One of the things you should start making peace with now is where your personal line is for how many lives you're willing to exchange for letting Trump knock up some tacky monuments. Would you trade M4A for the big beautiful ballroom? Would you let every SNAP recipient starve to keep it unbuilt?
Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 24h agoProbably gonna get worse these next 2 years since you'll no longer have the moral purity of being in the minority and voting party line against the Put Our Dicks in the Blender Act of 2025. Trump's likely to take the federal government essentially hostage, and some ugly deals may need to be cut.
The thing is: There is no such thing as final victory, nor final defeat. You can never just quit and stop doing politics. Your enemies can regroup and come back just like you did. The price of democracy - of liberty - is eternal vigilance. Celebrate the win today. Get back to work tomorrow.
A total Texas flip wasn't in my wildest dreams. That it is possible - that the Dems have the chance to finally unrig the state - is the most consequential thing that this election can possibly produce, and yes I'm counting impeachments in that
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3d agoI am jaw-dropped. Democrats are leading in enough seats at the moment to flip the Texas state Senate.
For all the shit people talk about the United States and American voters, I'm having a hard time thinking of other countries where people have punished an authoritarian power grab this quickly and decisively at the ballot box
This is incredible. These results are from a +17 diarrhea county.
Yeah. A lot of it is that terminally online people want a constant stream of content that precisely matches their emotional energy. Jeffries and Schumer don't provide that. Trump does do that for his followers, and it contributes to his success.
It's worth bearing in mind that Canada and Russia have roughly the same GDP.
Thomas Seal@twseal.bsky.social · 2mo ago“This is a key part of our plan to build the industrial capacity to produce millions of drones within the next two years,” Carney said. “One third of all the drones we manufacture will go to support Ukraine’s defense of its homeland.”
Until American Dems and marginalized people are reveling in the despairing screams of the redcaps, we will forever feel weak, powerless, and beaten. and to be clear that is AMAZINGLY FUCKED. if elections are civil wars by other means, electoral politics based on pain are atrocity-laden ones
You don't type in a Yorkshire accent, but how do you spell "color"?
Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 2mo agoMinor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.
Everything about this, from the title -- LLM's Can't Jump -- to how Einstein developed relativity to the ultimate conclusion that AI is merely "a sophisticated 'Chinese Room' operation" is delightful. And surprise, authored by someone at Google DeepMind. www.tomzahavy.com/files/llms-c...
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We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...
Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...
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Yeah. Every time someone's like "he's building a bunker so he can stay in there forever!" it's like... so? Being in (under) the White House doesn't make him president. If he wants to live down there Parasite style, we can just let him do that until he runs out of canned beans.
"Genocide is only worth my opposition if the US supports it" is in fact not a moral position. It's a deeply immoral one, and not a strong defense.
A "healthy and functioning democracy" is one where you feel INSPIRED by...fucking politicians? I think you're thinking of consumerism. The way corporations constantly try to make you feel inspired to purchase their consumer products. bsky.app/profile/hamu...
Simply throwing more money at an out-of-control military operation is not strategy. It’s a recipe for a forever war.
Senate Democrats block $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill
Senate Democrats on Tuesday defeated a motion to proceed to the $1.15 trillion annual defense authorization bill, legislation that usually enjoys strong bipartisan support but this year has become …
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Who is "The White Moderate" in MLK's letter? It is not the resistlib or the diehard democrat, it is the person who insists that redlining protects communities
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Desegregation sounds good on paper BUT” is a shockingly common view in left-NIMBY circles
What a relief. Where are they going to find the hundreds of billions of dollars they need?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5mo agoVANCE ON IRAN, NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET A LOT OF MONEY TO REBUILD PROGRAM.
For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5mo agoTexas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says James Talarico is “going to Hell”: “I’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office… He’s going to Hell, for sure.”
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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A big reason why this country is in the state that it is in is that edgy "leftists" would rather teach Democrats a lesson by staying home on Election Day than teach Republicans a lesson by voting for Democrats. And foreign propaganda bots are ubiquitous on social media, encouraging this behavior.
commander shepard: just doing my rounds. what's up mordin solus:
'the middle class really resented the working class doing well because it costs them cheap servants' is very obviously true of the Biden years, it's been confused because the most vocal members of the middle class online somehow wrapped this in leftist language
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6mo agoOnly a true poaster could demonstrate that the vibecession and burrito taxi discourses were actually the same. substack.com/@besttrouser...
really worth remembering that you can fight these people in court and win don't let them intimidate you into preemptive compliance.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoA Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff’s office, his lawyers said. nyti.ms/4tKTI8c
People who want a parliamentary system forget they have produced people like Berlusconi and Bibi and made it almost impossible to get rid of them. Margaret Thatcher ruled the UK for more than 12 years.
The people who can't be bothered to vote every two years demand a lot from Democrats.