God what a year. That album. That Tiny Desk. The Grammys. That Super Bowl performance. He’s really at the top right now. All while and more importantly because he stood for something.

the fact that they saw Polanski as not being punished despite fleeing to France -- the fact that his social circle did not hold him accountable -- finally makes me understand why the elite media is insane about left activism at elite colleges: nothing anyone else can do to them matters.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Okay, I see this stuff about OpenClaw (née Clawd, then Moltbot for a bit) has escaped its bounds and is now getting glowing reviews in normal media. DO NOT INSTALL THIS.

In a darkly hilarious turn of events, it seems Jeffrey Epstein's hotel manager was named "Nick Simmonds" and comes up in emails 17 times.

A lot of the reason people hate AI isn't even what it's done or how it's built, it's that their entire experience of it is a clueless midwit shouting about how it's going to ruin their careers while forcing them to look at actual shit from a butt that they've named "Mona Lisa".

"Daddy daddy daddy can we play New Vegas?" "We have New Vegas at home" New Vegas at home:

I don't know if anyone else has put this together yet, but in March 2013 the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation announced a big research contest to develop a radically new condom, one that men would use because they would feel better. www.mic.com/articles/128...

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Birds have trouble working out what glass is; they don't have any inborn understanding of something that is clear but solid. There are some birds that can figure it out, but in places with high bird traffic you often paste a silhouette of a bird onto the glass.

In all honesty finding out there is one or a few tenuous connections between 4chan and this elite cabal since the beginning makes sense of a lot of things. Like the fact that GamerGate legitimately influenced Republican tactics is less insane now.

Republicans: We want to pass a bill to fund the government that's currently busily murdering citizens Democrats: 👏 Separate 👏 the 👏 murder! 👏

Of course they're trying to figure out a fucking path to funding ICE. Schumer is such a goddamn worm.

If you have never had Nazi blood on your knuckles I really don't want to hear about how jazzed you are about a shooting war breaking out. You are a little baby keyboard warrior, basically the equivalent of Republicans who get a hard on when the US invades somewhere.

A lot of this could have been avoided if the Fallout: New Vegas ending for siding with the Legion had been subtly changed, such that it would quietly euthanize the player.

ICE is showing up en masse in Indiana, maybe as they draw down in MPLS. This will be bad in ways you won't hear about. The population is more sympathetic and national media doesn't care about Indiana. They expect to get away with it better there.

The fundamental problem with LLMs is that *the output is not more valuable than the cost to produce it*. You can't make that profitable; not by selling access and not by selling output. If a machine takes in a dollar and makes something worth 99 cents you can't make it work.

In a heartening turn of events, the ICEwatch patrol training in Pasadena was absolutely packed to the gills this week, surprising even the organizers of the event. LA continues to get organized against ICE terror

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

I don't envy Walz right now. He's basically deciding between saving lives by giving Trump an easy out vs. refusing to provide cover and letting things escalate. But it is galling to pretend the White House will do any of this.

like building a waterslide to use instead of your elevator because it's faster and water is included in your rent

Brandon was the compromise

not over yet, but I literally cannot express the depth of my gratitude for the all the observers, patrollers, plate checkers, dispatchers, commuters who continue to successfully protect this city, sometimes at the cost of their wellbeing or lives. so many neighbors were not stolen, because of you

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

It's something, at least.

I'm so terrified for everyone back home. This is going to be bad, I don't see anyone talking about how badly this is going to stretch and already incompetently run FEMA. The Trump admin is NOT up to this challenge and they don't care to meet it. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

A lot of what people aren't getting is that their current level of AI use is massively subsidized while these companies try to blitzscale. Yes, Claude Code is extremely helpful when you're shouldering 1/10th of the cost to have a supercluster autocomplete your Python.

it is so fucking new and actually, casually revolutionary to just have a gay romance where the boys end up *happy*. No misery, no death, just the stress and trauma inherent in being queer and navigating that, but ending up with someone you love.

A lot of people are complaining that Jeffries didn't whip against this, but I think that's foolish; it would have lost anyway and we'd have lost the signal that those seven Democrats need primaries, plus we wouldn't have this attack line on them.

Well. No, he also stole the money from Venezuela. That's not our money any more than our oil.

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

This is pretty incredible, if he holds to it. Jeffries stepping out on a limb like this removes all cover from moderate and conservative dems; if they vote for it now they own that vote personally.

We talk a lot about all that European nations contributed militarily after 9/11 but let's also consider what they contributed to winning the Cold War. NATO was created to bolster their resolve to stand up to Russia. They held fast for decades.

how has Gavin Newsom got so many people out here ALREADY going "vote blue no matter who!" like he's got the nomination and you're trying to sew up lefty votes. The primary is in THREE YEARS; if you want lefty votes, probably try to get Newsom out of the way because he's pretty disliked.

Imagine if, in history one day, Rome just decided to stop being Rome. No barbarians or anything, just nah. Nah, think we're done with mattering.

Yes, the problem here is not that Trump exists or even that about a third of the country is on board with him, it's that there is neither courage to stop him nor are there institutions to prevent him. The US will elect another Trump and cannot be trusted as a hegemon because of this.

Trump, year one: How democracy is being lost in the US, in seven months

People keep saying "lower the rent". But imagine if you took the rent and literally lowered it, into a cheese fondue. Then the rent would be covered in delicious cheese. You would want more rent then, wouldn't you? With cheese on it?

Here’s a really tense ICE situation in front of my home. One car looped a block 25 times until two reinforcement cars showed up and led me home. Was pretty scary because I was solo - BUT I knew I had backup from thousands of courageous neighbors and observers. Strength in numbers.

Oh the new Star Trek opening on an action scene is a baaaaaad sign

I am in awe of the discipline of the good people of Minneapolis in that they have not just started killing these motherfuckers.

How does HBO keep finding people with the very specific illness that makes them believe they can write better than GRRM, *even after* they try doing that and it blows up on them immediately? It's very weird-nickel-twice.

"Ruffalo" is old paddleboat slang for "two", so "Mark Ruffalo" is what they'd call out when checking depth below the boat and having it come up two meters. His real name is Robert Downey Clemens.

I will absolutely not give up my leverage preemptively and unilaterally by promising *before the primary* to vote for whoever is picked. There are people who could get nominated for whom I will not vote, so everyone better take that into account in the primaries.

To the people out of state who keep saying “why won’t the local cops stop ICE” you need to understand that ICE is overwhelmingly the largest force on the ground in Minneapolis. They outnumber Minneapolis cops four to one. They’re more likely to stop the cops than the other way around

Observers are also listening to police radio chatter and they aren’t, let’s say, being friendly about the feds. You can be the coppiest cop alive and not appreciate a barely-trained, heavily armed rabble bombing the city with tear gas and causing unrelenting fear and chaos.

Minnesota is my America. You can see us simultaneously at our worst and our best, but the US is not just rolling over for its autocrat. I've never been simultaneously so ashamed and so proud of my country.

"Don't take the bait" entirely elides the fact that ICE's presence in Minneapolis or LITERALLY ANYWHERE is unjustified on its face, period, end of. ICE is unneccesary and unlawful. It is, as ever, on the fascists to stop doing fascism, not on the people targeted to comply by being shot and abused.

He really is doing all of it.