please stop replying “skill issue” on all my posts
David Kaib
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Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d agoi have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise
Just passed roughly 37 cops / troops who had pulled over a single car.
with apologies to the young man who left his extremely well-curated spotify account logged in on the hotel tv: if my daughter didn’t hear elmo’s alphabet rap we were all going to die
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Melat Kiros and Darializa Avila Chevalier (the latter two are PhD candidates) examples of academics who successfully went out of the ivory tower and talked to regular people and resonated with them. but you'll never hear of this as an example of higher ed being engaged.
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew 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.
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The entire Republican Party, and a chunk of the Democratic Party, have a direct interest in convincing you that conservative wins are a mandate and anything else is not.
Ganz has a line about the importance of engaging people’s time, energy and creativity, or something like that. But I can’t find the quote.
guy who learns to get around the bay area on public transit using the rancid songs about taking the bus
DEREK HILL GRAND SLAM. SCOTT FRANZKE. Franzke: Phillies don't have a grand slam still yet this season LA: Now would be a good time
We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
My general sense right now is that it is most successful as an ideological project. It exploited media fragmentation, then accelerated it, and is closing in on capturing and institutionalizing the resulting chaos. Pretty successful capturing courts, if you consider that an ideological project too.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d agoSomething I think that underlies a lot of debates within the Democratic party and center-left right now is whether or not you think Trumpism has been successful as a political and ideological project. (Not, obviously, whether it's been good or not).
I'm proposing a bookclub on this list by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on fighting back on data politics (term coined by Tressie). A couple of other books I'm going to add is, "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna & "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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So called misinformation thrives when people lack trusted information. Why do liars lie is not the right question. Why is the context so favorable to liars ow a better one.
I think the worse-on-purpose story about how Pyrex stopped being borosilicate glass in favour of cheaper, worse, but passable alternatives is relevant. No one got a choice except the execs who could work out manufacturing to make borosilicate cheaper for more or just exploit branding and marketing.
i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.
Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d agoAh, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
My platform for mayor is simple. I will deputize teens to be cops, thus ending the scourge of teen takeovers and replacing them with cop communes.
Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 3d agoAlexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
We taught Miles how to ride a bike today. We also had to deal with an old man mad that we had them practicing in a school parking lot while he drove his monster truck. Once again, kids exist and have a right to take up space. Also, get rid of those damn monster trucks. None of you need that.