Announcers when the skier is .1 seconds ahead of the leader: "Incredible. We have never seen anything remotely like what she is doing right now." Announcers when the skier is .1 seconds behind the leader: "Humiliating. Her family is going into hiding to avoid any connection to this debacle."

a lot of people talk about the "AI bubble" as though it means the technology will just go away and stop mattering like NFTs if it exists it'll be like the dotcom bubble: a lot of overhyped firms will go under but the underlying tech will still go on to affect basically every aspect of society

It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.

When I lived in TX this HEB commercial on heavy rotation played a song with the lyrics: I saw miles and miles of Texas All the stars up in the sky I saw miles and miles of Texas Gonna live here 'til I die And my gut reaction was, “Not if I can help it”. And that is how I ended up in CA.

What the fuck is he talking about? I mean, I love bluegrass and southern food. But as a Tennessean, I’m comfortable saying that no one comes to America lured by the promise of Appalachian culture.

I’m not trying to downplay modern poverty, which we are rich enough to address. But standards really are increasing dramatically in the US. In my own lifetime stuff has regularly migrated from a marker of wealth to common in the middle class to an expectation for all non-poor people.

Anyone who relies on the votes of people who say “I would sit out the election if it were X vs Vance” is a damn fool. Anyone who changes a single thing to appease such a person is a damn fool. Those people aren’t showing up unless you personally suck their dick and probably not even then.

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

Anyone who can’t agree to this framework is not going to show up. They are telling you they aren’t going to show up. I believe them. That means that they are not part of my coalition and I should ignore them in favor of someone who will show up.

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

Arguing with people on the internet captured in one image.

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

maybe not the main point but it is wild to be lectured on “culture” by the human avatar of Ready Player One he has no culture, no interest in anything besides mindlessly saying the names of things he knows are supposed to be cool as some sort of shibboleth

As somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the last 19 years, I promise you that a lot of people who are insanely rich - not just average millionaires, people with true wealth - are dumb as dog shit, but just have no morals and know ways to make tons of money by not caring about hurting people.

That the GOP gets more openly white nationalist by the day is disturbing but also a big risk for them in the “If you come at the king you’d best not miss” sense.

People have a lot to say about this but one point I haven’t seen made is this: Can anyone imagine Musk dying for any cause whatsoever? For any culture, nation, society, race, ideal, principle, or even loved one? No, you can not. He speaks of matters wholly beyond him.

some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them

A key right wing trait is saboteur. They tell you government doesn't work, get elected to a working government, then sabotage it to prove their point. They tell you that a multi-ethnic society won't work, immigrate to a working multi-ethnic society, then try to sabotage it to prove their point.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

If the Democrats nominate @astroterry.bsky.social they will have a massively good shot at winning TX-9, a district they drew to be Republican. We have a shot to make Texas far more blue, and this is important. Vote Virts!

Republicans voters completely flipped their opinion on tariffs in literally one year, 2016. Maybe they were primed to flip by the GOP becoming more working class and populist butTrump was the single person catalyst that brought that out. You wouldn’t see that coming in polls.

This is why the people who show up to protests ready to burn things down aren’t “allies” with “different tactics.” Overwhelmingly they’re there for the thrill of rationalized violence; they will find some way to commit some violence against somebody if they have the thinnest excuse.

“what cool shit can I do as Mayor? oh, I can marry people? awesome, let’s do it” once again the constant theme of “New York is great, New Yorkers are great, isn’t this great?” comes through

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

An important distinction.

As for learning AI skills there is an element of “you don’t have to outrun the bear” to all of this… I don’t have to have a durable advantage over everyone else, I just have to adopt this slightly earlier than my rivals for it to be a big win for me.

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

the number of real MFs who just insisted that "nothing matters who wins, it'll all be the same" should tell that to Renee Good

This is by far the most cartoonish politics has been in my lifetime. Extremely kind & decent people vs. the absolute dregs of humanity. It continues to baffle me that this is not equally clear to the whole country.

This is pretty good. We've all seen all of these videos and stuff but I bet a lot of less online people haven't, so it's good that they are pulling it all together so that more people can get a sense of what everyone here already knows.

How did this one random sub-agency of DHS become America’s secret police force, with a larger budget than many entire states? We’re so stuck on this absurd theoretical debate over “do we need immigration enforcement” that we missed Trump building himself a vast paramilitary army

She’s probably going to turn out to be totally unhinged and only loosely in contact with reality.

My ethical code compels me to condemn arson but… damn, if her casual and cold hatred for this abomination isn’t a little bit inspiring.

It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late With long arrears to make good, When the wine moms began to hate.

It really is insane that we respect pre-indictment pardons. That’s just saying “pardons are a tool to help you do crime”. You should only be able to issue a pardon after indictment, at minimum.

one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This is just unconscionable man

Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

I train NNs in my research. My boss also has me using AI to write patient summaries from data. It’s kind if funny because anyone can do that task, you just ask the AI to summarize the data, but everyone agrees that I’m the one for that job almost like, “You are friends with the AI, you ask it”.

Every single day, Aaron Rupar watches broadcasts of these horrible, stupid people just so we can have clips of them and I think Aaron legit deserves some kind of award for not pouring acid into his eyes by now.