Fake volcano now!

Semafor@semafor.com · 3h ago

Africa’s glaciers have shrunk by more than 90% since the late 19th century. Africa is warming faster than the global average, and a UN climate report said that Mount Kenya’s glaciers are disappearing particularly fast, losing more than half their area in the last decade.

"If voting changed anything they'd try to ban it..."

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"

(It’s cause they didn’t vote for Kamala and desperately want to ease their guilty conscience by showing the libs would have done the same)

Nied@nied.bsky.social · 7h ago

Something I've noticed is that there's a section of the left who've been desperate to find a way to prove VBNMW people are hypocrites. They thought they had it with Fetterman, they thought they had it with Mamdani.

I think I may have posted this before but I ended up using Claude to automate pulling down receipts for my monthly expense report because manually tracking them down was a PITA. This, not trying to replace artists, is the real kind of stuff LLMs are useful for.

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 5h ago

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

If a candidate loses the primary and then the winner goes on to lose the general, that is a data point you need to consider going forward, but it does not imply that the loser of the primary would have in turn won, I hope this has been a helpful recap for everyone.

Amazingly people will criticize this.

Kevin Harrington@dizzyqueenca.bsky.social · 11h ago

I want a free and secure Israel without warmongers like Netanyahu. I want a free and secure Palestine without terrorists like Hamas. I want a free and secure Iran without hate mongers like the Ayatollah. And, I want a free and secure United States without fascists like Trump.

If “party leadership and centrists immediately fall behind El-Sayed to defeat the Republican” does not align with your priors about the Democratic Party you should both reflect on why and also update those priors

enlightening stuff

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 8h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

This is the only Max Miller I trust.

Ancient Roman Jellyfish for the Black Banquet

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

i really think it’s gonna go badly

not breaking new ground with this observation but its so exceedingly clear for a lot of the online left that they just fundamentally do not see Republicans winning elections as a deal breaker

I'm not saying you can identify (some) abusers by their body language and communication style. But I'm not not saying it either.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

Rep. Max Miller on his ex-wife: "It's sad to see that the only person this affects is our daughter, someone I don't think she cares about very much"

Something I've noticed is that there's a section of the left who've been desperate to find a way to prove VBNMW people are hypocrites. They thought they had it with Fetterman, they thought they had it with Mamdani.

Daniel Gilmore@gilmored85.bsky.social · 9h ago

Yes, we 100% saw it with Mamdani last year where the fact that a lot of Cuomo voters/NY Establishment Dems came over after the primary made them furious bc it wrecked their narrative that Dems actually hated the guy & a vote for him was a vote to stick it to the Democratic Party

I honestly think we should look at it as an opportunity to do stimulus. That's a lot of good-paying manufacturing jobs spread out all over the country that we can create.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h ago

I know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.

Its consumerist thinking rather than civic thinking. You arent at the store, you are fulfilling your responsibility to help choose who will represent you in government.

Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 8h ago

"Deserve" and "loyalty" are words that you should not use about countries and politicians generally. Leads to bad thinking.

The Democratic Party is a big coalition with many different tendency

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 10h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Important for all Democrats to unite around the simple truth that it it’s important for Abdul El-Sayed to win his election to help make Chuck Schumer the most powerful Democrat in the country

Chipotle has removed jalapeños from restaurants as officials investigate 110 cases of salmonella potentially tied to the restaurant. This comes after the Trump administration disbanded the DOJ office in charge of food safety enforcement.

*skips past all the flashing warning signs that any veteran with a brain kept saying was a huge no-go* "Oh yeah, the reason was 100% because he was a veteran. Fuck veterans. I hate everybody who served. Let's give the rapist the last word on the matter for fairness tho."

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Anyway silly of me to think that these people wanting to welcome RFK Jr. cultists into the tent is about them fetishizing how Authentic and Populist and Masculine they are over the smoothgroin cringe libs who believe in modern medicine.

There would be some real irony if The American Century of Humiliation gets called off because Trump negatively polarized the US into supporting immigration right as China enters a demographics crunch. Extra points if that dynamic leads to outmigration from China to the US.

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · yesterday

Sure would be awkward if China were facing a demographic crisis that could be easily solved by embracing immigration from Africa but they chose to stoke xenophobia & nationalism instead

I'll add to this: the people who respond to the public popularity of something they dislike with even more sneering and whiny revolutionary posturing fundamentally don't believe in democracy - otherwise, they'd actually try to be persuasive

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social · yesterday

If something is a political impossibility, then it is for all intents and purposes, impossible. The public loves cops. Therefore, cops get to eat half the municipal budget. I’d like it to be different, but it’s kind of a waste of all our times to talk about other budget priorities as if it was.

These videos are so similar to the anti-immigrant and anti-Black ones slopped out by our own nationalist authoritarians that it really feels like the only thing keeping them from uniting as an even greater worldwide menace is their own foundational racism.

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

#EventsDearBoy 4. AGE OF APOCALYPSE (1995, Marvel) Stuck in the diminishing returns of imitating Chris Claremont's labyrinthine subplotting without his flair, the 90s X-Office does the one thing he never tried: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

#EventsDearBoy 5. DC ONE MILLION (1998, DC) This is the Grant Morrison event where they play nicely with others, crafting a fantastical future for the DC Universe and opening its gates for other creators to have fun with. And they do - no other event has such an excellent tie-in hit-rate

The thing that drives me up the fucking wall about this line of apologia for MAHA is that MAHA's strongest soldiers are not the desperately poor and uninsured, they're rich douchebags who shop at Whole Foods if Erehwon is unavailable.

Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM