Ken MacLennan

every one of those "get out of your echo chamber" artists is someone who is very upset that you are not in their echo chamber fawning over them

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

Wilhoit.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

What used to be “The Party of Lincoln” is now the party of George Lincoln Rockwell.

you gotta keep em separated

all my lemons are loaded up with debt :(

also i can sort of cook

that's me but a) i'm gen x and b) i'm happy with my current wife, thanks

he really does think he can just do venezuela again

note that allowing parental consent is a bigger concession than the fedsoc six are willing to permit

unfortunately way too many people seem to think this is how rights should work, that only "good" people should benefit from them, but they don't really reflect on who gets to decide who is or is not "good."

and this is how we get ice/cbp kidnapping people on the basis of paper-bag tests

if human rights actually worked that way stephen would have been hanged years ago

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT The A.I. "Bubble" — Explained, with Mina Kimes & Derek Thompson | PTFO

Full discussion here in which we discuss whether any of this is useful in our fields, and I question whether anyone is actually paying for any of this 😭 youtu.be/dUFcJdVQOjs?...

a key point here is that the main alternative in your example - the world's premier search engine - has not so much been surpassed by an llm as the search engine has become degraded by bad management; google's current uselessness was hardly foreordained, it came from bad decisions

that tracks

The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.

Now here's the reason why you should be down to the WNBA...

1) These women are brilliant. They went to D1 schools and paid attention
2) they have degrees. unlike boy NBA they actually came to school to get a degree
3) Well versed because that's what happens when you do the "book learning"

i once got lost in prague with the son of the former indian ambassador to the court of st james

iceberg is better because they can witness it shrinking while they deny climate change

You can’t move my Overton window if I slam the thing shut on your stupid little grubby incel fingers

So why is RFK only going after Dunkin Donuts. Who is paying him how much to go after DD.

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

i'll tell the spartans

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

I'll direct your attention to this excellent piece by @gelliottmorris.com about how polling indicates that voters don't think Democrats are "too woke" or too extreme, they think they're too weak.

And THE core reason they're weak is their unwillingness to challenge corporate power.

rahm is completely full of shit, but you know that already and that's why you're foisting him on democrats

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.

archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/do...

tonight the role of george washington will be played by craig t. nelson. we didn't tell him in advance

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.