I hate chatbots but I also hate shitty statistics work. this is an excellent thread

This is a wonderful place to end the day, so I'm closing up the app now. Not all heroes wear capes.

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post. My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

It is my tribe's Day of Atonement and a time to reflect on our personal failings and fallibility and to resolve firmly to be better. Like so many other Jews, I am so tasked today. But, alas, I have long known the limits of human penitence. A Yom Kippur tale reposted: davidsimon.com/the-frauds-o...

I'd read Dorothy Thompson's legendary "Who Goes Nazi?" piece before but this latest time it really jumped out to me that she described J.D. Vance to a tee 40 years before he was born. "Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known."

motion to start calling these people "apostates" and "idolaters" and "heretics"

today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture

*screaming into the void* THE BEST TIME TO STOP THIS WAS FIVE YEARS AGO AND THE SECOND BEST TIME IS TODAY

folks, this is it, this is the whole motivation for the AI push, from the billionaire techbros right down to the lowliest reddit shitposter. this is the whole thing.

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

Daily reminder not to provide the eugenicists with a list of your medications

This kid threw a Nazi salute and shouted racist slurs inside a class. Let what happened next be a good reminder that they are vastly outnumbered, and also that accountability looks like the masses rising up. (countdown to Trump threatening UDub in 3, 2, 1 . . .)

My writing career summed up in one image:

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Stephen Miller is the governmental equivalent of McDonald's replacing Ronald with Pennywise.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

were gonna get an american anti pope, arent we?

See, I just fundamentally don't believe this is true. You have as much money as you can produce in your checking account that day, minus your outstanding debts. What he has is a bunch of rocks that people believe ward off tigers.

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

The Trump administration just told all U.S. military veterans on VA's email list that Democrats are to blame for the government shutdown, as well as for their loss of benefits. We've previously seen this email go out to federal employees, but this went to *veterans* nationwide.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

If I didn’t have a professional aversion to A.I. slop I’d be picking just the right couch for one right now.

Exactly. He has to own this.

two things can be true: 1) this is an act of craven submission from a company finding new ways to capitulate to authoritarianism every day; and 2) AI should not be answering whether *anyone* shows “signs of dementia” because it consistently gets things wrong and makes shit up

A central reason we're in this mess is that the final GOP budget is going to be full of ugly, deeply unpopular stuff - exploding deficits, destructive tariffs, cuts to health care/clear energy/food, supersizing ICE, tax cuts for billionaires - that Rs simply don't want to take responsibility for. 1/

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

they need to foot this bill. they can't just outsource AI costs to the public. this is criminal.

I want to be clear that every time The Discourse(TM) about how fanfic is ruining society comes up, I'm going to reply to the instigator with this quote

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.” Get their ass, Werner.

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma

Three weeks ago, Brett was justifying the #KavanaughStop by saying: "Plaintiffs have no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future based on the prohibited factors—and certainly no good basis for believing that any stop of the plaintiffs is imminent"

In Nineteen Eighty Four all art for the "proles" is created without human intervention at all because they just feed a set number of scenarios and words into fiction machines and songwriting machines, which then create them and disperse them widely to keep the proles happy and FOR FUCK'S SAKE ORWELL

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

jesus christ dude

don't do drugs, kids

If there’s one thing that definitely works it’s mandating culture from the top down. And if you don’t believe that, well, I’m ordering you to

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

Inspired by a Perry Bacon post, I created a little game to see how well you understand the presidential electorate.

at some point if you know SCOTUS will overturn you without even bothering to say why, all you can do is use your opinions as a public platform. Glad Young has realized that.