Jon Boyd

AI effectively represents the average of everything fed into it. So, it makes sense that, if you're an above-average writer, asking it to edit your writing will make your writing worse.

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

Birthright citizenship is a "longstanding custom" in the same way that freedom of speech is a longstanding custom (they are both explicitly guaranteed by the text of the Constitution)

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We executed our own “Voluntary Separation Plan” from the @washingtonpost.com quite some time ago — by unsubscribing. What Bezos touches becomes befouled.

Nothing like a really accurate clock in a train station. (Seen just now in @rtachicago.bsky.social’s Union Station.)

Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love "The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.

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Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says

Hey you’ll never believe this, but the thing that everyone who knew anything about this said over the last dozen years would happen if you bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities happened

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, a Trump ally who has pushed to build the detention center in the Everglades, has said the state will not need to invest much in security because the area is surrounded by dangerous wildlife, including alligators and pythons. A spokesperson for the attorney general said work on the new facility started on Monday morning.

imagine writing this completely uncritically as if it’s a normal thing for a government official to say

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.

Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.

📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

'There Is No Intel': Trump's Attacks on Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities was not based on new intelligence, administration officials say.

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Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone.

My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

if you know what "toyotathon" is, you can learn what juneteenth is

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Sam Clemens was here before us. He put this honest bit of politics into the mouth of a self-styled “king” in 1883:

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

―Mark Twain, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ ch. 26

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

Onsite footage of what Musk’s DOGE is doing to American governance and social security.

“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” —Howard Zinn

This happens to me, too! Twenty-six-plus years since I defended. But then again, I also still have nightmares I can’t remember my junior-high locker combination. 😆

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

#nokings #trumpparade

The great thing is, now we have TWO annual "No Kings Day" dates: the OG "No Kings Day" of July 4 — plus the "You Weren't Listening" bonus day of June 14.

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

This parade could have been an email.

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday
Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name
Genie: okie dokie

A screenshot of an overhead view on CSPAN showing almost no one showed up for Trump's stupid parade.

Look at that crowd. Tens of people.

Populism is when billionaires wear Carhartt.