Well…this certainly makes me feel better about a future where AI is shoved into everything.

Is it just me, or does it look like one side of his mouth is drooping?

There’s a lot of things that need to be said today. But there’s one main one: Thank you Ukraine. We see you. We know what you’ve done for us. We know what we owe you. We know you will win and take your place as a central defender of the free world.

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So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.

A trip back in time (or to Wulfleet) www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p...

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Black Lives (still) Matter

It’s lunch time, and this really needed a content warning. 🤢🤮

Bluesky should not get into this idea that blocking you is a problem. You can be blocked for any reason. You can be blocked because your pfp is annoying. You can be blocked because your vibe sucks. If you take this personally I think that’s also a reason you can be blocked.

"Don't engage, just block" is part of what makes Bluesky awesome

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this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

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Trump can't steal the midterms. I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands. Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has. Me, in @thebulwark.com:

This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.

What the…and I can’t stress this enough…actual fuck?

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

And then Spartan Oliganthropia enters the chat

@kenjennings.bsky.social don’t look old enough to be an “elder”

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

You know what Olympic sport seems fun? Skeleton.

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them

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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

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Not even subtle about it, is she?

Games are being played with your right to vote. I know it's not possible for everyone, but I'm making sure I got all my paper work in order. Voter registration, certified copies of my birth certificate, Real ID, and U.S. passport. And the start of early voting is marked on my calendar. No excuses.

Hang out with friends from school. Go to school football/basketball games, the library, the local pool, local comic book shop, etc. Or just learn how to deal with being bored…

LLMs are a mistake, example...fuck, I lost count.

This stuff is wild. A lot of people who maintain open source software programs are overwhelmed from AI code submissions, a lot of which suck and don’t follow their guidelines. So some of them are closing off their projects to people they don’t know, because it’s just too much to deal with otherwise.

This is the obvious endpoint of the "well what if we entertain LLMs as beings, you know just for a lil philosophical treat" stuff ends up..harm on actual people doing actual things.

"ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" is not the type of thing you say if you're winning the argument

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

So, like, are the QAnon folks reacting at all to discovering that Trump’s inner circle is basically just Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex, or have they found some delusional way to explain it all away? (The question is largely rhetorical.)

This is my good side

This guy sucks but he seems to be aware of how history will remember people in this era which sets him apart from nearly everyone in either major American political party

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

What a strange thing for the (looks at notes) Attorney General of the United States to be braying like mule over in a congressional hearing.