“The Republicans on the Supreme Court and elsewhere have made it clear that, while they may quibble about tariffs, they are on board with the twin goals of gutting democracy and gutting marginalized people.”

This dynamic is omnipresent online and is absolutely insane. Once people are introduced to an idea through a false or deceptive frame, they absolutely cannot abandon it, because it becomes load-bearing for other ideas.

Oh wow I was just talking to someone about solid-state batteries yesterday.

Yep, it’s fast: Donut Lab’s solid-state battery gets its first test result

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very funny to me to see folks who have no social media presence outside of twitter say you have to be on twitter to be influential

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

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Yes.

Bluesky is ridiculously well-positioned for the agent internet. Everything signed = agents can build up un-fakeable reputations. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-break...

I will admit Bluesky can be kinda annoying at times, and one of those times is when relatively prominent people come on here solely to insult the entire userbase over some silly drama

The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).

But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.

When people hear it, I think they feel a genuine stirring, like "yes, the next time I see a tyrannical government rounding up marginalized populations & putting them in camps, I will speak up." We like the mental image of bravely standing up to a line of tanks, a la Tiananmen Square.

All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means. "Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

we are going to crush them

The broadcast was on a 2-hour delay and one of the winner’s speeches was edited down when they ended it with “Free Palestine,” but they left this in? The producers did everyone dirty with that.

We don't have the kind of built infrastructure or social infrastructure to adapt well to the changes and you see it already sort of showing up. Microdosing covid lock-in madness from now on.

People are increasingly going to be stuck inside because of climate change with little to do besides be online without better third spaces. Not in a 24/7/365 kind of apocalyptic movie way but for a few days at a time under the snow or when it's 120°F out.

For anyone in NYC who needs shelter or help during the storm right now. nyc.silver.is/cold

The reason I've become such a @standard.site stan is because it's forming into the first real multi-service parallel ecosystem on atproto that can survive on it's own without the need of the @bsky.app lexicons and infra

Considering that her company delivered an Atproto feature that made it into the official Bluesky app, shouldn't @tessa.germnetwork.com get a verified check at this point?

The replies to this are so ridiculous lol.

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So we are left with the perennial question of how to build a different world when most people won't take part of the construction of that world (for lots of reasons) and others will be actively blocking the portal to keep people from crossing.

When Arundhati Roy mused in 2020 about COVID being a potential portal, I thought to myself at the time: 'well a lot of people aren't going to want to make their way through it.'

Needless to say that I think about this all of the time too. And what I think that the "we" part is where things hang together and fall a part. In a multi-everything country like the U.S., the "we" is always fraught and definitely contested. It's why I think "unity" is not a useful concept.

this was me too. When I mentioned this, a few people made a good point which was that these were programs without a base that was organized to threaten those who would remove them.

When the child tax credit and universal school meals policies were put in place, I naively thought that they would be politically difficult to reverse. But they were discontinued by 2023!

Also, remember when we swore we were going to “Build Back Better”? Like, we would make the economy recover but in more inclusive and sustainable ways and lock in better patterns for decades to come? This was the type of thing that was routinely said in the early 2020s.

We cut child poverty in half across this whole country and also instituted universal free meals in public schools across this whole country. And then we let those policies expire. During the previous administration.

We had the chance. We — and do I mean practically All of us — simply refused it

You can get into all kinds of reasons why and why the normal, hard working american is so often beaten down and been shown for decades why they (allegedly) can’t have a less bloodthirsty society, to the point we may actually believe it. But it’s still disheartening

…middle class people who made the call

…policies and actions we’d start preferring, and it was not just the commanding heights and elite who faced with the opportunity to try to achieve a more caring, just society in the long run replied “nah, no, thanks” (which they were always gonna do), it was so so many average working class and…

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

some further context here: - the post Gaby is quoting references an Epstein email in which he apparently helped Alice Rothschild get into NYU with poor SAT scores - I am still, to put it mildly, not thrilled with the “surrounded by Rothschilds” (plural) phrasing being used on the Nazi app

Brianna is in the ‘those tricky Jews!’ phase of her descent into open anti semitism

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa

So it's ok to start a war illegally against a nation of 92 million, for whom you have "no sympathy" as long as the purpose is clear? The Big Dem line that Trump is a demented fascist domestically while simultaneously agreeing his foreign policy decisions just isn't gonna cut it anymore.

Israeli strikes kill at least 10 and wound 24 in Lebanon, health ministry says

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somone should make a p2p atproto relay the transfer is authenticated yknow

I also appreciated my conversations with SPD members that see the moment & are pushing for evolution and change. Their position is not easy. No one faction alone can do it & everyone has a role to play. Made me curious about the upside of more precise, cross factional but values based relationships