Thank youuuuuu

Just saw a very formal-looking article about LLMs circulating on facebook that was co-written by Henry Kissinger, just in case you wanted to be haunted on as many levels as the human cortex will allow.

Didn't have "of course no one thinks every white person from the South is a demon, but" on today's bluesky bingo card. The South has a history, and we urgently need to deal with it, sure. But y'all are giving "I can't be racist because I fought for the Union" vibes.

5/16: Cville: trustworthy folks are reporting a batch of cocaine in town that’s cut with fentanyl. Please test your supply and don’t use alone. Reshare this post. Cville Harm Reduction is distributing test strips and Narcan to restaurants on the corner and downtown if you need one.

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

*Big ol' yikes* and your daily reminder that some people are just shitty and that good laws should be used to make shitty people do fewer shitty things.

Breaking trust bonds between people in society is an authoritarian trick. Democracy cannot function without trust.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Bari loves publishing articles that have the aesthetics of fact-checks without demonstrating that any of their targets made false claims. Last year she ran a piece "debunking" the allegation that Trump had cut an LGBT suicide hotline that admitted Trump had cut an LGBT suicide hotline.

I just got PTSD flashbacks from my coursework years when a new grad student decided to walk into class half and hour late, comment extensively and incorrectly on the day's readings, and when the professor questioned his position, admit that he hadn't done any reading at all. Zero.

Don't print lies in the newspaper. (At the time of the founding, at-large statewide elections were more common than districting, and it remained very common although steadily declining until 1842.)

Every time I post about speed cameras, I get replies from people who are aggressively opposed to them for "privacy" reasons. We live in a panopticon, we carry surveillance devices in our pockets. And you're drawing the line at cameras that clock you driving your tank too fast through school zones?

Dropped last night. Essential read. @nickjudin.bsky.social always brings new, vital information amid rich, often brutal storytelling that continues to build on urgent stories he told first.

If the NYT ran this instead of its usual batshit voter interview panel, I might actually start believing the NYT again.

I'm not mad

this is correct. ive seen clinton, obama, and biden along with other failed dem presidential candidates all talking about the deficit like theyre fucking reaganites. the dem stance should be "big things need big government, the same government that landed on the moon and won world war 2."

So many Americans, esp elites, can’t seem to imagine American democracy really going away, which explains the collective ‘meh’ at the 2020 election conspirators and insurrectionists. This is a Jared Polis subtweet.

"Then he says 'I remember' and envies the beast that forgets at once and sees every moment really die, sink into night and mist, extinguished for ever...But man is always resisting the great and continually increasing weight of the past; it presses him down and bows his shoulders..." [1/3]

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Once, during the time I was working at the White House, I met a guy at synagogue who asked about my work. When I said I worked tech policy, he grabbed my shoulder and said “I swear to God, if the Democrats can stop the spam calls and texts, they will win every election.” I think about that a lot.

guess what, if you join a protest, you’re criminally responsible for everything anyone does.* *you’re not, this is a bizarre conflation of civil vicarious liability with criminal law

Lotta shit people call medieval that is actually early modern (absolute monarchies, witch burning), modern (cults recruiting on YouTube), broadly human (slavery, college, torture), etc. But performative public mercy to commemorate political anniversaries, that’s proper medieval shit.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Ok but wristwatch fora are no joke

Slopification? Enshitisloppiness?

Upholding the 'will of the people' seems pretty democratic to me, asshole.

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

Formal motion to rename the technology

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

I'm looking for a page number is Bartelink's critical edition of Palladius' Lausiac History (Palladio, La storia Lausiaca). Can any of my friends here help?

“The whole fabric of southern society must be changed...Without this, this Government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic. Heretofore, it had more the features of aristocracy than of democracy. The Southern States have been despotisms, not governments of the people.” Thaddeus Stevens

I voted for her out of necessity; in the future, I will vote against her out of spite.

OH, ALSO, as a reminder: No pubs that use genAI. No, you can't join. Fuck off.

*good for her* gif Sue the shit outta them. Sue them into the oblivion of the second ultimate death, in which their resentful great-grandchildren – with no meaningful inheritance – despise and refuse to acknowledge the very name they have the misfortune to carry.

It really is inexcusable that the NYT maintains a "free speech on campus" reporter who DOESN'T COVER OFFICIAL, POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED CENSORSHIP OF SPEECH ON CAMPUS. At some point you're actively deceiving the public, no?

Correct. As a Tennessean born and bred, I stopped listening to country at 14 when the CM establishment kicked the Chicks off radio for criticizing Bush and the war. I still like the genre, but I distinguish between Country (trash pop music for white Christian nationalists) and folk/blue grass/etc.

ok you joke but I'm now tickled to remember the get your booty to the polls PSA, featuring poll dancers doing their thing and talking about the importance of local elections www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTlv...

*Cue "Money, Money, Money" theme with "make it rain" gif along "follow the money" quote from All the President's Men and sprinkle in some dollars-with-little-angel-wing emojis*

It's not genocide unless it's from the Genocise region of France, otherwise it's sparkling state-executed deprivation.

The family pack of espresso beans at Wegmans has gone up five dollars this year. I wish I were exaggerating.

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

JFC

This is an insane solution. And needs to happen immediately. VA legislature should retire the whole state Supreme Court and appoint a new set of judges who will uphold the vote of the people.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

Well, that looks like the ballgame. I'm logging off until I can scrounge up the tiniest bit of hope.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Tennessee doing what Tennessee always does – shitting the bed on the national stage.

without the bracelets, I defy you to tell me what year it is.