altering harm upon even Kirk’s most evenhanded and reasonable critics makes it a moral imperative to drag his name through shit at every opportunity.

Hey Pundits! That clue that you’ve been missing? It right here!

If you've ever wondered why tech bros keep trying to cram things down your throat that nobody wants, nobody asked for, could never turn a profit and never actually work, frankly -- this is why. A lot of people are making a lot of money from "failure". If they weren't, they wouldn't keep doing it.

This management fee scam is also why founders with great ideas and great execution in realistic addressable markets don't get funded. VC's make more money from unrealistic sci-fi plans that are doomed to fail over a 10 year window It just needs to be a plausible enough story to build a fund on.

Here's the full-circle scam Ultra-wealthy PE's and bankers buy politicians who promise not to tax them Politicians instead borrow from pension funds to pay for public infrastructure Pension funds go insolvent and get stuck yield-chasing Pension funds have to invest in funds managed by said PE's

There are a lot of presidential democracies in the world. They haven't just sat back and continued to face the same problems over and over again without trying different approaches. One of the biggest things they've done is institute a secret ballot on impeachment trials

I just really don't think you can spend time talking with a trans person and then time talking with a transphobe and emerge believing that they have equivalent concerns about how things work.

Every accusation is an admission of guilt, part #3,758.

I support capital punishment for white collar crimes (only).