You right but the why is different Bystander effect came from Kitty Genovese, the articles lied she was cradled by someone who loved her. No one knew it was a murder.. they still called We do step in. We care. But it’s a better story when we don’t en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

and you might be tempted to say "don't be silly, that's not why" but literally all the media about interior design etc. that i follow is people going WHERE DID THE COLOR GO??? color is back in a big way. people are sick to death of white and grey everything.

The past few years have seen massive expansion of crypto (speculation), NFTs (speculation), sports betting (gambling), prediction markets (more gambling), and social media engagement farming (selling yourself or bots). Surprising we don't hear more about decommodification in politics.

Summary of 2025 in 5 words: What the fuck was that?

If you missed out big, BIG Black Friday sale, you can still catch a nice deal on any ICC book we have in stock! Your support would be extra-appreciated right now, as we are shaking off the splash damage from the Baker & Taylor bankruptcy, and four figures in invoices will not be honored.

At some point you have to stop doing 3D-chess and playing pundit-brained games and say "this is a crime and the Constitution tells us what Congress is obligated to do about that."

Prediction markets are turning into wish casting mechanisms and at what point do they turn into self fulfilling prophecy markets?

Curing a disease with terrible effects != making your kid a little taller because our society overvalues height. FFS.

cutting the legs out from under it, eh

As if dodging nyc traffic was hard enough, I just saw a fucking Waymo driving in tribeca….so now we gotta watch for driverless cars too?!

Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."

Melania and Barron Trump have dual citizenship (US and Slovenia). Elon Musk has citizenship in the US, South Africa, and Canada.

I know what all these words mean individually but all together they’re just gibberish

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

🏆 NICK BRINGS THE FIRE 🔥 Listen to the very end, it just keep getting better 😮

Please stop using LLMs to draft your emails guys no one needs 5 paragraphs for something that can said in 2 sentences.

Something that I think a lot of people are missing in the AI Psychosis discussion is that emotionally vulnerable and emotionally unwell people and folks already spiralling in their mental health are themselves more likely to turn to AI as a friend in the first place, due to social isolation.

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Silicon Valley was a bad idea

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"

O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."

According to this form you can upload 5Gb files.

lmao

a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?

lol holy shit

Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami

The bill for replacing the air handler motor on our furnace/heater lol

what an absolutely useless creature he is

I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.

Here is the Jay Willis Promise: If you're spamming me with cartoonishly obvious AI slop pitches to scam me out of $500, and I can figure out who you are, I will never work with you, and I will email every outlet you've written for previously to advise them to be wary of whatever you send them next

HARD PASS

Penis Friend Wine

Indeed there were many concerned, hand-wringing articles and X posts about "echo chambers" and how we were depriving ourselves of the wisdom of alternate viewpoints, all of which was easily decoded as I AM IMPORTANT AND HAVE IMPORTANT THOUGHTS WHY WON'T YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND MY IMPORTANTOSITY

hard pass on getting negatively polarized into rooting for Maduro. but thus far, the easy way is not how this has gone

that would be last Friday, so if we’re keeping score that’s now one public failed assassination plot and one public flouted ultimatum

Let’s not try it get on the record or anything I guess then

Christine died in 2008 from AIDS defining illness. The Foo Fighters deleted all references to AWWAA and Maggiore in 2007, and have not, to my knowledge, ever spoken of their role in shaping disastrous policy based on ignorance and science denialism.

Might need to reassess my prediction if we’re already here

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

Assumption of good faith is a solid heuristic. But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises. But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.

she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

at last we have created the Winter Soldier from the hit movie, Don't Create the Winter Soldier

I don’t think it’s necessarily great that the CIA operated Afghan military squads but we certainly did do so and we made commitments to those people and we failed to keep faith with at least our moral responsibilities in this case.

Well guys, I finally found a good AI tool. My company rolled out a tool to generate employee annual review write-ups and the shit ain’t bad. It even pulls in the person’s pronouns if they selected any in their workday profile. A bs machine is great for bs lol

In a landmark move, Pope Leo has appointed Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś — a leading progressive voice for synodal reform — as the new Archbishop of Kraków, John Paul II’s former diocese. This marks a major shift for Poland’s Church and signals that Leo’s papacy will deepen, not dilute, Francis’s legacy.