Here. I wrote about the social and moral degradation of allowing a military force to engage in war crimes. othermeans.io/p/the-emergi...

this is a fundamental principle of self-governance, in the end. the constitution is not in heaven. the constitution is not hidden away in some vault somewhere and tended to by nine priests in black robes. the constitution is in all of us, or it is nowhere.

"Man finds himself changed, and discovers that the strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it, and that in order to be free it is sufficient that he wills it." --Thomas Paine

punnett square with incomplete dominance

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

Russians are literally writing US foreign policy, they have more power projection in DC than in Kyiv LMAO

we're going to win

I proudly hang this flag in my office as a reminder to my team: Don't Give Up the Ship!

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

Ag science supported by the Extension Service took food costs as a percentage of income from over 40% in the early 20th century to around 10% by the end.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

A joint statement from me, @slotkin.senate.gov, Sen, Mark Kelly, @crow.house.gov, @goodlander.house.gov, and @houlahan.house.gov.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

My wokest opinion is that there shouldn’t be any private high schools or elementary schools. Education is a matter of the common public good and everyone at the K-12 level should have an equal opportunity with the same resources to attain a common educational baseline.

I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.

Bsky acct: “Democrats are the bad guys; I’ll never support them again” Bsky acct: a take that @democrats.org reposted. Guys, ya need to do a better job of voting in primaries if you want the party to behave the way you want it to. You should have voted for Lamb in ‘22, but he was “establishment”

The thing about Fetterman is that he was undeniably democratically elected. Pennsylvanians registered democrat chose him in a primary election over Conor Lamb, Malcolm Kenyatta, and Alexandra Khalil. Pennsylvanians then chose him over Mehmet Oz.

Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening. So quick review: The House passed a clean CR. The senate has not passed anything.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Republicans shut down the government 39 days ago. The last time Mike Johnson held a vote in the House was September 19—50 days ago. Republicans refuse to come to work and reopen the government.

It's with great pride that I'd like to announce that comedy is legal again in D.C.

Bringing get out the vote weekend to a close with an excellent rally in Pitcairn. We have less than 48 hours now to send a message that our fundamental values are not up for debate. Lets go!

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Why do (some) sociologists just love making bogus figures that just randomly nest some circles they’ve labeled with ostensibly related concepts? Why are these figures accepted during publication? Why are there arrows? Why are there images? ?????

Ngl, probably one of the easiest ways to make me distrust information is to present it as an infographic.

This is incredibly incoherent. Image is LLM generated. Bot? Real account being managed by bot?

I just saw the phrase,”people who identify as marginalized” and y’all I do not have patience for whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean today.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

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I miss working in larger groups. Like, there’s something intellectually entertaining about operating in a group of 10-20 people and keeping track of what everyone’s doing while working towards a common goal.

So, yeah, if you have an all powerful demon/programmer you can write the mind machine table. The LLM machine table is very different from the mind machine table. Moreover, LLMs operate very differently non-semantically, which is not arbitrary to how we treat them.

We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.

Using the military to attack American cities and American citizens must always and forever hang around every last Republican neck, for generations to come. Every time they’re in power they attack and kill Americans. From January 6, to these myriad monstrosities. No More Republicans.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Republicans have the keys to the kingdom. The White House. The Senate. The House. Tonight, they have used their power to shut down the government. The American people, including our patriotic federal workers, will pay the price for Republicans' callousness and incompetence.

How, exactly, do the Canadian Armed Forces deploy on operations with an ally who doesn't respect ROEs?

If they can do it under far worse conditions than we have here, so can you. apnews.com/article/mold...  Moldova’s pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

My statement on Jimmy Kimmel and the Trump administration's crackdown on free speech.

Man, New Stanton sucks.

my honest reaction to that information

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

Good.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.