Shot, chaser, another chaser

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.

I find it eternally frustrating: Trump’s behavior is just the product of some very transparent, very disordered inner psychology. But for some reason that psychology is mostly taboo in the realm of political commentary; we have to pretend he has “beliefs” and “policy goals.” I assure you he does not

Spent some time doing this yesterday. If you don't want your emails used to teach Google's AI, I suggest turning off "smart features" and then trying this.

so i have a theory about part 3

I hate to give the slightest smidgen of credit to Lizza here, but he does note one thing that's right: it matters not just as a sordid and revolting melodrama. This is one of the most powerful men in the United States government and he's floridly insane in a way that's not just putting on an act.

My spouse made a great point last night, which is that Mamdani should just schedule a weekly call with Trump where they bullshit about miscellaneous things that amuse the President until at the end, Mamdani pulls a Columbo and goes "Oh, ah, one more thing — about that Medicare expansion..."

"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?" — Rian Johnson (via THR)

No. In Woke 2 we’re not doing shit like this to defend people like Nuzzi.

A good day to let everyone know we have submitted Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile for Best Live Action Short at the Oscars. If you know anybody in the Academy who is part of the process, it's in the portal. Get us shortlisted and nominated. An easy way to prove you, too, are not an elite pedophile!

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

Have been hearing from centrists my whole life that we cannot tax the rich, they are our most special boys & job creators Then you read their emails & they’re no smarter than Larry from accounting - they just accidentally fell into a literal mountain of money Wealth tax now

DAVID CAMERON: [indignant] fucking a pigs head doesnt seem so bad now does it

"Only when it was funny"

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

This is extremely accurate and once you understand it, then you understand that the AI bubble is not just based on tech bros selling vapor, but also on C Suites who will buy literally anything.

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

I think "it's just a reference" is being a bit too cute with it, right

I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect

Rian Johnson tonight on #TheHuntForBenSolo “Take my money!! C’mon Disney TAKE IT! […] also I just like watching Adam, I’ll watch Driver in anything, man, but I’d love to see him play that character again”

see if someone had said tonight was the rapture i would have believed it

this was the moment where i started worrying about divine wrath

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

JCO proving what I’ve been saying for years when it comes to engaging with chuds - they don’t care if you think they’re stupid, or hypocritical, or evil (they’ll like it because they hate you). But if you find the way to accurately show how *uncool* they are, you can really really fuck with them.

*watches frankenstein* so... so we're all monster-fuckers now, right? like that's our thing now 🦋

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

gonna start a podcast where i just sigh a lot

Trump and Mike Johnson reading this

Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.

It's hard not to think that there's a certain contingent of Senate Dems who saw the election results and are more afraid of the next Mamdani than they are of the next Trump

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

One of two things is true: 1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader. OR 2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.

Schumer should have stepped down as Minority Leader when he announced his “no” vote. And, frankly, he should have resigned. Falling on your sword is underrated.

We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.

The Senate capitulators are counting on some notion of “Dem solidarity” to save them. What they don’t realize is that they’ve just marked themselves as outside of the pack, and a threat to its survival.

this is the newest chatgpt commercial

this has me walking back off the ledge a little

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

all they’ve done is proven yet again that you should *never* listen to some chin-stroking wise elder who lectures you about how *your* priorities are foolish and counterproductive while *their* priorities are strategic and wise. because in the end, *they* won’t even fight for *their own* priorities

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Here's a partial list of suspected guilty parties. Call them if they're your senators, friends, right now. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

If you see someone complaining about The Last Jedi still, you have a personal and moral obligation to ignore them. They're never going to be swayed because it's not really even about the movie for them.

The strongest example of “who am I to judge?” In history