a good reminder that privacy is *hard* even when an app provider genuinely wants to enable it ...and some conversations are still best held in person or not at all

this is your daily reminder that removing a president via the 25th Amendment literally requires more votes in Congress than impeaching and convicting him does if a congressperson is talking about the 25th rather than impeachment, they're straight-up grifting you

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could the Diana Russini scandal cause some people to question journalistic integrity in sports reporting? Mike Florio and Adam Schefter discuss that and more in this episode of PFT, brought to you by DraftKings

I think it is both important and really difficult for folks to distinguish between 'rampant war crimes' of the sort that Russia, for instance, does in Ukraine as opposed to reduced but still very horrible amount of civilian suffering that a war waged according to law and custom entails.

Iran has claimed to have shot down an F-35 and has posted the following images as proof. This is *not* an F-35, but rather an F-15 of the 494th Fighter Squadron. I will explain how I came to this conclusion below.

there's probably AI output to be found, yeah but the AI detection tools the author not-very-critically cites are just one or two steps up from dowsing rods of course the CEO of Pangram has good things to say about detection tools. (breaking news: dowsing rod maker endorses dowsing)

interesting side effects of LLMs, #73: a surprising number of people willing to die on the hill of "yeah i've always used the proper em dash in all of my casual online writing. yep, definitely, believe me. what sort of absolute philistine uses the en dash?"

dem partisans: "vote blue no matter who!" JP Lyninger: "ok here's the blue I'm voting for" dem partisans: "omg not like that"

I empathize with that deeply. And yet I know that while in the short term this feels cathartic, it's going to be so bad for us in the long term.

Every second and ICE agent spends harassing me at the airport, in a place he can do nothing to me, is another second some innocent child or father or mother or sister or whatever will remain free, living their lives.

yeah, Mueller really doesn't deserve veneration just because he wrote a report that Trump didn't like he was a driving figure behind the post-9/11 national security state

Ethnic cleansing is bad even when it's prettified by the rhetoric of "anti-colonialism"

an early favorite for Most Bluesky Thread Of Bluesky 2026 on the topic of the Godmother of Rock and Roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe

with how unpopular the Trump administration is, more states ought to be in play Dems certainly aren't favored to win Alabama, but it's not out of reach we've literally won an Alabama senate race before in the Trump era! to which centrist Dem defeatists will reply "but but but but" as usual

I applied for a job at reddit and this was in their demographics section

7. @bradduplessis.bsky.social said it best: "Militaries fight in social, cultural, political, and economic contexts." Secretary Hegseth's myopic focus on "lethality"will cost a generation of officers the education they need to meet the most turbulent geopolitical moment since 1991. End.

This is a good question to address, actually. There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work. But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.

get a load of bojack norseman over here

this is huge! time REALLY sucks to work with. when working with time, you really want to just have one decent abstraction that handles all the shitty parts under the hood. unfortunately, JS Date/DateTime is just plain bad having a good built-in abstraction is a godsend!

18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse

when i listened to music in high school i didn't really pay attention to the lyrics it's so nice of the GOP to rerun the Bush years so I can fully appreciate System of a Down protest songs in their intended context

it helps to step out of any sort of "marginalized people are always right" mindset one might be in the whole point of fighting marginalization is that people in marginalized groups are *people*, same as all other people and like all groups of people, some of them are total assholes

your crude oil futures options are war profiteering my crude oil futures options are just shrewd investing

my god, if we had the technology to convert performative outrage into electricity, we could power the world for weeks on this incident alone

And we'd be equally being silly to pretend that early modern Europe didn't shape the modern world writ large. I think that it is important not to be what I'd term 'piously silly' - trying to be 'gooder than the truth.' The truth is, European political thought has shaped most global governments.

Putting on my political theorist hat, what you're seeing here is someone with considerable power protecting and reinforcing the institution which empowers him. The power of SCOTUS is Katyal's power because he plays by its rules, so he'll exert effort to legitimate that power with claptrap like this.

good news everyone, Hakeem Jeffries has finally answered our heartfelt pleas for him to stand up no news on whether he plans to do anything, but at least he's standing up, and hey, batting .500 ain't bad

I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats... still do, but I used to, too

If there's anything that actually unites Millennials as a subculture, it's scars from witnessing 9/11 followed by watching adults losing their goddamn minds over Janet Jackson in the Super Bowl

This week Section 230 turned 30, and you'll see a bunch of posts on Techdirt today and the rest of the week about the importance of Section 230, but my first contribution this week is how the arguments against 230 are so contradictory that it should give everyone pause to consider why.

Insane that this context wasn’t front and center in media coverage from the beginning

it's bsky so the reaction is probably 50% "how dare he slander men like that" and 50% "how dare he steal my line"

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

I am pleased to report another victory for The Gay Agenda in Jacksonville: The Casbah is now serving brunch

I will maintain until I die that lumping all social connections under “Friend” is the original sin of social media and may yet be the doom of us all. Solidarity has nothing to do with who I personally like! - Someone who knows WAY more people than I’m friends with

Winter cold season is in full swing, and this year, people are turning to a new treatment for sinus congestion: tear gas.

in retrospect, dumping the Epstein files directly online to be pored over by the whole "I read this on the Internet and it vibes with me, therefore it must be 100% true and accurate" crowd is a very effective way of delegitimizing and defanging the entire file

Exactly how much white supremacy, public executions, epic corruption, and overall incompetence do Republicans have to condone before Democrats stop running for office based on their ability to “work with them?”

Ossoff is not an alarmist.

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

I wrote a thing about how virtue and community support seem to be incomprehensible to MAGA folks.

#1 most predictable development of 2026: the usual suspects begin teeing up for "the terror troops aren't diverse enough, we must ensure the terror troops reflect the full diversity of the communities they terrorize"

(Jan 1863) Copperheads coalescing around 5 restrictions on slavery: Repeal the Fugitive Slave Act (big) Maintain Missouri Compromise line for slavery in territories Families to be sold together only More training for overseers Slaves permitted to read the Bible HUGE VICTORY FOR THE UNION!

the purpose of Christian compassion is to let it be weaponized against you. you are meant to die of it if necessary.

i'm seeing an increase in tankies in my feed friendly reminder for tankies - please, remember to go subscribe to all of y'alls many, many blocklists the revolution is counting on you to do this sincerely, everybody

Right now the dream of Nuremberg trials, truth and reconciliation councils, etc. is mostly serving the same purpose as a line like "History won't judge these fascists kindly." It's a way of appealing to a more just future in order to avoid the work of justice now.