Chris Heaton

"The light unto nations that we once were or aspired to be has been switched off." davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/the-americ...?

“Vote blue no matter who” goes both ways, friends. Progs call out centrists for saying it. Now centrists are calling progs out for saying it. Stop letting billionaires divide us.

Declaring peace while punting on all points of contention and signing an international agreement with no intention of following it then lying about what it said and what adversaries agreed to has apparently failed. How did that not work? So many prominent people thought it would work.

The secret of American politics is that the “far left” is right about basically everything but is deliberately marginalized by status quo defenders. It’s only when truth becomes utterly unavoidable that things change—or maybe now they don’t because post-Buckley, big money owns our democracy.

timeless

AI is creating waves by automating bad decision making, poor quality writing, slapdash research, and mediocre art. The fact it is perceived as revolutionary tells us a lot about our terrible middle managers and their slapdash decision making, poor quality research, and desire to make bad "art".

... And no evidence we're going to do any better in the 21st C.

Not sure about "more than half", but I am worried that the number may be too many to form the basis of a stable multi-ethnic democracy.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

I predict that Tariff will become a huge baby name in red states icl. Taryff

The are pre-Covid trends here for sure, but Covid supercharged them.

This is dead accurate.

When a clown moves into the palace he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. - Turkish proverb

Depressing, but clear eyed.

Ominous.

It's important to realize that #ElmoMagalomaniac is a con man of the highest order trading in a torrent of lies & disinformation. He's unintelligent, ignorant, overconfident, greedy, power hungry, hateful, uncool, & deeply disturbed. He's pulled the wool over the eyes of his stupid fans for years.

Are no 100% red states. There’s not one state in the South that didn’t have at least 30% of the vote go to Harris. Most of them voted over 40% for her. Try as they might, progressive and marginalized people don’t cease to exist in majority conservative communities. Think, yall.

doug: I think we’re lost me: make a u turn dong: that didn’t help

Whoever invented how to pronounce the word "macabre" did a really good jabre.

when someone says a thing is raw and unfiltered just remember that’s how you describe sewage

Eisenhower could not run today because he would be too far Left of either party

way too many people still see follower count as a status symbol of prestige or importance when it's really better understood as the unfortunate, burdensome side effect of trying too hard to make like 8 specific people laugh

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

Space alien: Take me to your leader. Me: I’d rather not.

the horrORs are becoming horrANDs

Seriously though the Stupid Evil Party vs. the Stupid Useless Party is really getting on my fucking nerves.

I try to often think "human meat is gristly" in case hungry aliens can read minds

I just joined here! Follow me.

If it's not obvious by now, people are being paid to 'not understand' airborne transmission. The only way this changes is when they are forced to 'understand.'

Oh my. The UK is so doomed.

Me: Alexa, how much is left on my timer? Alexa: You all have one year, 76 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes left on your timer. Me: What? On my pasta timer? Alexa: Oh. Sorry. You have one minute left on your pasta timer. Me: Alexa: Me: What was that other timer? Alexa: Alexa: Would you like to hear a joke?

What’s so bad about a dumpster fire anyway? Self contained and goes out eventually. (Finding hope where I can.)

British guy: "I weigh 13 stone." What...? British guy: "or 82 kilos." C'mon dude... British guy: "okay, 910 crumpets"

President #JimmyCarter died today at age 100, having lived w/ #melanoma that had spread to his brain & liver for >9y. I grew up in GA admiring him, so as an oncologist, I’d like to honor his life by teaching a bit. #melsm #MedSky #OncSky #MedEd First, the ⚠️ signs (ABCDE 👇) & some examples: /1

She was eye-catching, like an unfortunate fishing accident.

the hardest problem in computer science is where did I save the code I already wrote to solve this problem

JFK's words have never been more timely: "Ask not what your country can do for you but how your country can survive my nephew"