:audience groans audibly:

Have you ever wanted an assistant built into your social media composer that understands your personal style? Well, you're in luck because shadowsky.io now features a magic Feedback button that can improve your spelling, match your unique voice, and make your posts better.

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office. Democrats swept all 13. That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular). They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

In honor of the day, I turned this idea into an infographic. One of the ways I look at this: a Democrat is going to be called 'a radical leftie' no matter what their views are and Republicans will succeed in manipulating issue salience. In the upper right, you at least stop looking defensive.

This is bad news for the future investigation into Coverd. bsky.app/profile/stru... One of the three probes is in a similarly predatory personal finance app, EarnIn.

Hey siri draw me a picture of lock tight wage discrimination case

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums. He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up. How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

So the tariff is charged on the *consumer*? That changes everything I thought I knew about how tariffs work.

They’ve all gone mad. Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

"We’re going to do everything we can” she said “to protect the ability of election administrators to carry out a free & fair elections, to make sure that every citizen has an opportunity to vote without fear or intimidation and that those votes are properly counted.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

I know there's a lot going on, but occasionally it's good to remind people that billions of animals suffer in crazy conditions in factory farms. In the U.S. it's gotten worse / denser in recent yrs, contrary to popular conception. https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/11/01/factory-farming-is-a-blight/

Nobody Gets This

Seth Meyers is someone who is being recognized more and more these days.

This dystopia is brought to you by a16z, the firm that is against ethics.

all he’s missing here is a plaque saying “live love let them eat cake”

Jamelle has a good example here (the pic is the same as the link) Some data when you have none can be helpful as a candidate or party - there are going to be some signals you want to respond to. But when you *target* data, it's going too far, creating bad outcomes. 1/2 bsky.app/profile/jame...

Systems either die young or live long enough to be corrupted.

This is correct. People take everything that has happened as evidence of progressive overreach, but it’s really evidence that shameless lying and media manipulation works fantastically and nobody will stop you.

When people tell you who they are, remember.

oh no all my skeets are belong to base

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

This is honestly the bare minimum of what constitutes our democracy. We’re quite literally back to taxation (and appropriation) without representation.

+1. The speaker won’t call it to session, and won’t swear in a vote determining member. We’re just doing House of Representatives theater now, and it’s been intermission for a while.

The president got his feelings hurt, so we're doing 10% more tariffs on Canada. Joke of an administration.

sounds like xitter really took a tumblr lately

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

this was going viral YESTERDAY

Everyone is fixated on the children’s hospital thing but “children weren’t sick” is by far the more ignorant statement. Children dying used to be horrifically more common, even in America and even in Rob’s time.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

"DraftKings gets into the derivates market" is some grim shit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Ok TIL planter is a dem and not a republican. I apologize for how stupid this post was given that and I simply cannot believe he hasn’t dropped out already. Literally it was inconceivable to me.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Something I often say is the Dems have too many purity tests, but the GOP not enough. This is a great example. A lot of people confuse taboos with censorship, when really taboos are part of what keep a healthy society from seeking or needing censorship. The key is to maintain a good balance.

The integrated AI editor in gmail lately is really amazing, but it is also giving me a clear complex about my writing being technically atrocious.

This is Herman. He learned how to eat corn on the cob today. And within 11 seconds, he became an expert. 13/10 (TT: devonjohnson07)

On top of being deeply, unforgivably rotten and amoral, it will not surprise you in the slightest that the brain geniuses at Sequoia are too stupid to have an understanding of free speech you can get from 10 seconds reading xkcd. www.ft.com/content/8e6d... h/t @shadow.hedgie.social

Do we have a congress still?

What’s different about this shutdown? In past ones, Congress passed enough bills to keep parts of the gov running. This time, none. Economists say it’s trimming 0.1–0.2% of annual growth each week, about $7.6 to $15.2 billion lost weekly in stalled work and unpaid hours. Ouch.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

I agree with David but also I feel a lot of these takes misattribute the power of grievance and frankly lying to the power of style or entertaining. “They have caused all your problems and only I can save you” is just a really appealing message. The ‘Joe Rogan of the left’ won’t do that.

We could have had Banks, but I think we’re going Gibson.

It’s good that we have the holiday, but personally I don’t love having a king the other 364 days a year.

With all these puffed up frogs infesting our blue cities, it’s high time Trump gets serious about his campaign promise to fight inflation.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Benioff retracted and apologized www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

l'arc de Trumpf (apologies for using blue-crew type language but it's right there.)

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Hats off to Ron Conway. I’d love to see more of this in the tech community. Call them out, walk away, don’t pretend they said something remotely acceptable.

Everyone knows we have nothing to worry about as long as we still “have elections” right?