I take the NYT at their word that they have no agenda and are doing their best, so can you imagine how stupid the editors who worked on this piece must be?

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

Remember when @peterbakernyt.bsky.social pretended to believe it was an impeachable offense that a neurologist who had visited the White House since 2012 continued to visit the White House in 2024?

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

brb going to see if there are any other notable republics than ran into trouble with personally funded armies

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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C'mon man

Oh weird

NBA on NBC nostalgia levels: critical

this is an absolutely wild use of passive voice, where you have to get through layers of narrative to figure out an ICE agent smashed a car window with his gun like an idiot, which went off and shot two people

Never a bad time to remind people that "the cloud" is just someone else's computer

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My read (hot take?) is that you're really not supposed to think the AI is correct. It's not the voice of God, it's a computer program that was given the instructions "organics and synthetics cannot coexist: please fix." Its solution was the Reapers which made that coexistence impossible 1/n

at its core, the leadership believes that the paper, not the facts, should get to set the agenda. this is one of the reasons why coverage of the *most prominent* stories - especially U.S. politics - is usually so bad at the Times, whereas its coverage of everything else is often very good

They can’t report on it because it would mean they were wrong and ordinary people were right the whole time. And the media cannot let that stand

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

The thing they don’t want to voice is that racism is authenticity to them.

This is the plot of Infinite Jest

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

This is all starting to remind me of 2008 when big slices of the media were openly frustrated that voters stubbornly refused to understand that Everyone Loves John McCain

Keeping my posts bad so I never get a problematic number of followers

Stock market! Do not crash! I was joking!

As a former attorney, I can tell you that nothing impresses judges more than when a lawyer repeatedly dissembles about simple facts to hide weaknesses in their case

Only three hours until the Sixers can begin disappointing me!

Ben Simmons is a 59.2% free throw shooter for his career.

Hi I'm Mr. Beast and you've been assigned the role of "teacher." The experiment requires that you continue.

Political reporters are like those readers who need book villains to say “I’m doing this because I’m evil hahahaha” so they can understand what’s going on

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

this exists it is called thinking

The only thing I have to say about this guy is when I first moved to the US I genuinely thought he was a made up character for TV for a really long time and then I discovered he was not and that was when I first began to understand America

Finally, it's everything I've been waiting for! An iPhone that's exactly like the last iPhone

Remember 18 months ago when people pretended "No seriously, Apple Vision is the real deal. This is the finally the time that people are going to want to wear dumb-ass goggles all the time" lol

Fortunately for John Roberts' legacy, absolutely no one remembers the names of Supreme Court Justices

NY Times: "Forget The Maine!"

Age verification, the suppression of external linking, algorithmic influence of ideology: all of these serve a common goal, Raiden.

The long term goal of Silicon Valley is the enclosure of the commons of the open internet and a lot of things make more sense in that framework.

People always forget that John Adams was the first president elected to negative 22 terms of office

Every other human: "AI struggles to simulate the knowledge-base and expertise necessary to produce excellent work with the specificity required in my field" McKinsey guys: "AI can do my job perfectly! 😱😱😱"

Finally found the ONE good thing AI can do www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...

1996 was also exactly when I got AIM and had this band plus numbers as my screenname

One mental health thing I do On Here is follow a few famous/famous-lite people who are just tragically unfunny. Watching them drop epic-bacon level jokes to the sincere enjoyment of their followers makes me think a gentler world is possible

Everyone knows the best comedy is palatable and vague!