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When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

Law enforcement are routinely trained to escalate situations because the only thing that matters is their survival.This guy is probably lying to avoid consequences but also why would LEOs expect people to respect them at this point? Respect is a two way street!

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

It cannot be repeated enough: everyone involved in the Trump Administration are liars and grifters.

One very easy fix here: if you worked for DOGE, you are immediately barred from working on any federal contracts, www.acquisition.gov/far/subpart-....

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

When Edward Teller was chair of the early AEC Reactor Safeguards Committee, he was considered extremely conservative in his safety demands. His reasoning was that even one catastrophic accident could destroy all public enthusiasm for a technology he believed was important.

A thing I should have mentioned: They’re waiving adoption fees for the next week. You can just have this sweet sweet pup for zero dollars down. Or take her on a day trip, also zero dollars. She will love you unconditionally and slay your foes, probably. Go meet her.

A fun detail: Poirot repeatedly describes the Macho Jesus his leetle grey cells dreamed up as like a “Mustang.” You might think this is merely weird and homoerotic, but it’s actually linked to a bit of misinformation evangelicals like to use to retcon Jesus as a high-T alpha male.

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

It cannot be stressed enough: these people are liars. Some also happen to be incompetent but they are first and foremost inveterate liars.

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought.

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

It's not even some 4D chess conspiracy: - Rich dorks concluded in 2013 that AI would kill us all. - Decided the only fix is to build it themselves before someone else could. - Met regularly, pooled money to hire researchers. - Researchers made something that impressed billionaires.

Buying a car has to be the most singularly miserable experience of the American consumer. The dealership cartel must be broken and Americans must be free to purchase vehicles from manufacturers (other than Tesla).

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

One of the things I miss most about older iterations of the internet is smaller communities built around shared interests. Our Past Lives Discord is bringing back so many fond memories of good conversations; if you like history, it's a fun place to hang out with smart people! Subscribe for access!

Again, the AI corps are in a very tight financial spot right now, with massive debt, investments drying up, and still no clear path to profitability. They're angling for govt bailouts/stakes b/c all the other $ is drying up. "or we might accidentally kill you all" is the pitch.

Over the last couple of days we have got several polls of Dems leading by double digits in the national environment, and ahead in states and districts Trump won by 15+ points. Starting to get hard to deny that Nov could very likely be a bloodbath for the GOP

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

POV: you asked a millennial something

Maybe this really was Elissa Slotkin's experience in the weeks after 9/11, but it sure as hell wasn't mine. People lost their fucking minds, and pretending they didn't, that everybody wanted to sit around and sing kumbaya, is revisionist insanity.

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

Tonight we joined our comrades in nearby Frederick, Maryland where #ICE had been camped out for days, terrorizing a neighborhood. At around 2:17 in the video is when they start beating the shit out of peaceful protestors with batons. How is this allowed to happen? @maddow.bsky.social