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"There should be horses pulling carriages in Central Park" is a perfect Trump position. Essentially none of his business, basically inconsequential, but squarely in the category of "tacky late-20th-century NYC tourist experience," which is the most completely developed part of his brain.

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This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.

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That's not what you have seen, and they have not missed the point.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

I asked him if he ever got any bulk orders, or had thoughts on how to scale up or manufacture them more efficiently. He looked at me like I was crazy. He *likes* doing them one at a time, it's his passion, and since he lives in a civilized country, he doesn't *need* to worry about scaling up.

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This story is so very Republican. A barbaric government run by people too stupid to listen to experts, so they can’t even carry out their own murderous policies according to plan. Violence and idiocy.

TIL DC has cat cafes.

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

Enceladus rocks, I just wish it had more gravity

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I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product.

Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us.

this is usually the conservative play with unpopular wars — of course I support ending it, but ending it by *winning* not your bad plan of ending it by *losing* — like no one ever thought of winning the war before they suggested it

Saw the new South Korean movie Hope last night. Super fun, engaging thriller. Hoyeon is so hot #moviereview

This doesn’t answer the deeper question of “what the fuck good is all that money when climate change kills us all?” But it’s good to have an inside window I guess.

FWIW I think Starship Troopers is tricky b/c it depicts a fascist *utopia.* Most of what we learn about fascism are the warning signs of its advance: agitation about the “enemy within,” etc. In the movie that enemy has already been vanquished, so we don’t see the societal tension we’d expect.

Just keep learning the newest in demand job every three years. If you get in before everyone else, you'll have a few years of high wages before the labor market is flooded and you need to learn the next skill.

The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?"

They found a set of targets they think can produce the thinnest veneer of pretext for (they might be carrying drugs, though neither to nor from the United States), and they think, maybe correctly, that none of their domestic critics will truly go to the mat to protect alleged drug runners.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Sounds like it's time for somebody at Google to cease being a useful idiot for fascism and instead make an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly.

Sadly, it does not. The form shown here is to report an incorrect address on a business or other human-created place that has been added to the map overlay. You won't be able to submit the form unless you add a bunch of nonsensical info (such as street address).

this is why i don’t care to bow to those “stop talking like an ivory tower intellectual” assholes. because reactionaries will pull out the same proudly ignorant response just for saying true things in extremely accessible language. so why should i give a shit. i will trust my own barometer on this

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject [two-bit bullshit]. Bouie: I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. Cottle: Yeah well we still have a lot of column space to fill, so.

Never swiped right so fast

the fact that democrats can decide to something pointless, like risking midterm success to censure an annoying streamer, and a whole cadre of voters will dutifully fall in line is super instructive on one point: if democrats decided to do smart things those same people would fall right in line

"A selling point for the car is that it supposedly allows the driver to go anywhere they want at any time; in practice it creates an uneasy mass of cars squeezing along the same highways at the same time, headed for the same destinations."

To memorialize Jim Haggerty getting shot in the ass, the Gorton’s Fisherman should wear black for one year.