Last night, a Uvalde mother stood on the Oscars stage and spoke about her daughter Jackie, who was just nine years old when she was killed. Her bedroom has been frozen in time ever since.

Well, fuck.

This is my feeling also. I also think that the belief, “The president’s job is to tell everybody what to do, and everybody has to do it because he’s president” is extremely common—but this is the first time that belief has held within a presidential administration

In addition to the quick shift from yay protestors to fuck you protestors this also suggests a pretty massive failure to grasp the territory between street protest and state capture

Working out well so far

Stop anthropomorphizing AI! It’s just matrix multiplications! It didn’t “feel” or “think.” And stop anthropomorphizing computers! Your computer didn’t “go to sleep.” That’s a lie. And stop anthropomorphizing other humans too, there’s no evidence anyone except you is conscious

These people are seriously so fucking careless, ignorant, and cynical

Excellent

And she wins!

“Then,” doing what now?

Disinformation, ignorance, and misinformation about Iran and Persia is rampant at all levels of society and power

That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new

Let me re-introduce myself. And why our campaign is doing things differently.

Proud to pull the lever for @poojaintexas.bsky.social today. She’ll be grand in the lege

One challenge is that pols follow journalists. There is a felt need to counter right-wing narratives that get juiced which MSM then legitimize & amplify from X. As long as legacy media like NYT etc monitor + cite X as public sentiment (which they tell us they do) it is tricky for pols to leave

They're the same

Leah is one of the most, perhaps the most articulate and clear voice on the Court's shambling corruption

True, but a lot of these fools actually believe it, too. And I mean people in the industry

Liminal space 3XA7O

Rev. Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to expanding who gets to belong in American democracy. From civil rights to economic justice, he challenged power and widened the path for Black Americans. May we honor his legacy not just with words, but by continuing the work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Open theft created this generation of AI, pure and simple. On a massive scale. Some AI makers have provided some compensation so far, after the fact

“Starts”: correct. Does it sound radical to say that investigations, compensation, abolishment, and impeachment are just the start? Well, it’s not. All of that would just bring us back to the place where all the shit began. The roots of the shit will still have to get killed off

“It” here is AI, and Serwer is right (read the whole short thread back to @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s instigating post. But the problem is that the tech (a) is impenetrable by its very nature (How did it do what it did?) and (b) built literally to APPEAR effective regardless of if it actually IS

Yes. And I hope it bolsters the energy everywhere to resist, and ultimately defeat, lawlessness and corruption

What a monument to assholery this guy is

Patiently explaining to tech bros about how authorizing legislation establishes what services a government agency must provide and having them stare back and say "but how do you innovate?" was a repeatedly soul-killing moment for this former federal CIO who studied political science and philosophy.

In America at least, I think the sexual violence socialization begins around kindergarten

I traveled home to Minnesota to report on the rolling fallout of Operation Metro Surge. Both the occupation and neighborhood responses was breathtaking in scale. History in the making. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Thanks to the @economichardship.bsky.social for support

ACLU Minnesota commission.

This fuckwad can go to hell—and he will. As will the bookers, producers, and news executives broadcasting this corrupt shit

Ignore @charlotteclymer.bsky.social at your peril. Short read, well worth it if you give a shit about the world. My caveat: What @mark-carney.bsky.social is proposing is fiendishly difficult to pull off; his Vaclavian analogy doesn’t hold. Nations aren’t much like people 1/2

There’s an unhelpful unconscious framing at play here too: verbal communication as primary. Subtextual communication and signaling are equally important. Speak clearly and honestly about an issue where the public is equivocating and you communicate trustworthiness—very hard to communicate otherwise

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

everyone who was mad about Trump's "dictator on day one" promise in 2024 has been fully vindicated. and if you were part of the crowd saying it was trump derangement syndrome to take him seriously i don't think we can fully trust your judgment about where his 2nd term is headed

Anti-democratic radicalization, yes, but it has to come from somewhere and be permitted to wield power by something.

These were GREAT. I followed my grandma’s recipe (and the box) and layered them with freshly whipped cream to make an icebox cake

In his defense, that’s how it worked in Return of the Jedi

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

I don't like the arch evil but i appreciate the spinal tap homage

True story

Possibly, but I think it’s more like where they, and no one else, get to _______________

i love the belief among guys with grievances that vibes are both universal and irrebuttable

I worked at a print magazine when Netscape happened and called this “the inability of the Internet to surprise.” AI deepens this blindness in two ways,   • first because it can only be trained on what’s already been done,   • second because it can simulate novelty and completeness without being so

In fairness I find ∼60% of private search to be FUBAR

So… he’s giving them their own money? Where’s the tariff money?

Actually it's EXTREMELY small, especially when you consider how frequently Jews end up becoming a focus of attn and violence at so many times and in so many places. why you choose this as a hill to die on is yours to explain.

I learned that all the homework white people have been doing has been on how not to seem racist to other white people. They don't actually care what people of color think or they wouldn't mind us actually telling them.

A really good point. H/t @besttrousers.bsky.social

I am happy for @crockett.house.gov running for Senate. Let’s mix things up! She is smart and capable and charismatic. I wish her the very best.