My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

Re: Claude Code unavailability on Anthropic's Pro subscription plan, I'm not sure what people were expecting. This is a well-established model for SV---long before "AI" came along. If not now, enshittification will happen eventually, AI or no.

Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.

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DOJ has chosen a side between SPLC and the Klan, and they have picked the Klan.

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

this is so profoundly dishonorable

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

I'm waiting for the day when one of these "free speech advocates" stans actually defend someone who isn't powerful.

what the fuck are you talking about

Obviously the answer is mostly “drugs” but it really is kind of fascinating to me how Musk oscillates between “a post scarcity utopian future is at hand!” and “the mongrel races are coming to claim the persecuted white man’s scarce resources in a zero sum game!”

I wanna be clear: I do not give a FUCK about the propriety of SCOTUS leaks. Like cry me a fucking river

In December 2023, they killed a mother and her daughter with sniper fire. They first killed the daughter and then shot the mother in the head when she ran out to drag her daughter to safety. 7 others were wounded during this mass shooting in the following 10 mins

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

He thinks unemployment rates rivaling the Great Depression won’t cause a backlash if people talk about it now? This is giving more weight to my “being a C-suite exec is equivalent to a TBI” theory

A lot of questions on parenting forums that could and probably should be answered with "stop consuming true crime content" but that's considered rude

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

idk, just working in this field, i kind of think its more like you'll be able to automate specific tasks, and then it turns out 3 more start showing up Incorporating that new task into a model takes time and theres always more to do, and the front of things to do is exponential as we expand

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.

My hottest video game take is that From Software has never surpassed the game design of Dark Souls (1).

Is this shtick not absolutely exhausting to everyone else? Just me?

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen

damn girl, are you a tiny chunk of cat food? because i just accidentally ate you off a cutting board because i thought you were a banana bread crumb. i don't think i'm doing this format right

Pro-tip: if someone is leaving a job and telling you it’s about compensation, it’s probably not all that productive to second guess them? Just…wtf

I think part of the reason the Pope thing is hitting so much is that modern life is so devoid of *any* morality, any system of right and wrong that is not completely hollow and fraudulent, which hits as halfway sensible and opposed to Trump and those like him, feels absolutely revolutionary

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

I don't really think it's possible to vibe code in a way where you're still critical and thoughtful of the changes youre making and the impacts they can have on an existing system. Any improvement in productivity is just kinda YOLOing it

If you think food has gotten more expensive, RFK Jr. thinks that’s on you. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: An ICE charter landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo minutes ago following third-country deportation deal with the Trump administration. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

to be clear, this is the fault of everyone who didn't vote democrat. if the democrats had had one more vote, the resolution could have failed with two of them crossing the aisle

I think this is a really big deal. Dems have to stop doing this stuff. It undermines credibility, makes people feel like they're playing politics, and sets the stage for a more competent version of Trump.

Anti-woke centrists: hahahaha, woke is gone. Wait this sucks actually

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

They use it to say god chose trump as his divine agent, but the devil somehow beat the all powerful god in 2020 so he didnt put biden in power, but also they dont like woke pope so dont listen to him either

I actually found this the most surprising tidbit—judges calling HLS students to ask about other students? What???

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.