Gluon Spring

Hydrogen bomb test Hardtack I Poplar: Detonated July 12, 1958, from a barge off of Namu island in the Bikini Atoll. 9.3 megatons yield. Aircraft in video: Martin RB-57D. The end will be very beautiful from certain vantage points.

Trump II as very specifically an effort to erase JFK seems like an underdiscussed angle. Bulldozed Jackie's rose garden, threatening to bulldoze the Kennedy Center, stripped the Kennedy blue off Air Force One, shuttered USAID, put JFK's animal torturing nephew in charge of reviving polio, now this

Republicans every fucking day:

They got one thing right, though. I do look down on their sorry asses.

This is correct. Frequently painful, but correct.

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

This is a hell of a study ( though it won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s read The American Voter). Thanks @mike10010100.com for pointing me to it. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"

bluntly this is also what destroyed LBJ and led to the nixon landslide, yes vietnam also mattered and was probably #1, but the white working class was infuriated that black folks would also benefit from the great society programs

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

Read this excellent essay by @beenwrekt.bsky.social In short, forget OpenAI; we need to build open AI. www.argmin.net/p/the-world-...

So I think this is both true and untrue. Musk is obviously a self-centered, narcissistic oligarch bent on hoarding wealth and avoiding regulation. BUT he is also genuinely and thoroughly captured by his own delirious posting. He really is off his rocker about immigration and gender issues.

Sola economica is a bad way to understand the world. And it’s definitely a bad way to understand our current moment of authoritarianism and reaction.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

checking in on the president of the united states

My recommendation for CA voters: When in *any* doubt, vote NO on any new proposition and YES on the repeal of any old proposition. You can always achieve the same aim with a regular law but the proposition really ties our hands potentially for a very long time.

The billionaire symbolism I want is for the ones committing egregious crimes, which seems to be several of them, to go to prison.

I don't get the billionaires tax. It's not enough to pay for anything. It's one time. It's just symbolic posturing, and as likely to backfire as do anything good.

Every election we ask voters whether they want to slit our own throats, but in a confusing way that suggests they will get a lollipop. It's a minor miracle the state functions as well as it does.

Prop 86: Shall we disapprove the veto repealing the ban on not declining to slit our own throats? YES: You support not opposing the mandatory absence of un-slit throats. NO: You refuse to reject the exemption preventing the non-slitting of throats.

CA ballot initiatives are insane.

nothing in the world feels better than just fucking crushing republicans. do everything you can to ensure that’s the outcome in 10 days

I understand it’s all proximity to jobs but It’s still so funny to me that someone would pay $3 million to live next to a highway in Cupertino. Like it sucks so bad. So much of the Peninsula is just unremarkable mid century suburbs and strip malls and you have to be rich to live there.

The LLMs are right.

The enemies of democracy are creative. Her defenders will have to be creative too.

Many people responding to this kind of thinking, especially lawyers, haven't internalized that the score is already Q to 12 because they touched the Opposite Pole, so it's a bit late to debate what the official NFL rules say about pass interference.

The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

This is true, and it's why Trump v. United States should basically be understood to have triggered the Lockean right of revolution

Many people are saying.

Under this system the next president could, and maybe should to drive the point home, simply imprison Trump and his lackeys for the duration of the term and then just pardon everyone involved in that lawless act.

I’m surprised but it’ll still do it. I figured they’d make it say it can’t pray because it’s just an LLM or something by now. I’m really surprised there isn’t more cult behavior around AI and that there haven’t been sectarian disputes driven by AI. Maybe there are and it just hasn’t broken out.

Here it is. I knew I screen grabbed it.

Imagine being stupid enough to bet your life on a future Trump pardon? Trump might forget, or be too demented to manage it, or he might be mad at everyone for not getting him a third term and petulantly withhold it. Literally “If you roll a six you are going to prison” situation.

Maybe that's him and/or his immediate political successors. Maybe it's some new thing following in his footsteps and expanding on his precedents for what you can get away with. But it's a binary choice. Either you shut this kind of thing down hard and decisively or sooner or later it will work.