In the '90s, Henry Santoro at WFNX used to (mercilessly) refer to him as Kevin Dando on air. No great meaning behind it - it just became a Boston pastime to take the piss out of him and Juliana Hatfield for being mildly talented kids from privilege who skated by on their looks. And money.

I don't think so - I'm seeing everything, once I'm in.

They have a new, sub-literate audience to cater to now? Maybe soon we can expect the All Things Considered slightly discordant horns theme to be replaced by truck commercial Corporate Country guitar riffs.

Autism is a new thing. Your grandpa with six train sets in the basement and who could tell you every caliber of hunting ammunition ever manufactured but always wore his socks inside out was just really into his hobbies and cared about comfort.

I think there's just a fundamental divide between people who can see LLMs for what they are – a fundamentally toxic technology that can only ever generate negative outcomes; a machine for lying at scale – and people whose brains shut off because the computer is talking back to them.

That's true! We could also call the RW version the "I need Daddy to see me, and validate me as a lethal Big Boy!" Which is probably just the subtext of this entire administration.

I'm just glad they're not adding in the bizarre Right Wing, arms-bowed-ridiculously-outward-and-inward, "Jesus, why is my suit jacket so tight?," aspirational fascist power pose. Maybe this is the milquetoast centrist capitulation stance?

Every libertarian's favorite senator, openly cheerleading for cancel culture.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Counterpart.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Even as I write this, I’m reminded that this country is so inured to violence—particularly against black men—that the man who literally strangled Jordan Neely to death on the subway was not only found not guilty, but rewarded with a job in Silicon Valley and a box seat at the Army-Navy game.

Political Violence Inciter Killed

One of America's leading political violence inciters was killed today while inciting political violence at a rally. His colleagues vowed to redouble their efforts to incite political violence in his honor, and demanded their vermin opponents to introspect.

Big Tech Looks to Strengthen Frayed Relationship With Democrats Ahead of Midterms A tech association funded by Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other major tech companies is launching a new initiative to strengthen the frayed relationship between Democrats and Silicon Valley ...

Dems chased Silicon Valley for years and all we got for it was a couple thousand eugenicists with the money of Lex Luthor and the brains of rabid ferrets.

Dems should do what the GOP did: threaten Big Tech relentlessly until the little shits give us money and do our bidding.

Word.

The president gets to harm as many Americans as he wants defying whatever laws he pleases and our job is to be nice to him and make sure everyone agrees he's cool. Not sure what you people don't understand about that.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

You’re telling me SEAL Team Six went into a country they probably shouldn’t have been sent to, killed a bunch of civilians, and didn’t even meet their mission objectives?

And you want me to be, what? Surprised? Isn’t that, like, their whole thing?

one of the best ways to understand Elon Musk is to think of him as a guy whose life was forever changed from the moment he first walked into a Sharper Image

FanDuel partners with SEPTA to restore Broad Street Line service for home opener The FanDuel sponsorship covers free rides home for fans. The free rides from NRG Station begin at halftime and continue through the end of service.

This is America:

Access to public services restored thanks to a gambling website so people can get to a football game.

www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/fanduel...

Plots showing the “Association of Race and Fear of the Police. The baseline model only includes sex and age. The other two models include controls for sex, age, education, income, employment status, marital status, parental status, partisan identification, political ideology, religious identification, religiosity, fear of crime, urbanicity, and region. All models are estimated with linear regression and robust standard errors. Marginal effects are shown.”

Yep. As one study eg found… “most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Tulsi Gabbard Blindsided CIA Over Revoking Clearance of Undercover Officer The naming of an agency Russian hand on a list of officials has alarmed people inside the spy agency.

Who’d a thunk that Gabbard would (continue to) advance Russia’s interests over the US’s?

Oh yeah. All of us.

right, for a lot of Americans, what they mean by "high crime" is "I saw a Black person minding their own business somewhere"