Not measuring the true impact of a policy change IS ignoring the possible harms of well-meaning policy. We should decide how much weight to give those hurt by a policy rather than have that done for us.

Obviously. My point is that the losing side has to be quantified for a fair assessment.

Yeah, I don't listen to women, I just vote for them, Hillary and Harris. Your insane takes on people are why Trump won. Take a chill pill and look around you.

All this talk about MTG and her possible changes in position makes me wonder why it should matter. I would assume that most of those commenting would never vote for her no matter the office she seeks. I certainly would not.

For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.

I'm surprised to see this kind of thing in 2025. Anyone who thinks the OS or the programming language one uses makes a good programmer is himself not a good programmer. www.yegor256.com/2025/10/05/w...

Oh my god lol This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

Excellent article by @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social taking issue with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social‬'s recent “[Charlie] Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way” article. As Grossman says, the MSM "are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith". This is exactly the problem.

A good rant on science criticism from Sabine Hossenfelder. youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM...

Any journalists thinking of writing about AI should read this excellent article by Melanie Mitchell first. aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

So much for Charlie Kirk being against political violence. They are all liars! Every single one of them!

But also:

Er, no he wasn't. Free speech but hateful, lying, lacking good-faith argument, and promoted violence. He had the right to do it but we do not have to like it or honor it. Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Every Democrat should listen to this podcast. It shows why Dems are losing right now: youtu.be/SJHNayq91Rs...

Ukraine and the West should be thinking up excuses for Putin to withdraw from the war he started. I can't think of any good ones but my hope is smarter minds can come up with some. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

A new publication. I'm interested to see what they have to say. The Argument www.theargumentmag.com

This is right! The Democrats Are Losing Voters — But They Don’t Really Want to Hear Why www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-democr...

"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.

Short answer: yes, it does. popular.info/p/does-trump...

Is Trump trying to make America less attractive to immigrants by making its citizens poorer, destroying its health and educational systems, and generally making it a nastier place to live for non-rich folk? Sure seems like it.

An excellent debate! youtu.be/Mq_-WNRwcjc...

Jane Goodall Returns From Latest Expedition With Annoying Chimp Accent theonion.com/jane-go...

This is important!

May it rain on the stupid military parade! #NoKings

Musk will undoubtedly point out that giving rich people a tax break, throwing people off Medicaid, and increasing the debt were NOT what voters wanted. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Except that David Pogue is a science and technology journalist so Musk's response is not totally out of line, regardless of what we might prefer.

This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it

Such a smart person is fooled by ChatGPT. How embarrassing. No, don't believe the hype. www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

AI is not coming to take your jobs. Not this AI anyway.

But the automobile was the death knell for buggy whips. techxplore.com/news/2025-04...

Trump's "respect" for the Supreme Court is part of his excuse for disrespecting lower courts.

Pretty, but a distinct McDonald's vibe.

I guess one is being too cautious on Bluesky if one doesn't get blocked by a few people. Happy to say I don't have that problem.

This is our country now. So sad. youtu.be/fZXS-BerWz0?...

The GOP disease of not accepting decisions or votes in which they lose has spread to judges. His argument amounts to the typical gun nut defense. If you ban this particular kind of gun, you could use the same argument to ban all guns. I'd be fine with that. youtu.be/DMC7Ntd4d4c?...

NASA is streaming a crew from the ISS on SpaceX Dragon. When the announcers said that they were landing in the "Gulf of America", the chat on the YouTube stream exploded. It would have been comical if it hadn't been so embarrassing for NASA and the country.

Watch this morning's Fareed Zakaria GPS show. Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein are on to discuss their new book, "Abundance" and have an excellent take on what Dems need to do and where they should take the country. Derek Thompson for President, as Fareed hints at the end of the segment.

Pale Trump Boys Ask When They Can Stop Giving Uncle Elon Blood theonion.com/pale-trump-b...

Could the stories told by fired federal workers, telling what they did in their job and why it was important, convince the average Republican voter that government is vital and necessary to our way of life? One can only hope.

Just found out my 31 yo nephew isn't sure the 1969 moon landing was real. He doesn't believe that it could have been done with the technology available at the time. I asked him to give an example of a missing technology that would have prevented it. Of course, he had no answer. So dumb.

Fareed Zakaria is using a word for Trump's Ukraine policy that I haven't heard others using much: "surrender". This is really what Trump is doing. Perhaps this word will get voters' attention. #ukraine #surrender

I really dislike it when people nominally on my side in the current US political battle fight by labeling their friends and enemies in terms of tribe membership, rather than simply explaining why the other side has bad ideas. Tribalism run amuck is largely how we got here.

Did we need a physicist to explain this? When one wing gets ripped off, the other wing's lift is enough to flip the plane over. techxplore.com/news/2025-02...

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social This is an awesome idea!

It has occurred to me that, while we do what we can to fight Trump in the next 4 years, our attention should be directed toward reforming the Democratic Party. We should not accept the dull array of politicians and ideas that it has offered us since Obama days. Its platform needs to be rebuilt.

I still don't get why there is no Mark All Read button in the Saved/Read Later section. I can mark each item as "read" via its "save" button. The unwritten rules of good UI say that if you can do something to all items individually, you should be able to do it collectively. @inoreader.bsky.social

A refreshing definition of cognition as computation. #AI #brain philosophyofbrains.com/2025/02/05/1...

@varzilthegood.bsky.social Hi Neil. I read your article on how vendors need to make 2-factor authentication easy for it to be successful. I have a story of one vendor, Microsoft, who is making it hard. I have a Microsoft 365 account that hosts emails, contacts, calendar items, etc. 1/4