Again and again: it is a real problem that this stuff either didn’t get through to people at all or they ignored it, but it is flatly untrue that Trump said he was going to do something other than exactly what he’s doing.

I simply couldn't disagree more. This isn't how big software is made. In fact, every piece of evidence I have is that when you try and structure software this way you're actually building the edifice of your regret, 3-5 years later. Cults of personality in this industry are real.

i don’t see why the fed couldn’t be reformed to add an additional mandate to manage the viability of the Star Wars franchise. keep inflation and employment, just add the additional metric of “how do fans feel about Star Wars canon and the direction of the franchise”

Another odd thing about this is the suggestion that this is somehow a poor people problem. It’s New York. Tons of people ride the bus.

Along these lines, if the NSO can’t afford the hit it’s taking, they can perform in other venues. There’s plenty of large churches they can perform at in DC. There’s Strathmore. Organizations have choices.

Pretty simple answer to this question, it’s because Sam Alito is steeped in right-wing grievance culture and views himself as entitled to deference and respect from everyone he encounters

It’s really pretty strange how many people seem to believe that things that are good in life and quality of life very broadly conceived are or ought to be entirely irrelevant to your happiness and enjoyment of life.

This is a funny post and RIP to this guy, an all time great poster. With that said, the thing is the guy at the sandwich store is being friendly by doing this.

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

Just wait until you find out who owns local TV stations.

Well, it’s more like “liberalism entails both respect for minority rights and a commitment to agreed rules of order and MTG is better than other Congressional Republicans because she at least supports one of these two things, maybe, assuming she’s serious.”

It’s Bari Weiss to meet you

We’re going to bring back that moment in the 70s where people were proposing using hotdogs and coke for communion only this time it’s going to be right-coded

I don’t like policing how people spend their money and I’m sure there are people who don’t understand why I willingly spend money on gadgets, but I really don’t understand luxury cars for anybody but the extremely wealthy.

This just isn’t true (and I am not a defender of “both parties are the same” or “I don’t like either party” sentiments)

I’m not sure about Canada but I would bet $100M against the idea of Australians successfully resisting the option to become extremely racist, if I had $100M.

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

Looking at my Twitter archive. I used to be funny.

He’s one of these people like JPII where it’s just baffling to me that anybody likes him for reasons besides “he was a celebrity.”

Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.

Under Woke 2, one of the numerous fast food chicken companies should run an ad campaign where instead of cows telling you to eat at Chick-fil-A they have LGBT people telling you to eat at (whatever chain runs with this idea)

Let us go then, you and I Where the racist jeans are available to buy Like an actress nude in a commercial

It’s genuinely incredible how many people on the right seem to have completely misunderstood why drunk driving is illegal on its own terms and not just when you hit someone (because the goal is to prevent deaths, not to enact retribution).

part of me wonders if they're using so-called "AI" for targeting data and of course, the machine scraped old news articles and gave Jabo as a target

I support New Year’s resolutions because I fundamentally agree that people can only decide to be better once a year and almost unfailingly give up.

Roy Batty doing the tears in rain speech but for pedophiles

unironically a good idea

I try to ignore AV as much as possible but it has to be said that this idea is profoundly unamerican not just legally but culturally. If there’s one right we all agree on it’s the right to tell the government they’re full of shit. If you don’t have that right you are definitely not fully American!

10M Republican points to the first person to combine this talking point with the old canard about how children should have the right to vote (exercised by their parents, or even their father specifically)

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

brand new diner serves coke the normal way

Every Ms. Rachel complaint comes from something that barely corresponds to an outline of the human likeness posting a screenshot of her saying how she hopes all people can be safe and happy with an explanation that she’s metaphorically loading Jews onto the trains again

I won't be celebrating my accomplishments this year because it implies human activity is meaningful or even praiseworthy

Has anyone ever written a paper or even like a blog post or anything on why “ableism” gets used in this absurd way online? It’s a weird phenomenon.

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Something I’ve been thinking about for weeks is the post from Andy Masley (who I think is pretty good, as AI defenders go) where he completely fails to understand what “a computer cannot be held accountable” means

Discourse about “AI” just gets stupider and stupider by the day; I have really never seen anything like it.

To everyone celebrating in MD-08, Maryland and around the world: Happy Kwanzaa to you and your family!

Merry Christmas pals, and remember: Christ was not turned away from an inn, but rather welcomed into a family home but forced to stay in the lower room with the animals due to overcrowding.

Wishing you and your family peace and joy this Christmas.

If you view the COVID era crime spike as a symptom of a widespread wave of sociopathy acquired in the pandemic, the same wave that perverted politics, the fall of crime back to 2019 levels or lower is encouraging.

There is an ongoing problem with this fight which is that Trump *is* an aberration but the aberration is that an idiot with a TV show and terrible manners got to be the figurehead of the right and not that they’re doing insane gutter racism

guy who is a former defense industry lobbyist complaining about the politics of another profession. guy who only joined the Christmas Adventurers for the networking opportunities.

Why wait until Holy Thursday for the washing of the feet? I believe a bishop should practice such humility weekly, if not daily, which is why I’ve flown in these twelve young men from Brazil.

So much of Silicon Valley is just about refusing to look into whether anyone has thought about something before