All controller vibration was superfluous until the ps5

In an appeal to get voice notes back on X, Doja Cat came for Elon Musk's “hourglass ankles” and “barrel chest.” www.pastemagazine.com/music/doja-c...

Americans will spend a billion dollars on a scouting ai instead of giving talented poor kids scholarships

Very funny that the preferred bluesky platner alternative is the person not on the ballot instead of of the person who is

When the list of people who were familiar with the candidate's intimate relationships includes multiple media wannabe-gadflies it should be easy as hell to vet someone's dating past. My theory is Platner got a pass because staffers knew people who vouched for him. PR/media good ol' boy network.

EGG HEAD - “Skibadee, skibadanger! I am the rearranger!”

One of the many things going on here is that antisemitism and malignant male insecurity are very often a package deal

It becomes increasingly difficult to comment on politics when all one side cares about is an idiot who made it to the ticket through very real and specific national conditions, and is willing to defend him to the point of irrationality; and the other side who wishes those conditions didn't exist.

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

A fun thing a lot of people don't know is that if you work for a living you're eligible to join a union. Even if you don't fit within the NLRA's protections, the Clayton Antitrust Act allows all private sector workers to use or withhold their labor collectively for their mutual benefit.

Oh he's done done

Really worried that ai is gonna make Improv more popular as an alternative

(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon

are you just going to do this for every generation

Another thing I learned from the Ganz book (which is great) is that Clinton '92 pioneered the centrist use of 'counter-scheduling,' with the sister Souljah speech (which was really about Jesse) and much more. You talk shit to the people in front of you in order to appeal to people elsewhere.

This wouldn't have happened without the ppl inside Delaney taking immense risks. Humbled everyday by ppl organizing in the worst conditions.

Elon about to run off with everyone's 401k in the most obvious pump and dump of all time like a heel cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase.

Whenever some goof is talking about arming the left, I think about people like Marissa Alexander or, now, Rihanna Kelver. Before you even get to the impossibility of challenging the US police or military, you must know that the right to bear arms is no more equally distributed than any other right.

Only some people get to defend themselves slate.com/news-and-pol...

what rules about this website is that you'll post something about the winddown of the government helium reserve and the guy who literally managed the winddown of the reserve will somehow see it and reply bsky.app/profile/wald...

GDP keeps growing. People keep saying it feels like a recession. Both are true. Sentiment doesn't care about the size of the pie. It cares which way your slice is moving. The year-over-year change in labor's share of income tracks the national mood. The vibecession, charted.

RIP Marjane Satrapi

he has a substack entitled Game Theory Today lol

Whatever happened to the time for some game theory guy? Coming up on ten years! He still alive? Doing comms for the Kazakh government or whatever?

Plenty of precedent for this in other areas. Back in 2017 or 18 the Wisconsin legislature introduced a punitive campus expression bill. It died in committee. Then the UW System went and adopted most of its provisions as regent policy.

did you know young women are actually outpacing men in education, starting salary, home ownership, horsepower, necromancy, credit card debt, Bushidō, viscosity, corn, resistance to malicious Fog,,

I think the key to 82-0 (beyond Wilt the Stilt) is that certain positions are a wash before the 00s unless you can very generously qualify someone like Magic as a 3

build the utility monster and then it's socially efficient for it to be the dictator. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility...

Going into NFP tomorrow, it feels like the US labor market right now is meaningfully softer than 2021-2023, but holding up better than 2024-2025.

I don't really care about the consciousness question (and the chiang essay did not do it for me like the last one) but it is worth keeping in mind that this is the endgame for the ai money that got the fash in office this time: a sort of super citizenship for capital. Very Balaji.

i think this is treated as a proxy for "do you want to let tech titans guide us towards their version of future?" and people are struggling for ways to say "no, we want a more democratic process for deciding who to be."

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Like Brunson a lot obviously but he brings out my inner "oh so you can just take ten steps, why not a dance number?" and I feel very old

Jesse Jackson called the DLC "democrats for the leisure class"

You have to imagine an environment wherein the specter of raising taxes on the wealthy presents a greater, more dire threat -- a threat that must be proactively rejected & condemned -- than the actual, real life fascism destroying the democracy around them.

Remember when Tuberville said Democrats abandoned middle class union members.

Average bluesky reply [at]dumpdrumpff45636: yeah but they wouldn't try that anti-DEI crap on thr jesuits! Ask me how I know!!

Universities run on: - undergrad money, - grad student labor - faculty expertise …and staff *everything else*. And most universities pay those “everything else” folks poorly, offer them no security, and let them go first.

UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.

woman does not make proper face; even appear to have Thoughts.

What's your favorite east coast (I know) supermarket/mercado tortilla?

Incredible stuff

New Kelela

Oh BY THE WAY: United Faculty-UAW, the union of us non-tenure-track faculty at USC, WON our election last night in a landslide. More details to come, but USC admin is crying to Trump asking his labor board to overturn democracy. It's a scandal. You should be pissed, especially if you're a teacher.

Taibbi and it's not close

Finally the Nobel is within reach