New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

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We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

you should be in jail, but instead you are describing an incredibly common abuse dynamic where the victim tries to keep the abuser happy to avoid another explosion this guy makes me sick

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

So exhausted already by the meme that the "tells" of gen AI writing are when something is structurally aping the way a decent professional writer writes, rather than when it's meaningless word salad. (You will take my em dashes, sets of three, and lack of typos from my cold, dead hands.)

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d ago

nothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha

Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.

Oh word, man, for real for real for real... did you want to name one? Like, I'm sure there must be so many wonderful examples, but if you had to choose just one...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

I love that this game exists.

Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · last wk.

Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is out later TODAY on Steam and XBOX Series X|S 🚚💨 store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/... www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...

everybody's talking about the odyssey, but america has a meaty epic poem with countless interpretations all its own: john henry www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-john-henr...

On John Henry, American Epic Poem

It's a nice idea that "This Land Is Your Land" should be our national anthem, a wonderful song full of generous and idealistic sentiment that's actually easy to sing. (That the Star-Spangled Banner sh...

dontrocktheinbox.com

Just amazing that now, in the **United States**, if you’re accosted by an armed and/or masked stranger that might have pulled you over in an unmarked car - by ramming you - you’re supposed to just assume this is law enforcement. WTF

I hope to one day reach the level of gaming industry clout where people ask me for my opinion on shit like physical game discs and layoffs at studios I worked at 25 years ago.

Just an absolute shout out to everyone out there who helped manufacture doubt around the question of this guy being a Nazi, particularly after the Nazi salute.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · last wk.

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Instant classic of the genre

"No matter how bad it got, at least I never idolized a billionaire" Poster spotted in Melbourne

The only way Trump "grieved" Graham was if a little kid made a wish that Trump would have a feeling for a whole day.

Jesse@requiemarm.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a hard time being surprised by the gray lady anymore but LMAO come on man

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal

I fully believe that if there was a filmmaking technology that made pretty colors and loud noises, but you had to feed it orphans every couple of days, Lucas would still support it. And somehow, he'd make world-class actors look like drama-school dropouts in the process.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

It's in our DNA. Cardboard cats 😹😻 #cats #box #besttoyever

programs for computers used to be made by people whose primary goal was to make a good program for the computer

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

GOP Allies Claim They Met With Mitch McConnell Inside Body Bag — theonion.com/gop-allies-c...

GOP Allies Claim They Met With Mitch McConnell Inside Body Bag

WASHINGTON—Relieved that their colleague appeared to be the very same man they’d known for years, allies of Sen. Mitch McConnell told reporters Friday they had recently met with the seven-term Kentuck...

theonion.com

NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here is my full 30 minute interview with the Republican frontrunner for Colorado Governor: youtu.be/KywOV9EkNFg?...

he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him

Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social · 4w ago

President Trump's net job approval of -25 is lower than Joe Biden's net approval at this stage of his presidency, and lower than Biden ever reached. (@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260708-top...