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Sometimes I write things. Sometimes I make things. Sometimes I build things. Posts auto-delete.
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Max Kennerly
about 19 hours ago
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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Nazi get shot on stage: "put up statues in every public space." Kids get shot at school: "things can happen."
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Techdirt
3 days ago
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends Thatâs Legal The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, waitâŠ). Headlines across major outlets are breathlesslyâŠ
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Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends Thatâs Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, waitâŠ). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump "blocked states from passing AI laws" with an executive order. Except, that's not how any of this works, and anyone who stayed awake during middle school social studies should know better.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-block-state-ai-laws-media-pretends-thats-legal/
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
3 days ago
NASA created a "sonification" of the sound emerging from a black hole. It's... god-like...
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Scott Horton
3 days ago
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Floridaâand thus the contest for the presidencyâby 700 votes.
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David Kurtz
3 days ago
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
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Memorandum and Order â #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) â CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191591/114/abrego-garcia-v-noem/
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@rivianofficial.bsky.social
I'm really considering an R3X, but $15/mo for "built-in" voice-operated texts is a really bad experience when every CarPlay option is actually built-in and costs nothing beyond the purchase price.
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What the actual fuck.
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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Leaked files âshow US wants to persuade four nations to leave EUâ
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/us-mega-eu-trump-pqhz8gplr
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I know there are much larger issues in the world, but... and's. And's. AND'S. It's stupid every time.
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Josh Marshall
4 days ago
I will believe AI is a thing when Google maps realizes that I donât wanna take a total freak show route to where Iâm going to save a minute and a half on a one hours drive. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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All I want from a new iOS is for it to stop correcting "and" to "and's" - a word that doesn't exist and which I've never used in any form of communication.
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sarah jeong
6 days ago
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
6 days ago
Student have walked out at Burnsville schools in protest against gestapo activity around the Minneapolis metro.
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Karl Bode
6 days ago
what if we were to replace the quirky individuality of lived experience with a homogenized and badly automated blandness shaped largely by the country's weirdest sociopaths and shittiest companies wouldn't that be nice
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By my math, we could just about double that with
FanSpark.pro
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6 days ago
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Found the line between crippling anxiety and incandescent rage, and brother I am using that line as a fucking jump rope today.
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onion person
6 days ago
these are so clearly only controlled by humans itâs astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
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Ed Zitron
7 days ago
I am deeply worried for the future. NVIDIA's revenue is a chain of pain - selling GPUs bought with debt that are rented to unprofitable LLM companies subsidized by VC who sell access to unprofitable AI companies subsidized by VC. The end will be gruesome.
www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-...
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Jeremy (Reprise)
8 days ago
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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Movie youâve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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The âboth sidesâ narrative isnât new. I was taught in grade school that the true tragedy of the civil war was it pitted âbrother against brother, father against son.â Downplayed was the natural conclusion that one brother or father was willing to kill their family to own other humans as property.
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Ron Filipkowski
10 days ago
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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Taniel
10 days ago
I love this line
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Kat Tenbarge
9 days ago
I canât get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because itâs about toys so now theyâre making like Bananagrams the movie
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started
9 days ago
âTheyâre economically disconnected and are distracted by culture war issuesâ No. They justify their economic suffering through the lens of cultural hierarchy. Weâve been doing this since poor white Southerners marched into the maw of war for wealthy slaveholders.
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You have your advent calendars; I have mine.
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Brandy Jensen
12 days ago
hey so that sounds like total shit. really fucking awful. bleak. soul and society destroying. world eating levels of bad.
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Jeremy Schulman
13 days ago
This is like how every time there was a terrorist attack during the Obama administration, Republicans would insist there had been no terror attacks during the Bush administration
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âNarcoterroristsâ is the new âantifaâ is the new âjihadistsâ is the new âŠ
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John Scalzi
13 days ago
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Burrito Justice
14 days ago
âWhen I built my corporate empire, and by that I mean when my father retired and left me his venture capital firm, I promised him that one day I would use a glorified autocomplete program that requires the same clean water supply as Winnipeg to annihilate the job marketâ
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Opinion: The AI Crash will all be worth it if I just get to lay just a few thousand people off
by Jameson Varner, CEOI'm the CEO of a major accounting firm, and so I have my finger on the market's pulse.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/opinion-the-ai-crash-will-all-be-worth-it-if-i-just-get-to-lay-just-a-few-thousand-people-off/
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Ryan Goodman
15 days ago
Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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The Questionable Authority
16 days ago
Demand would likely be higher if the product wasn't, for most purposes, garbage.
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Justin Wolfers
16 days ago
"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
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Minnesota Frost
17 days ago
Kelly Pannek makes it 1-0 Frost in the first!! đ„ł
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Pavel
17 days ago
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
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southpaw
17 days ago
This is murder.
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Kevin M. Kruse
18 days ago
JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nationâs history
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lol @ this headline
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Miami DSA
19 days ago
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, whoâs been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. â€ïž đ§đ·
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TW
20 days ago
lol sign worked
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Josh Marshall
20 days ago
Thatâs a real sentence
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Elisabeth Bayer
23 days ago
Hey Spirit fans, I have a ticket in the Spirit supporters section but donât know the fans in from DC. Say hi!
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lanyardigan
about 1 year ago
Are we really supposed to be able to concentrate on anything at this point. Like, are you shitting me, my liege
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