I don’t know what you’re all complaining about. This is full of sensible, practical tips, such as to rebase your private jets out of state, & charter a separate private jet that you don’t own for trips to NYC. Won’t we all be doing that? I’m also repainting all my jets camo so Mamdani can’t see them

If you're wondering if Ross Barkan's plagiarism was limited to NYMag: No, it was not. He's written for @nytimes.com 16 times. I looked at his most recent story, from last summer, about Zohran, clicked on a link in his context paragraph, et voilà. First: Barkan Second: @dankaufman70.bsky.social

For every year that Clinton was out of the White House we have gotten 500 million stories about how Democrats are “out of touch with rural America” and we’ve never gotten stories about how republicans do badly in many suburbs and absolutely get blown out in cities where the mass of people live.

🔥“The key is that we are enforcing the laws that already exist and are being broken. We are not pursuing mere partisan power or grinding ideological axes, as MAGA has done. […] It is not our fault that Trump and his lackeys decided to commit so many crimes.”

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

in literal terms its what if you had a choice between a lady who fights against nazis and a guy who hangs out with them cracking jokes when he thinks people out West aren't looking

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It is one thing to do 70% of what is needed, but british practice is to continually delay and redesign to ensure you are getting 40% at twice the cost, all in the name of efficiency

A lot of people crave Simple Rules, and sometimes I feel regressive influencers are filling the vacuum that was once serviced by becoming obsessively religious. And it oftentimes runs into just as much trouble when their new "simple rules" butt up against reality.

toby's got you @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Also fuck Mike Johnson for saying politicians can't survive off $175k salaries but they expect citizens to live off $40k or $7.25 an hour. Fuck all the way off

trying to overturn a free and fair election is, in a real democracy, one of the most serious crimes there is nine years is a light sentence for what she did

remembering a great talk on tossing pilgrimage badges into the Thames which went Recently, scholar A said it happened, cited scholar B Scholar B said it happened, cited scholar C Scholar C, decades earlier, said it might have happened, cited Scholar A Scholar A, ECR, I wonder if it happened ...

I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

And when people say "I just buy directly from authors" well... I have some very bad news for everyone about payment processors.

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

There’s a guy on IG showing how Krogers is shorting people on pre-weighed and packaged goods and I gotta say, shout out to your local and state weights and measures offices because they are about to be busy with all the shrinkflation.

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

As an avid supporter of comic artists and the medium, I signed this petition to disqualify all comics using generative AI from future Eisner award consideration.

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but we are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

FEED KIDS WHO'RE HUNGRY! Some children of well-off parents have parents who're crap at feeding them right. Going out of your way to starve children you think aren't "deserving" of food isn't the gotcha some folks think it is. JUST FECKING FEED *ALL*THE KIDS! *FFS.*

The thing I've learned about plagiarism in the real world is that that it goes right down the memory hole in about two weeks. A year from now, the guy we're all mad at today will have a book with a Big 5 publisher and be totally welcome at parties.

Remember when Elon used lines of code written as a metric in the first round of Twitter layoffs? And everyone who knew coding commented what a stupid idea that was? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Yeah. The thing I realized ~a year ago is that using an LLM must look/feel the same to them as working with a person, cuz How does a boss interact with a problem? They tell someone else to solve it. And an LLM wont tell them "we cant do that" or "that's a bad idea", so it seems BETTER than a worker.

I have one or two concerns about the recent trend towards "considering and mitigating risk in any way is a cowardly thing only someone who HATES AMERICA AND FREEDOM does".

Absolutely astonishing that the entirety of my child and early adult was filled with handwringing over teen pregnancy and overpopulation. We really hate success, humans.

"I am usually pro-labor but-" Let me stop you right there. You're not actually pro-labor.

completely absurd that this is not always treated as a serious crime, there’s no functional difference between it and someone taking money out of the cash register at work except that one is committed by the boss class

Not sure what the Eisners should do about the current AI predicament they find themselves in, but this petition requesting that guidelines be updated for the future saying any comic using AI will be disqualified from the Eisners seems like a no-brainer. c.org/8N5Ydf8GVS

"Have you tried inventing something that doesn't suck?"

Corrupt union = conservative propaganda against a successful union. Corrupt union doesn’t mean cop union, the most corrupt set of unions in the US. Cop unions have literally run drugs out of their union HQs, have trained their members to perjure, and that’s before money laundering & RICO.

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

Do workers take advantage of rules like this to get triple pay? Of course! Who wouldn't? Could the employer avoid this entirely by just ensuring they had proper staffing levels so this wasn't needed? Absolutely! But they don't. Don't blame workers for employers' failure to do their job correctly.

Is biscuit twice per scuit or once every 2 scuits?

There is an *actual* progressive alternative to Collins and the blackwater merc in Maine.

Lego Joker >>> Leto Joker.

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With Cocaine Is Backfiring Badly bsky.app/profile/futu...

I see that everyone now understands the Labour right deliberately sabotages their party’s electoral prospects with idiotic bullshit and shenanigans whenever they don’t get their way, and that this isn’t an insane conspiracy theory for terrifyingly extreme tinfoil hat crackpots any more.

EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY is a fantastic documentary that chronicles the pitfalls of crypto and the downfall of the fraudsters in the industry, including FTX, Voyager, Genesis and Gemini. I wrote about their collapse. Everyone in the theater clapped at the end, @benmckenzie.bsky.social.

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Seen in Logan Square

Fear of The Other is unfortunately very powerful. 15 years ago a White Replacement Theory conspiracy theorist committed the worst massacre we've seen since WWII and our media has mainly focused on normalising his views in the years since. It's not great.

The Mayor continues to mislead people about the library budget. He didn’t “add” anything and he’s still $97 million short of what he promised. But the folks at @nycplan.org must have the Mayor’s office really worried if they’re working so hard to pretend they love libraries.

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

🗃️ You’re mad that Nolan’s Odyssey includes people of color. I’m mad that Nolan’s Odyssey doesn’t include the insanely tacky rainbow of colors that were used to paint everything in Ancient Greece. We are not the same.

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