Look, I’m not gonna bang on this to promote my campaign, because odds are you’ve already seen my “please give me money since we live in a Citizens United world” posts, but this is precisely why I’m running for state office. These fuckers do NOT care about our Union, and we need to fight them.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

You know what would be great? If Democrats came out and said that the next time they’re in power, they’ll change the rules and end shutdowns for good. And then actually did it. Beyond being dumb and unnecessary, it’s flat-out disrespectful to keep treating federal employees like bargaining chips.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

So it's about as accurate as me fat fingering...

With this and the better air quality in Paris, maybe we can.. Aww fuck it, I'm American. I can't expect clean air.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Google follows Amazon in launching hesitant baby steps towards smarthome AI, the market where LLM tech’s lack of actual understanding is brutally exposed www.theverge.com/tech/788102/...

“.. EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic told lawmakers .. that the United States, which represented 17% of EU trade last year, was ‘not the only game in town.’” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

question: why does the media treat democrats as the only ones with any agency? republicans have a trifecta, they can prevent a shutdown whenever they want more important question: what is wrong with Alex Thompson?

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This is an evergreen, but if Joe Biden had given a speech like this, every reporter in America would’ve had their head exploded. Instead, we get shrugs.

Want an example of something Democrats can do that’s not a strongly worded letter? DO NOT SAVE REPUBLICANS FROM THE CRISIS THEY CREATED. Their budget bill is going to increase healthcare premiums for 22 million Americans by 75% while financing a massive tax cut for billionaires.

I would like every single member of the local Democratic Party apparatus who started shit with me over my Charlie Kirk “sowing/reaping” post to watch this and then think long and hard about where the fuck you want to direct your attention these days

Wonder why the right is so silent on this guy who murdered a bunch of people at the LDS church 🤔

David Cross folks.

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

Tomorrow’s free 18k word newsletter- The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel and the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA’s growth, leading to dark, dangerous circular financing reminiscent of Nortel. Wheresyoured.at

Meal Team Six is on it

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Almost time for the State Dept to revoke the visas from the European Ryder Cup team...

Mockler: I'm pretty tired of conservatives gaslighting about the current political environment and Donald Trump's rhetoric when all of this escalation can be traced back to his entrance into American politics.

This “wait your turn” bullshit is the perfect example of why the Democratic Party is as unpopular as ever. We have incredible talent. The time to use it is now.

Dems need to denounce and fight this Portland insanity very, very hard. Our unacceptable hesitancy when Trump invaded DC encouraged further escalation. We should be demanding Congress return to deal with this "emergency" - briefings, hearings, debate. We have to fight. bsky.app/profile/jonw...

Oracle, whose expenses are rising as it begins to fulfill massive cloud infrastructure deals, turned cash flow negative this year for the first time since 1992 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Oh he is so in the Epstein files

Well don't I feel stupid

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

I said this crap two weeks ago! AhhhhHghbb

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

For over a decade Trump was BFFs with the world’s biggest sex trafficker in girls as young as 12 Trump had bought Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA. Bragged about walking in on naked contestants They had a falling out when Epstein poached one of “his” girls from MaraLago They were partners

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

NEW: When Mallory McMorrow conveyed her plans to run for Senate, DSCC asked her to hold off, per 3 sources. More calls, some staff level; same result. Per one source: “It was, ‘Can you wait a little longer, can you wait?’” McMorrow defied them and launched. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

David Sacks and Steve Witkoff pushed a deal to sell off our sensitive national security technology to the United Arab Emirates—while they may have stood to profit from it. We need an investigation now into the Trump Administration’s crypto corruption.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Like the kind of girl Trump drew on Epstein’s birthday card, or a different kind

The 1st amendment guarantees that the GOVERNMENT will do nothing to impinge upon your freedom of speech. A company not allowing you to use their product b/c you violated their terms of service in NOT a violation of 1a. A POTUS using the DOJ & FCC to threaten his critics into silence IS.

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

Welp, I guess we can have UBI and Universal Health care. Those are good for society. Moreso than us owning companies. But I don't think the @democrats.org would support either as a platform, as they are just as indebted to the insurance companies and "lock em culture" as the GOP.

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use! youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.