Thinking, for no particular reason, of the talk I attended with the NYT science editor prior to the bad times, where they became enraged by the request that they talk to the scientists doing the research and try to relay that information accurately. (you were probably there?)

It would be cool if BTD chief @jfh01.bsky.social would explain why these sections of Mass Ave (one of the most cycle trafficked routes in New England) is left unprotected.

Counterpoint: this is good and funny and they deserve it

Let’s check in on what the world’s leading pundit on publicly lamenting political violence has to say about this:

The paid shills at BPI are mad their plan to force a billionaire republican on the city of Boston didn’t work, and are lashing out accordingly. You’d think this kind of humiliation would send them slinking back into their holes for a while but they never had any shame or self respect to begin with.

I’m really sorry this organization’s work to elect Kraft didn’t work out. Maybe you guys should get real fucking jobs where you actually do something productive instead of sucking on the tit of an incompetent failson.

It’s so strange how some bumps have you hysterically crying about process, but the thousands who emailed Brohel during that process and were ignored, and all those who rely on the lanes and had protection removed without process, merited nothing.

I grew up in the Northeast and one neighbor, a suburban cop, drove himself insane on gun stuff and moved his whole family down, another was a psychotic evangelical and did the same. We don’t have to pretend this is not what’s happening!

The precocious boy AI stuff on here is weird. No one thinks you need a deep understanding of like, compilers, to shit on Facebook for their various malign influences. I frankly think AI companies making CSAM generators and wanting to unemploy everyone absolves you of needing to understand LLMs.

The median swing voter would lose a shape sorting contest to a chihuaha. It’s true that Dems are terrible at speaking to them and could do better, but that doesn’t change that fact.

Perhaps someone in the state should have prosecuted Fiandaca for stealing a million dollars in taxpayer money rather than letting her resign and having all of MassDOT verbally fellate her as she left.

I love how all the tech companies just purposefully destroyed the ability to browse a desktop website in a mobile browser. Awesome feature upgrade, kudos on another big tech leap.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

Also, would a corporation take a right wing position even if it costs them customers and profit? Impossible to say in the current environment. Unfortunately there are no similar cases recently in the US with such a dynamic.

Ok but this is the people who owns the stores and made that decision saying it. Do you disagree with their assessment?

Your original statement was that Dems changed laws to let shoplifters off, not that some posts you found online said it should happen. Is this true? Can you cite any such example?

'We Cried Too Much': Walgreens CFO Says Retail Theft Maybe Isn't the Crisis It Portrayed This follows he recent wave of major retailers, which, along with Walgreens, have been voicing their concerns about retail theft.

The thing is they admitted lying about that.

www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Where did Democrats loosen shoplifting laws Jeremy?

Notice the rapid two step here from “Democrats loosened laws and allowed uncontrolled asylum” to “I heard people say they supported those things.” Literal Fox News brain. Incurable.

I’m sorry but your political action plan of “get every college educated professional to shut up about everything they care for and instead verbally fellate their moron neighbors for buying an 80,000 dollar truck” has some holes you possibly didn’t consider.

There are always a shit ton of Democratic politicians who are trying this, and everyone hates their fucking guts. They come off 100x more condescending than anyone doing “academic speak.” They typically raise 100 million dollars from scam texts and then lose by 26 points.

*Simple

Democrats need to stop this unpopular obsession with political correctness. How you ask? Simply, by having 80 million people continuously self-censor based on what five ivy league opinion columnists think.

“Humans have opinions, these opinions impact decisions, these opinions come in part from people.”

This is nothing. It is a tautology. What can you meaningfully do from this? What is interesting about that?

Again, this is not a “model”, it is the kind of vague nothing you hear a wellness expert authoritatively state.

We can dunk on Silver. But the folks wildly hyping Adams in 2021-22 included Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. The desire for a prominent BLACK politician who was pro-police and hostile to the BLM movement was broadly shared within elite Dem circles. They ignored obvious signs he was corrupt and inept.

Has the fact that the Obama WH, both parties in Congress, and virtually the entire pundit class based their GFC econ policy on a paper that made no sense and contained no actual scholarship been seriously recollected on by the folks deeply concerned about the academy like Matty? lol. lmao.

The low quality scholarship that by far had the biggest impact this century was Reinhart and Rogoff. They drew a conclusion that made no sense, based entirely on an Excel formula error, but it was appealing to right wingers and centrists and so the entire Western world was immiserated financially.

At least the Republicans are honest that they’re just gunning for random students and professors and teachers to harass. Matt is too much of a pussy to even have that level of transparency.

It is so fucking weird to be obsessed with this stuff when you are both not in academia and HAD A PERSONAL LINE TO THE LAST PRESIDENT. The problem is not poli-sci articles in low rank journals Matt, it’s that they handed the policy levers to a moron too lazy to wash his own coffee mugs.