Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

A month ago, NYT columnist David Brooks wrote a column decrying the media and political fixation on the Epstein story. This afternoon, House Democrats released a new tranche of photos of an event that Brooks attended with Epstein.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

In case you haven’t heard it from anyone else, Happy Hondadays and Merry Toyotathon! Hope you have a December to Remember!

Hatch Act!

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

It's a bit older, but still one of my favs for something completely different: "Escape From Dino Island" by Sam Roberts & Sam Tung. Inspired by Jurassic Park and LOST, offers pbta style mechanisms. Characters interact and use stories while playing to find an Escape. samnite.itch.io/escapefromdi...

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

Imagine if making great music meant people could actually live from it. Sadly, that’s not the world we’re in. So let’s help each other out and change what we can. share your Bandcamp link and tell people what your music’s about Not an artist? Check the links and support someone if you ❤️ what you👂

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

my favorite example of this.

The three genders

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Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

I just found out that one of my favorite authors blocked me because of my correct opinion that Radiohead sucks.

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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

If we’re going to talk about dating AI we need to refer to one of the foundational texts on the matter

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away” That's it. That's the quote.

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Happy #BandcampFriday to the entire #Synthfam! Now's a great time to grab my latest single, Desert Drive! Or pick up my entire discography for 50% off! atomicghost.bandcamp.com #Bandcamp #Synthwave #Retrowave #Outrun #Music

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Genuinely angry that @atomicghostandy.bsky.social showed this to me and it’s only available in Vermont oldemerlsmead.com/mead/blue-ch... How bad do you want to be a wizard drinkin blue mead, listening to orb pondering music

Shut the fuck up challenge

due to recent inflation, free speech will now cost you 10-15 years

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

You know what, fuck it, give Max Caster a live mic tonight.

Most gun deaths are actually suicides (and most suicides are gun deaths) so reducing access to psychiatric drugs will 100% result in MORE gun deaths, not fewer.

Atomic Ghost. Desert Drive. #synthwave #outrun #newmusic #BandcampFriday

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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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But who are you going to call when you need a jumpy coward with a god complex to shoot you in the ass?

the past months discourse in a nutshell