Ashley Jester

It’s not autonomous if you need a human to keep it from fucking up

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

Brings me back to their publication on July 4, 2024 of an op-ed “Why I Don’t Vote,” which you’ll never believe was actually written by a Republican voter.

It feels good to defeat fascism

Today's wisdom

Think about all the awful things Republicans are constantly accusing people of, and then think about the fact that it is always, every time, without one =single= exception, projection.

The Republican Party has all the values and tactics of a white supremacist prison gang and maybe it's time to stop normalizing them as if they were a modern functioning political party

Utah State Government: Once it's too late, we'll consider maybe acting

6/ Price said the state’s policy not to monitor workers is meant to allow farmers to decide whether to contact the health dept, rather than “forcing it on them.” “If we started seeing people actively dying from this, obviously that would change how we respond to this,” she said.

4/ While other countries have ordered farms to cull mink, officials never seriously considered it. Utah state veterinarian Amanda Price was focused on the impact on the farm’s owner: “This is his life’s work that he’s seeing be destroyed,” she told ProPublica.

Ms. Marple-ass names

Tippecanoe and Teepell too

wait wait wait. the Republican ratfucking dad and son are named "Tommy and Timmy Teepell." are you fuggin kidding me with this shit

I would, however, like to think that she would have always had the taste not to say any positive things about the guy who looks like a football left out in the elements since 1947 and sounds like Gilbert Gottfried getting tortured in Marathon Man

Share who you think looked the hottest anyone has ever looked in a movie

I need whatever this is Damn 😋

pita bread time

Yakko wept

When people were like why is Kamala nattering on about joy, and being goofy: what were her choices, I ask? How could she disarm people?

Getting flashbacks from serving during DADT, when every unit had a sailor or three that we all knew, protected, and shut the fuck up about

there’s no rules you can call any house “my ancestral home”

way too much of US defense funding is currently going to people who basically have the mentality of cruel 14 year old boys who have just discovered the joys of smoking weed

Police are trying to catch them all

It’s a cult

Habermas, among others, is quite clear on this: deliberative public reason is a normative ideal, realizable under very specific social conditions. The conditions of postmodernity are very different. And The Theory of Communicative Action has a lot to say about social media and chatbots in particular

YouGov, seriously? What the fuck is this bullshit?

The thing is I worry that that this poll suffers from selection bias because it excluded the 95% of respondents who likely said, “you can fuck all the way off with this bullshit question.”

Claymation ass animal

In fairness it was a hell of a pitch *cough*

billionaires are a plague on society

Anyone who hurts a child or helps hurt a child for political gain is a monster. And why would they do that? Just to hide their failures, just so they can keep ripping you and your family off, making us less safe, sicker, and poorer.

This is basically Trump taking another approach at attacking wind farms being built and finished wind farms that are operating. A wind turbine containing European parts that needs replacement components will be non operational. It's a way to shut down wind farms.

people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

Do you occasionally have that thing where you want to grab whoever is in charge by the face and shake them until they stop being a total idiot and fix things instead of breaking them more? Because I'm living with that all the time at the moment and it's making me tetchy.

Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does