People who believe the liberal arts are inherently bullshitting unsurprisingly extremely excited to replace the liberal arts with bullshitting at scale as a service and charging for it

this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.

Nobody should be surprised when this happens either.

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AI is unique in that it was born at stage 3 of the enshittification process, its creators hastily backfilled imaginary competencies for steps 1 and 2 that only dipshits believe are real, and it's sliding into 4 before our eyes, taking a mountain of money with it. Pretty innovative!

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Cheney's lies were on the critical path to my career in govt accountability. At the start of the Iraq War I believed surely the government couldn't lie that blatantly. My embarrassment at my naivete changed how I viewed government. (My origin story came before this but it's on the path.)

But did he get to shoot one last man in the face before he died.

Whose heritage did they think they were promoting?? It was White Heritage all along.

Soldiers that are paid by private entities are called mercenaries. Just saying.

I was wrong on this. SNAP and some other entitlement programs rely on annual appropriations even though they are considered mandatory spending because the authorization is written as an entitlement, I guess. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Normally SNAP comes out of multi-year mandatory spending and wouldn't be subject to an appropriations lapse, but SNAP itself expired on Sept 30, also, by coincidence. At least that's the best I can make of what's happening. So this is not actually caused by the shutdown, I guess?

The White House demolition is being privately funded by Google, Lockheed, and others, according to The Hill. If the President can just privately fund whatever government programs lack appropriations, that's another nail in the coffin of the Constitution.

Covering all the bases!

i am the guy at antifa hq who makes sure everyone has their 1099 in order before a big "protest"

Christian white men are going to have to work a lot harder to convince me they don't actually talk like this. Because the evidence is piling on that that's actually how they are.

Bari Weiss, now leading CBS News, peddled the conspiracy theory that I personally - called out by name - shilled for the Harris campaign in how I ran GovTrack. This shit is personal to me. The Right made it personal.

In “As a Jew” Sarah Hurwitz is on a search for blame. And I don't like where it leads. A book review. joshuatauberer.medium.com/in-as-a-jew-...

I could come around for this guy if he goes bigger and bans more AI.

The only thing I was afraid of walking around downtown #DC today (as always) wasn't other people but being hit by a motor vehicle at one of those intersections where roads don't come in at right angles.

Wish I could be there. (I am currently scheming an online national civic tech conference for winter/spring. Get in touch if interested.)

There should be an ad hoc emergency conference of the states and Illinois should convene it. Not because it'd have any legal power, of course, but because there should be a united front in the form of a body able to speak with their combined voice, a coordinating committee if you prefer.

Which "Judeo" views is he talking about? The right to abortion? (No.) The importance of debate? (No.) Jews not going to hell? (No.) Education? (No.) Health? (No.) Welcoming guests and immigrants? (No.) Repairing the world? (No.) It's bullshit and orthodox jews fall for it every time.

Dear National Guardsmen of DC, Thank you for your service picking up litter. It's your calling.

Union Station, DC this morning with National Guardsmen, Amtrak police, and Homeland Security. The main concourse was pretty empty.

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I saw the helicopter that buzzed the 2020 protestors at eye-level from my mid-rise apartment window, half a block away, where I thought I was safe. That was the least safe I have ever felt here. Military escalation by far-away unaccountable bureaucrats is terrifying.

Clanker. www.instagram.com/reel/DMp3KwZ...

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I'm still getting emails on the removal of pages from the Constitution Annotated website at the Library of Congress. I believe the LC has a statement (although it oddly is not on the press website), but if you have questions, just reach out.

One of the hallmarks of Trump's first administration is the appropriations bills were largely passed with *Democratic* support, with Dems wanting to keep the government open and Republicans balking at the pandemic relief spending, etc. The bipartisan pattern went completely unreported at the time.

I made a splurge purchase at an in-airport boutique clothing store because I had a few extra minutes before boarding. I have changed.

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This is bribery, and any Republican that plausibly switches from no to yes and then gets material support from Trump will open themselves up to prosecution whenever the Department of Justice returns to not dispensing with the law for MAGA.

Sure, Grok went full nazi today, but every other AI is totally and completely trustworthy and unable of being manipulated by their owners to their own nefarious political and financial ends, right?!?!

Dems should get behind any Republican amendment so it goes back to the Senate and can't go next to the President.

very good from Maxwell Frost

For all the handwringing among liberal circles about Zionism among Jewish people, I never got why progressives and pro-Palestine activists don't protest Christian Zionist orgs as much as they do AIPAC or DMFI. There are far more Christian Zionists in America than Jewish Zionists.

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We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

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If SBA financing is refocused on Red states, it'll show once again that Red states depend on extracting from Blue state economies to survive.