I did the wedding of an Adobe guy, and he told me Acrobat crashes because no one at the company gets promoted for maintaining existing products so they don't break. You only succeed if you come up with new stuff.
Andrew@ajvanv.bsky.social · 3mo agoI use Adobe Acrobat at work. The old version of Acrobat at a previous position worked so much better. The new subscription version is always broken. Updates that fix one issue cause another. It crashes constantly and is ceaselessly pushing its AI features on me.
i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · 6mo agoVC, founder, dumbass
I wrote about Alex Pretti's death, asking a specific question: What is the point?
Opinion | The real reason Trump and MAGA are so quick to blame Minneapolis shooting victims
Philip Bump: Alex Pretti and Renee Good were immediately vilified — and their killings at the hands of the state justified — by the Trump administration and its supporters.
ms.now
Googling to find out if it’s good that the government is doing war crimes I’ve never even heard of before
NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:
Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it’s true.
It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories. Either way, Americans need to know.
thehandbasket.co
We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
thehandbasket.co
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?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoQ: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.
larry@larrrrrry.bsky.social · 10mo agoher advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character
Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12mo agoIt's funny whenever centrist Democrats complain that progressive politicians sound like they are "at a college campus" or whatever. The left says things like "Everyone should have free health care," while centrists put forth means-tested kludges that you need a postgrad degree to understand.
Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 12mo ago$170 billion could end homelessness. It could fund Head Start or pay for nutritious school meals for our kids for well over a decade. But it’s instead going to Stephen Miller so he can build his mass deportation army to target our immigrant neighbors: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-mi...
From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
The Second Gilded Age Is Resembling the First
It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.
prospect.org
![A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets
My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3vj3sznbplg35cnfx4dtvss/bafkreig2ukd3sswlxg2g3py5t23jjs6dzdizqk67wuw7ddrdv6wgrgbjpi)
I watched the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics. badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
It's One Long Joke
"[Fascists] are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."
badfaithtimes.com
People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government. Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Nancy Pelosi characterizes the Epstein scandal and seeming coverup as "a distraction" from kitchen table issues
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last yr.While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
slate.com
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.Wow — New Gallup poll: — Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!) — Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall) — 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024) — 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
