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WA Democrats consider retreat on estate tax, fearing wealth exodus Democrats in the state Legislature are moving to roll back a big increase in the estate tax rate, acknowledging it may be causing some very wealthy people to move.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

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When my dog doesn’t want to cuddle

I think perhaps one of the ways I’ve become plagued by mental illness is due to being blackpilled that we live in a world were doing research, where knowing how the world and its systems work at all, is no longer linked up with any possibility for systems change. It’s just a dilettante’s hobby now.

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

RFK Jr. snorted cocaine off the toilet seat the right way.

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Sure only the tattoo but also

Platner has yet to *run* in a race as big as the one Mamdani already won. The privileging of white faces as the ‘real American’ ones continues

"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.

all the professors and deans are like 'my contacts with mr epstein were purely in the service of my profession and I had no idea' and then his emails are just like 'can u make lolita robot?'

Valentine’s day isn’t fun for us single gays, but not for the reasons that you would think. #2 on the roster just texted me that he’s not around Saturday night because he’s going to spend it with his wife.

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland

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Pam Bondi really triggering that fight or flight for anyone who’s ever worked a cash register

what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.

leaving for the break with the words of Jack Layton

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.

Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

happy international day of women and girls in stem

Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens

This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation

This required careful measurement and design

this is the worst humiliation inflicted on China since the unjust treaties

Are you anxious or are you simply correctly assessing the numerous threats

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Australia formally joins the UK and US as a member of Smol Bean Fascist Alliance

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Sincerely, E. B. White

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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plenty of talk about coworker music, not enough acknowledgment that sweetgreen is the final form of coworker food