somehow, Defence Scheme No. 1 returned

At the current exchange rate that is approximately $288.

Every conservative speech nowadays: "What all of you lib sheep don't seem to understand is this. The real way of the world is - mom used to buy me hot chocolate, and now she doesn't. Bitch. I'm sure brown people are behind this. Kill brown people, and mom will buy me hot chocolate again."

The idea that Mitch McConnell was a successful obstructionist is a pop-culture myth that needs to die. He largely failed; the ACA passed, Obama became a two-term POTUS. Where he DID succeed, it was because he had *bipartisan* aid from the anti-Obama centrist Blue Dog Dems — remember them?

This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.

Gollum died at the end of Return of the King, so...it won't be a very long hunt.

This is strongly my belief about what is going on with chatbot psychosis. It’s a kind of runaway disordered thinking brought about from having the wrong kind of conversation with another person (or even yourself), similar in ways to falling into a cult or conspiracy theory belief.

If people actually knew was NYC was like in each era, “NYC has twice the foreign born population now as in 1970 and look at it!” would be a killer pro-immigration argument

Cunningham voted with the GOP to override a Stein veto of a bill that requires local NC law enforcement to work more closely with ICE. This is how she explained her vote:

Oh look it's the part where we manufacture woke sounding reasons for supporting Trump triggering the libs

Lots of people made a good faith effort to move AI discourse over here, but they all got chased off one by one. bsky.app/profile/jwhe...

much, if not most, of elon's money is based on him getting to control the narrative around himself and therefore convince people that his companies are valuable plausibly he would be bankrupt by now if he could not claim to be involved in AI, given how hyped it is.

Top Intel Democrat speaks out after classified briefing on Venezuela, Maduro’s capture: Trump admin 'doesn’t have a plan' www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

If only there was someone on BlueSky who'd explained in detail why oil companies wouldn't be interested in Venezuela.

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Right, there are these little moments where you can see them going “no rules! Arrest the enemies of the state” and then they get to the station and they’re like “but wait, we got nothing on this guy, we gotta let him go” like it’s Law and Order

Like it’s crazy how little Stephen Miller seems to understand the actual roots of American strength in the 20th century. Until you realize that to him that actual power is meaningless unless it entails the ability to directly administer vast swaths of the globe populated by inferior nonwhite peoples

The level of forethought and planning that went into this makes the Iraq War look like the Marshall Plan in comparison. And it is consequently going to be a gigantic, costly disaster.

"Being on this side with Unrivaled, I know what it takes to run a sustainable business. I think if they can't find a model that makes it happen, they need to put people in place who can." Napheesa Collier on the current CBA negotiations 👀

These hateful bigots expect us to be embarrassed, or cower, instead of supporting kids in their identity. What they don’t expect is for us to come out strong and hard against their hate. To shut them down immediately and definitively.

love to create power vacuums and then just let things play out. expert planning, sir. strategic mastery.

genuinely interesting journalism here, and fairly convincingly in my mind www.hardresetmedia.com/p/an-ai-gene...

MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want? M: *yells*

I’m usually at a moderate level of annoyance with the NYT but this is fucking outrageous. The US president doesn’t get to fucking pick another country’s leader, & headlines shouldn’t present it as just a normal decision, like picking a nominee for a mid-level federal agency. It’s not our colony!

yeah, there is a cumulative log of evidence that SA's underlying intent was increasing the social capital of caliper-havers bsky.app/profile/jord...

unfortunately one of the lessons that emerges from Scott Alexander in particular is that virtually everything he wrote about Outgroup reasoning was also true of himself

this is at the subtext of LessWrong -- everyone there was Very Online and veterans of multiple forum wars. The subtext was "how do we create an Enlightenment-era forum after spending all of this time in Online equivalents of the 30 Years War"

i think that the tragedy of the Scott Alexander extended universe is that one interpretation of rationalism is a group of people that wanted to come up with a utopian online environment that wasn't subject to these kinds of forum dynamics

wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso

Women's sports is in this very funny/sad place where it's so cheap to put out an incredible world class product and yet everyone involved with it is terrified of sparking an arms race

If you're an officer and you need a JAG opinion to determine whether being ordered to engage in armed force in Greenland is a blatantly illegal order, your oath became meaningless years ago.

They’d probably tell you their impeachment vote wouldn’t change a single goddamned thing, and that their pushing the healthcare subsidy discharge petition was a whole lot more important. And we all know that even if they had voted for impeachment, you’d still be on here working for Republicans.

Stephen, I'll join a goddamn fifth column if we invade Greenland.

To answer Miller’s question, the 1933 International Court Ruling granted Denmark control. 1979, Greenland obtained home rule, 2009 gained self-rule especially over natural resources & mining. Denmark still manages foreign policy & defense.

Today was a real peach. Schumer announced that he's going to present a War Powers resolution on the floor of the Senate that could stop Trump if enough Republicans vote with Dems. And these fucking morons are screaming and jeering at him for this. ISN'T THIS WHAT THEY WANT??? ACTION NOT WORDS?????

Jeffries: "The Constitution isn't a matter of inconvenience. It is a requirement. George Washington in his farewell address to the nation made clear that the Constitution is sacredly obligatory upon all. That means everybody. There is no Trump exception."

Article VI, Clause II says Steven Miller (not to mention Trump) are violating the Supreme Law of the Land by threatening a ratified-by-treaty ally.

Yeah, the modern internet really does benefit anon accounts in a way that is socially deleterious (present company excluded). The incentives are such that nobody with a normal job should post takes with their name on it, it's just professional influencers and anon accounts/

There's a third dynamic, which is that they pick real name targets bc they can extend the bullying beyond the site. It's why both Will and Sky get doxed and emailed death threats. I am way more right wing than either of them but you simply cannot issue me a death threat bc you don't know my name.

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

No, it's just plain illegal and the polling already indicates everyone knows it's a farce and a way to keep the illegal dely of Epstein file release but his cultists will still support anyway. Look at that pathetic last line: Does the public care? Well certainly not if the Post has anything to say!

It’s hard to imagine better free advertising than this. Hilton: 📈

I haven’t seen any reporting on this yet but I have to imagine this is related to all the protests outside hotels where ICE agents are staying. People are showing up outside hotels and banging drums and making loud noises all through the night. It has to be having an impact.

I'm sorry I am at my most masculine when I am flinging my youngest into the air while she laughs and my wife disapproves.

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Oh no, these people really and truly believe they'd rather have a dead child than one that's autistic, and that says a whole lot about them, none of it good.

It's Their Time

“we are going to viciously Main Character people over innocuous shit” is maybe not the best way to get people to migrate away from the Generates CSAM At Will app

Bluesky lists tend to mean the exact opposite of what they assert.