Nicholas Murphy

Great to live in a time when Republicans have just dropped the pretense of being constrained by the Constitution. President can’t attack another country without Congressional authorization, but fuck it, right guys?

Begging everyone to stop referring to DOGE like it’s a real thing. Just call it “unelected Musk cronies” which is what it is.

Very excited to hear all the “Biden is a Zionist” leftists explain how this…*gestures*…does anything but make things even worse. For everyone.

This was the quote I was going to pull out as well...

A depressing thought I had was "maybe I should move money into TIPS?" immediately followed by "I'm not sure we can actually trust that Trusk and crew won't fuck with official CPI measures..."

Not sure why I held any hope Democrats might rise to this moment, but of course they haven’t…

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

“And 99% of the population gets money how, Marc? Are they all going to be asshole VCs like you?”

Please step down in favor of someone younger who won’t try to meet authoritarianism with hugs.

Whether or not the TikTok ban was legal, I wanted to see it be dark for a while and people deal with that.

Let us not forget the degree to which he engaged in crypto pump and dump so he’s explicitly a grifter on top of everything else…

I mean look at who is getting to define what “masculine” is. They are selfish and insecure, so “masculinity” is basically being defined as…that.

Always remember Trump is dumb and impulsive. But also remember he is nonetheless dangerous.

You just said it: not voting for Ds doesn’t make them move their position. And our voting system makes any failure to vote for D effectively a vote for R. And wishing that wasn’t true doesn’t make it not true.

Refusing to vote is counter-productive activism.

You are absolutely saying that if you refuse to vote for his opponent in our voting system. That’s kind of the point.

Trump was the one and only alternative and anyone who thinks he is not the strictly worse option is a fool.

Do you have any idea how long activism takes to change anything? You know it’s never, like, one year, right?

They aren’t though. Trump is actually, literally insane. Harris isn’t and the Democrats aren’t. That difference is very important.

Yup, they suck. And yet my point stands.

Yes, I get that you don’t understand the concept of a probability of something happening.

Yeah, this. It’s like everyone forgets that to do anything you have to form alliances with people you disagree with on other stuff. Absolutism is deadly.

They aren’t good! They are just marginally less horrible than Rs, and that turns out to matter a lot.

_Trump is still worse_. It might be the difference between 0% chance of improvement and 20% chance, but 0 is 0 and 20 is not 0. That’s the math.

Trump definitely won’t listen. Democrats might. This isn’t a case where relying on how dumb Trump is will work. He will sell more weapons and think it makes him a great businessman. Then bomb Greenland.

Yup. And Trump would find a way to be worse. And definitely won’t listen to you. Democrats might. You do understand how voting works, right? You don’t get to just grumpily refuse to participate and then magically have the system explode and give you what you want by default?

I think the whole point is that they aren’t “anti-genocide” because if they were they would have prioritized the path most likely to improve the situation, which is _not Trump_. They instead prioritized self-righteousness over strategic action. That’s the whole reason we are upset with them.

I missed my chance to get rich off social media but truly believe it’s a basically toxic technology anyway…

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This honestly just feels like a specific instance of the more general rule that allowing wealth concentration is bad.

God this is going to be a long 4 years. Just hope we actually come out of it.