Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

American culture is so weird when it comes to death. In Mexican culture, death feels more present and insubstantial and I think that ultimately helps people be more clear-eyed in situations like this. Dying is not a thing that rewrites your life.

Really frustrating to see this when they struck gold with The 3 Body Problem, and then immediately suffocated it. It had everything going for it: an epic and complete story, proven producers, and great actors.

I know Bluesky doesn’t like Newsom. But a willingness to Just Do Things is a rare and valuable skill.

The rebuke from the Democratic party must be as swift and complete as it was for Swalwell. Trash like Platner has no place in representing the will of the people.

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

I’m at my mom’s house, checking in on her. I took a walk and saw two trans inclusive Pride flags on her block here in Biddeford, ME. It’s hard to be far from friends tonight on Pride, but it helped to learn community is near—just one of the ways these flags work. Thanks to everyone who flies them.

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

there is a god and she loves us

The crowd's reaction is undeniable in this video

crazy that if you harbor self-hate you will think that everyone hates you, but there's only one man in the US who can visit new york city and get boo'd from every corner of madison square garden and general city

Why the fuck does California not have RCV yet?

This is what drives me nuts about the Platner discourse. People talk like it’s either him or a Republican. There’s a vastly more qualified and progressive candidate already running.

Every time you use Facebook, Instagram, and Threads you are funding work like this!

The choice is simple: a California for corporations, or a California for Californians. Return your ballots to a drop box as soon as you can and vote by tomorrow.

Happy Pride, you beautiful motherfuckers 🌈💖✨

I was not aware Threads was this unhinged

Didn't get the job I was deeply hoping for, unfortunately. Need a remote TypeScript senior/staff-level position as soon as possible.

One thing that does not get talked about often enough is intelligence/token. For example, Qwen3.5 9B has a much higher artificial analysis score than Granite 4.1 8B. But if you compare the output tokens required to run the eval, it tells a different story.

This attempted refutation is incorrect. 1. They also looked at couples rather than households and found it was still true 2. It is also true for market incomes by age 30 (the early 20’s lag is easily explained by more education time) 3. The square root adjustment is standard statistical practice.

Boom. Vulnerable House GOPer says he's going to try to kill Trump's slush fund via a legislative option. This confirms what I argue below, that this is an impossible thing for vulnerable Rs to defend.

Yeah, I see why they are scared of her.

The best way to learn infra is to open an endpoint to the public internet and then try to keep your machine alive

This is why it’s hard not to roll my eyes when people complain about “vibe coding.” So much code out there is already insane! LLMs are great for refractors which would otherwise be prohibitively cumbersome.

“The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017.”: copy.fail What are we doing here? 10 lines of Python gets you root and everyone just shrugged until today?

It would be good if we had some standardized aggregate intelligence rating similar to Artificial Analysis but lighter to guide the selection of appropriate quant level/method. It’s currently a time consuming black art. Seems like it could be reasonably integrated into huggingface.

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Quotes are often more interesting that the comments, but only comments have an option to sort by popularity. Seems like low hanging fruit from a UX perspective

Thank you for bravely speaking up. I felt this was coming after multiple women said they got “blackout drunk” while meeting Swalwell. His abuse of public trust is no less than Nassar’s. Prosecute and send him to prison.

Hungary sends JD Vance to voicemail

Well done, Hungary!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

1. I've written a few times about Mamdani and what he can do for trans people to uphold his promises. But there are disingenuous people who apparently do not read articles, so I figured I would lay out his power and what other trans journos want him to do here directly and what is in his power.

“Trump of the left” is an apt description for Platner. Both embody a destructive lack of internal consistency or moral code.

If you wish people had come forward sooner, help create a world where they feel safe doing so, where it isn't going to ruin their mental health and haunt them for years. Or, you know. Shut the fuck up.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Decommissioning minesweepers immediately before starting a war with Iran also (charitably) does not seem like a good strategy. "Unlike the minesweepers, which have a long history of being battle-tested, the LCS with the MCM package has never been deployed in combat."

Hard disagree. If all democrats were despondent, then the primary victories of Mamdani, Mejia, Talarico, Sadler, and others would have never occurred

It took an acute arrogance for Dems to lose this seat. Sef Casim narrowly beat his opponent in the primary. Then got exposed for a series of bigoted tweets. Refused to drop out, and now has lost the general.

"The only truth is we are a threat. We are a threat to their corrupt system. ... To those who love our neighbors, it's time to start flipping tables." Talarico didn't mince any words in his primary victory speech.

video taken in downtown minneapolis today of reported bounty hunters PULLING A GUN on someone standing in the road in front of city hall. (business on the van is fake.) hennepin county sheriff’s deputies were right behind and did nothing video by government employee who saw it on their lunch break

Chuck Rocha explains why a runoff is a disaster for Cornyn. Talarico vs Paxton after an extended battle with Cornyn is the best case for Texas Dems.

There’s a good reason why hubris comes up so often in Greek mythology.

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People are complaining about Spanberger not using "stronger" language - I think this quote from her response to the 2020 election reveals her ethos. She understands the power in how an issue is framed. Just because she refuses to embrace leftist language does not mean her values are not progressive.

2026 might be the year of Blexas

Video proof this really happened!