Do it Zeus! DO IT!

Has any character ever been played as consistently well by multiple actresses across multiple poor to middling films as Supergirl?

There's a really good movie in Supergirl dying to get out. But a goofy villain, a Lobo that's both shoehorned in and underused, and Gillespie's maddeningly terrible choices (basically every needle drop in the movie) throttle it every time it starts getting momentum.

I'm an MBA and fully bought into the whole capitalist schtick, but we should absolutely treat capitalism like dynamite, an incredibly useful, incredibly powerful (for good and bad) tool that we should lock down with enough regulations that it won't blow us all up.

Banning trans girls from sports and setting up any system at all for checking the physical gender of participants WILL lead to creepy old perverts doing genital inspections on cis girls either to get their rocks off or to humiliate the girl, or both. Grand Old Party or Group of Perverts?

The four dissents would be impeachable offenses in a real country.

Lessons for life.

This has been my thesis for a while, that we haven't had any tech innovation in 15-20 years, just crime innovation. A string of tech darlings whose business plan is 'let's pretend X law didn't exist and either we'll go bust or we'll get rich enough to pay lawyers to get away with it."

The asshole at Google who decided that everything should just be a fucking AI chatbot in an ugly wrapper (including my Fitbit app) should fired into the fucking sun.

Now the precedent is set, I genuinely hope a future Dem administration investigates and extracts painful concessions from every university that bent the knee to trump. And I include my Alma Mater @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and their mortifyingly servile surrender in this.

This feels a little more The Division 2 than I'm really comfortable with

As I get older I find myself getting both more lenient and more draconian in my criminal justice views. I increasingly feel like we should use more mercy with crimes of desperation or passion, e.g. theft when destitute, drug use, etc.

This kind of malicious false accusation should land you in prison for decades.

Honestly, didn't see that coming. I tend not to feel represented by the 'progressive' label (I usually describe myself as liberal), and I've never been partial to the DSA. But I guess I can see it.

I actually think Jefferies is not unskilled as a whip and caucus leader, but holy shit is he just dogshit awful as a national scale politician.

As a dues paying local Democratic party member, I want to say, explicitly, fuck this nonsense and the horse it ride in on. Maybe there might be a charitable interpretation art other times, but as it's obviously a response to the day's events, fuck right off.

One of my hot takes is that we've actually got a pretty decent set of rules in place, but enforcement is maddeningly on the honors system, and between regulatory capture, republican politicians, and the federalist society our worst actors routinely get hall passes on the rules.

That big purple spike in 2022 is what made the owner class turn violently against Biden

It's wild that the last 20 years of Meta's history is one failed product after another and getting caught lying to users/breaking the law/both, and it's had basically no impact on it or Zuck's finances in the slightest.

This is true, and it still baffles me that no party, even the small out of power ones, seems willing to stake out a "Rejoin the EU ASAP" position even as the far right seems like they're mere weeks away from saying they'll expel every last brown person from the island.

Many of Britain's problems are deeply intractable and would have stymied most politicians, but it's wild how thoroughly Starmer fucked things. Like, there's a difference between going down swinging with left wing priorities and failing to get out of the hole while rerunning Tory fuckups.

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39,015 words. After getting distracted for six months this has finally been a halfway solid week of progress. Hopefully I've almost finished this monster of a chapter and I can move the plot along some more.

I'll admit I was supporter of doing good policy for everyone partly with the assumption that a rising tide would reap electoral benefits. But the Biden years have radicalized me and I'm an easy sell for a 'fuck the red states' strategy.

It really is vitally important that the next D administration cut all funding to Musk's companies with the speed and ruthlessness Musk showed in cutting programs that kept millions from death and immiseration.

It's underdiscussed that Elon is a mass murderer on par with King Leopold. Like this is a body count in line with all WW1 casualties.

There's a video going around of an art director I used to work with defending AI use in their concepting process. And either he's not who I thought he was or he feels obligated to toe the company line. I'm pretty sure it's the latter (given how many layoffs that studio has had) but it makes me sad

My streak of not being impressed by Ball (I always found his yearly report to be superficial and overly credulous about the fad of the moment) doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon.

Perhaps the worst thing about being an Eagles fan is being involuntarily forced to know who the fuck 'Big Dom' is, and the general embarrassment that my otherwise well run team seems to inexplicably require what appears to be a load bearing Sopranos extra to function.

I'm genuinely trying to think of how this could be worse. If the Packers were playing in the Superbowl at Lambeau and you closed down all of Green Bay starting in the middle of the work day you'd still probably inconvenience fewer people than this will.

Mike Lee learning the lesson that is small liberal Christian sects have always known: if someone starts picking state religions in this country, it's sure as shit not going to be ours.

I appreciate that he never seems to say 'the ballroom' or 'Trump's ballroom'. It's always the 'Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom', which is some good solid demagoguery.

I'm sorry, but this guy is just stupidly good at retail politics.

Everything I've seen so far continues to reinforce my conclusion that Platner is too stupid to be a senator, but that his saving grace is that he is currently not evil enough to be a member of the GOP.

I maintain that the Turning Test was a horrific mistake which gives the imprimatur of scientific importance to what should be the embarrassing admission of "I was a credulous moron and let my ape brain anthropomorphize a machine"

One of the core problems with the current AI boom is almost all of the prominent companies are fronted by historically dishonest grifters and they've managed to maneuver themselves to be covered by the most credulous dipshits in media.

Dick's (the burger chain) low grade sucks.

do you want to see James Talarico eat meat? because you’re going to see James Talarico eat so goddam much meat. you are not going to be able to turn around without seeing James Talarico’s face glistening with brisket grease

Like clockwork the far right ballot initiatives are collecting signatures again in WA, this time to kill the millionaire tax. And I wonder where the liberal petitions are? Where's the ballot measure to redistrict our R reps out of existence?

I like Kim, but I'd rather a little less 'it's a sad day' and a little more 'I will grind the Senate to a halt until I have their badges'. This is Jersey, let's use the stereotype for good for once.

I think Google has enshittified Gmail's spam detection. For years it's been excellent, letting maybe 1 slam mail through every month or two with virtually no false positives. But within the last week I'm suddenly having 2-3 obvious spam/fishing mails make it to my inbox per day.

I'm not proud of it, but I've cheered for the Eagles d-line putting a NFC East QB in traction before, I suspect I'll feel much less guilty about doing that this time.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

It would help in that there'd be fewer billionaires, the fact that we could also buy stuff for regular people is just a bonus.

I'm not sure if this is a hot take or not, but swatting should be treated like attempted murder with a firearm.

This article reminded me that Trump claims to be 6'3" and 224lbs. And it's the least important lie he tells, but as someone who's 6'3" and sadly a full 240lbs, let me just say the idea that that tubby fuck is a pound under 260 is just laughable.

Lord knows the term treason gets thrown around a lot these days, but "exposing crucial details of active military operations to personally enrich yourself by betting on publicly visible betting markets" seems like the kind of thing that gets you put up against a wall and shot.

We're living under the most plutocratic administration in history, and this dingus thinks there's any meaningful amount of corporate donors that aren't fully in the tank for Trump.

I keep seeing LinkedIn Lunatics from my professional space talk up AI agent strengths and I can't help thinking some combination of a) their quality standards are appallingly low, b) their needs are extremely simple, c) having 24/7 access to an incompetent suck up is a high priority need