The 6 arrested yesterday, along with the 9 arrested Wednesday, brings the total to 15 arrested at the Idaho State Capitol building this week in Boise while resisting the extreme anti trans bathroom ban, Idaho HB 752. This law is the most extreme in the country but citizens are not going silently.

not a single Democrat has mentioned the fact that the Trump administration is committing serial felonies by stealing the power of the purse from the legislature

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when i encounter people who say AI has a specific use in their chosen field, i trust them. there's plenty of evidence that LLMs have uses. but i will never use one for what I do. It would be a professional and creative death sentence.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

yeah when you tell the enemy "by the way we aren't abiding by the rules of war" you can't really expect them to follow any rules in return

"The KKK Memorial Park is staffed by slave labor" is the most Georgia headline of all time

this is similar to my belief that all drugs should be legal, but only purchasable in plain white packaging from a government store staffed by middle-aged nurses hired for their ability to look disappointed in you.

gambling should be broadly legal but you should have to place all bets in person, it shouldn’t even be possible over the phone. if you want to bet on missile strikes, you should have to look another person in the face and say it out loud while a line of people behind you gets audibly angry at you

This is fucked up and also happens OFTEN. If you are going to a protest please bring eye protection of some kind. Really sorry for this kid, I hope folks are able to help out with information.

gotta be tempting as hell for those Astronauts to get out the further anyone's ever been, scream "OH MY GOD AN ALIEN" and then cut off comms and ram their craft into the dark side of the moon you'd die, but in a way you'd also live forever

This article is from 2024 but it's a reminder of just how awful the Atlantic has been. This week it was blaming liberals for defending humane immigration, in the past it was ... Kissinger whitewashing? Just seems like one L after another. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

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A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

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womp womp

my big take about the last week of discourse is I've found just about everyone annoying, including myself. This isn't good for us as individuals and it isn't good for any hope building a popular front. Whatever the solution winds up being, micro-blogging won't save us.

Bluesky is dying, the people aren’t posting the way I like* *increasingly ludicrous takes way outside their lane and the consequential slam dunks on them, and also posts that end up on the news for some reason and help destroy democracy

Some really bad combos happening here. Not learning from the mistakes we made in OIF/OEF, not revising our COIN strategy (despite COIN guys like me begging), combined with a SecDef who thinks winning a war means having the veiniest penis. Hell we even named this one OEF again.

the age of social media is dying and i know we are all addicted, but like any addict eventually we all gotta either detox or find a new high.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

The President wants to feed your future into a meat grinder

So that's an F-15 and an A-10 down in fairly short order. Shouldn't be super surprising, I think this is what anyone who paid attention expected. The administration seems pretty blindsided by it though. apnews.com/article/iran...

This screen grab is from a video posted today by an Iranian bystander. It shows two helicopters refueling incredibly close to the ground in enemy territory. If everybody was flying like that, I'm not surprised so many got hit. x.com/RKhanizadeh/...

generic queer narcissist in the academic field for people as evil as economists but lacking the faculties for calculus—mocking those who make 50 cents on the dollar, if they can find employment, whom the state insists should be thrown in prison to be medically tortured and raped—because they’re rude

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison? SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin. SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

It's nice to see a Senator talking about the need to Do A Nuremberg on the current folks in charge.

bullshit, i left the Earth's orbit like a hundred times in my early 20s

The loss of 22 episode seasons means we're losing out on the time honored tradition of "episode in which recurring character is suddenly turned evil via MacGuffin and now the actor gets to have fun"

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

looks like killing Red Lobster is back on the menu, boys

this is a brilliant idea honestly

no way Hegseth isn't remembered as the least competent high level military leader in U.S. history

"Roughly 50% of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against 12,300 military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments"

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

Nuke everything from orbit, time to let the roaches try things for a while

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

David Simon said it best

"Tariff no like it" @coolzonemedia.bsky.social 's Executive Disorder's Tariff Talk section intro makes me laugh every time

US President Trump’s approval rating on the economy falls to a record low 31% in a CNN poll, with about two-thirds of Americans saying his policies worsened economic conditions as gas prices rise above $4 per gallon after the US attack on Iran. #USA

all of space is a toilet if you have the courage to try

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

The IRGC is reportedly levying a $1-per-barrel toll on tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. But what’s really unsettling U.S. officials, though, is the mandate that the protection payment be made in Chinese yuan or crypto. And so the war will continue. www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/i...

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth