You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

The conflation of LLMs with other things called AI (like chess engines that are actually amazing at playing chess) is one of the biggest contributing factors to how fucked up everything is. So many people believe LLMs think.

These men take these jobs because they like to abuse women. This is not an aberration - it’s what cops do.

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 8mo ago

An ICE agent in Minneapolis pinned a pregnant woman’s face into the snow and knelt on her body. She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

How is this not an @theonion.com headline?

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 10mo ago

The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have. enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 11mo ago

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

Most home runs in a season, made multiple pitching starts, MLB history: 2025 Shohei Ohtani: 53 2021 Shohei Ohtani: 46 2023 Shohei Ohtani: 44 2022 Shohei Ohtani: 34

Things have been a deep kind of dark for a while, but this is… this a different thing. My ray of absurd hope in all of this is that the censuring of jimmy goddam kimmel of all people seems to have been the additive needed to cross a significant normie "WTF is happening" threshold. So there's that.

What else do you need, I mean? Is it just because people REALLY don't want to listen to their victims?

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Is that what he is doing? Fighting crime? Phew. I thought he was using federal power to assert power over the country’s capital

Boiling the frog works. Martial law being declared in the nation's capital city is barely a trending topic and we're not even through the first year of the administration.

It’s been really surprising to me how many people don’t know how bad Substack is. If that’s you, no worries, check it out: leavesubstack.com

Now the debate is about which Nazi party is more fiscally conservative.

Sorry, Mamdani has seized the memes of production

Is there an AI for taking all the tissues out of my clothes' pockets before running the wash?

More to the point, it's not just "religion" that works like this. How you know something (epistemology) and what things are real (ontology) are core philosophies of science just as much as they are of "belief."

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

And that's been what's wrong with so much of how NYT and other anti-trans media have approached this: they're acting like trans people are making demands for MORE rights when we're really mostly just asking for our EXISTING rights to not go away. It's a sleight of hand. They know what they're doing.

Anil gets it. A lot of critics are still in their "put the toothpaste back in the tube" phase with AI. We are well past that. We have to address what it is today. But I also know that telling people this doesn't actually help them get past that phase.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last yr.

We’re all on Bluesky because we think a better alternative was a good thing, instead of just saying “social media sucks”. Instead of just saying “all AI is useless”, saying “some folks find some utility here, so we should offer ethical, sustainable alternatives pretty fast” is the best option.

Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Politico@politico.com · last yr.

EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

acab doesn't mean "every single cop is a demonic murderer;" it means "being a cop necessitates abandoning your morals at the door bc the institution of policing is so corrupt and oppressive as to be abhorrent to any good person." so saying "well some cops are okay ppl" misses the point entirely.

a “blind spot running through all of Abundance’s anecdotes: the limits of the private sector. The primary conceit is that in many areas, the private sector is ready to invest…if politicians would only lift public barriers…There is little evidence that is true.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

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