Trevor Sullivan

It used to have a lot more. Housing and Urban Development was looted by a massive embezzlement scheme in the 80s and never recovered.

So, how do they prepare? The article doesn't say. There is no specific idea of what can be done, you just say "communities can prepare". How? By doing what?

What happens when some rogue sheriffs shut down polling places? What happens when feds steal voting machines before their rallies are read?

Literally the exact same thing happened in 2020. Was that also statistically impossible?

When pundits say an election is a "toss up" they don't mean it's a literal coin toss.

When someone is more popular across the country, they win more contests, that's how elections work.

Their "shocking discovery" is that bigger samples give more consistent results.

That's literally it.

Two 1000 person polls are more likely to have similar outcomes than two 10 person polls.

It's not a conspiracy, it's the most fundamental law of sampling: bigger samples are more reliable.

Election Truth Alliance aren't statisticians, they're entry-level IT workers who don't understand the first thing about statistics.

Now Newsom is just stealing Tim Walz' story.

Walz told the same anecdote, that he didn't pick up Harris's call because it was an unknown number, in an interview the same day his candidacy was announced in 2024.

An Escalation in Every Way Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late-night is a chilling precedent that could have deep consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone.

From @davidlsims.bsky.social:

“What’s happened to Kimmel is an escalation in every way.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

I was so ready for Silksong to be a dud, and to accept the reality that Hollow Knight was lightning in a bottle, but they seem to have really actually outdid themselves, which is kinda nuts.

Can't wait for the devlogs and GDC talks about what was going on all these years to make this come together

So in other words, yeah, he hasn't used the term til now because he hasn't been ready til now to essentially say "we should go to war against Israel" which is what "genocide" means when a high ranking politician says it.

I think the relevant one is the UN Compact on Genocide, aka the Genocide Convention.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocid...

It's long been a thing for US politicians, especially high ranking ones like Senators and Presidents, to avoid the word because of these consequences.

Legal reasons. "Genocide" is a legal magic word, the US is party to several anti-genocide conventions that compel action that overrides sovereignty if you use the word.

Saying "genocide" as a politician means saying "we are required by law to use our military against the perpetrators right now".

Legal reasons. The US is party to several international conventions on genocide which compel certain behaviors if you use the word, to oversimplify.

Some other people noticed it too.

I think this moment also kinda coincided with when the game finally clicked for me and a bunch of the much discussed things stopped feeling frustrating, which helps. But man, Christopher Larkin is great at what he does.

I noticed Hornet's theme from the first game for the first time in a very particular location in #silksong

I can't wait til I can listen to the whole soundtrack and see if that's the genuine first statement, because it's an interesting choice if so.

Yesterday's patch removed all the other flyers!

There only the first one now, which is totally skippable if you just keep moving: you can run under and past while it's still doing its little spawn animation.

Why is a screenshot okay when a quote isn't?

You said this was about how you should be able to ban people from citing your words, but it's okay if it's a picture of them?

Unless you want to post a quote, which, again, is the point of the thread

It's not a slope, it's what it is. Bluesky blocks prevent other people from sharing their thoughts about you. That's the point of this thread.

Do you want to live in a world where Trump, or Musk, or your Ex, or whoever it is that you hate, has the power to block you in particular from criticizing them using examples of their own words and actions?

"stopping harassment" and "stopping commentary" are two very different things.

Bluesky's "ban other people from talking about you" feature (note, not "to you", "*about* you") falls on the wrong side of that line to me.

I think it's disingenuous to equate quoting with trolling.

For one, it is explicitly written into copyright law that you can't stop people from quoting you, and direct quotation is an absolute defense for libel suits, so, yeah, as much as we have a right to most things, there is a right to quote.

Why shouldn't they?

When has it ever been normal for people to administratively disallow criticism of themselves before?

It's one thing to not have to hear criticism, it's another thing to not allow others to criticize.

This has been going on for decades.

Christianity the religion no longer exists in America, it's all just culture war now.

The fact that nobody in the community calls this shit out was the first major stepping stone on the way out the door for me.

"having sympathy for" and "admiring" are different things though.

Breaking Bad is a really great example of the difference because, like you say, it maintains your sympathy while dismantling your admiration.

Some viewers can't tell the diff, maybe Breaking Bad exists as a literacy lesson for them

When your environmental law allows any individual to hold up a referendum-approved major public works project by filing lawsuits about how it might hurt a different bug or snail every year for 20 years, it's not an environmental law, it's a NIMBY law.

99 PI did an interview about it and it seemed basically fine to me? I don't get what the hubbub is.

The idea is that in America, we've basically made it illegal to build anything. Which is just true.

If random Internet users are doing it enough for it to be picked up as a pattern, then it's part of the language.

You didn't end your sentence with a period, does that mean you suck at language and nobody can learn anything from you?

Information cannot be authored, only specific words can. This frustrates me so much about how people talk about this.

Knowing things and saying things that you know is not the same as plagiarizing from the people you learned it from.

A chatgpt interaction uses as much energy and water as running a high efficiency LED light bulb for about 1 second. Roughly the energy of 1/10 of a grain of sugar.

There are few things you can do with your time or technology have a smaller impact than that.

As someone who works in the field, 100% agree, and I think it shows that the same cast of grifters who ran up the blockchain and NFT hype cycles are leading the charge for AI art.

Text gen? Genuinely revolutionary for many reasons.

Image/video/music gen? Solution in search of a problem.