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When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

Police train for longer, they’re just bad people trained to do what they’re doing

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Annual reminder:

By the standards of his time and position, Columbus was a monster. He was noted as a monster by peers who were themselves fine with being members of a colonial occupying force using slave labor and collective punishment.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

black text on white background "Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

I thought this was lovely.

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

You cannot defeat transphobic ideology by logical traps or debate or by proving you fucking love science. It's not a logically consistent view of the world, it's a series of justifications for power.

it's so fucking frustrating to see trans people being the political hot potato; we're perpetual clickbait. you loath us? click. we have a Diversity Win? click. we dare to fucking breath? click.

they don't care about who we are, they just care about everyone having opinions (hating) us.

the sales numbers are so low that it remains true that if you see a Cybertruck, you are likely seeing the very stupidest person in that area

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

I know there’s the whole “he’s senile” vs “he lies about everything” vs “Wormtongue is actually in control” discourse going on but they all come to the same point: not screaming to the heavens how insane this is is journalistic malpractice

I don’t think his popularity actually matters that much if every single institution people are accustomed to taking direction from or expressing their discontent through simply folds like wet cardboard.

Important. Either Trump is so far gone mentally he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or people are acting in his name without his knowledge. This was an order with enormous implications, and the President of the United States says he didn’t do it.

Correct, in that - this sounds insane, but its where we are - the middle-aged broligarchs need AI to cross the Singularity line soon or else they’ll have to admit they’re really, actually, going to die.

We absolutely cannot separate our current troubles from the fact that the hyper-rich in America all emerged from a cohort of white guys of a certain educational worldview and age group who are simultaneously having crises of masculinity and mortality.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Sometimes I see stories about how some small town in Alaska elected a big friendly dog mayor and it seems silly until you see a politician from New York and suddenly go hmmmm Pickles does seem reasonable by comparison

No. Right now it’s to prevent shit from getting done.

Doing some research on a new article about burnout, and one of the things I keep seeing is that many sources place burnout as a unique work phenomenon. It's not really taking into account that you can burnout from other things like...constant states of vigilance. It's not just your occupation.

AI chatbots are still anti-thinking plagiarism machines that are wrong most of the time. I don’t care who uses them or says they’re great or thinks they’re our collective future. My future involves a lot of thinking, original work, and getting things right, so I have no use for them

"When for any reason in a university on private foundation or in a university supported by public money the administration of the institution or the instruction in any one of its departments is changed by an influence from without; when an effort is made to dislodge an officer or a professor because the political sentiment or the religious sentiment of the majority has undergone a change, at that moment the institution has ceased to be a university, and it cannot again take its place in the rank of universities so long as there continues to exist to any appreciable extent the factor of coercion."

News that Columbia is considering ceding to the Trump admin’s demands that it change how it regulate speech on campus and teaches students in order to continue to receive federal funds made me think of this passage from a speech that UChicago President William Rainey Harper gave in 1900

Being on social media and hearing bad shit 24/7 nonstop has got to be messing with everyone’s heads but unfortunately the problem with that isn’t social media as much as the bad shit happening 24/7 nonstop

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Getting rid of your BHM and Pride merch is not going to make white people flock to you. Getting rid of black and gay characters is not going to get cishet white dudes to buy your books in bulk. You let the bigots bamboozle you. And now you're slipping under water. Drowning.