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New awareness campaign

this is why I think Matt Yglesias’ stance that we shouldn’t talk about anything other than healthcare is insane the average American doesn’t yet realize that Trump has created a Gestapo. Democrats need to talk about it and raise awareness of videos like this rather than just ignore it.

idea for an alternate history show: British imperialism never changed or fell. the East India Company remains mighty today. they created the first powerful processed opiates and use them to maintain control over their far flung colonies title: The Sun Never Percocets on the British Empire

also to not only offer something better but *not* spend all your time trying to persuade these people into joining you. "If you build it, maybe they won't come, but a lot more other people will; and maybe they might eventually wonder what they're missing" > "giving brick walls all your energy"

WHAT THE HELL NO NO NO www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

once again posting The Chart

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

this series just wrapped up today and it’s been really great. and they’re all free so you can access them and learn something about solving crosswords even if you’re not a puzzmo subscriber. i’m going to miss them as part of my morning routine!!

I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics. I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

2025 changed my view of what wins elections. Will it change the view of the leaders of the so-called Democratic Party?

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This is going to be my new stock example of the minute and obscure things that are damaged by the Trump administration, and unnoticeable due to the blitzkrieg of similar senseless acts.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

I’ve been thinking about how hard the founding fathers cooked with the Third Amendment. Imagine being forced to house ICE. I can’t imagine they wash their hands. They’ve never done laundry in their lives. They’d break your stuff if you didn’t cut the crusts off their sandwiches.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure: - no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis - no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture - no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber - refused to reform the filibuster - drone wars expanded

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

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This is very good. Pushes for more random LLM usage seem to come from management, which is believing the hype—or relaying it down from executives.

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

① It often comes as a surprise when you explain to an angry driver that they are not “stuck in traffic” but instead *are* traffic.

At the Wilkes-Barre No Kings protest. Lots of cars honking and waving as they passed. Midway through, a jeep flying two Trump flags drove past and the driver waved a pistol at us. The cops stopped him, frisked him, cuffed him, and took him away. And there was much rejoicing.

like if i have to spend a bunch of my time teaching it to not be wrong, it's not really a tool helping me, is it. i'm a tool helping it

A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

I am increasingly convinced by the argument that Trump's inner circle is showing him AI videos of whatever they want him to believe

"'What is it that's wanted nowadays? What's wanted is that the people should be stirred up to revolt. Of course! Everybody thinks about it, but privately, for himself. And what's necessary is that he should speak out aloud. Some one person must be the first to decide to do it.'"

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Tribunals

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Chris Murphy and I also discussed the need for more Democrats to say loudly and clearly, right now, that many Trump accomplices may be carrying out illegal orders, and if so they should prepare to face consequences later. Murphy offers a good way to do this here. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This rocks.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

What’s your favourite song from a Disney film about lowering your standards in order to achieve happiness, with an emphasis on connecting with nature, that gets interrupted by a spoken-word section specifically about eating insects? Hakuna Matata or the Bare Necessities?

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

Oh hey, Roy Grinker!

Their feelings are very delicate

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter