Today we announced the most ambitious housing plan in our City's modern history. We're building 200,000 affordable homes. We’re overhauling code enforcement. We’re cracking down on bad landlords. We’re creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs.

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And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

Making the leader's birthday into a big public spectacle with games and performances has been the hallmark of despots and autocrats since at least Nero. It is not the behavior of a republican head of state.

Kevin Hart is the first guy to get addicted to being in commercials for gambling.

Part of the dynamic here is that surveillance systems are too readily accepted as a cheaper alternative to larger necessary investments in public safety infrastructure, like better housing, healthcare, and safer, more well-designed roads for pedestrians and children.

NYT: The bride and groom met at a Free Press excursion when the groom saw the bride standing by a buffet table during the anti-woke pig roast and commented that she had nice child-bearing hips.

“Rare interventions” come in two categories: - Kill minorities (quickly or slowly, depending on the optics) - Give money to my funders

Also love the “in a highly unusual intervention” from The Guardian, as if Blair hasn’t been doing this every month for 2 decades

Asheville city hall has used this excuse for years, classifying some workers (nearly 150 at some points) as "temporary/seasonal" to not pay them a living wage, even if they've worked for #avlgov for years, even if they work overtime. It's just a way to underpay and exploit workers.

Again: they never, ever go away, take heed, the same villains stick to the world like mold in a foul old shower

jesus fucking christ lmao

What the Loony Left doesn’t understand is that the healthier and stronger you are, the more frequently you go to the doctor for mysterious exams.

I think about this tweet weekly.

One of the earliest examples that really shocked me with LLMs was this circa early 2024. This still blows my mind to this day. Somehow it simultaneously has the full text of Harry Potter memorized and the wherewithal to translate it into mathbb characters. This is incredibly strange.

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

the Business Supergeniuses who thought the Incredibly Expensive Plagiarism Machine That Fucks Up All The Time would be a great "feature" for their various enterprises only to discover that no, it's a giant money sink that customers hate should all be unemployed

Assigned Media is journalism, not content creation, and that distinction comes with a set of ethical obligations, ones I take very seriously. High among them is the need to disclose where all our funding comes from.

love adult men into one kind of dress up having a problem with someone being into two types of dress up

I don’t think suno.ai is gonna probably do any of those things

To me it is like everyone getting out of a pool that someone pissed in, and then you stay in the pool and go well it's really hot though. I'll just stay away from the piss

People arguing that Twitter gets you more engagement is like the ultimate admission that you don't mind the people over there. You don't advertise in der sturmer and get calls from normal people bro

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Just over here thinking about the number of editors who told me 15 years ago that my idea for a book about the UFC and the direction of American culture was stupid and no one would read it.

thomas is very obviously mainlining the most putrid far right slop imaginable

The art style changes here are giving "Bill Watterson casually nails a medical soap for a one-off gag"

New: Gaza flotilla organizers say "The Torture Boat" (where many of IDF soldiers' most severe abuses against humanitarians allegedly took place) was a *US-built & funded ship.* Alleged abuses include beatings, sexual assault, tasing. Stun grenades & projectiles used were also allegedly US-made.

it can not be overstated how much it sucks that sports journalism has just become how many amazing talented writers can we fire to make corporate overlords as much money as possible

just in case you didn’t get the message with the free mug

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

dudes rock

Beginning of the story speaks to me because when I was younger my Dad and I would go to Hooters after going to the circus for a few years in a row and one of the times we did, the clowns from the circus were also at Hooters

I'd say this will go over some peoples' heads, but I'm not sure they'll get the angle

It’s really frightening.

I helped on this one. I found one of the shooters active in an incel forum complaining about being short, attacking women and giving advice on self-harm. The shooters weren't nihilist. They're representative of the ties between incels and white power that's fueled by the great replacement theory.

Gotta hear one side

Again, not “nihilistic violent extremism” These kids were true Siegeheads

Cracker Barrel Announces Plans To Build Another One Out By The Highway https://theonion.com/cracker-barrel-announces-plans-to-build-another-one-out-1819569173/

One hot day is annoying, everything fucking sucks. Two in a row, and nothing cools down overnight. All the mass in your house got hot, and keeps radiating that heat all night. Three in a row, and it's basically the same temperature regardless of time of day, there's no respite from the heat.

One of the funniest streaks in sports continues... www.bulletsforever.com/washington-w...

Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

I miss her voice so much!

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

If you ever wonder why academics roll their eyes at "viewpoint diversity" hires is that when you pick a scholar for their ideology and politics over the actual work, this is the kind of clown show that results.

ICYMI: Application review starts July 1, so there's plenty of time. We have up to three years of funding for a really cool project. The team includes folks at UVM, Bennington College, and the University of Hawaii. If you love mountains and plants, check it out! Please share with your networks.