Andy Hansen

Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo

Informer systems are the traditional tool used by repressive regimes for domestic intelligence gathering to penetrate organizations and social circles. I view Palantir as the modern analog because it seeks a technical substitute for the same problem of capturing presence, identity, and association.

Not really sure an issue should be described as split if it's essentially 60-40. Or that the lead quote should be from the 40 side. Or that said quote should insinuate that Puerto Ricans are not American.

I'll say what I've been saying forever but it's especially true now: now is the time for Democrats to hammer the message that these things are being done by REPUBLICANS, not "Trump." People are ripe for you to create the dissonance of their identification as a Republican!

CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."

This is a fascinating, deeply researched and reported story that goes well beyond "Isn't A.I. terrible?" while keeping one foot firmly planted in "Yes it is."

Not sure what theories are inadequate here. That members of a marginalized group might/can work for the system that marginalizes their people is one of the oldest topics. There’s an infinite amount of literature on it.

Send Help is a blast. Let Sam Raimi make whatever he wants. The man continues to be a king.

I love how there's always one moment in a Sam Raimi genre film where an actor would act like they're turning into a Deadite.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Once again, if Isaac Chotiner ever called me for an interview, I'd throw my phone into the ocean and join the witness protection program.

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Real ones know one-handed typing when they see it.

"And this my dear grandchildren is why half the country died in the great measles plague of 2029"

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Bullies deserve to be bullied.

You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.

Retires due to injuries, gets her knee replaced in retirement, realizes she finally feels good again, comes back for one more Olympics after five years away, surprises everyone including herself by being a legit medal contender……

And then airlifted off the course a week before the Olympics. Brutal

*Through gritted teeth* Je suis Don Lemon

he spat on a rental car and then kicked it twice. no ice officer was in sight, but five of them immediately jumped out to beat him senseless, and then tear-gassed a crowd of maybe 50 bystanders as a parting shot

and as everyone knows, if you kicked a car, it justifies your street execution by death squads

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

you can’t fucking dox a public official!

If you don’t want to be identified while enforcing the law pick another fucking job

Kristi Noem must resign.

And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.

They gave a bunch of roided up thugs weapons and made them immune from legal consequences. You can't really tinker around the edges of something like that, you have to end it

I did confirm that this is at least partially true, though not from someone officially speaking for the Des Moines Police. The DMPD is denying this, but DMPD will not likely get advanced notification of ICE raids. Reported large number of ICE agents left Minneapolis Mon. #ICEout #Iowa

#iceout 6

We got to go through that whole Nobel Prize shit again when Melania doesn’t get nominated for an Oscar.

I Have A Great Idea For Retraining ICE Agents | Defector The several thousand federal agents currently running rampant in the Twin Cities have so far achieved little in the way of legitimate law enforcement objectives, but they have been rather more success...

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...