i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

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“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…” Couldn’t have seen this coming.

huh, what a weird coincidence

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that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes

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Are we surprised a guy whose son monitors his porn activity thinks seeing a bunch of naked people is threatening?

I am so stoked for this book.

“I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS” is the greatest clickbait book title ever (it’s not about what you think, although the history is highly relevant)

Resistance has many fronts.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

Democracy dies in a political consultant's messaging strategy.

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

That is not a No and they know it.

I really appreciate this video.

We all saw this. “We” === the demographics that are currently being attacked and oppressed now. Many dismissed us as over exaggerating or too sensitive. We were called too emotional and over reacting. Told to calm down. Told we were being bias. Some other demographics are waking up. Slowly.

1. Wow. 2. Shows how the US has zero perspective of history, which explains a great deal

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

Terrifying day. The downstream consequences could be scary too. Of the many reasons not to tweet gleefully about Kirk getting shot (also: it's morally wrong), a big one is you don't want to give these people any more ammo in their fight to shut down two-party competition in America

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i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site

The lack of fireworks is the giveaway.

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Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.

"voters are why I lost" is the funniest possible thing for a politician to say.

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Substack is a political project launched to advance an agenda and funded by a firm that has an explicit manifesto laying out its extremist agenda. This is what the platform was created to do.

This is up there as one of the best things I’ve seen on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/...

i know it's been said already but for real tho someone should invent a way out that isnt through

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

fwiw and I know it’s not much I am a Jew who lives in New York City and while I am neither afraid of Zohran Mamdani nor his views on Israel and Palestine, I’m actually scared as hell about the horrific wave of racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia that has been unleashed since his primary win

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Luddites are extremely misunderstood.

I've got another use for LLMs. I just purchased a new audio interface for my computer. The manual is 70 pages for the hardware and 52 pages for the software. Fed both of those into Claude along with information about my mic set up, then asked it to provide a recommended set up.

I’m done with the online left. And here's why.

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

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You should go work with @aschweig.bsky.social if you’re looking for work in newsrooms in a part of the country that desperately needs it.

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

Unlike the couch-lover’s blusterings, here are solid arguments and thoughtful statements around immigration

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

Just realized tonight that we’re in the timeline where we’re living through Revenge of the Nerds as a dark comedy.

*looks directly at camera*

whoever told the democrats that posting bitchy little joke tweets in response to major violations of national security and federal law was a good strategy … why did you do that ? please take it back

Good on Wired. Glad to see my new subscription money being put ti good use.