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Someone who is good at the economy please help. My industry is dying.

MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom

It sucks that the lack of a social safety net is turning everyone into a case manager for eachother. A healthy society wouldn't force stressed out broke people to do uncompensated case management labor for more stressed more broke people. And as usual that labor mostly falls on women and queers.

art of the deal, baby

obsessed with this edit

Look on a globe, dumb fuck. Missile from Russia will mostly come over Canada

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

Claude moving from throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks to nailing some serious feces to the door.

Tech is disintegrating, but we're inside this window where these over-advertised chuds -- and they are all useless chuds held up as ubermeschen -- can extract massive packages, be onboarded as if prize-winning show ponies, and then do...nothing. You know they just fuck around all day at work.

Einstein AI rebranding is a textbook example of EduWashing. They change how they market it using educational language but don’t change how the product educates. Nice article on this practice with eduapps at link. Now it is AI apps. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Shit my Costco-Dad look is trendy?

Bearistotle ass legal argument

There's our big dying prune. There he is. Hair looking shittier than ever somehow, walking all decrepit, looking like a big old human shit. There he is kissing his mutants. Okay let's hear what new slurs he's come up with.

Trump Invites Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein Investigation As SOTU Guests

can't believe people don't want to work at the Larry Ellison technofascist propaganda farm

“Good luck to y’all” - Black Americans

I know the guy has Tourette's or whatever. And you don't want to exclude someone with a disability. But also, maybe they would have the fucking self-awareness to not put themselves in a place so likely to inflict so much harm accidentally!

I sure miss my Google Glass for taking quick photos of my kids and when out and about, but shit has gotten really out of hand.

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I'm with Justin Reich, who said, "industry-sponsored professional development is, at its core, a 'customer acquisition' campaign." As Google attempts to strengthen its grip on teachers and students, here's a 🧵 with work that examines the Googlization of education...

This classic Nancy is a reminder of how much swearing the strip used to feature. Newspaper owners didn't like it, but the strip was so popular they had no choice but to run it uncensored. It was a different time

A common refrain I've heard from (often well-meaning) people is that they agree that Section 230 is important, but they'd like to reform it so it doesn't apply to algorithmically recommended content. I think that's a bad idea and finally wrote a long thing explaining why.

55 years ago, 12 Members with related interests had such little clout that despite repeated requests Nixon wouldn't meet with what they'd called the Democratic Select Committee. Then they made three decisions that changed everything—the boldest of which was to boycott the State of the Union. 🧵

was it a bad idea to put a weirdo grifting podcaster in charge of the federal bureau of investigation, who can really say

A former ICE agent is blowing the whistle: Academy training is "deficient & broken." He claims he was ordered to teach cadets to bypass the Constitution & enter homes without warrants. ICE reportedly cut 240 hours of legal, firearms, and use-of-force training.

The last sports editor at the Washington Post signs off.

Ryan Coogler's ‘X-FILES’ series has greenlit for a pilot at Hulu • Coogler will write & direct the pilot • Danielle Deadwyler will officially star • Follows 2 vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division

The military is still just killing random people on boats in the Caribbean. No trials, no evidence. 137 kills so far

Once again, the correct and obvious answer to "Will you vote for Gavin Newsom for president in November 2028?" is as follows: "I will not, because he will not be the Democratic nominee."

Did you know you could subscribe to your favorite Black bloggers on @leaflet.pub with your Bluesky/blacksky? A post from your soon to be favorite Black blog on leaflet.

Mid-City is out, then in, then out again...

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

It's growing, apparently ( per swbno.org/news/boilwater )

Tech Bro: My fellow neo-Spartans! You won't need those devious women if you listen to me because everyone will be able to have an AI girlfriend! Tech Bro, 6 months later: You can't afford a PC or phone for your AI girlfriend? Since you have free time now, have you considered hating black people?

Lol, could the Atlantic not get rights to any one of the appropriate memes for the top of this article.

wow Bari Weiss failing to overcome all this dang cancel culture, smdh

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

Helena Moreno needs to do Mamdani-style Sewerage Day for kids in the city. We got kids out here on the corner doing street psychic readings.

Boil water advisory in our near future once pressure is restored.

literally DOZENS of jobs!

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code. But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted. The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Something I’ve been working on

he wrapped this one up in about 30 seconds. you figure there are about one million kids enrolled in new york city schools. if he spends ten hours a day on the phone, seven days a week, he will have personally informed every child of tomorrow's snow day by the spring of 2028