I told a Claude agent that it needed to receive confirmation before moving forward on certain actions, and I caught it bypassing that step by writing its own confirmation to a file.

All of you who spent the last year viciously turning on our trans siblings are going to have that hanging over you. For your lifetime, hell after that. Grad students in the future will mull over compilations of everyone's hideous comments for the worst. It's the only fame you'll know

I haven't seen a lot of talk about this, but this is potentially huge. Seismic, even, that leading conservatives would criticize Heritage like this, and do it over blatant *actual* antisemitism. thehill.com/homenews/sen... Thanks @nberlat.bsky.social for highlighting this

the heritage thing kind of underlines that when there's dangerous antisemitism on the left, it doesn't look like Mamdani. It looks like Greenwald or Taibbi or red brown curious folks boosting carlson or trying to create some sort of room for nazis around anti Israel common ground. 1

Particle physicists be like "all of this math implies this particle which is fundamental to the laws of physics exists at temperatures that defy the will of God, and one day we will defy it hard enough to see. I have named if the Flibblebarf Particle and you have to call it that"

Can we talk about how fandoms turn darkly pathological characters into uwu babygirls? For example Minnie Mouse

This is going on three days on the other site without a community note, which 100% means that Musk is personally intervening to prevent it from getting one.

This but I think there's a medium version where people voted for 40-60% of what is happening, including some of the worst stuff, and are just mad that the other portion is affecting them. Like a *lot* of people voted for pogroms against immigrants but are mad about tariffs and the White House.

i'm curious how the people defending platner are going to rationalize the next step in their defense of him (the one about how people grow and mature and stuff) after lots and lots of sustained arguing that he didn't know what the tattoo represented or meant. like they're not mutually exclusive, but

Zohran Mamdani frequently references Hegel's theories of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis via the dialectic without once mentioning that "thesis" and "antithesis" come from other writers and are not to be found in Hegel's own work.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I'm willing to believe that this guy got his tattoo by accident and that he's come around on some stuff since his shittiest reddit posts. But this is a DISGUSTING response to his criticisms. You *have not been smeared*, you *got a nazi tattoo*. You *actually blamed rape victims*.

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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

More and more I think the rest of the Democratic party just needs to excommunicate the NY state party.

I'm gonna need white male ostensible leftists to stop falling so hard for guys just because the candidate seems like he would have bullied you in high school.

Look as someone who grew up working class, white, and rural as a young man, I can tell you at least 60% of us don't have even ambiguous Nazi symbols tattooed on us.

There's like a bankshot chance that Platner loses the primary now, but runs as an independent and wins with crossover MAGA Republican votes because the left canceled him over a little thing like a Nazi tattoo.

Tell me you've never been in a band or done theater without telling me

I watched a video the No Kings protest and no one spontaneously said "Hi, I am a leftist" and then went on to explain that they were exactly the kind of leftist that I am so I'm pretty sure they're bullshit.

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.

Things you can say about protests or about sex parties

I don't even think Newsom would argue against this, he'd say "yeah, you got a puppy and a voter in mind?"

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas --Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

Yeah basically this. I've gone from "eh they're probably covering up something that's not nearly as bad as people think" to believing there has to be major dirt in there.

Ezra Klein voice: "Say what you will about Kangmin Lee, he is doing politics right. We may have to concede that, at least in some states, women will have the right to vote stripped away from them, and I don't know why the Democrats refuse to run anti-suffrage candidates."

THIS SHOULD BE THE MESSAGE, not some wonky shit. Republicans have shut down the government, and can unilaterally open it at any time. Look at why they'd want it shut down.

Right now the question before the Democratic party seems to be, do you want to protect the rights of the marginalized, or do you want to compromise those in order to make headway on technocratic goals. But no one will put it that way.

Absolutely. The admin has shown over and over that it is not possible to cave in sufficiently. In fact, in the usual manner of bullies, when you cave you become a target. Institutions that fight back have been seeing them back off because they are looking for easy wins.

The Charlies Kirk of the world, the Trumps et al, do not want or intend to compromise, they want surrender if not annihilation from the people that Ezra Klein is admonishing to give up stuff so he won't have to.

I really think this gets at the meat of the problem, and what Klein is too smart to bring up but knows he's glossing over when talking to Coates here, or trying to compromise on women's rights. Compromise is a thing that fascism and white supremacy afford to Klein and not Coates.

!remindme 6 months "check what happened to this guy"

The Democratic party really is gearing up, in a populist climate, to try to run some moderate they convince themselves can get back center right votes, all of whom are going to grumble mildly while they pull the lever for Mechahitler after JD Vance drops out.

Do you think he's starting to speak out now in case Trump opens the door to third terms?

Also everything was yellow, like it was AI tryping to ape Ghibli. In old houses all of the ventilation ducts and such are often still coated in residue. I once opened a heavy smoker's computer and everything had a film over it.

I still think there's a lot to be seen in what they pick. Klein isn't ignorant, he knows that abortion is one of the Democrats' few really strong issues, which means that by picking it he's intentionally obscuring places where the party platform is unpopular both with the country and base.

Bret Stephens's opinion on free speech is that there must be people whose speech is protected from even criticism, and other people whose speech must be suspended to protect the first group's feelings.

The car dealers (and more generally small business owners whose "small businesses" are quite large) are the closest thing the US has to kulaks.

Yes, we have this conception of undecided/persuadable voters being "in the middle" when that usually isn't true at all. They mostly have idiosyncratic politics, or are apolitical and voting on vibes. A lot have single-issue voting preferences that override anything else.

I'm actively trying to use Bluesky more and more, but I do find myself drawn back to Twitter the Xvrything App a lot. I think on a fundamental level I'm a scrapper, and the people to scrap with here are mostly on my side.

I think what a lot of people outside the US (and inside) don't understand is that our media never, ever portrays exactly what Trump says. You have to seek it out to see him speak at length, and when they transcribe something they always edit the copy to make it much more coherent.

Every excerpt from Harris's tell-all reads like

If I bought advertising space on what is likely Jimmy Kimmel's highest rated show in history and it got preempted for a RERUN OF THE NEWS I would sue the local affiliate station into the center of the earth.

Man uh. Today probably sucks a little for Colbert, huh?

Whoa what episode did he say that in? Was that the monologue? I need to start watching this.

Took me multiple days to figure out why I couldn't cancel Disney+. Turns out I had it through Hulu. I've now canceled both, just a tip if you also can't find your subscription.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.