I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

Left to our own devices, most people would not have coherent policy preferences because we just dont have the context to develop them and because, as social creatures, we make meaning and develop understanding thru communication.

Jesus Christ, public opinion is not some static thing that has to be “respected” by politicians. Politicians should work to shape it, to make the case for their priorities and positions, to win over voters to *their* ideas not convince voters that they agree with them.

You would be surprised, if you hadn't worked in the field, just how dogshit a lot of these tech people are at actually doing tech stuff.

lol this particular brand of man OUTSOURCES parenting to other parents, taking a page out of his ancestors' playbook. Y'all remember this? Yeah them white kids is HIS. #blacksky

Caregiving is an economic crisis or opportunity in waiting. No one can survive without caregivers. No one. And NO machine can compensate what caregivers can do and guess who knows that probably more than anyone? Rich tech bros and celebrities who hire women of color to take care of their kids. 🤷🏿‍♀️

lol these rich out of touch men are discussing on a popular talk show whether you should use machine to raise children. Whole time, they got their kids in private tutoring with a nanny that speaks fourty-eleven languages. FOH with that.

This whole conversation is propaganda to pay caregivers nothing and that grinds my gears in a very specific way.

Pod save America, crooked media.. Lincoln project and others.. You’re not in charge of the party.. or more important than the party’s most loyal voters … you’re part but not in charge.

The thing I have found about my current job is that there is no piece of learning I do not use. It's not just about facts (although those, too). Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.

i think the $2 option is soooo smart and cool, so many people don’t wanna feel tricked into another recurring subscription but do wanna read 1-4 articles a year from a random publication! i wish more places would do this.

This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.

Law school cost me $190,000. I have paid $206,000 since graduation. I now owe $223,000. I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more. I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.

This was one of the reasons for my senior year of college change of plans about law school. I saw the debt amount and realized how hard it would be to stay good with that hanging over you.

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One quick note, the antihistamine protocol will not help most people with anything other than the COVID vaccine. For shingles, the preventative is to be INCREDIBLY super hydrated! Like, "peeing waterfalls" levels of hydrated.

The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and West Coast Health Alliance have issued statements that continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.

ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy

listen we can all agree it's a misleading name but for none of the "ooh we're so traditionalist" "oooh we're the only ones correctly interpreting ancient doctrine" Catholics in this administration to know that the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is about MARY being born without sin is banoonies

Not true! They also want to fuck teenagers

What’s wild about conservatism in 2025 is how little any of it makes sense outside of a desire to have white guys with all the power, like what’s the other thing you could even possibly like about it? A gossipy old man getting presents?

What is she wearing?!?

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

Remember: The Chiefs season went sideways the minute the daughter of the owner went on a rant about Bad Bunny being the halftime show at The Super Bowl. God don’t love ugly.

My controversial take: the practice of law journals in the US (as opposed to, say, Europe) being non peer-reviewed allows hacks like Wurman and Dershowitz to climb the academic ladder with questionable scholarship -- and then use their academic credentials to undermine our rights.

This guy gets it www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

If I have a "this is what we should be messaging about", it's this. Everybody should be pointing out the way we ended up with this mess was voting for Republicans and split government constantly, and our most progressive/beneficial years were when we voted for Democratic majorities consistently.

cotton would say this shit no matter what because he's an authentically horrifying human being, but i do sort of wonder whether he thinks he might have a shot at secdef once trump inevitably fires hegseth or he gets impeached

if you're going to have these rat bastards on the air, you have to have follow up questions ready. tom cotton is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, "i dunno, haven't asked" is, if true, a deliberate dereliction of his duties both as a senator and in his current role as a senator.

This is an excellent and necessary use of Holocaust analogies. Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.

PSA #2: Billionaires been FANFO (Fucking Around & NOT Finding Out) a long time. Early to mid 19th century, American cartels smuggled opium to China had 10% market share.( British cartels=90%) 10% population in China was addicted to opium! Millions of deaths over 50 years. Billions$, Familiar Names!

It is worth celebrating MTG's break from Trump in a "let them fight" kind of way because it is showing the MAGA cracks. But it should have always been clear: she is interested in leading a challenge for the leadership of MAGA*, she was never interested in leaving MAGA.

Very shitty people who become opposed to other very shitty people are still very shitty people

I love how President who's retired for almost a year gets more coverage for flubbing a line in a random speech then the actual President does for passing out 5 minutes into a cabinet meeting

Just a reminder to go out and engage with real people doing real things in person. I have set up in various cafes so people could come pick up signs the past two weekends. I drug my feet about doing it. Felt like a waste of time. It was really nice. Got some coffee, met nice people.

A lot of folks think this stuff is just a careerist video game. That none of it has life and death consequences.

Shingles vaccine linked to a lower rate of dementia-related deaths: study shows 29% decline. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

I took my kids (preschoolers at the time) to a townhall with my Congressman in 2010. Older suburbanites got so worked up about socialism and death panels that they were literally spitting while yelling in my face while my children and I were waiting in line.+

To me, it doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican, or an independent – I want you to have health care you can afford. My colleagues need to join me. The people who voted them in are crying out for help.

Holy smokes! If you acted like Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a corporate meeting, they would report you to HR. Just saying.

Not that I have a ton of sympathy for Olivia Nuzzi but this is insane framing: "Woman who complained about privacy violations gets her privacy violated." nypost.com/2025/12/03/u...

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office

He spent $77B to create knockoff Wii Miis?

this has become a very important video to me

Why do they always, very conveniently look like the villains fro Sat AM cartoon?