Nate Hashem
@violetvelafiles.com
Mostly a politics reply guy. If you like Batman colored pencil art and/or fanfic, check mine out here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/violetvelafiles
What’s amazing is nowhere in the story does the person in question actually outright state he doesn’t still support Trump lol
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoHe voted for President Trump three times. He never imagined the immigration policies he supported would ensnare his own wife. Read more: nyti.ms/3SDOyhV
"The social justice game has simple rules. I propose some change to society You associate me or my proposal with some real or imagined harm to a marginalized person I lose the game" www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...
In Praise of Wokeness
Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.
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I'm obviously biased here, but I think this is a really good sort of tip-of-the-iceberg take on agentic AI in a traditional application. It's basically intelligent automation, like workflows but bespoke each time. The real world is catching up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFp...
Deep Dive into the New AI Assistant in Adobe Premiere!
YouTube video by Kylee Peña
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Behind-the-scenes: drawing Poison Ivy fresh out of the grave, no say in her wardrobe. I wanted shorts that really clash, and the Knicks had just bounced the Hawks, so: blue & orange. Loud, mismatched, perfect. 🧡💙 Congrats NYK! (to read more about the shorts: archiveofourown.org/works/85487321)
difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations
Mike McMahan@mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
talarico is going to be forced by attack ads to spend all of his time hanging out with his hot girlfriend and eating central texas barbecue
You start out in 2024 by saying, "clanker, clanker, clanker." By 2026 you can't say "clanker" — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, stochastic parrot, next-token predictor, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract.
For a long time I was trying to get state CA reps to look into 4o. It's really important to understand how it happened! System prompt? Training set? Sam Altman fuckery? Also IMO, "4o toned" AI that just didn't engage in delusions of grandeur and violence - I think would be useful.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4mo ago3) AI psychosis is less of a problem than it looked for a minute like it might be with 4o. good god that was bad. keep an eye on this because i'm not actually sure we correctly identified the problems with 4o such that we can avoid them in future.
The reason the Border Patrol is like this is that they have been allowed to operate outside the law for decades as marcher lords, with an ingrained and hereditary culture of brutality.
Latest negotiations over Woke 2.0 Accords are showing progress, although diplomats caution there is still a long way to go. The mood is cautious optimism as Dave Chapelle, Bill Burr, and Jon Stewart have been tapped for the next round of negotiations, over "Permissive Use of Light Slurs."
HBO Is Making A Police Version Of ‘The Pitt,’ ‘American Blue’
The Pitt has inspired HBO to make another series in that vein, this time a cop series called American Blue starring a big actor.
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Nate Hashem@violetvelafiles.com · 8mo agoHonestly I think we're there already, it's like a frozen conflict. The LOC hasn't moved much since 2023. Hollywood just needs to make The Pitt, But It's A Police Department and seal the accord.
If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7mo agoI’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
Common Core significantly revised how addition, subtraction, and multiplication are taught. But bizarrely made very few changes to how kids are taught division, and here's my little rant for the night about it:
Nate Hashem@violetvelafiles.com · 7mo agoLong multiplication is fine because the individual operations are just "short multiplication." 57,238 x 622 is still doing 2x8, 2x3, etc. Long division is garbage though, the "algorithm" we were all taught is just way more error prone because you can't deconstruct it to single digit operations.
I've said it before but as someone who is optimistic on net about LLMs as AI tools, companies grafting "AI" to consumer products has been so toxic. The average person isn't using Claude Code or even ChatGPT, all they know is that the print icon for Word has moved, replaced with a huge "AI" icon.
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 8mo agoold way: start > run > notepad.exe new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"
I was convinced this was happening when Trump kept saying Chicago was delighted by the ICE/BCP/natl guard invasion, and kept referencing 'black women wearing MAGA hats.' www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Trump Keeps Pushing This Baffling Narrative About Black Women — Experts Explain Why That Is
One political science professor breaks down why Trump's decision to repeatedly insert Black women in conversations in front of cameras is a "deliberate political tactic."
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Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 8mo agoYou ever wonder if the various scheming viziers around the President are using AI to do “Wag The Dog” for an audience of one?
It's just factually true that the spike in homelessness during the Biden admin was due to generous border policy with asylum seekers, and then Greg Abbott's buses. Some leftists here would rather insult @whstancil.bsky.social or @besttrousers.bsky.social then deal with the policy implications.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe faction of the the left that lives for harassment is just slamming Matt for this, but he’s correct and this has been considered for years a major cause of the recent homelessness spike. Watching people maliciously misread his very short tweet and call him a “Nazi” is something else.
I know a lot of people here thinks Noah Smith is a rabid right-winger now, but he still seems to hate the actual right-wingers.
I had been trying to figure out why ICE abruptly pulled out of Charlotte, and "DHS spending/budget numbers came back for Chicago operations and freaked some people out" is as good a theory as any.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 9mo agoi think people have mostly, finally gotten over the fear that trump's going to deploy DHS troops out to every city in america, what people need to internalize next is that they will not have the money to sustain even their *current* operations within a year and a half
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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Interesting thread on how YIMBY can build "back doors" to eventually build a structure for public/social housing, even as it initially relies on private developers to provide housing supply.
Doll@dollspace.gay · 9mo agoThe "Public Land Bank" Rider The Tactic: In every deregulation bill (e.g., "Legalize 6-plexes"), insert a clause establishing a public land bank or social housing authority with the "Right of first refusal" on distressed assets.
Here's my theory on MTG's heel turn: she was a MAGA True Believer and never got rewarded with a cabinet position, committee chair, or Senate seat, crypto grift, or similar. She sees people much less loyal to MAGA (like JD Vance) getting those rewards, and Trump himself selling out MAGA.
Nate Hashem@violetvelafiles.com · 9mo agoBy 2023 she was Kevin McCarthy's pet MAGA whisperer, since then: - McCarthy dumped - Mike Johnson is paradoxically such a weak speaker, he has no use for her - Trumpland rejects her for a cabinet position - Georgia GOP actively coordinated to discourage her running for Senate
On the whole this hasn't been a great year but imo that's all the more reason to recognize when we have wins that show we are not powerless. Right now, the Trump Administration is basically getting routed and/or in retreat on several key fronts. We are not powerless! We can do things! Consider-
I know it's not the most important thing but it can't believe how sub-literate Epstein is in these emails. At best he's writing like an old Boomer typing an email to his grandson from his @aol email account, at worst it's like the beginning and ending chapters of "Flowers for Algernon."
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9mo agoResponding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30) Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now Would love to see this standardized
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 10mo ago3 GOOD: some real approps working right for the first time in EONS, built based on need & politics, not from toplines. SHALL language on backpay 4 feds. Good anti-RIF language we’d want to see continued 2 BAD: Nothing forces Trump to actually FOLLOW the approps. A vote we could have forced already
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Josh Mankiewicz@joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 10mo agoTrial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
