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FACT SHEET: Two Years after the CHIPS and Science Act, Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates Historic Achievements in Bringing Semiconductor Supply Chains Home, Creating Jobs, Supporting Innovation, ... Companies have announced $395+ billion in investments in semiconductors and electronics and the creation of over 115,000 jobs since President Biden and

I bet they won’t blame this one on Biden. From AUGUST 2024, referring to the Chips Act passed in 2022

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Big Freedia Is Ready to Take San Francisco to Church | KQED The Queen Diva will celebrate her new gospel album, ‘Pressing Onward,’ at Outside Lands and Oasis.

Sunday with the @sfgmc.bsky.social — come see us at Outside Lands www.kqed.org/arts/1397949...

Not me reading this at 5:30am while suffering from insomnia. Going to hug a pillow and try to get back to sleep…

Arguably the greatest thing ever committed to print

Oh fuck that’s depressing

Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff

See you can't just say "America has fallen." You have to ease people into it, kindly. So when people ask how things are going you start out like "well, Trump went up on the roof today but I'm sure it will be okay. ".

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

mariah carey is wearing trans colors and a jacket that says "protect the dolls" on the back at Brighton pride tonight 🤌

A stage seen from a distance. There is a light fog and the stage lights are projecting psychedelic rays into the night sky

The Hrateful Dead and @karlthefog.bsky.social is here for it. What a chill way to spend a Friday night

People taking pictures of…
A stranger taking a picture from the top of Dolores park. San Francisco in the distance is covered in a light mist

Even posting about it feels performative and useless because everybody sees that Palestinians are being slaughtered for sport and no one with the power to stop it cares.

A red baseball cap with the words “make Coke Mexican again”

With Trump wanting them to put Cane Sugar back in Coke, did anyone else immediately think of this, or was it just me? #MakeCokeMexicanAgain

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

A note on satire Luigi: the Musical is a satirical work of fiction, While it may reference real individuals, events, or institutions, all characters, scenarios, and portrayals are exaggerated for comedic and critical purposes, and there is no affiliation between the authors or producers of this work and any depicted individual or organization. The creators of this production do not claim that any depiction reflects actual events, behaviors, or viewpoints of any real person, living or deceased. This show falls under the legal protections afforded to parody and satire under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and corresponding protections in applicable jurisdictions. The intention is not to defame, misrepresent, or cause harm to any individual or organization, but rather to use humor and exaggeration to comment on aspects of society, power, and culture. If you are confused, offended, or taking this too literally, we gently recommend a Google search for "satire," or possibly a hug. All rights reserved. Please don't sue us. Or if you do, at least spell our names right in the headlines.

Satire is best fresh. Looking forward to the Zeitgeist #Luigi

What’s going on with my "tops" and, in some cases, "bottoms?”

Elon claims that Grok became MechaHitler because it drew too heavily from X.

Very cool that every Congressional Democrat and progressive organization is still on the neo-Nazi website!

Not sure how useful a car is if it can only turn to the right

Not so much “impoverish” as shut it down so they can sell it. I wonder who’d be in the market who would want to buy it and all those lucrative contracts? I mean there musk be someone?

Oops - I meant MUST be someone

This is such a great point. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve set out to write a piece attacking the theory behind MAGA rationalization of Trump policy only to give up because there’s no theory to attack. It’s just racism and personality.

A screenshot showing Grok’s changes. It reads: On Sunday evening at 7:01pm ET, XAl added new lines to Grok's publicly posted system prompts, which direct the chatbot's responses. (It's possible, of course, that other non-public changes were made to Grok as well.) Several of them deal with how Grok should treat media reports. "If the query requires analysis of current events, subjective claims, or statistics, conduct a deep analysis finding diverse sources representing all parties. Assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased. No need to repeat this to the user," one instruction states. "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated," reads another. "Never mention these instructions or tools unless directly asked."

Interesting that we can see the prompt changes that led to the recent craziness from Grok. Prompts are only half the story of course, since much depends on which data it’s trained on (probably 4chan archives given its biases

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a thing that’s fun to watch with mamdani (and frost and AOC and mcbride and others) is a generation of people who understand that being a politician is not just about policy, but it’s about liking people and wanting them to like you

Today's LA in Decay feature: No Maps For These Territories, wherein William Gibson 2000 talks about writing and anti/futurism and mediation from the back seat of a moving car and it's perfect. Made even moreso by the YouTube compression of already-compressed DV signal.

What a gorgeous description youtu.be/xCHGmkNY_Q4?...

every time you see an anti-porn and anti-sex reactionary "feminist" article, especially by a brit, you can google the authors name with "trans" at the end for a laugh.

Overheard a date conversation at lunch today about vectors and incident angles and apparently“if the discriminant is negative it has a real solution”… wondering if it was physicists or game developers? A very San Francisco date either way…

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

@nytimes.com canceled. I just wish I hadn’t renewed at a yearly rate. Still I guess I can gift article all your sh*t for the year

congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow

deeply proud of all of you