Only Donald Trump could do this - pause in the middle of prepared comments to question the writing of the person who prepared them while showing he's never stepped out for a half-gallon of milk - and not get absolutely lambasted with criticism for a major gaffe.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4mo agoAmericans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...
The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while
The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis
“There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”
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I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.
Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."
I genuinely think the role of Meta specifically in driving loneliness is underrated. Facebook replaced existing ways of keeping up with friends with what was briefly a great product, then destroyed that product.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · last yr.Bit mad that "website that shows you nice pictures of what your friends are up to" is something Meta increasingly refuses to provide. Stories the last vestige of it
Here is a new way to get upset about stuff that I invented, and some thoughts on contextualizing things that are otherwise hard to comprehend. defector.com/a-dumb-new-w...
A Dumb New Way To Think About The Dismantling Of The Federal Government | Defector
At some level, reading some sort of purpose over or onto the ongoing vandalism of the American state is doing a favor to the vandals. Picture a parent holding a screaming toddler on a crowded bus, loo...
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Shout out to these two guys who kiss when they see themselves on the Vatican livestream
How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.
