Indiana and Indianapolis. The GOP state legislature has spent decades trying to creatively defund our infrastructure so our roads are horrendous.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Unfortunately a bunch of Dems are going to make a lot of noise about toning down the rhetoric when they should be holding up a mirror to Republicans and reminding them of who is actually generating the violent rhetoric. (You don’t hear any Republicans calling for bipartisanship and comity do you? )

What if I told you government could do things to meaningfully improve your life?

I think a big part of the derangement of the average American is that they see people on their phone who are lying about how successful they are, believe that they're telling the truth, and then get mad that they aren't that successful right now.

I am all for redemption. I believe in it. I don’t think it guarantees you “good politician” status. Maybe he should help someone else without all the baggage to run for the working class, like someone who isn’t rich and actually is from the working class

There is no way to read Harper's work on this and come away with a clear sense that Trump was *far* more likely to launch a disastrous war overseas. Harper simply takes for granted that's the case and relentlessly criticizes Harris' rhetorical approach.

But I’m not going away Arthur. I will keep reminding journalists, politicians, commentators and thought leaders of this: The nyt cannot be trusted on the science or politics of trans ppl. It’s committed to a biased political agenda

its just not happening, its a republican lie and any low info voter who saw that is going to walk away thinking dems talk about “pronouns” all the time which they never fucking do

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

If you're a major outlet honest about the fact that Republicans are extremists who lied repeatedly and systemically to fool these communities about their actual policies, you might upset a Republican source, advertiser, reader, or owner, so it's best to leave that part out of your story

The baby is celebrating his 3mo birthday by entering into “wahh I’m so sleepy … wait are you trying to get me to SLEEP?! noooo” mode all morning.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/thei...

ICE is terrorizing our communities and making us less safe. This is a tragic and horrific day.

in retrospect, the iphone's sales pitch of "everything in one device" should have been interpreted as a threat

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

“Imagine a guy who agrees with all my opinions”

Sam Altman saying he uses Chat GPT as a parenting tool is a dumb as fuck “news” story today, but honestly, you should never take any parenting advice from rich people. Full stop. They don’t look after their kids. They have staff. Precisely zero of their parenting dilemmas resemble normal humans’.

imo it's simultaneously true that 1) kids have the deck stacked against them right now and it's good to be aware of and concerned about that and 2) it probably pays to look back on your own childhood and be realistic about how many of the moral panics thrown over your generation were total nonsense

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

No contract, no coffee ✊🏻

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

The problem with billionaires is not that they’re masters of society steering all events around them, but they’re just as gullible, stupid, misinformed, and hapless as any dummy off the street but they have massive resources to waste on pointless and destructive misadventures

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

it’s very funny to make a distinction between cancel culture and what this is, which is clear government supression of speech. cancel culture isn’t anti first amendment, but this specifically is! which is worse!

Are we going to see a bunch of influential Dems named when the truth finally comes out? Yes. Should they be prosecuted alongside the Republicans? Also yes.

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.

Also: so much of the discussion around kids in public revolves around noise. Let me tell you that nothing is noisier than a child who is being told “no” or constructively corrected. If we want parents to enforce rules and boundaries, we should expect some noise.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

the real thing issue is that we have some groups of young men *claiming* to be driven right because of problems like male isolation when the right is not actually offering material solutions to those problems. what the right is offering is social and political power over women.

I have yet to read a single story about men adopting AI at work (without being told) at a higher rate than women that presents it as anything other than men being smart. Not one story about how it implies they're lazier and less ethical. Because that's not the narrative that's being pushed about AI.

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

as for me personally: looking around at America, I am persuadable that its youth needs to be around fewer guns and more free waffles

Trump just says things that the audience likes. He never even thinks about the consequences of those things and when the moment of truth arrives he escapes it by saying more things. He’s never been meaningfully held accountable for anything he’s said so why would he think about it

Just a bunch of dumb rich bitches telling each other exaaacccctly while kara swisher writes fan faction about them

I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.

starting to feel like some of this AI stuff might be a little bit questionable tbh it is just a feeling i am starting to have

hey chat can you get scooped on something that isn’t newsworthy in the first place? asking for a gray lady

Josh’s special was a real delight! We spent the whole hour giggling. I highly recommend watching.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.