But hey, at least you didn't have to write the boring parts of your books, you fucks.

Liz is just so tired.@grief-enduring.bsky.social · 8m ago

I need more ppl to be scared. As I've been bitching, I just lost my job & being replaced w/Ai. That's not the scary part. My job incl handling sensitive, private, medical info plus all your personal info up to SSN. It's all being fed to Ai & Ai is not covered under HIPAA. It's really fucking scary.

I am already exhausted by the pessimism about El-Sayed's chances in the general. either try to help him overcome those stacked odds or stfu, sour grapes.

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Mazel tov to Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Michigan primary! We’re proud to share his progressive vision for a country where all can thrive and afford healthcare. If he wins the general in November, he will break ground as our country’s first-ever Muslim senator.

its gonna be really funny when trump comes in to stump for rogers and spends the entire time talking about how good looking AES is

El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"

Feels like we are gonna be hearing about "Mike from Florida" a whole in the next few months.

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

I want the statement "Black Americans are conservative" to absolutely die in a fire. It's a lie from the pits of hell. Black America's record demonstrates that, as a whole, we are the MOST progressive racial/ethnic demographic in the United States and it's not even close.

"If you came across these headlines as a non-sports fan, it would probably be fair for you to assume that there's a trans woman playing in the WNBA, or at least one at a high level in college." Well said, @laurentheisen.bsky.social. Numerically a nonissue, but manufactured for politics and bigotry.

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are any linguists out here talking about why El-Sayed sounds a lot like Obama to many people?

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

This is huge - it’s Augusta is a small township in Michigan outside Kalamazoo. They wanted to rezone agricultural land to make way for a data center and the folks who lived there voted it down by referendum.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 11h ago

The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

One of the wildest things about this is that Virginia is home to the 2nd highest number of active-duty members of the military (after California). In 2024, the DoD estimated that 1 in 10 active duty military members was assigned to a service location in Virginia.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 7h ago

🏛️ TODAY: Republicans in Virginia want to disenfranchise overseas voters. A state court will hold a hearing on whether to dismiss the RNC’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of allowing overseas U.S. citizens to vote in Virginia elections.

Can’t wait to see how the democratic establishment loses their entire shit tomorrow.

we are at the point where huge swathes of the media sees their only job as getting attention from the public and giving nothing back and you're supposed to juuust tell enough truth that you can't be called an outright liar, just get the click anyhow, it is used car sales masquerading as journalism

Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 7h ago

It’s like how there was that one professor who thought the recent interstellar asteroids were likely to be alien spaceships, and even though the rest of the scientific community disagreed with him, it was reported as “scientist says…”

Really weird to me how incredibly rich white men get to say stuff like "in three to four years we'll be achieving nuclear fusion from honey" and the stock markets go "wow, sounds great bro!" and the news just reports it with maybe a paragraph at the end of "critics say this is unlikely".

I think the more experienced you get, the more it matters who does the research. students do not yet think of knowledge as created and contested by *people*.

Petra Boynton@petraboynton.bsky.social · yesterday

Is there a term for the writing style of novice researchers where they persistently begin sentences with phrases like 'a study by' 'researchers at ___ university show' 'focus groups undertaken by' 'a report for' (I don't mean the occasional descriptor, I mean every new point starting like this)

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 14h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

I think winning a race where you get outspent by like a factor of 10 is a pretty solid outcome all things considered, if you wanted a landslide, I dunno which race you were watching

Politico@politico.com · 10h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Leftists winning popular elections is very divisive. How are you supposed to unify a country with this sort of thing. I ask you.

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

Sadly it is the case that this has been internalized to such an extent that there are otherwise normal people who will look at an online space and wonder what's wrong with it if they aren't seeing people openly discussing 1920s race science right away

I just can't stress enough that this isn't a real thing. What it actually means is *the absence* of some mechanism that artificially normalizes right-wing thought to give it *the appearance* of being on an even footing with what actual normal people think and talk about.

you might think of it as right wing perspectives receiving subsidies in the marketplace of ideas.

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.