Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, just said on @meetthepress.com that @abdulelsayed.bsky.social should "...not be a chameleon, changing his spots." Mix metaphors much? 🤣
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I would like to hear someone respond to a Trump supporter by saying, "Well, that's just fellatio reasoning on your part." When the Trumpist (maybe a Scott Jennings?) stops to correct them by saying, "I think you mean 'fallacious'?" They should just smile and say, "Did I?"
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Just "Wow!" The GOP desperation to avoid the electorate is breathtaking!! #ItHasHappenedHere
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d agoRight on cue, the Texas GOP moves to make it as difficult as possible to vote, especially in precincts across the state where the majority of voters are Democrats. If approved, the third-most populous county in Texas will scrap 92 polling stations just weeks ahead of the midterm election.
The #NerdReich could not have existed without fifty years of neoliberalism and the concentrations of wealth it has made possible. Read @gilduran.com book, then read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and Hutchison's book.
Consciousness is not a probability-based algorithmic model, nor will it ever be. AI has as much consciousness as a Magic 8 Ball. Self propagating AI is a feedback loop based on its last calculation.
@edzitron.com OpenAI's desperation for the appearance of having an ROI is getting hilariously embarrassing. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/31/o...
OpenAI's ad business shows blistering growth, hits $1 billion annualized revenue run rate
OpenAI's move to serve ads in ChatGPT earlier this year drew ridicule from its chief rival, Anthropic, in the form of a Super Bowl commercial.
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"They" want us to believe LLMs are transformative/existential threat and vaccines are ineffective/outright dangerous. Cui bono? 🤔
Fantastic! And, apropos!! #ItHasHappenedHere
Grandiloquent Word of the Day@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 3d agoPoliticaster (n.) - A petty, ineffectual, or contemptible politician; one ill-suited to statesmanship or political office. “The electorate had barely rid itself of one politicaster before another emerged, swollen with ambition and magnificently unencumbered by either competence or principle.”
Watching This Week. Kevin McCarthy and Chris Christie are arguing that Democrats are weak this election cycle because they are criticizing their own. Have you been watching Democrats the last 60 years? 🤣 Unsurprising Republicans think criticizing their own team or The Great Leader makes one weak.
I've decided this afternoon that I will not be happy until the wealthy return all the money they have saved in taxes over the last fifty years. I want tax rates so high on the top ten percent that they have to sell shit to pay their taxes! #TaxTheRich #FeedThePoor #RichNoMore
This was a great video on Brave New World, but they failed to address the chief theme of all dystopian literature: the sacrifice of individuality on the altar of civilization. jeffirvinphd.substack.com/p/our-dystop...
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The good old "the actual harms you are seeing & experiencing are a distraction from what will happen with the magical machine god (that's coming around any day now) argument." Its so interesting to see how when they see the public isn't falling for this bullshit anymore they peddle it even more.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6d agoAI systems are at risk of becoming dangerously powerful—and there may be only one way to control the technology’s development, Rogé Karma argues: theatln.tc/j3zw1Ys4 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
I can't believe I'm wholeheartedly endorsing an opinion from James Carville! 🤯 On this issue he's exactly right. The only meetings we should have with these people is in a public oversight hearing or where they are giving depositions under oath. #ItHasHappenedHere
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.CARVILLE to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: “One thing all Dems agree on— You do not meet with them. F*ck these people. Any business we have with them will be subject to you under oath.” That Jeffries couldn’t predict this reaction says it all about how out of touch he is with voters. (not donors🤔)
It's clear that the primary purpose of this economic action is to draw in actors who were unwilling to support the surprise unilateral military action of the U.S. and then to blame any future failure on this "Coalition of the Coerced." #ItHasHappenedHere
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on Iran: "We already beat them down with the best military in the world. Now it's time to take their money."
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
The laughable part of this is that Jeffries likely views this as an admission of House control next year and a confirmation that he will be speaker. The irony is that the meeting has just made the latter less likely.
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Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · last wk.The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
When 47 86's her because he thinks her too much of a liability, I have this image of Natalie playing this song on repeat while bundled up on a couch, the curtains closed, flicking a lamp on and off at random. Nothing Compares 2 U share.google/Y3txzOlxqZvu...
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Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2w agoNatalie Harp sprints after Trump's golf cart in newly unearthed image.
Will the October Surprise for Republicans be Chinese oil purchases beginning in September to refill their reserves?
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All I need to know about The Clarity Act is that it is an attempt to regulate something that should not exist. #CryptoGrift Everyone Is Lying to You for Money share.google/7kDm3pGeIfx6...
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Waiting for someone to do a "Travels with Natalie" parody. 😁
Who could have seen this coming? 🤔 #PervertGlasses
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
There is an explanation for this, the destruction of public education, the dismantling of the welfare state, cryptocurrencies, and AI (LLMs): Capitalism is dying but seeks to prolong its existence by opening new markets into public spaces. One might say the same for religion in America. #Nones
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Trump administration will move forward with plans to open 45,000,000 acres of national forests to road paving and logging.
The Trump Administration is as concerned with addressing antisemitism as they are addressing the sex trafficking of children. #EpsteinFiles #PedoDon
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 2w agoYou don't say... www.ms.now/news/frame-u...
The Godfather, a decent flick but nowhere near worth all its accolades.
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Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco!@ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 2w agoWhats a movie everyone fucking loves that you despise? It doesnt have to be objectively bad, you just objectively DID NOT. Heres one for me since Ive been on a Barbara Loden kick lately-
I propose we lock Gingrich and Carville in a room with no access to the internet and let them pretend it's still 1992 and anyone still gives a shit about their opinions
Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · 2w agoHow dare someone insinuate a powerful married man has an inappropriate relationship with one of his staffers
Administration to Ossoff: "You sank my battleship!"
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoOssoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
Convergence the next twelve months? * Super El Nino--flooding, drought, food supply * $120 a barrel oil--inflation * Bursting AI Bubble--deflation * Continuing war in Middle East and Ukraine--genocide, human suffering, dislocation, escalation Rugged individualism and hyper-capitalism won't help.
Were Flaubert ("Madame Bovary") and Tolstoy ("Anna Karenina") early explorers of the psychology of upper middle class women, much in the same way Bettie Friedan explored the loneliness and boredom of trad wifery in her book "The Feminine Mystique"? 🤔