Since Claude cannot be punished, we will need to decide the person who decided to give Claude power and hold them responsible. AI absolutely cannot be a decision maker.

We have to move on from the idea that big things are inherently bad and small things are inherently good. It's empirically wrong. The size of something has absolutely no relationship with whether that thing is beneficial or harmful. Matt Stoller and his disciples are wrong, full stop.

The Shield

It's ironic that Our Era is about reckoning with the failures of Big Institutions and also it's turning me into the biggest Big Noun shill to ever exist. The hippies were wrong. The Man is good. We gotta get bigger. Bigger Government. Bigger Pharma. Bigger Energy (but like green now).

Oh you're an independent minded rebel who doesn't play by the rules? Fuck you. You've ruined society. Society was right to reject you. No more lose canons. No more outsiders. I want by the book squares running everything and to have more power.

i think they should just say “no”, but i think people should be able to spot an obvious trap when it is being set, “come to congress to explain what you plan to do with this money” is not very subtle

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

The poling must be really fucking bad, also Montana has a history of being more liberal than you think it is.

So ya the media is fully committed to running a photo of a Democrat alongside every article about the war now that they've seen how bad it's polling.

The Anti-War Activists response to Trump starting a war with Iran has been to double down on why it's actually Democrats fault.

for some context here, the number of americans who disapprove of this war is on par with the number of americans who thought the vietnam was a mistake *during the tet offensive*

41% approval for a war that isn’t even a week old, and that number is certain to go lower, not higher, and it’ll take trump’s approvals down with it

this will have greater impacts than just on farmers, but it never stops being kind of satisfying that farmers, who voted overwhelmingly for trump, have been on the horns of basically every single terrible decision this admin has made

Uh oh

in almost any other situation, this would be an inappropriate question, but this is a legitimate question given lewandowski’s reported behavior as her subordinate — the plane/blanket shit was bad, but he’s also reported to be the one often giving the orders

Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.

almost like the “insurance” “plan” was meaningless horseshit meant to calm gullible traders

fwiw I don't know what's really in Graham Platner's heart, that side of his chest hasn't come up as much

i think there is a very simple explanation for this, at least in 2026. the cultural apparatus orbiting around Trump lives in a world entirely governed by short feedback loops. gambling social media meme stonks junk cryptocurrency LLMs

these are self-inflicted wounds and evidence of, at absolute best, remarkably bad judgment. they're also his own mess to clean up.

also, to the extent that people might think he *is* secretly a nazi, it is the result of: - platner having a nazi tattoo for decades and having known for some years that it was a nazi tattoo - participating in a long interview with a known antisemite - approvingly retweeting another known antisemite

"How would GI Robot respond to your tattoo" answers a pretty simple question.

Wow could think that a certain class of political professionals/pundits are very allergic to any criticism about the flawed undisciplined candidate they chose, because they got so much riding on him financially, professionally, etc.

There is an ahistorical belief, epitomized by just about everything Hegseth says, that the US has been somehow ineffective in warfare since WWII because it was somehow constrained in delivering destruction. To put it bluntly, this is dumb.

What makes this particularly bizarre is that "practicing Christian" probably describes an overwhelming super-majority of Democratic elected officials. I refuse to believe people are actually surprised by this. How have you lived in this country so long.

2012: The GOP accuses Michelle Obama of being behind a federal big soda Ban. 2026: Democratic Gov. Maura Healey posting Moron Labe memes in support of Dunkin Donuts because RFK Jr. is coming for Dunkin. Time Flies!

Even if Crenshaw doesn't become a troublemaker now - and he very well might - having 32 (so far) lame ducks and needing virtually perfect attendance is not going to be much fun for Speaker Johnson.

Fruit was "just sugar", grains were "empty carbs", chicken "your grandfather wouldn't even recognize today's chicken", milk is "poison", and at some point you realize it's just an excuse to fuck with you because if it brings you pleasure, it will not be allowed.

MAHA is made up entirely of the kind of people who, when I was orthorexic and down to about 8 foods, called me out in the break room because I was eating oat bran with skim milk. 'Don't you know milk is poison?'

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months. Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

welcome to fucking hell, republicans

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

House GOP leadership allegedly worried Reps Hunt and Crenshaw just stop showing up to vote after their loses tonight

lmao the wildcats who lost their primaries are gonna be fucking lit because johnson is an unbelievably weak speaker who only got the job because no one else wanted it

The problem with running a campaign like Crockett did for the final month of the campaign? People outside your target audience see it too.

All of the big protests over Israel stopped as soon as Trump got in office and never started again even after he bombed Iran twice in cooperation with them. This is plainly visible to anyone with fucking eyes but you'll still get yelled at for saying it.

We are seeing the best possible outcome that Democrats could want: Talarico gets a clean win and gets a six-week head start while Paxton and Cornyn cut each other up for two weeks. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Tucker Carlson, Quincy Institute, Candace Owens, and millions of others just experienced the completion of this seven year plan

The open antI-Semitism this has unleashed, visible in the horseshoe right and left over at the other site, is something to behold

I see a lot of similarities between people like Musk's constant pivoting to the next big thing when something goes wrong and the Administration's shifting war plans. "There's gonna be a big rescue, folks!" "Why didn't you get people out before?" "Also a huge uprising and armed Kurds!"

incredible scenes where this is apparently a thing that Khameni has been wanting for ages and others on the council were pushing back against because optics but now council's all dead and congratulations on toppling the regime by giving the previous leader exactly what he wanted- a family throne

this is what awaits us if we fail to crush Platner in the primary, "oh the party of Nazi Tattoos has something to say?" every time forever

if you just look at the overview, it looks like the airspace is completely empty, but you actually have to zoom in to see what the crazy pilots at budget airline flyadeal are up to

Opened this indictment and a perfect movie plot fell out...

A handful of Republicans could end all of this. And there are quite a few who hate this war, masked terrorists in our cities, flouting of Congress, corruption, etc. But unless they prove otherwise they’re all cowards.

this is generally how things work in corrupt / authoritarian states. government contracts are given out to reward cronies, the mechanism by which public funds are diverted to enrich the ruling class

stonks temporarily paring back losses on trump’s absolute bullshit claim that we can insure ships which we cannot protect

No, for that he needs a deep voice, HS diploma from Hotchkiss, a grandfather who was a world-renowned architect, a business with his mom as his only customer, an "accidental" Nazi tattoo, and embarrassing taste in podcasts.