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My poetry brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, you're a wonderful bard
Damn right, I'm a wonderful bard
I could teach you, as it's not that hard

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.

"More than half of Trump’s voters last year — 55 percent — describe themselves as MAGA, but a critical 38 percent do not, according to the survey, which comprised 2,098 U.S. adults online and was conducted Nov. 14-17, with a margin of sampling error at plus-or-minus 2 percentage points."

This is the part where I'd probably start panicking, because "only 55% of the 49.8% that got me here less than a year ago buy into my whole Schtick" is ~27.5% overall and that's REAL close to the Crank Floor...which you might just break THROUGH at this rate, and then Hell's the limit!

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Member of the German Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen: “The 28-point plan shows a fundamental change of course for the USA. Without their support over the past 80 years, Germany would not be the third-largest economy, a democracy, and united. All the more bitter, then, that the USA have sold out Europe.”

Where’s the assistant loudly whispering into Miller’s ears that he’s talking about his own ancestors

And think about the strategic madness of what Miller is doing here. He isn't attacking a tiny percentage of Americans like Jews or trans people, which is morally deplorable. He's attacking every nearly family in America with a recent immigrant in it, which is most families if not nearly all.

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

How US Banks Fund Themselves and Other Things #EconSky

Sorry, but the way not to get 200,000 Afghan refugees refouled and murdered was to vote for the black lady. All their buddies in the US armed forces that voted for Trump voted to murder them.

From Empire of AI by Karen Hao "Sutskever now spoke in increasingly messianic overtones, leaving even his longtime friends scratching their heads and other employees ap-prehensive. During one meeting with a new group of researchers, Suts-kever laid out his plans for how to prepare for AGI. "Once we all get into the bunker-" he began. "I'm sorry," a researcher interrupted, "the bunker?" "We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI," Suts-kever replied matter-of-factly. Such a powerful technology would surely become an object of intense desire for governments globally. It could es-calate geopolitical tensions; the core scientists working on the technol-ogy would need to be protected. "Of course," he added, "it's going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker."

Just a reminder that the people who run AI companies talk like this when amongst themselves and when you ask me if I'm anti-AI, well, I'm anti whatever the fuck this is

The UCP argues recall is being weaponized against policy, not misconduct.

By that logic, the Gondek recall was also weaponized, as it was explicitly against her policies.

The UCP's reaction to the weaponized recall on Gondek?

To make recall easier.

LOL

when its definitely not a hostage situation

Exceptionalism. Manifest Destiny. A country high on it’s own propaganda and belief that it owns the world.

Dale Nally's recall petitioner says he doesn't listen to constituents and cites his concerns over the notwithstanding clause.

Nally responds by saying the petitioner doesn't vote and works as a proxy for a group weaponizing the recall act and the petition has no merit.

Using the voters list as a political weapon against a constituent feels like perfectly reasonable grounds for a recall to me.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

$AAPL - APPLE CUTS JOBS ACROSS ITS SALES ORGANIZATION IN RARE LAYOFF

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
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The AI bubble will burst, you’ll lose your job and more, but the folks responsible won’t. They’ll get bailed out by taxpayer money, and no one will go to jail. 50/50 chance there won’t even be an investigation at all, as long as the perps donated to the gilded ballroom fund.

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller

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Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...

Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month.
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Pretty obvious what happened

Team Trump, high on their own supply and sympathetic to Russia, thought they could make Ukraine surrender and declare Trump a glorious peacemaker.

Then they got out of their bubble into reality, embarrassingly flopped, and are now scrambling to lie trying to save face.

Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan accounts that are run out of Africa and two major MAGA accounts are run out of Europe