AI is the new motion smoothing

Why did we take a mandatory unit on the Holocaust every year in Hebrew school if not to recognize this pattern

The code is not complicated. Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...

Man Trying To Enter Conversation Spends Few Minutes Smiling And Nodding At Edge Of Circle https://theonion.com/man-trying-to-enter-conversation-spends-few-minutes-smi-1819577205/

This “tough guy” rebrand is about to cost taxpayers $2 billion. But somehow, cancer research is what they call wasteful spending. Absurd.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Yup. They need to be punished for what they tried to do. Make them squeal until they beg for a nationwide non-partisan redistricting system.

"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest

it’s true ^ and i’ll point out that “sustainable abundance” has become elon musk’s tesla pitch. he’s acting like the work of tesla’s original environmental mission is done even though vehicles generating tailpipe emissions are still *very* dominant.

Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

The bad guys are winning and destroying the world because too many of the so called good guys aren't willing to fight as hard and as dirty as they are. "When they go low we go high" is how you get your ass whipped. Badly. theconversation.com/how-the-rich...

Things fall apart and the center cannot hold when billionaires use all of their influence to push for a culture, a government, and an economy that regularly bestow the highest rewards on literally the worst people in the world.

Not one of these alders that voted no yesterday because of the corporate head tax has a progressive solution to replace it, & we must not tax the working class. I've cautioned for a carveout for grocery stores serving in areas of food apartheid in the city but otherwise strongly support the tax.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

“Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver and better.” Must read (and subscribe) from @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

Five seconds ago we were about to go to war with nigeria for allegedly not protecting persecuted christians and now here comes DHS with OPERATION HO-HO-HEROD

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

Not that dissimilar from Trump eliminating his own tariffs in an attempt to stem price increases he caused with tariffs.

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

Racism is of course a big part of it, but I think Larry Summers spells out the other big part: Play ball with the rich and powerful or get pushed out. bsky.app/profile/skat...

Every day is another day I don't regret canceling my NYT subscription.

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

“Strategically” throwing trans kids under the bus in a misguided and ultimately doomed attempt to save cis hides

read a fascinating essay about indie game characters gaining memetic internet popularity and examining how the internet would be different without those games. it's called Sans Undertale

No Country For Old Lunch #addlunchruinamovie

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Hold up

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

“I’m a Grok guy” tells you absolutely everything you need to know about a dude.

Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

I can assure you, it was not a positive for him.

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

The greatest trick rich and horrible people ever pulled is convincing us they were interesting.

I remember chatting to my dad about Corbyn, and he said that I shouldn't believe everything I hear from progressives, that politicians don't deliver what they promise. And I said that if they all don't deliver what they promise why shouldn't I vote for the guy who's at least lying in my direction

In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now. Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.

The last thing I want is to negotiate, especially for healthcare! I want the doctor to tell me what I need to get healthy and then to either provide it or send me to a different doctor who will. That's it! That's all I need from this system!

Sheldon remind me when did Chuck Schumer fight united with the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York

NY doesn’t have caucuses we have closed primaries. But same deal. That’s why @nywfp.bsky.social wants us to stay registered as Democrats: so we can win the primaries like Zohran & AOC did.

For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes. If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better. This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.