Agreed but I think the confusion comes mostly for those who don't know software already. The transition from probabilistic (AI) to deterministic (AI generated code) seems to be lost on most

trump just mentioned a third term

10:30pm: Radar shows rain now moving out of the National Mall.

the AP video guy is really getting creative www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyEP...

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Meanwhile, in the present, I am getting protest flashbacks as the police clear the fairgrounds by force

honestly the others editing Jefferson's draft in Google Docs is funny and basically true to life.

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Matty isn't really an ideological centrist in the way people think he is, he's genuinely a Leninist for the idea that people shouldn't have principles.

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

[AlertDC] America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F.

Unironically, a thing I feel incredible joy over @ America 250 is every person here — of which there have been So many, just normal regular people & families — who’ve shown a willingness to put their own bodies and safety on the line to tell the White House “not without a fight you don’t”

I’m becoming more and more convinced that nobody knows what a data center even is at this point.

I was trying to make this case to folks the other night. What a gift to see every team with a diasporic rooting section.

remember when Barack Obama spoke for six hours in extreme heat on Fourth of July 2013? only truly great presidents can do that

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

500 of you have already signed up for this, which means 1) now Courtney is doing a second session & 2) $10,000 to voting rights in honor of a man who would *fucking hate that*

And then Randy… he never published a damn thing. He threw support behind the NYT op-ed and never said a thing again. That’s not wrongthink— that’s no think. Epstein makes so many errors that aren’t even worth my time pulling out and critiquing.

Got @standard.site working for the @posthog.com blog 😎 posthog.com/blog/sql-par...

NEW: Magistrate judge orders Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros into court over "potential violations" of seal order in case touted by top DOJ officials. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

An Idaho Department of Labor employee has been identified as a neo-Nazi propagandist.

There's a part of the Declaration we tend to gloss over too much. Some thoughts on the big day @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/dear-ameri...

Ukraine's SBU: a strike on Saky airfield in Crimea has destroyed or damaged seven Russian fighter jets. #explodey

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

Anyway the reason Madison is so obsessed with the problem of tyranny of the majority is that it's the hard problem Tyranny of the *minority* is also bad, it's at least as bad, but it's easy to solve with, as Madison puts it, "the republican principle"

Skill issue.

Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

Get Popehat on ATProto regardless of what Bluesky the company thinks and the "Open Ecosystem" will be a lot clearer.

I keep saying this but: The Bulwark filmed themselves using tongs to take already floating blue coating as a souvenir. (They did it on live TV and have the funding to fight well in court, so mentioning it seems fair.) Honestly someone probably has full video of Hearn doing nothing but touching.

🚨BIG news! Fifth Circuit says undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, specifically those who came across the border at some point long in the past, MUST be given a bond hearing within 90 days of arrest, at which the government must be able to justify continued jailing.

This massive win for the constitution thanks to my colleagues @immcouncil.org and our co-counsel @nipnlg.bsky.social

Oops, did I really call Matt Yglesias unhinged and unserious? 🫠

america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

every one of these you're going to have to check what happened at the grand jury level since grand jury misconduct is endemic in the trump doj

It's time to lock in. AIPAC is outspending us 30:1 in Michigan.

Of interest to folks in #poltheory and adjacent scholarly communities, especially #LPE (👀@lpeproject.bsky.social, @lpeblog.bsky.social, @a-lpe.bsky.social). Tight turnaround for due date and start date but those are aspirational: late applications will likely be read and start date is negotiable!

This is a really good film about Floyd Abrams, the eminent free speech litigator, and it's launching digitally this week. I don't always see things the same way he does, but, as I say in the film, few people have had a larger role in shaping the modern First Amendment. tv.apple.com/us/clip/floy...

The plan: provide only one way to cool down in 100 degree heat, a baptism pool, in order to drive up church affiliation.

An attendee at the Great American State Fair says none of the booths had air conditioning so she had to go to the baptism pool in one of the tents

I’m sure the founding fathers had their reasons for restricting us to only one (1) Actually Good senator. But I’m glad it’s @wyden.senate.gov

A corpse flower is about to bloom. Here’s the livestream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyJA...

[Roxy Music voice] Avignon

Racist attacks against Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has two beautiful children from Haiti, are gaining traction after yesterday’s birthright citizenship ruling. I’m posting this here because this is the American Right. This is what it is. It must be defeated politically and ideologically.

So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...

oh he on DRUGS drugs

It’s not hard to feel patriotic this Fourth, just remember Americans like this still exist