I feel like this image perfectly encapsulates Ezra Klein: eyes shut and mouth wide open. Proffering platitudes, never listening.

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

This…is frickin’ good.

ICE = the f(*^ing Klan!!!

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Ok seriously one of the questions I have abt LLMs that almost no one ever seems to ask is "Are they really faster than a skilled human at writing tasks? How much faster, exactly?"

The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️‍⚧️

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

7 million people marched today. That's greater than world's three largest militaries— combined.

I feel like the universities slowly all going "Nah." to the regime's attempt coerce fealty is an important bellwether too. The panic is starting to fade at institutions, and they're seeing that cooperation doesn't guarantee protection. That impacts behavior.

Someone needs some PR training.

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

Generative AI is the aesthetics and instrument of fascism, proved once again.

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

During the civil rights movement, SNCC trained college students on how not to engage when people were spitting on them and throwing food in their faces: non-engagement was itself a speech tactic to demonstrate the unworthiness of someone’s else speech.

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Feds deploy tear gas in Albany Park as neighbors respond to them detaining people. One person was taken, though another was freed. “I was afraid to go over there. I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back."

A lot of the people they are trying to forcefully abduct and eject from the country? He is their pope too

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This clip goes fucking hard.

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

A prayer more than an interview. Amen.

One of the oddest things about the people I see defending and pushing AIs is how blithely they dismiss this as a significant negative outcome, one that should matter. I guess in their minds, its just the "little people" (not them) suffering for the "greater good" of more chatbots etc etc

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

A point that needs to be made explicitly: Jimmy Kimmel faced down Donald Trump and won. Period. “Trump can talk tough, puff out his chest and act like he’s an unstoppable force. But he’s not. Money talks. The masses talk, and they matter.” My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Make this your mantra (as per John Oliver): Fuck you, make me

Autocrats regularly overestimate their power and how much people agree with them

it is jaw-dropping to consider just how much of the present state of our world stems from men being scared of being perceived as gay

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Lining up to get a new iPhone…

The US senator has labelled Carr’s comments ‘dangerous as hell’ and something ‘right out of Goodfellas’.

Good thread. Nearly all the Klein contradictions can be explained by Status Quo bias, and sometimes by Power Worship. 80 years ago Orwell said both. He got Ezra Klein right.

Keep cancelling! creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

One small thing you can do is to block all #Disney pages on your social media accounts. They don't appear to have a Bluesky presence, but they are on Facebook.

Isn't it crazy that the leader of our country is able to get comedians fired for their jokes? Pic unrelated

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Pairing the Antifa thing with the Kimmel thing was... a move

I think it's actually spelled Charlie Kkkirk