How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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uncle baby billy stan. hotelier. tar heels. what would george carlin do?
Religion was invented by big ghost to sell more ghosts.
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
Excatly this 👇 "Existential risk" is being watered down to become an almost meaningless term, like "sustainability" and "sustainable development", and even "resilience".
Perhaps people discount existential risk because there are too many visions of the Apocalypse out there these days. In my lifetime: WMD Apocalypse (Rogue state edn) WMD Apocalypse (Terrorist edn) Climate Apocalypse Cyber Apocalypse Pandemic Apocalypse Nuclear Apocalypse AI Apocalypse
Frog built a wet lab for the AI model. "There," he said. "Now it can do its own experiments." "What the fuck?" said Toad
This is the biggest (potential) problem, unfortunately: Dems win big, take control of both chambers, and then do fuck all with that power. Schumer and Jeffries are not the right people to have in charge for this.
👇🎯 The thing that should have gotten front page coverage, from the very beginning, is that threatening 🇬🇱 & 🇨🇦 was an egregious violation of our NATO treaty commitments & should have immediately ended his presidency.
The credulous coverage of Trump’s claimed “historic deal” in Greenland — which changes nothing of substance about the existing security agreement — is yet another embarrassing instance of the media “treating the kayfabe as real.” Why would a self-respecting reporter participate in this nonsense?
Nationalizing the AI sector might be the best-case scenario, but only after the crash so the taxpayers get the assets at fire sale prices.
Me: [depressed] Dog: [drops ball in my lap] Hey, throw this for me Me: Ok Dog: [fetches ball] HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AWESOME DO IT AGAIN Me: [feels much better]
Important to note: That's not how any of this stuff works.
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
BREAKING: The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.
Yesterday marked 25 years since my dad's passing (pancreatic cancer), and he had a massive book collection we've been holding onto (mainly sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, and lots of non-fiction). We've now begun the long process of dropping them off at various little free libraries in tribute 💜
Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.
I'm worried that Mitch McConnell may be too frail to keep destroying democracy
There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday over the war in Iran. n.pr/4gVcZ3V
Republican Rep. Massie moves to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over Iran war
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday over the war in Iran.
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At this rate Ed Sheeran is gonna be the house band for 60 Minutes
WARREN: You and Kennedy are keeping these pharma deals secret. The companies say they are immaterial. You still want the American people to believe they are a great deal? KLOMP: Billions of dollars have been saved in out-of-pocket transactions— WARREN: Then show me the receipts.
And that worthless husk of a Congressman, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social said he wants to work across the aisle. I'm begging you to quit your fucking job and go write your stupid book. You're killing this country with your toothless horseshit. There won't be a Dem party anymore if he stays
Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."
President Trump, If you still want to win the Nobel Peace Prize, i have a suggestion: Invite Xi Jinping to engage with the US and other global leaders in creating a treaty to reduce AI’s risks to humanity, and ask Barak Obama to moderate the negotiations. They will come and you will be a hero.
There's a tiny house trend of people living in shipping containers. I've spent my entire life trying to end up not living in a shipping container.
Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"
Seriously though are Republicans ever asked about Musk’s support in tandem with quoting his most racist or anti-Semitic tweets?
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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I am always getting these emails that cougars are in my area, but that can't be true, I live in the middle of the city. There can't be that many cougars in this area at all, I'd be amazed if there's even 1.
sure, or you could just use the excellent app “retro” which is a) already sorted & organized by week and b) super, super private https://www.vox.com/advice/494526/photo-dump-friendship
Meta is a swamp futurism.com/artificial-i...
Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.
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