Damianne

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

yes, this is the actual purpose of policing.

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

i think this is the funniest* thing he's ever done, just on symbolism and optics alone.

*mitigating factor in the humor: this man does not intend to leave in 3 years

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs.

An instant all-timer in the NYT’s “some experts say” genre

This is so fuckin good and maybe the weirdest book I've read this year (complimentary)

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Manny Jacinto posted this bc he knows how sad and anxious we all are

Even the vote Blue no matter who crew knows this is true.

I am concerned how much it seems to be a truism that panic is doing something

"smoker" is on the CDC list and basically impossible to disprove

Taking "a particularly intricate squeegee" with me into the yawning abyss of the day

late for the assassination because i hired the guy that sells my name written on a grain of rice in the park to write my manifesto out on a bullet casing and he's taking sooooooo long

YouTube video by Google Just Ask Google

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.

Yes! "AI admits it would kill 2 million people if threatened" no it didnt, AI grabbed some commonly associated tokens together into an output that happens to translate into a string saying it would kill 2 million people.
We really have to get out of this mythologizing.

Hmmm surely Lil Nas X can’t be part of the wider phenomenon of untold numbers of Black people battered & criminalized by cops in mental crisis. @mewefree.bsky.social

Justice Ketanji is more brilliant & righteous than all these other justices put together, & she up there writing her gorgeous dissents decrying tyranny, & beautiful screeds is all they will ever be because the game has been fixed. Which she knows. And may feel helpless about. But benefits from.

Talk to a chatbot if you find yourself in mental crisis. No wait, call 911 & have the cops shoot you. No wait, call 988 & have a social worker lock you in the psych ward. The options are shit & if the culture didn’t hate the mad they wouldn’t be.

i enjoy the tweet you read even more than the tweet that was written tbh, I'm ready for the discourse

even as the world is completely falling to pieces im still able to worry everyone’s mad at me which really shows the resilience of the neurotic human spirit

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming.
ME: is that true?
ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

there's more and they are all the same problems we have today:
4) stop trucks from loading and blocking the curb on transit routes during rush hour
5) stop cabs from blocking transit
6) make people park away from their destination and take transit in
7) traffic signal priority for transit

my takeaway from reading 150 years worth of historical transit and planning documents is that the solutions have been known the entire time and studies are just a way for people who don't want change to waste time