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ICE's killing of an innocent woman in Minneapolis today should appall every single American. This Administration's lies and attempts to blame the victim are disgusting. We've seen the video—their claims of self-defense are baseless.

Getting there.

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

thank god there’s clear footage from multiple angles

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

They simultaneously say (rightly) that they're in the minority and can't govern but still message like they have to thread all these thin lines of responsible government. Part of the benefit of being in the opposition is the flexibility of not having those practical responsibilities.

I am in some ways slightly more sympathetic than most to elected Dems right now as people scream Do Something at them, because there really, truly is not all that much they have the power to do at the moment besides yell but if all you can do is yell, the yelling has to be higher quality

I have to imagine a lot of the issue here is that dems just have really unimaginative copy, and they keep slotting in extreme stuff into old statements

using this for a class rn and it’s great, highly recommend. browser extension that tracks google doc activity at a more granular level and flags unusual patterns

explaining to the families of the 75 people killed in Venezuela that this is a distraction from the Epstein files

This is such a smart thing to say about the Bechdel Test.

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Maduro in custody. His blue hoody in your cart?

when the PDF of the paper isn't searchable

feeling bad for the physicists in branches of the wave function where their measurements imply a wrong version of quantum mechanics

Those Mercator-projection-wielding invaders are going to feel pretty silly when they get to Greenland and find it's actually a little smaller than Central Park

Mostly emotional shit eating but my college had a "unicycle guy" and he went up way too steep of a hill and his unicycle fell out from under him, because of the angle he fell flat on his feet and you could see him trying to process why he was suddenly standing as his unicycle tumbled down the hill

seems like an accurate description of policy tbh

like, I don’t think people realize that the tech is *already* at “instantly create an entire convincing pop recording with no human involvement”

In a strange position where I think there are massive, massive social harms to the proliferation of AI (misinfo, deepfakes, predatory 'companions', surveillance, labour rights) but also feel the mainstream arguments against it range from unconvincing (water) to actively harmful (copyright; "soul")

a) I agree with this, b) but I do think it’s giving certain bad actors too much credit

Finally, a Google Search improved by AI.

lol get rekt

a good summary of the tolkien legendarium is "the valar are really bad at their job"

in many (if not most, if not all) cases, facts about big things supervene on facts about small things (and their organization). why is supervenience correlated with size in this way

it’s honestly kind of crazy how institutionally similar Buddhism and Christianity are

i have fallen down a rabbit hole and into Good LinkedIn the one without the goatee

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

given how loud the discourse around ai art and writing is, it's weird that people aren't more freaked out about ai music

I heard the streets need me to stop American fascism. And I would but that's a reach goal on my Patreon.

the other one I'll throw out which is less niche and that I think most people would agree is a blunder if pointed out is not respecting the type-token distinction with respect to utterances

feel like a good response to some of the more strident forms of evolutionary psychology is "if so much of human behavior is innate then why is our ontogeny so dang long"

Depends on what you count as my subdiscipline. Among philosophers who dabble in game theory, they often completely mess up the difference between "getting cooperation in the prisoners dilemma" and "changing the game so it's not the prisoners dilemma"

replied, but to post to my own account: failing to distinguish between there being a convention of using X to communicate Y vs. exploiting joint knowledge of the existence of certain conventions in order to use X to communicate Y this is a consistent gripe I have with the social meaning literature

my usual mode for engaging with current events on this site is dark humor and sarcasm, but man, I don’t know quite what it is about this in particular but I just can’t

it’s actually completely reasonable to complain more about the people who’s behavior might be responsive to those complaints

legality demonstrably curtails authoritarianism — in fact what makes a state non-authoritarian *just is* legal limits on executive control that are *actually* enforced

I think legality probably has curtailed authoritarianism. The broad legal structures of a society enable and prohibit various things to various degrees, and there have been plenty of times when authoritarians would have liked to do more authoritarian stuff but the law tended to curtail them.

Meanwhile, a Crossover Episode.

this seems bad

BREAKING: In exchange for his support, Mayor Mamdani has appointed Curtis Sliwa Rat Czar and Underking of New York, whose writ shall run anywhere the sunlight does not touch

every time i get hiccups i think about those people who get hiccups for 20 straight years

lmao

once again noting that if you think there’s such a thing as objective merit, and admit that members of certain groups have their merit systematically underestimated, then some amount of affirmative action for those groups will increase average merit

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

pretty confused by the reactions to jack smith’s testimony tbh, “prosecutor thinks that the indictments they served were correct” doesn’t seem like news