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I should add the doomers and deranged Luddites to the list, because they end up acting as boosters, convincing everyone that these technologies are much more powerful, easy to implement, universally applicable and unambiguously beneficial for the business than they actually are.

There are two approaches to recruitment: 1. "My job is to eliminate candidates until one is left" - these lazy recruiters abuse automation to effortlessly reject candidates, including the best ones. 2. "My job is to find the best candidate" - use automation to support (not replace!) manual review.

Worth remembering who are the people who fought the hardest to promote Platner as the true champion of people who is defying "Dem HR-lady tyranny", because those people are playing for the MAGA team.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

It was supposed to be Graham Platner. He was going to be the whatabout. The attempted gotchas at El-Sayed about Platner’s tattoo would’ve alone made for weeks of coverage.

What's the duration of a "unity wartime government" you ask? Depends on how long you can keep the war going.

the ADL is more mad about Zohran calling a neighborhood Eastern European than Elon giving a Nazi salute Zohran derangement syndrome is real

the non-feminizing estrogen that turns you into tilda swinton

I knew a guy who used to walk around in a MAGA cap (British, in the UK) and buy the big lifted Ford F150s etc. Didn't see him for a while. Then one day he was driving a normal little hatchback, no MAGA cap. Turned out he had finally gone to rehab for his long running coke addiction.

The war in Yemen is intensifying, deepening the humanitarian crisis and affecting millions of people. I just spoke with President Rashad al-Alimi to reaffirm the EU’s full solidarity with and support for the Government of Yemen and its efforts to restore peace and stability.

El-Sayed has now had to distance himself from both Hasan Piker and his uncle Cenk Uygur. Smart of him since red-brown grifters and ratfuckers like Uygur and Piker always end up helping the fascists.

Something that helps balance the two is having actual knowledge and experience with automation. Then you know it's never as simple, cheap, easy and universally possible as the boosters and doomers both try to convince you. Also good automation increases productivity in ways that benefit everyone.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Hide your Republican beliefs girl you're comms director for the MO Senate Republican caucus

60% of Americans live Cheesecake Factory to Cheesecake Factory.

From the outside, a lot of DSA internal politics these days looks like a clash between people who are becoming increasingly successful at democratic politics and people who want to act like authoritarians despite having no actual authority

A few more Kevin Hassett performances like this one and you'll soon be able to fit the entire House Republican Caucus in a Cybertruck.

This is every "funny guy" who is always punching down and saying "relax it's just a joke" and "is comedy illegal now?" to excuse their own abuse, when someone makes a joke at their expense. If you like dishing it out but can't take it, you're a thin-skinned cry-bully.

I was in Scottsdale Arizona yesterday. I saw homemade signs pointing out Flock cameras on the streets. That’s real not bots

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

Kudos to TIME for getting it right time.com/article/2026...

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Had one last block to fill out on my ballot — school board — and ran into my neighbor with a school board candidate yard sign and asked her about it and now I'm ready to vote. Democracy!

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

Abusing power and distorting DOJ to manufacture charges against a non-criminal because said true things the president doesn’t like = BAD Using up more of the regime’s limited prosecutorial resources on yet another likely-to-fail effort going after someone who has resources to fight back = GOOD

Since the DSA is doing struggle sessions with its own candidates, I have to tap the sign again:

this isn't a commentary from me on queerness or leftism, but when an immutable part of someone's personal identity gets conflated with a political ideology - whether positively or negatively - the results tend to be..... bad

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Tonights Hunter's Full Moon rises over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No AI, no composite. Single frame. #fullmoon #huntersmoon #maryland #chesapeake #baybridge #photography

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I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

This is both Europe's biggest weakness and its biggest strengthen - the decentralization of everything. It makes taking quick decisions and making sharp turns next to impossible, but also makes everything very resilient. There's no single point of failure for Europe's political system or economy.

Trump's trade wars, invasion threats and betrayal of allies not only failed to peel Russia off of China, but is driving the EU to keep strong links to China in order to compensate for the effects of Trump's chaos. It's a strategic disaster for the US and it didn't have to happen.

Europe is warming at double the global rate. To become truly climate resilient, we need to adjust and learn along the way.

New Galileo Second Generation satellites are set to join the fleet, bringing the total to 16. These additional satellites will support the long-term continuity and resilience of Europe’s satellite navigation services.