The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

Fearing most: - mass deportations, police state required to try it, resulting death/suffering - severe recession or depression from tariffs, deportations, ensuing civil unrest - violence against protesters - weaponization of DOJ, IRS, FCC - “unleashed” cops & vigilantes - Baltics, Poland, Taiwan

What is wrong with this dude?

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

"if the car kept accelerating at this rate it would reach the speed of light within a year" "my god. we have so little time"

zoom just keeps getting grosser and grosser 😐

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Please stop.

What’s striking is how many companies and organizations don’t then just connect the dots. “We could use this new capability to knock off every bug on our list!” or “What if we could deliver all of the features our users were asking for?” Instead of using this as a pretense for layoffs and abuse.

I categorically refuse to make slop slides. I don’t care if everybody else is doing it. I have too much pride in my work

AI breaking common, everyday things that used to work is why people fucking hate it! AI cluttering up things by offering to summarize 3-sentence emails is why people fucking hate it! It's obvious! It's in fucking plain view! I like it less every goddamned fucking day!

read the thread. My opinion is that tech orgs chased process metrics for the same reason they are now chasing "AI": because they don't know how to figure out what work matters and how to do it well together, and they don't want to admit it.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Supreme Court justices should not have publishing deals and be doing publicity tours at all, even for a kid's book.

When you have laws with which it is impossible to comply, you end up with selective enforcement that only punishes the opponents of people in power. Just sayin'.

hot take but I think the world would be a lot better if we vigorously prosecuted white collar crime

I don’t know much about 1826 except that Adams and Jefferson both died 7/4 (spooky!)

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

This is what The Mandalorian came so close to being, and it would have been incredible.

A kind of tv show they don’t make anymore is “Guy Comes to Town, Then Leaves.” Kung Fu, Incredible Hulk, Highway to Heaven, things of that nature. We need more Poker Face, that’s all we have left.

Attention all men. More of this, please.

But the holy book of Abundance (and the holy money of donors) has decreed it is Group NIMBYSM to oppose warehouses that employ 3 security guards, pollute your community, and balloon your electric bill

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

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We shouldn't try to use AI for everything. We should try to build everything so you don't need AI to use it.

Shockingly little in comparison to the alternatives. US Citizenship and Immigration Services is fee-funded so costs the taxpayer nothing currently. If you took the $3.4 billion for ICE denial in the 2024 budget pre-Trump that alone would be enough to hire every adjudicator you’d need and then some.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

10 Things I Hate About You and Grogu

Love seeing climate actions with multiple benefits! In addition to generating clean energy and reducing emissions, solar canals conserve water by reducing evaporation, can potentially reduce growth of costly aquatic weeds, and help redirect solar development from farmland and valuable habitat.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

Being asked to do more with less is one of those internet era maxims that seems to imply ingenuity, but is actually just the managerial slogan for squeezing uncompensated labor out of workers unwilling or unable to leave their current employment.

This is such a good book.

these focus groups are just further anecdotal evidence for my view that trump is is understood as a totem for wealth and prosperity. these people are genuinely bewildered that he isn’t, and might in fact be a human being with ulterior motives

Wait, do we want more manufacturing in the US or not?

Gambling on real-world outcomes corrupts the gambler, the bookmaker, and the events and people being gambled upon. There are no winners. It’s a cancer on society.

Nobody asks Trump his "thoughts" on anything, not really, even though sometimes he'll say things and they'll be framed like that. You might as well ask malaria what it's thinking

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Classic Bungo Gronch

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

They literally chose the name “Palantir”. You shouldn’t need more information than that. But if you do, it’s been obvious for over a decade what kind of company this is.

There is absolutely no reason for these insider trading sites to exist, and they should be legislated into oblivion.

GitHub appears to have opted anyone using the CLI into sending telemetry they will use to inform product decisions. This is sneaky and should have been an opt-in decision, not opt-out. Disable it with `gh config set telemetry disabled`. cli.github.com/telemetry

one thing I wish I could talk people out of is responding "they can hardly be worse than people!" when talking about autonomous vehicles. Humans are often _impaired_ drivers in various ways but a skilled, attentive human driver is vastly more effective and flexible than AVs are ever likely to be

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

I wish I could convey, from my own experience as a user experience designer, just how profoundly no one gives any kind of shit about users at all

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Dunked on this yesterday but in reality the first order of business needs to be punishment. I'm not kidding. We can't start fixing anything until we punish, and punish hard, the people who put us here. That needs to be done to send a message. And if we don't punish, nothing else will matter.