So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

remember: the lower court had *already* blocked Alabama's map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander but 2 weeks ago, the Supreme Court instructed it to reconsider in light of Callais now the lower court is like....yeah so uh this is still unconstitutional! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Oh man it’s on

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

At stories of worms in people’s food and of inhumane treatment. Today over 600,000 people are being held in ICE facilities across the United States in similar conditions. Abolish ICE. Shutter their prisons. No one is free until this atrocity ends. 2/2

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.” “We could have fixed it right then and there.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Who brought the Sega Rally car to the brewery today?

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure: The day after his show was canned after 11 years by CBS to appease a tyrant, he shows up on the Monroe, MI public access channel where he did his first Late Show broadcast in 2015.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Nothing is inevitable

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Lol, it sure seems prosecutors mis-stated the law to the grand jury, then tried to redact GJ transcripts to conceal this from the judge, then tried to voluntarily dismiss charges to moot the issue and keep the judge out of it, and got caught and now the whole case is dismissed with prejudice. Oops.

#BREAKING U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros annoucnes that charges against the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" will be dismissed with prejudice.

Great piece, def worth the read-time, and it's more plain-language than you might expect. "He might not be able to order a drone strike on an Iranian girls school, but O’Connor has broad authority to dictate federal law simply because conservatives know the fix is in when cases hit his court."

This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6

"Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses."

Reading Playboy for the articles is back

Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

After federal courts forced Mississippi to create more majority-Black state House and Senate districts in 2025, voters broke the GOP Senate supermajority. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that ruling.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

ME: hey bluesky, could i look at some posts BLUESKY:

Oh heck yeah

This gave me chills. Watch.

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

A particularly good read, btw

Update: Louisiana voters tonight have rejected all five constitutional amendments that were on the ballot today; they were there with the support of the GOP legislature and Gov. Landry.

got'DANG that's good stuff

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Oh my god yes

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Strong Bad after December 2010

I wish i had the gift of explanation to let you see this through a lawyer’s eyes. But thankfully God invented the GIF.

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

When Bari Weiss came to CBS she had almost no experience in broadcast news. It was a political hire, not journalism. "...By whom do you want to be interviewed on 60 Minutes, Mr. Prime Minister? Would Lesley Stahl with 35 years on the program suit, or would our Major Garrett be more to your liking?"

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Biden presided over likely the greatest expansion in US manufacturing in history and our public intellectuals decided not to notice it. People's lives were materially getting better. Wages rose because labor was in such short supply.

Luda… you speak to our societal condition

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

So an underrated part of the college experience is that eventually it teaches you what a rich kid hopped up on cocaine sounds like, and it sounds a lot like this

Over on Xitter, @harryjsisson.bsky.social (who seems not to post here anymore) catalogued one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MSNOW.

I, too, am old enough to remember when the entire National Conversation™️ focused on the need for Democrats to Tone Down The Rhetoric because of fears about Political Violence.

i'm reluctant to believe it, but did something kinda good happen?

Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.