Yes! Because you then lose credibility and the ability to rally people moving forward, because they’re rightfully cynical about your ability to produce change.

oh shit really :-(

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

I mean, I agree with the thread, but it doesn't help that gemini/gpt are heavily marketed with the 'one-shot' approach (i don't know about claude, probably a bit less so). so people looking at google/openai's official materials and want to seriously give the tools a shot are set up to fail

I know it's very disconcerting, stressful, and annoying to suddenly start getting tons of angry replies, but Occam's razor trivially suggests that this was the answer, and I would wonder why I jumped to the conclusion that there was some sort of shadowy behavior going on instead of something mundane

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

Delegación de Gobierno aplica la Ley Mordaza contra un fotoperiodista que informó de un desahucio La institución, dependiente del Gobierno de coalición, impone una infracción administrativa grave contra Dani Gago, colaborador de El Salto.

¿Hasta cuándo vamos a tener que seguir exigiendo la derogación de la #LeyMordaza?
www.elsaltodiario.com/ley-segurida....
¡Toda nuestra solidaridad y apoyo a @danigagophoto.bsky.social!

As early as 2007, Bloomberg spoke about his public transit goals, telling WABC, "If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars."

Indeed, the Times hasn’t had a separate New York section except on Sundays since 2008, when that was folded inside the A section. The paper insisted the move “will not reduce the number of pages devoted to city coverage” and that “the physical arrangement of the paper matters less in an age when a growing proportion of its audience is online.” That was bullshit, of course. As veteran City Hall reporter Paul Moses detailed in 2017, incidentally the last year the Times bothered making endorsements in City Council races, the number of stories the paper ran about its namesake city declined by more than 50% in that stretch, and by more than 67% since 2001. So much for “all the news that’s fit to print.” Three years after that, the Times used COVID to quietly kill Metro as even a sub-section, with a brief editor’s note in March about how “New York coverage is included as part of the Tracking an Outbreak section on pages A4-A13.” It wasn’t until June that the New York Post — a paper that for worse and better has never pretended to separate news and opinion — noticed that the section had never returned.

The NYT actually has been winding down its local (Metro desk) coverage for a solid 20 years. Hate-sharing their content on Bluesky gives them a reason to change tack and dump more resources into heckling the NYC electoral left

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new...

to be clear, this study doesn't say that people found climate change less pressing (that wasn't really measured), it just says that a higher proportion picked another category (largely wars and economic uncertainty) as their number one concern in the survey this year

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

Meanwhile, Pritzker who's talked a great game for weeks now, has his cops out at Broadview rounding up protesters.

Very interesting new polling data:

The vast majority of French, Germans and Italians support strengthening European tech sovereignty and incentivising "Buy European" approaches.

Another area where European voters are ahead of the policy debate.

Source: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

YouTube video by JohnColtraneVEVO John Coltrane - Untitled Original 11383 (Visualizer)

Happy birthday John Coltrane. 99!

This is the tune that turned me on to Coltrane and jazz in general. Incredible.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7X2...

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

of course one of the star members of the org who put years of her life into the project that you turfed out without so much as a "thank you" was a trans fem

we do all the actual labour and then dipshit VCs come in and steal it from us, as usual

fuck you

bsky.app/profile/ruby...

YouTube video by RedsHitpostMedia Memes The DNA Of The Soul

how have i never known how this often-memed dialogue ends lmao

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TDC...

Eight people shot in Minneapolis at landlord’s homeless encampment hours after another mass shooting Four people suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting on Hamoudi Sabri’s vacant lot. City officials vowed to close it down, despite potential legal challenges.

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news.

www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

drew pavlou moment

Guantanamo McDonald flag at half staff captioned The flags were lowered last night by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this base in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday.

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waow based based based

Syriza represented an effort to provide a parliamentary obstacle to austerity. The defeat of the movements 3 years before led many to adopt this as a last ditch effort. But its eventual coalition with a far-right party & the acceleration of austerity radically de-legitimised the "Left".

what's good to read from this week on the mobilizations in paris and the upcoming generalization of the strikes?

(U.S. left/ish media has been, uh, occupied elsewhere this week, but even CNN is making it seem like big things afoot...)

www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

der sturmer reporting that the reichstag arson had "judaism ideology" written on the matches