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Maybe our real values were the ones we lived along the way.

good guide for anyone, really.

The chain link fence provides a good scale to show how tiny Ruby-crowned Kinglets are! #birds #birding #Ancaster #HamOnt

Heartwarming exchange. Janones gathered around 10.8 million followers in a WhatsApp channel to mobilize Lula supporters. How did this “digital army” work — and what space might it have in Lula's next govt? BBC News has a great story: www.bbc.com/portuguese/a... x.com/AndreJanones...

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

The “wisdom of crowds” thesis has been thoroughly debunked, IMO. Polymarket, etc, are just an even-more-naked (thus even more ugly) line to Rich People’s Feelings, without the (increasingly slight) alignment with reality via actual money.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Probably the guy who's going to come out of this one looking like a hero is André Janones, a deputy (congressman) from Minas Gerais who just kind of... decided to take the reins of the situation, more or less, and people were feeling so aimless after the first round that they went along with it.

I can’t find it now but I think a lot about that post about an AI that can drink a beer with your buddy at a table by the river on a sunny day so you have time to make more spreadsheets

There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

This is directly parallel to how UX design thoughtthinkers are on LinkedIn crowing how Claude Design lets us "do strategy—not pixel pushing", meanwhile design's access to the rooms where strategy is being done has NEVER been more constrained. GenAI concentrates power in the manager class only!

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Eeeeeeee I just got home! This is the best news!!!!!

Not to ruin anyone’s Sunday afternoon, but Brazilians are voting for president today. We’ll start getting returns at 4pm ET, and, based on the results of the first round it’d be a clear surprise if Lula survives against Bolsonaro — even if polls have tightened in the last two weeks.

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This seems like one of the reasons we need to pack the supreme court.

This is excellent!

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Double winner! 🏆🏆 The Handbasket by Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social took home Best Reported Newsletter AND Best Investigative Scoop for her federal funding freeze reporting. One reporter, two trophies.

With AI, fixating on apocalyptic scenarios ignores real-world problems involving the actually already existing AI. We have proven methods to address disruptive technology, but for anyone who opposes them, apocalyptic fantasies can be a useful distraction. My latest, in @liberalcurrents.com: