[man in the norman rockwell painting] i think segregation is bad and integration is good

One funny thing: some of our local MN activists hate me because I spent a lot of my career fighting racial segregation in housing and schools, and those activists are quite literally pro-segregation.

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

I do hate when people (this is a pan-ideological thing) vacillate between boldly proclaiming provocative shit and then go “whoa hey I’m just a lil’ guy, I don’t even have any power, REALLY you’re gonna focus on ME, c’mon…” like either your ideas are worth taking seriously or they aren’t!

the ability to get on a high horse to rail against air conditioning seems to prove that people will defend anything as morally good once they're used to it

"North Berkeley Bart parking lot development idea in response to someone telling me to stop living in an emotional driven fantasy world" www.reddit.com/r/berkeleyca...

fixed your headline

I think a valuable lesson for us onlookers on the other coast is that the SF DSA would benefit from being more like the NYC DSA. Mamdani and AOC > Dean Preston

My new headphones can connect to both my computer and phone at the same time. Truly, this is what technological progress looks like.

when I've had that debate it usually starts out "nobody is selling an affordable EV!!!!" and ends with "well the budget model is too uncomfortable for my family trips to Cape Cod"

in addition to lander, darializa and valdez, all the mamdani endorsees in state legislative races (kawas, kattan, sairitupac, romero, northrup) are on track to win as well. 🧹 clean sweep for the mamdani machine 🧹

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

Yes, I got approval from the fire department simply by repeatedly annoying everyone involved until they gave in.

Imagining a guy who hates Blippi but only because he erroneously assumes he's Italian-American

My 4 year old wrote his first sentence today: "Car go so so so fast"

This is the root of the Soros accusations- the right wing chud aristocracy were actually all on the take from a shadowy network based out of Eastsrn Europe

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

A funny aside on scottaaronson.blog?p=9851

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

I think what this reduces to is that doctors are extremely time limited and patient plus LLM can chisel away at it as long as they want, which means among other things better context discovery

trying to think of a name for the reflecting pool scandal. thinking maybe 'Watergate.'

Unstable equilibrium where the Republican racism message during elections is "every ethnic group versus blacks; law-abiding immigrants good" and then in power they can't find any loyalists who believe that so it goes back to "whites versus everyone else; all immigrants bad"

Dream blunt rotation

Happy fathers day to every daddy

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

I think maybe the next PM for the center left party in the UK should try pursuing some center left policies instead of right wing policies. Just an idea of what might work politically.

wow, this screaming guy on fire just threw himself into the DC reflecting pool and now some kind of green creature is climbing out the other side?

I cannot imagine explaining to my former self, even five years ago, that this gutter antisemitism would be this commonplace.

We need national scab police to go in when local police get the blue flu

The correct answer is “depends on what you mean by familiar? Let me show you where I am on the chart”

I wrote this song! Usually, I write for piano (since that's the only instrument I know) but I heard this is my head this way. Like the ending theme to an 80's TV family sitcom.

I would simply not organize my left politics around contempt for the Democrats and their base.

This man is a hurtful Italian American stereotype.

found a guy on the local LLM subreddit who tests open source models running on his computer by asking the program to animate a doner kebab on a spit

My solution is to organize, unlike the people who have put together a choir and are encouraging other people to vote, which is not organizing, for reasons

Once again reminded of this banger.

So much for that I guess

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Thomas Jefferson, excitedly describing his experience playing Katamari Damacy, 1795

...otherwise...🤭

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

the thing is that establishment democrats do not need to be left wing to be successful in this moment, they just have to hate donald trump as much as the base does but they have like oppositional defiant disorder w/re to their voters

I preferred his closing banger, but they're all great