still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
$3? Tell me you’ve never been to California…
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoSecretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Sunday that gasoline prices in the U.S. had probably peaked but acknowledged that they could remain elevated for months, undermining President Trump’s earlier claim that high fuel prices would be “short-term.”
If you enjoy what I write, and you should because you are incredibly smart and very beautiful, you should get yourself a copy of my new book. People will come to your house, see it, and think you are troubled, but interesting. That’s the sweet spot. www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...
NASA is one of the best things about this country. Hope. Innovation. Exploration. Wonder. Give them, the post office, and the national parks service all the money from ICE
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · 12mo agoThe Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.” www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
Tomorrow is May Day, when everyone in the world—except in the US—celebrates worker’s rights based on something that happened in the US. Literally all your civil rights and freedoms exist because someone sometime said “fuck this shit” and fought to make it better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymark...
Haymarket affair - Wikipedia
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The protests are not for Trump to see, they are so you can all see each other and grow. It's not the protest itself that tyrants are afraid of, but the networks and community you can grow from them. Your strength is your unity and that's why the enemy thrives by demoralizing and dividing you. #3E
“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.” Is equivalent to asking “Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.” www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
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"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy.
I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.
“progressive politics is making men angry” really isn’t the same as “right-wing media capture is telling those men to be angry.” it’s the second one. if we seize the levers of info power, a lot can change
we don’t talk enough about this. stop discussing our relationship i want to talk about this.
It's going to be a wild few years of an absolutely unusable internet while the CEOs realize that trying to mug every user at every level while also having AI generate all their content isn't 100% feasible.
