It's a rare and wonderful thing to have a national writer who both understands and is willing to articulate where we are right now. No defensive crouch; no wish casting; no cunning plans; just a plain description of the stakes.
We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.
Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.
After all these years working around biotech, I've never had a more visceral understanding of the STS (Sci-Tech Studies) field than experiencing how AI's being shoved down our collective throat: we're being told we have no other choice, which is true only to the extent we accept this narrative
If you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should!
They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching.
They're inexpensive and highly effective.
Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
“WELL-A-DAY, is this my SON TOM?”
A macaroni was a man who “exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion” — the name from the type of pasta which some had taken a liking to on their Grand Tour. In his essay “A Queer Taste for Macaroni” Dominic James explores: https://buff.ly/2KScNAg
Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday.
This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.
They’re liberating Californians from their government just like Putin is liberating Ukrainians from theirs
This is Tillis begging for the budget reconciliation bill to pass. He is perfectly fine letting children,people with disabilities, seniors, and millions more die from SNAP and Medicaid cuts. Action: Call him relentlessly about this &tell your friends and family to call their senators and reps #ncpol
To #ncpol community: Time to hammer Tillis' office to vote against this bill- to further enrich the extremely wealthy everyone else gets more poverty, death & pollution, all for what? A ballooning public debt saddled on our children, I guess
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I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu
Thank effing Goodness- now, if only Griffin also had to pay back legal fees to Riggs for having to fight this steaming pile of frivolity www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-...
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
"When people are splitting hairs over the specific methodology and intent behind mass detention and human rights abuses, that’s when you know you’re looking at a vibrant, civilized society."
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.
Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’
Make America Grift Again.
I know they think this is cool and edgy but I actually think it’s bad politics on an issue that they starting to really lose on and poking a bunch of judges who can make their lives pretty miserable who might not otherwise be inclined to do so 🤷♀️
Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
Conditional cooperation strikes again!
They should probably also be investigated for fraud.
White House officials appear to be withholding pool reporters' dispatches when the reports include information -- eg that a Netanyahu press conference was canceled, or that AP was barred -- that they don't like.
Another holy-shit scoop from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...
Waiting for some reporting on which insiders knew this course of action all along, traded accordingly & profited massively
Rick Steves — the guidebook author, trip host and massive personal travel brand — has put his personal commitment behind the cause of anti-fascism, with a self-funded documentary hosted on his own website.
Respect.
they didn't need the term "effective altruism" in the first place. cost-benefit analysis has existed for a long time. the world was not exactly sitting around waiting for tech bros to come up with the concept of empirical program evaluation.
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
The asshole who talked about putting USAID "into the woodchipper," and childishly grinned when prancing around with his chainsaw, is now having hurt feelings because Tim Walz made fun of him.
Even Trump is going to recognize pretty soon that this is a "brand-image minus" for him.
