“But we’ve heard from the SS that a lot of these people have criminal histories. Why aren’t we drilling into their wrong doing more? And there are competing theories as to the legality of beating someone to death in a labour camp. This segment covers none of that.”

This reasoning from Bari Weiss is so icky

The French ambassador has made significant inroads in recent years into the networks of power in Baton Rouge (culminating in Louisiana recently becoming a full member of the OIF). Copenhagen should also look to Paris for ways to work Landry.

In societies with ethnic tensions the dominant ethnicity tends to insist there’s no such thing as meaningful ethnic divides, while marginalized groups always want to point it out. Not always nefarious though (“we are ALL Rwandans”, a slogan often used to mask Tutsi hegemony, is still a good idea).

Surreal

This story is so out of date. Anyway, back to “is feminism a good idea”

I hate to sympathize with Russian aggressive intent but …

The rank imperialism aside, I say this sincerely as a Louisianan: please stop putting Louisianans in charge of things

Keep at it, JD, and we might just have to.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

Gotta name this Weisswashing, I think. Because I seriously doubt this is the last time she’s going to censor stuff to protect Trump.

Wild. Cleaning up evidence of crimes is, of course, a sign of consciousness of guilt.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

My personal view is that as well as going hard for economic populism the Democratic candidate, whoever it is, must fight fire with fire here and make a serious Christian case for their presidency. Cede the theme of Christianity to the right and they will walk away with the election.

At a time when far right frustrations with Trump are growing due to his incompetence, a clamoring is growing for a more effective version of Trump. Someone who is more Trump than Trump. This is what Vance is pitching and you shouldn’t underestimate its appeal.

This speech is a full on Presidential speech and no one should underestimate it. This horrible little man now has momentum and serious backing.

Why for the love of God is a Republican being tougher about this than the Democrat who joined the news stations this morning?

“We need to wait until it’s too late before we realize we should have done something”

Something that’s itching me uncomfortably about the AI datacenter building boom is that, as far as I can tell, these megastructures are primarily about creating capacity to make AI videos: which are to keep people online so that they absorb more “impressions” from paid ads. And that’s all.

I have a pet theory that the overdoing of AI and LLMs on everything is going to cause a resurgence of attendance at plays. There’s no doubting the actors are there in front of you, spouting real human words, poured over by directors and actors alike, which they had to embody using only human brains

I think this thread is conflating LLM’s with other types of AI like ML which aren’t plagiarism based and really are being used to cure diseases. They are generally focused on pattern recognition not generating new content Note that the LLM makers use the generic term AI to cause this confusion.

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

Because it’s a gimmick without meaningful depth that wears off and ceases to be worth it. It’s going to be the same with a lot of AI stuff.

What next? Were Epstein and Maxwell at the Dayton peace negotiations as well?

What earth is now “scorched” exactly that will in anyway cause hindrance to the culprits?

We never saw Trump’s tax returns. Suspect this will be the same.

Huge amounts of money for calling a double “sig heil” naught but an awkward gesture we shouldn’t worry about. Lot of that sort of money about these days.

This feels very in touch with the things that really matter to people right now

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

It’s almost as if the Trump administration has an overt, blatant racist agenda

Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

“Quinnipiac has been polling this question for the better part of the 21st century,” said Enten. “They have never found Democrats, at least those in Congress, in worse shape than they are right now.”

Trump’s own wife at the time, Marla, told a mother to keep her 14 year old daughter well away from her husband

Nooooo way

Memo from Trump to Cabinet: Connect with the public on affordability concerns. Dr Oz: I’ve got just the thing.

So the extent of the casus belli is going to be two creepy tweets, one from Trump, one from Miller, that summon historical grievances out of thin air

“in particular ME”

Couldn’t make it up

This is a devastating read.

Behold, the party of “the Christian nation”

White men have been griping about the unfair advantages given to Black people since literally the day after slavery

McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

As a theologian pastor friend put it: “I’ve never seen so much persecution with so little suffering”

The Trump promise: a foreign policy you need a massive stroke to appreciate

Indeed, the greatest challenges of our time are not ones of knowledge and know-how, but political will.

“I was just in shock. I was also really angry.” Zoe Weissman, who lived through Parkland, describes how she just went through her second school shooting at Brown University. tinyurl.com/yphynt4y