I'm mad with great responsibility. The great power is a harmless byproduct

that new Kula Shaker album you've been waiting for is out

85% of AI music tracks are “played by bots rather than humans in order to siphon off royalties” - replacing listeners as well as creators…

our language should reflect that some disasters are in fact mitigated

in many ways, prominent Roman politicians in the republican period were the bloggers of their day

If Alberta held a referendum and a majority voted to secede, the proper response from Canada would be to gracefully accept the results, and then launch a war of climate self-defense against the independent nation of Alberta, with the goal of destroying all their fossil fuel infrastructure

provided...an Excel file...to explain legal citations? leaving aside the LLM issue here...what does that spreadsheet even look like? why is it a spreadsheet?

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also, why does their logo look like it's restraining itself from telling me I wouldn't download a car

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON: hello Maya my wife MAYA RUDOLPH: hello PTA

capitalist imperialism is too porous and fluid for the fascists. an acceptably strong system would be hard like steel or a sclerotic artery, I guess

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

again, I don't think "some hate oppression, others just hate being oppressed" helps us understand what we're seeing now, with more and more 'normies' speaking out, which is a process of more and more people identifying the oppression of others with the oppression of themselves

while the non-lethal contest between police and protestors for temporary control of space could seem like play-acting, I don't think that tells us that it's 'fake' - what it tells us is that so long as conflicts retain any rules at all, they will have something of a game-like structure

when I was a legal observer during the George Floyd Uprising protest wave (including around the Seattle East Precinct and CHOP/CHAZ) it often seemed to me like I was seeing a kind of simulated warfare: two sides contesting control of territory, but with a mutual agreement not to use lethal force

conservatism/fascism has absolutely nothing to do with god (infinite and indivisible by definition) and everything to do with the enforcement of boundaries—psychological, social, physical

“.. in technical terms, the country is already in a ‘public health crisis’ and skidding toward a ‘food emergency.’ .. Indications are rising of infant malnutrition and of hunger among the elderly.” @newrepublic.com 🇻🇪 newrepublic.com/article/2056...

I've been thinking about how many videos I've watched that started like Renee Good's & Alex Pretti's. People pulled from cars & accused of obstruction, grabbed after filming agents, accused of punching agents, ramming cars despite video evidence. Shot. They survived. But the arrests were brutal

the speaker started naming the chain of command of people who ordered alex pretti murdered and when he said kristi noem i watched a lady snap her knitting needle clean in half

insane that this tragedy produced a Chad Martyr vs. Virgin Goon image

if enough Senate Democrats somehow manage to get and keep enough of a spine, this still seems like the next thing to look for

One of my favorite quirks about right wing outrage Twitter is that Chaya Raichik (Libs of Tiktok) cannot post during Shabbos but she immediately starts posting slop once the day ends in LA Today she accused Alex Pretti of being a terrorist 0.001 seconds after the sun set

the mood is not subtle

It’s worth noting that spending on ICE, DHS and state + local police is higher than the amount that China spends on its entire military.

you are a sovereign. enforce the constitution with state violence

once you remove the veil of state legitimacy, it should also mean that you needn't strictly distinguish the perpetrators by whether they were formally part of the federal government. the Heritage Foundation participated in the same criminal conspiracy that Russell Vought and Stephen Miller did

the U.S., if it must continue to exist, would be better off with a new constitution. while we are stuck with the current constitution, democratic forces should vigorously interpreting it in favor of democracy.

this is why I think people should use 'DHS' where they've been using 'ICE', as much as possible

RICO the Government

seems to me you don't necessarily need a lot of novel legal theories to enable mass prosecutions of regime figures: if you establish, as a legal fact, that actions taken at the direction of this regime are without constitutional or legal authority, you can prosecute it all as criminal conspiracy

DFL should be arming Minnesotans to protect themselves from summary execution by the Gestapo

kidnapping 5- and 2-year-olds and sending them to concentration camps is monstrous and should by itself be enough to bring down the regime, yet as with so much DHS is doing, the difference between it and 'regular' policing is more one of degree than kind. local cops arrest elementary schoolers!

Manic Pixie Dream Quisling

Polling shows Democrats about even on walking, but at +20 favorability on chewing gum

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

does anyone have some "calling Trump deranged is ableist" takes

just saw an album with the tag "Christian Ambient"

I imagine if Democrats took control of Congress and (less likely) actually coalesced around outright abolition of ICE, the GOP that acquiesced to the dissolution of agencies by executive order will suddenly discover it is actually illegal and impossible to abolish an agency by legislation

look I don't think Tooze is right about everything, but none of these Ameriboo dweebs has the substance to suggest he isn't a "serious person," my god the temerity

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

let us say that I am currently imagining Tony Blair becoming a kind of second Lord Mountbatten

one of the stupidest attorneys I face in my work briefly made a 3rd Amendment argument in a landlord-tenant case in a hearing today. no, neither the military nor any member of the military was involved in any way

of course it's horrifying that this outright Nazi is acting President of the United States, but I still can't help but find the sudden reference to "walkable communities" in the middle of a white supremacist call for blood very funny

well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

in hindsight it was absolutely inevitable that Sinema, the most Burning Man Senator we have ever had, would become a crypto lobbyist

hey by the way, how are the NFTs that will revolutionize the indie music economy going

it's not totally clear from the text of the AP article here, but it seems this was a 1:1 deal of lowered car tariff for lower canola tariffs. if that's the case: lol Welcome to the semi-periphery, Canada. O Brasil do Norte

At least Goebbels was embarrassed when he was given Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize! www.berlingske.dk/internationa...