Fox News brings on Rebekah Koffler to talk about the military parade, but she seems to be heavily intoxicated so they cut away with quickness

Perfect 🤣

Allegedly the units sent this out, that soldiers who disagreed politically could ask to be excused from attending the speech. Army didn't want the optics of having people not applaud the President.

I can’t even any more

Official who posted antisemitic rhetoric becomes Pentagon press secretary - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Kingsley Wilson has repeatedly echoed the antisemitic "Great Replacement" theory on her X account, sparking backlash.

Next time they lie that they’re targeting universities due to antisemitism, let’s remember their officials & allies who spread antisemitic conspiracy theories.

They don’t care about Jews or antisemitism. They only care about consolidating their power.

The X-Files explains why Gen X went for Trump and seems especially prone to conspiracy theories. This is my TED talk

I am having a issues with people who express horror about what is happening in Gaza after they spent over a year about how they couldn’t vote Biden/Harris because of less than perfect language use and now they don’t want any responsibility for Trump giving Bibi carte blanche.

"A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading: * Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. * Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people). This trend will surely continue. * Reading for obtaining information is getting intermediated by chatbots. We are in the very early stages of this shift, so I think people underappreciate the magnitude of what's coming. It's not just that AI replacing traditional web search. Even when it comes to reading news articles, business documents, or scientific papers, the vision that tech companies are pushing on us is AI summarization + synthesis + Q&A. * We don't have to accept this, but I predict that most people will. It's a tradeoff between speed/convenience and accuracy/depth of understanding — the same tradeoff that was once offered to us when it became possible to search the web to look up a quick fact as opposed to reading about the topic in depth in an encyclopedia. * Just as most people in most cases prefer a shallow web search over deeper reading, most people in most cases will prefer AI-intermediated access to knowledge. Traditional reading won't disappear, but people will do it vastly less often, except in hobbyist reading communities and professions where traditional reading is needed. * The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore. * Personally, I find this sad. But while it's tempting to moralize all this, I think that's unproductive. Yelling at individuals to resist new media has been done for centuries and has never worked. * Even if people individually rationally choose these tradeoffs, I think we collectively lose something; critical reading skills are arguably essential for a democracy. We need to figure out what to do about that.

clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

The GOP budget is the meth binge-nihilist version of Reaganomics combined with hold held culture war dreams but let’s fight eachother because of dare a Wine Mom with an In This House poster be a corporate lawyer say the lefties and moderates fear AOC will be kryptonite on edge districts

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Everytime Democrats do something you can always count on at least a quarter of Democrats stating the action is what Republicans want

Joe Rogan is like 90 percent Morning Zoo/2 am stoner bs session in a dorm and 10 percent reactionary politics. I don’t think there is a liberal equivalent of this

You have almost described SFgate.com

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage.

Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

Miller the Shande

I'm going to end up a socialist revolutionary before this is over

They don’t want to be journalists, they want to be courtiers and gossips at court

Tammany Hall?

Repeat after me:A victorious anti-Trump coalition is going to contain people you have deep ideological disagreements with.

Scott Adams forgot how to talk for two years?

The internet is wonderful but very dumb

Photo of soup with vegetables. Caption: you started water-based cooking and now your skin is clear and your stomach healed

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

The ADA?

Being an American voter means never having to say you are sorry

Since Biden is being decimated today, I’ll just say again that he Facetimed my brother before a particularly rough chemo round to give him a pep talk, even though he didn’t know anything about my brother other than he was a veteran who was poisoned by the same burn pits that killed his son, Beau.

The guy who attacked the reproductive clinic in Palm Springs appears to be a special kind of ideological crank. I’ve heard of anti-natalists before but they are usually people who get stopped by simple questions. This guy took his crank beliefs to an extreme

Or the progressive wing is not a majority in NYC but it is easier to blame the Donor Class or PTBs than deal with the fact that white liberals in Williamsburg or Boreum Hill have very little connection to voters in Sunset Park or unfashionable Queens

I made a joke about Chico State being a safety school for people who really wanted to go to Harpo or Groucho U and the yutes at the office did not get it