Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure: - no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis - no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture - no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber - refused to reform the filibuster - drone wars expanded

catching up and just wrapped the debate on youtube. Mamdani knifing Hochul was priceless, particularly evoking her milquetoast endorsement of him as if to dare a retraction Get in line (or better yet line up against Trump) or get the fuck out of the way Jeffries and co better watch their backs

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Every Founding Father who owned slaves had contemporary abolitionist peers who told them repeatedly how terrible they were.

The thing about LLM output is that it's basically the nipple of the bell curve And if your natural output falls in the lower quarantiles, it must really seen like magic So losers who can't come up with "hey it was so nice to meet you" are seeing the full promise of the AI revolution already

Some fools claim that prohibiting police unions violated the 1A right to freedom of association Leaving aside that basically every police union engages in some kind of obvious crime, the law (including the Constitution) says what we say it means.

SFPD bombed a mayor's house in 75 as part of an illegal strike This is not new, cops have been running a protection racket in this country for as long as they have existed essentially

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

Enterprise level organization obviously

I hated timezones before but now I think I've felt real pain Client furious that UTC data isn't the "correct transaction time" because they do all their accounting from a US central POV. I'm copied on a ticket with the vendor Jokes on me though because I have to help them fix it in the DWH

Exactly, the bar is in hell for what most on the left will accept as positive movement from Dems Pulling from the center right means most gains will come from convincing high / medium info voters Pulling into the tent from the left means just saying stuff that sounds like you give a shit

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

I think it's unlikely that trump survives this term (one way or another). But if he does and is prosecuted successfully I think he should be forced clockwork orange style to watch alternately Kimmel and MSNBC coverage for the rest of his days.

I'm gonna become the fucking Joker. Maybe I've missed dir but how is Karl F-ing Rove making a more forceful defense of the right to criticize a white nationalist than Dem leadership???!??

Sure but what's the mechanism for punishment? Is capitulation a crime? Yes I am aware that capitulation likely involves crimes but the process of identifying and prosecuting them is labor intensive, particularly for a federal apparatus that will be at best hollowed out.

Chick-fil-A serves breakfast but I can't get Raising Caine's at 5:57 am?

Stephen Miller: We’re going to use the power of the state to crush every last Democrat parasite Chuck Schumer: Not unless you sign a non-binding resolution to bring down bread prices, Mister!

No, you don't have it worse than white women, and you don't have it worse than any man of any ethnic minority, you just don't, and if you had it bad like so did lots of other people who aren't shitheads

worth pointing out in addition that a lot of the cultural resentment isn't really about anything anyone does; it's that Black, brown, LGBT ppl exist and are visible and not entirely subservient. 1

we very specifically and over decades had earned a reputation for being a place where you could come and study or work and be treated ~fairly rather than tyrannically. that reputation was a big deal. I hope in time we can rebuild it.

This is basically saying “he was racist but did you know he went to church?” Yeah, I did, are you stupid?

“Why has Zohran Mamdani not condemned Helldivers“

Bold of you to assume that I haven't been psychologically warped by any events *since* 2020.

Season 6 hitting really hard on the third full pass through Sopranos. Particularly, I'm finding a lot in AJ's arc this pass. And what I see reaffirms my Theory of the Ending ™️

10 years of fundraising emails off the spectre of authoritarian assault on democracy and now that the far right is once again in power and openly doing everything to prevent ever losing it, and the last time I can recall Schumer making an effort it was to ensure the budget funding the assault passed

Nothing good happens at DC house parties I swear to god. It’s the only place I’ve watched people try to network their way into fucking

If Dems do not learn that punishing your political enemies, especially when they are engaged in blatant corruption, is good actually I am going to scream. The logical conclusion is that party elites think corruption is fine and good and therefore, they must be disciplined

Basically every member of every police force in this country needs to be prosecuted for criminal conspiracy to defraud the public. Officers endemically take BS shifts to pad out their hours or make bogus arrests at the end of their shifts to milk the clock.

the actual people who presided over the most recent wipeout are joe biden, matt yglesias, and david shor

Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic

When leftists said that mainstream media is a captured arm of the elite whose main goal is to manufacture consent, you called us crazy. But we were right and now you're flailing and melting down at the truth of your country and how it runs and god you wanna go back to the ignorance of US violence

need to make it possible for fumbling the midterms to actually bring down a government

Cants these people just fucking go away? It's not her fault that the name Clinton is now synonymous with "Huge failure who helped ruin America", but it is so maybe don't try to run on name recognition alone?

One thing we don't talk about enough IMO is how Elon Musk came to DC, destroyed foreign aid, and then oopsied back to his little companies. An estimated 450,000 people have already died because of this!

think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

Pretty disappointing to see most people assenting to facial recognition going through TSA. Surveillance like this is an afront to human dignity. And we are about to learn why it is also a threat to liberty no matter how benevolently it is originally implemented

your machine is responsible for the things that it does! if you can’t control it you can’t just let it loose to kill people!

Holy fucking shit

"I'm rubber and you're glue" ass presidency

Let’s be clear: Pritzker isn’t a savor, he’s not “the leader of the resistance.” There won’t be one. That’s us. He’s an elected doing his job when most aren’t, and doing it well. He’s not a leftist, he’s a liberal, but he’s putting himself on the line, and that’s worth a lot.

“In Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands and is derived from rab, meaning ‘slave’”

I love that @swordsjew.bsky.social narrates the Wild Faith audio because it's so well done. I can tell that the "voice" of the written words is strong. Actually getting to hear it in her speaking voice is such a treat and makes wading through the bleak warnings issued within a little easier.

seriously considering going back to Ubuntu because of how toxic the Manjaro community is yeah I know no big surprise I'm not even talking about how people are treating *me* I seriously cannot use the forums to troubleshoot stuff without having to wade through near fatal levels of condescension

Since I also do direct user support and training in my role I know this is a real problem and not something they made up. All the same, it seems like a bad sign for our society. Sometimes it feels like so many have given up on showing up for anything difficult.

I work in software sales for a SaaS company and had a prospective tell us this week they had serious concerns about purchasing a platform where their stakeholders log in and see a (curated) list of reports and must click on one instead of being taken directly to the dashboard