I remember when I was in college my mom told me about an article she'd read where a group of millionaires and a group of middle-class people were asked the same set of extremely basic questions and all the millionaires failed. stuff like "how much does a stamp cost" or "where's your nearest library"

Every time I see this room it blows me away anew how fucking ugly it is

New Jersey: Tell state senators to oppose S1510 before its hearing on Monday. Daylight Saving Time darkened mornings past 7am all October; permanent DST would darken mornings past 8am in November into February. It cost lives when last tried! Amend to permanent Standard Time or approve S4084 instead.

This is a small data point but in July 2023 I published a video about how AI Doesn't Exist and I used to get so many comments from people calling me a dumbass and saying 'this aged poorly' and that video still gets about 300 views a day and I have not received a comment like that in months.

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

After whining for a few minutes Kevin finally gets to his actual pitch, and of course it's the same thing every tedious right wing debate bro wants from every high profile left winger: He wants Mamdani to come on his podcast so he can generate revenue from it

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Not surprising but disappointing that legacy news orgs reporting on the ADL's Mamdani tip line are not mentioning Canary Mission in their stories.

glad the younger set is learning about chunky reese witherspoon-gate. it's literally all you need to know about who douthat is.

Again it would be great to for someone to ask who is this against

unrelated, I'm sure lol

"Prosecuting a former president or prime minister is a normal and healthy thing for advanced democracies to do." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...

Meta's Kendall Jenner AI chatbot lured a man to NYC www.reuters.com/investigates...

Quite a headline.

Sam Altman has killed more people than Luigi Mangione.

if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile

Excellent from @espiers.bsky.social It’s Not Just Cuomo Who Lost. It’s Cuomoism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

you probably shouldn't let what commentators like Ezra Klein say be the limit of your imagination or determine what you think is politically possible. He doesn't have a clue what is possible.

we coulda had it all

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

oh cool a lead-in modifier that presumes good faith — and gives the government the benefit of the doubt —exactly as prescribed in the famous book: how to do a good journalism

“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

this would mean half of registered california voters voted in an odd year special election with a single arcane proposition on the ballot

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

i went to doll tree and they all said they miss and love u, and hope you're well

i love confidence intervals

we're gonna have the best sports fixing scandals

to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

actual communism

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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Fleeing the scene of a medical emergency is a Kennedy family tradition and I’ll thank you to respect it

I just don’t know what I love the most: the two-star hotel font, the three clashing gold finishes, the polyurethane decals hot-glued on at bonkers angles, the fussy oil painting frames on what appear to be black and white photos… oh, I can hardly wait for a full tour!

If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is. Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.

one thing that has been low-key driving me insane for weeks is the fact that we could protect a lot of people from government kidnappings right now just by taking perjury seriously and enforcing traffic laws

They also believed he was innocent of crimes because the DOJ never prosecuted him in a meaningful way, including for sedition. In early 2021, most Americans DID think he was guilty. That changed over three years thanks to DOJ inaction. They thought "If he were really a threat, they would stop him."

Facebook did this by the way. Mark Zuckerberg on-purpose melted our parents' brains for money.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

what if one of the strategies they settle on from this is "tormenting the actor michael rappaport"

Thinking about how Kal Penn ended up cast in The Namesake

average bluesky poster

do these animals belong in the same scene? who cares. who gives a shit

Focus group behind two-way glass. Pete watches as the moderator asks, "Would it upset you if someone congratulated Mamdani in a tweet?"