Alabama’s population is 28% Black and increasingly Hispanic. White Republicans are only able to rule by cheating. And when Dems invest no money in red states that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Overcomplexity is bad, but it isn’t found in attempts to solve *actual problems* with eg DEI and pandemic response. The overcomplexity we need to worry about is stuff that doesn‘t even try to solve anything, but only collects rent: financial engineering (private equity, crypto) and AI-in-everything.

You can see it working in real time!

Ubiquitous, officially endorsed, app-based sports betting is one of many grotesquely toxic trends gradually tearing down our society piece by piece.

The Krugman dropping some truth.

I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”

…and zero people who actually want to use their power when they have it to fulfill that message.

Exactly! If Democrats need to focus on affordability, just ... focus on affordability. Don't constantly give lectures about how other people with the exact same job as you need to do it differently.

But the entire political project on the right is white identity politics.

Second: "... as first order of business, _I made sure to let the committee members know_ that DHH might be one of the keynote speakers and that _if that was going to be a point of concern with anyone that they could choose to decline_ their program committee role."

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Is this a… big taxi?

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

The low levels of thought, writing, and grammar, and the high levels of countenancing or even reveling in evil found in the emails of the Epstein coterie makes me think that however bad we imagine the tech dudes’ brain-cooking group text chain to be, it’s surely so much worse.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

2. I think people who get suspended have the right to clear and specific information about what rules they broke and with which posts. Obvious bots maybe don't need this? But real humans do.

Absolutely irresponsible to treat this as serious advice.

It’s wild how software companies have let themselves get so addicted to easy-to-measure-but-wrong metrics that they think this sort of user experience is a good thing.

I’ll solve it for them: Ignore it. James Bond has never been a single character or continuity or timeline. No one cares or will be bothered by James Bond just existing at the start of the next movie. Or just do the zeppelin thing. That’ll work, too.

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Not to mention the entire concept of a healthcare marketplace is fundamentally flawed. There are no price lists. You still have to go to favored providers for it to count towards your deductible, and the most important health care choices aren’t voluntarily made.

How incredibly charming.

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

I mean, this is just one more reason *not* to shop at Target.

What possible use are those assault rifles they are carrying? Even in their twisted minds and dreams of purging Waukegan’s residential neighborhoods of immigrants, what scenario do they imagine those weapons will be useful in?

what sucks about all this is tech actually fucking rules, i love this shit and they have turned it all into the biggest grift ever, destroying any momentum we had for “advancing civilization” all so they can sit on their pile of treasure like fucking smaug

and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically you want to advance human civilization? - universal health care - ubi - green energy - high speed rail and public transportation - free education through college

I always wondered what even was the reason to have “gender” on passports at all. Turns out: no (good) reason at all, because they only started doing it in the US in 1976.

virtue signalling is good actually

No one: NPR leadership: How can we lower the quality, accuracy, relevance, and respectability of NPR even further?

“LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text” If this is true, social science needs a serious self-reckoning. LLMs are not humans.

The people running this facility and enforcing these rules are evil criminals.

(I did not, to be clear, say "our models help you determine somebody's personality which will help in hiring!", I said "it is possible to build model that predict how people will PERCEIVE somebody's personality and, as you might imagine, it's hella racist")

Yale has some serious quality problems in its faculty, apparently.

Free energy? Who would want that? I prefer to pay extra for the high quality electricity you can only get by burning multi-million-year-old rocks dug from deep out of the ground.

"who radicalized you" Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.

“Tunnel shaft” = food storage cellar “Booby trapped” = we tripped over the threshold “Sniper station” = rooftop sitting area

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I wish that if I *follow* someone and then they get put on a blocklist I subscribe to that my follow overrode the block.

This news should tank all investment in “AI” datacenters. They want a pre-bailout because they know this technology can never pay back the cost of its deployment.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

3) It turns out when your candidate is less than 70 years old, he can actually run a unique and energizing campaign! 4) People are still willing to vote for a message of hope, solidarity with the oppressed, and affordability for all.

This is all it costs to give *every* kid free school lunch. School lunches should be free. It’s easy and cheap to do and would improve countless lives (not to mention saving endless expense and hassle for school staff).

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections