People are going to call mre alarmist and doomer for this, but I'm going to lay out the chilling truth. There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

...wh-what what the fuck do you mean what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...

The Chauncey Billups saga is an interesting twist on this: Billups played the role of the rich mark ready to be scammed by the pros but was in fact working with dangerous mobsters to cheat the pros. I don't condone any of this but no one looks particularly sympathetic

Honestly, it is pretty funny how every news story on the matter has “Unknown US intelligence official is Russian spy” next to a picture of Tulsi Gabbard.

In 2014, New York City lowered its citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed: - Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22 percent - Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25 percent transalt.org/reports-list...

less alcohol consumption is probably good, i am less thrilled about the idea that social drinking seems to be reducing and replaced with nothing / being online

generally speaking any publicly voiced preference to accept self-induced austerity is an outright lie

Who's everyone's worst fellow high school alumnus? Mine is probably Bob Packwood

Any rental car Mulder and Scully drive in The X-Files

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I'm bummed out how there used to be a vibrant and walkable neighborhood between my house and downtown. City would be enormously better if the freeway weren't there

this is a bit designed to drive me mad. it has to be.

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

We're all desensitized to Democratic overperformances in special elections, but there does seem to have been a pretty significant shift in the past month

every generation has its foul id incarnated into a single horrible being. boomers made trump, gen z made mr beast. millennials don’t have one tho because we’re great fyi

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

The critiques I am referring to are both unsophisticated and incorrect. Next question

I very much agree that in-band signaling is always a mistake! Which is why it concerns me that LLMs seem to inherently use only in-band signaling

And wonderful to see the staff at the albatross center taking such good care of them. Here, egg-weighing time. Which gives you a sense of scale for these massive, beautiful birds.

This is all entirely correct and worth continuing to point out! But also, everything they say is such obvious bullshit. Maybe it's time to think about this in terms of pure lizard brain dominance games! Trump made an aggressive move but was made to back down! That's probably all that counts.

Trump's in a stage of his life where he's more than capable of learning, changing, and improving. In fact, I'd say he's eager to!

gotta read the article

I am getting polarized into being anti-anti-Waymo. There are certainly many sophisticated critiques, but the modal take on Waymo might as well come from an illiterate and innumerate person

Specific topic aside, it is really weird for a professional writer to say, basically, "who can argue [opinion I share] best". If you have a take on the subject you should write it! If you cannot articulate why you have that opinion you should be in another line of work!

A fun Bluesky thing is that people will arrogantly condescend to you about insane opinions that cannot have more than like 200 adherents total as though you are the weirdo for not holding them. “this mf eats food WARM 🤮”

In a world of Matt Gaetzes be a Hunter Biden

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

JD Vance getting lip fillers is so fucking funny

Mamdani is a smart operator (laudatory)

People are going to be really mad that the ask here isn’t abolishing any deportation ever (which would be my choice if it was just up to me) but this is a very calculated list of reasonable asks that Republicans will lose their minds over, reinforcing revulsion in the American lizard brain.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings. newrepublic.com/article/2060...

HEY, WAKE UP NEW USCSB VIDEO youtu.be/9h3bar6eIss

A gang of thugs are wandering my state beating the shit out of random people

Yeah, I have been lowkey kind of fascinated by this genre of post, which really does seem to vindicate the "everything is just perception via social media" theory of politics.

why are all the epstein files PDFs? what did adobe know, and when?

"The idea that we shouldn’t hold people to a standard of behavior is just patronizing and unhelpful," Van Vliet says. "There’s ways to relax screening standards and still hold tenants accountable if they make the property and residents unsafe."

It's reasonable to see the Stancil Signal Saga as a tempest in a teacup, but I think it is extremely important to see a mass campaign of protest and civil disobedience against the regime, and it is important to make sure it's not hijacked by some of the dumbest black bloc shitheads in America

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

Thinking about the time someone sued a Florida farm for selling her raw milk that caused a serious illness and miscarriage and the first photo on their website was of their cows wallowing in a shit-filled pond

Very comprehensive Vox article on building code research and reform efforts across the country, fearing John Zeanah’s report for the Center for Building on low-rise multifamily housing and Michael Eriksen’s academic work on building code costs www.vox.com/future-perfe... (gift link)

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.