I know I’m very late to this party but like… This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing. Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?

Sitting on a plane and notice someone watching the Super Girl trailer on social media, but it’s a video of someone else reacting to it. And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.

Once again, heckuva job Doctor Senator Bill Cassidy.

Disney just put a billion dollars into this company and intends to feed its slop to your kids.

"Wait... Soak my baby in glue? Well, if ChatGPT says it, it must be true! Thank you, OpenAI!"

Christ, we are so doomed.

But seriously, I was an art major kid who took business classes in college and the sociopathic tendencies of the b school kids will live with me forever.

Businessmen drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would

As futile as I know the exercise is, this is another one of those, "Any Democrat would be drawn and quartered by the media," if they ever suggested that American Football be renamed to accommodate soccer.

I'd like to announce that President Donald J. Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the Sigh Clone Foundation's first annual Very Good Boy Who Totally Didn't Rape Children award. It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man

One aspect of the Trump-era that is underdiscussed is just how much of it is powered by decades-long failure of institutions to call out scams and snuff them out. This allowed them to accrue vast sums of ill-gotten money which they then used to buy elections and turn our society into a grift machine

Because it just cosplays as a political film and completely amputates any original political connections that Pynchon made - One Battle After Another says nothing. It's a bad movie. Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.

As their policy increases the likelihood of climate disasters, such as wildfires, they tout making cars more flammable.

Just another day in the United States of scAmerica.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Had a feeling this would happen when I initially saw the governor’s tweet. Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.

Sweet lord, Donald Trump is the weakest motherfucker on the planet and that so many conservatives line up to lick his boots and call him daddy is just amazing. "Please don't offend this gentleman who murdered an American resident by referencing said murder."

Will all the folks who think Schumer controls his caucus with an iron fist also be up in arms here that Jeffries is facing a "jailbreak" on this, or can we all finally admit that there are limits to caucus leader's mystical powers?

Bullshit - from the idea that a sophisticated text predictor "panicked" and blackmailed a researcher to Anthropic claiming they want regulation they offer zero details on. But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product? www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...

The funny thing about this is that with all this effort for someone so not worth it, she still comes across as a grifter/insane person. The details about RFK, who she "loved" - his stinky car and his habit of yelling at dogs. But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?

we’d be better off if we just skip straight to the Butlerian Jihad. IMO, Silicon Valley’s LLM path just ain’t going to give way to true AGI, but the more I think about it, the less I understand why we’d even want AGI.

It's funny to me to see so many on Bluesky, who typically take every opportunity to dunk on the likes of Silver/Yglesias/Chait as constantly wrong about everything, holding them up to say, "Even these guys agree with me!" Yeah, that should make you question your premise, no?

sucks, but it's true. this was locked in November of last year.

What bothers me is folks acting like Dems don’t also know this. Republicans control Congress and weren’t budging. Getting them on record as many times as possible taking shit positions is one piece to returning to power. Until then 47<53 - it is what it is.

No, they didn’t. Republicans did that by voting for BBB. At some point everyone needs to digest the reality that 47<53.

I think the goal for Dems was to force a mercurial Trump to deal - it’s happened before. But after election blowout, terrible public sentiment for R’s, Trump was not signaling a willingness to go to the table, it was to nuke the filibuster. Dems had to cut bait at some point.

Again, I urge journalists who get this answer to ask a simple question of Johnson: "Are your staff appropriately briefing you on current events, given this constant refrain?"

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Thing about this too is that House offices are tiny - staff are crammed on top of each other. LC is basically 3rd lowest rung on the ladder - just kind of impossible to believe that more senior staff around him didn't notice this up.

Vance, a catholic who has literally been criticized by the fucking Pope, trying to diminish Schumer’s Jewishness is sure something.

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

JFC, this guy could not be more up his own ass. Apparently my wife is unreasonable for noticing multiple armed guardsman a day on her commute to and from work. Imagine the tiny sliver of the population that Matt Yglesias must consider as "reasonable."

This whole piece in the Atlantic is great and expresses many of the anxieties I've had over LLMs. "It is the sinking feeling of a societal race toward a future that feels bloodless, hastily conceived, and shruggingly accepted."

Facebook is probably up there with oil and tobacco companies in terms of net harm to human society

Some insane details in this Reuters piece on Meta LLM chatbots. One thing if these things are randomly spouting bad advice. But truly despicable that Meta are actively contemplating and okaying misinformation for cancer patients and sexual role play with minor users.

Dude's just gotta have a convenient venue to host modeling competitions for 14 year olds.

I've worked for a political nonprofit that has done this shit before and it's such a waste of donor money! The message isn't for Times Square tourists and NYC residents. Put the money toward billboard trucks in Purple/Red districts if you want to pump this message out.

From his first term in Congress, Dean Phillips’ slogan was literally “Everyone’s invited.” I guess that invitation is actually only for MAGA - not anyone at all to his left.

Evidence of this - Dean is not a Democrat. He doesn’t want to be one. He is actively working to coordinate with billionaires like Elon Musk to try to start a third party. It’s idiocy.

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign

Narrator voice: They were, in fact, a bunch of little bitches in there.

Ah more swamp draining today with Republican senate passing a bill that cuts healthcare to give rich people a tax cut and makes it cheaper for Alaskans to kill whales.

Sure, don't count on that, but also don't take the bill's passage as fait accompli. There's a reason there was so much handwringing in the Senate - there are new landmines for the House. Anyone telling you this is over is helping the bill pass.

"They plan to roll out an agenda over the next two years, in quarterly installments, through Mr. Cherny’s publication, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas." LOL, writing this up for the Times was really not worth Shane's time. And the underlying project also isn't worth anyone's time.

As the Supreme Court hands the President of the United States the keys to violate the Constitution, no one is going to wring hands over what this means to Republicans in 2026. No one is asking, "Will every candidate get asked about this?" But for a Mayor pushing free busses? Existential Dem crisis.

The difference in response from "moderates" and business elites to a democratic socialist candidate like Mamdani winning the NYC primary vs. a literal fascist like Trump winning the Presidency is just very clarifying on those folks' actual interests and priorities.

When the Republican President does something like nominate a pederast troll to be Attorney General, the response never reflects back on the party, but voters nominate a candidate who says "Billionaires not so good?" and we react like every Democrat has now signed a blood oath to the ghost of Lenin.

Cue every moderate Dem in a blue county, city, or state putting "Kill RCV" at the top of the to-do list. To be clear, it was already on the list, but previously it was below stuff like, "Remove bike lanes," and "Increase housing costs."

Is “Make Iran Great Again,” a good America First slogan? Asking for an enemy.

"Real alpha men communicate DIRECTLY by shit posting each other on the separate social media networks they bought. Only some gynocentric beta would communicate indirectly by doing lame shit like speaking to each other and working through your differences!"