I’ve never seen anyone use the word “cuck” whose opinions were worth anything.

Someone could write a book about this. White people are pretty clueless about non-white prejudice against other non-whites. The Trump team seems to have kind of lucked into exploiting those prejudices accidentally.

One of the “south texas hispanic moderates” Matt creams himself over is in fact running anti-ICE ads!

Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)@purrtah.bsky.social · 20h ago

Why Matt in particular is a awful person to have so much clout with elites is because he comes at “follow the data, the vaunted data” and then just lies

This time with less snark: basically nothing I've ever said negative about DSA applies to the SMC, and contrarywise about anything positive I've said about DSA (though not exclusively SMC) If you want the decent people at DSA to succeed, might I suggest 👇

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2d ago

And if you're a new member or an existing one, vote SMC. We have a world to win, and we don't have time for sectarian nonsense or infiltration by reactionary cranks who own dressage horses and hate the poor.

"Democrats will hear the intent of my vote" continues to be one of the most baffling failure modes imaginable, and also remarkably common

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social · 18h ago

oh my god

If you call Yair Wallach a "liberal Zionist" you are a pest at best

I really do not think the average american has had the true depravity of the trump admin sink in for them. Anyone saying shit about a "uniparty" should be treated as if they just spat on a mass grave

Transphobia is misogyny with a coat of paint.

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

I love how NBC writes that taking the vote of someone away is a win for one of the political parties without a drop of irony

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules student IDs can’t be used to vote in New Hampshire, a win for the GOP in a Senate battleground.

the people who are like "brad lander flew across the world to get arrested by a famously lethal army just for a photo op" sound like they frequently slip on banana peels

The best thing is, it works

This mf'er said Pen Paxton

Well that was a dumb reason to be suspended.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm back.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

The thing about America that people don’t realize is that ‘small government’ often results in a really bloated public sector in a lot of ways, because you have a million little jurisdictions. And many of them employ men with guns (tho a lot are just security guards that can arrest you).

Keep these things and possibilities and explanations in mind before going Blueanon Team trump and his party are trying to rig the election and future elections in so many real horrible ways that you should not lose focus by entertaining rumors or misunderstanding

Laura Seay@texasinafrica.bsky.social · 2d ago

Something to know about these voting machines: when those w/long acrylic nails tap the candidate that they want with their finger, at the same time, their nail can tap the candidate above that name in the list. So it looks to them like the machine changed their vote, but in fact, it's user error.

"No, no, it's good for left wing politicians to use 'cuck' as an insult" Again, the most important thing to know about dirtbag leftists isn't that they're leftists it's that they're dirtbags. Don't support dirtbags.

GOP going after the "my kids cut me off because my husband raped them" demographic pretty hard. I'm sure it'll be popular in rural nursing homes.

Of course, the sexual predator in chief defends mocking 12 year old rape victims

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

The president of the united states comes out in favor of a mother helping their husband indicted for child sex abuse abscond from justice and then trash their daughter as a liar after the fact bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

22. TX Congressman Greg Casar said “our committees need to be doing oversight both into the Trump administration, but I think even more importantly or equally importantly, into the corporations and ultrarich people who have tried to corrupt our government. And, of course, Elon Musk is on that list.”

The article notes that the guy won't vote for Byron Donalds because he "has been dismissive of younger voters." It does not note he is a Fishback supporter. And if you know anything about Fishback, its reasonable to infer his opposition to Donalds might be for other reasons (you know the ones).

This kind of thinking and explicit advertising makes me even more nervous about how AI tools will be weaponized against smart, ambitious, non-white women in many different workplaces.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3d ago

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

siri: what’s a streisand effect?

imo autolinkers should never use the list of TLDs when deciding whether to something a link. it changes over time (remember the disaster that was .zip?), and users don't know 99% of them anyway. to a normal person, the fact that "this.is" autolinks while "this.of" does not, is totally absurd.

"<word>.<word>" by itself should NEVER EVER automatically become a link. this can direct tons of people to malicious websites that squat common typos and filenames. a valid and intentionally-posted link will always have at least one slash in it. "example.com/..." or "http://example.com" etc.

I really just can't stress enough that "take the average error of previous observations and apply it to current observations" is just not how statistics work lmao