Testing our sanity

what are these long guns for

When George HW Bush used the phrase "New World Order" in a 1991 speech it precipitated a massive outcry and backlash amongst the right wingers in the GOP, the sorts of folks who produced documents like this. Such folks then backed Buchanan's America First challenge in the 1992 GOP primary.

schumer refusing to be distracted by the thing that has his base outraged and organizing

Let's be clear, in 2017 John Lewis was an elderly man, & he still got out and marched.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

it's very clear that this is a template for how they're going to approach other cities they do not and will not have enough people to do it everywhere all at once but if you live in a city there's a very good chance that an occupying army will show up at your door in the next few years

This is kinda funny, but alienation of affection is still a stupid fucking cause of action that should be buried under a mountain

I mean it's not as though she had history of this kind of thing. [touches earpiece.] I'm told Senator Sinema has a history of this kind of thing.

There's so much to unpack in this - my mind goes first to how you must be mistaken if you think posh food made you sick.

I noodled at a story along these lines around 10 years ago but I couldn't make it seem plausible.

AFAIAC, net effect of 'he can't do that' is engendering complacency. E.g.: Yes, elections are local & state. AND: Trumpists have captured lots of local & state election power. AND: they don't need to bork all elections to break midterms. If you think that's me being complacent, just block me now.

Why the US can't build icebreaker ships this century: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-the-us-cant-build-icebreaking

Google: "We found that this gambling ad doesn't violate our policies against gambling ads, but you can personalise your ad experience to block the kinds of ads you don't want." Me: "So, can I block gambling ads?" Google: "No, of course not. We don't allow gambling ads in the first place."

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Pitching British reality TV shows in 2026 youtube.com/shorts/mtNYQ...

Wrong week to quit smoking.

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

I've been thinking about this, like "how does one ethically test if the nonconsensual porn generator is still generating nonconsensual porn?" and it really sucks that reporters have to test it on themselves.

I don't know about this, Woody. Maybe the guitar could say 'This machine gives fascists better training'?

While they are shooting people and spraying pepper spray who will have time to scan a code Ritchie

Bsky is just chockablock with folks who don't seem to experience the web other than through apps on their phone. I don't even think it's a generational thing.

Renée Nicole Good is one of at least nine people across the country who have been shot by immigration agents since September. There is something every case has in common: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

hey, boys, let's go to Maine in the absolute dead of winter and make sure everybody there REALLY fucking hates the GOP right before a pivotal Senate election

is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?

To answer the classic question put to me about CES "Did you see anything good?", it is important to not that I don't go to the floor. I hide in the suite, serve cocktails, and talk to journalists. That said, there was a consensus on the category that had neat things: assistive technologies

Respectfully, to the people saying abolition is wrong because we need to incarcerate ICE ghouls, I disagree. ICE proves why Abolition is necessary, because any armed paramilitary force will eventually turn into what ICE is now. We know this because so many police departments already did.

I know 2 possibilities & neither of them is something I'd rather not know, so maybe I should just leave it at that. 🙄

In fact, Trump was like the only person in American public life who *praised* the Chinese government for its Tiananmen crackdown.

Notice how the murder of a woman by an immigrant (with like, one example) is a horrific violation that requires the entirety of ICE to be mobilized to fight this, and then when ICE murders a woman it’s like “that lesbian bitch had it coming for her”?

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

If we keep 'striking' lots of countries that are geographically distant from one another eventually some of them are gonna figure out that we can't have substantial presence in more than about 2 places at once. Like, if we're messing around in Venezuela, Iran & Greenland? Taiwan's SOL.

2/This means that these systems can never be fully tested with a realistic effort.This situation leads to guaranteed use of untested software that also can't be safely guardrailed due to the same large and not cleanly defined boundaries.This is risky software deployed for use to unsuspecting public.

MAIHT3k newsletter: The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.

It's not lost on me that an intended side effect of doing this is putting children of color behind in their educations.

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

Can confirm. My brother's boss had to leave a meeting because they're terrorizing her kid's daycare. This is just what passes for normal now in the cities.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Saw a Fox News clip and then this post that implies the official MAGA position is government agents can kill you if you annoy them while in the middle of trying to deport suspected undocumented immigrants (who are most likely U.S. citizens anyway). These are the demons our parents warned us about.

There's a description problem inherent in describing what an LLM actually DOES. It doesn't THINK or REASON, but because it outputs text - which, to humans, is a sign of thought and reasoning - people assume it's doing actual brain work when it absolutely CANNOT

There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination. Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...

"In Busytown, everyone works. Working is important. Work makes everything run smoothly. When everything runs smoothly, no one has to ask questions."

Would you trust these men with intimate knowledge of every moment of your life, & that of everyone with whom you speak? #SweetPea

OK the noises are terrible but the slurred speech at the end....

This is fascinating reading for me, having personally seen how Adams responded to a lot of these. (Short version: NOT WELL.)