James Davidson

James Davidson

@jfdavidson.bsky.social

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bring back monoculture. there are too many apps and streams and buttons, I want everyone listening to the same syndicated radio playlists so we all know what everyone is talking about.

Pop Crave@popcrave.com

“Choosin’ Texas” by Ella Langley officially surpasses “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey as the longest-running #1 hit in history (23 weeks).

Apparently "working on a Komatsu bulldozer in your garage" isn't a political neighborhood

Charlotte Swasey @charlotteeffect.bsky.social

Find out what political neighborhood you're in! The quiz is short, fun, and I am desperately curious what everyone's results are www.searchlightinstitute.org/political-ne...

The onion guy has a hot social justice gf, he can just say some shit without any real repercussions, it’s a nuanced convo that got a lot of math people pissed off so we know he is wrong, but we are stuck because people use both spreadsheets and email

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

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Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

Men are stronger than women, why does everyone want to play basketball against women when no trans player has entered the wnba? Also why does anyone think it’s normal that someone wearing a dress is trans? And also why is it normal to want to dunk on women to prove a point that doesn’t happen?

the president claims we can't fund social programs because it all has to go to national defense.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: The price tag of this DOJ fund -- $1.8 billion. You have people that can't afford groceries, gas is high. How can you justify this? JD VANCE: I reject the idea we can't walk and chew gum at the same time

about 1.5 to 2 million people lose their job or are laid off a month in the US, this actually isn't that big of a deal and could be dealt with pretty easily.

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Someone already wrote this article in 1995, it was called Industrial Society and It's Future.

People are much too quick to uncritically celebrate "progress" given to us by corporations without looking under the hood to see what it's doing to our environment and the exploited workers in the Global South that make our stuff. What I want is for that to be a much bigger part of the conversation

Did they check the tariff shelf? I mean it got on the shelf, just take it off the shelf.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER DIRECTING TARIFF REFUNDS -COURT FILING

Going to go crazy, the way AI is presented and the way AI actually is are very different things. Are we headed for the terminator tomorrow? No not a chance. Can a non technical person describe and refine a program by themselves? Very much so. If they tied that program into Outlook and excel…

I'm tired of this being called doomerism because I can't lay out exactly how a derranged old man is going to fuck up society. Glad you think laws and norms still work, they don't, but you think that.

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social

We are ten years into this. Troops are on the streets of an American city brutalizing people. It is time to stop responding to Trump's most authoritarian ambitions with "well he can't do that."

The insurance knower has logged on.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates. What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ? Who in the USA gov runs the program? R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?

I guess Charlie Kirk successfully set up his brand as “the debate guy” when it should have been “the racist podcaster”. Flying under the radar works which is why you have to call it out loudly

Things are only "coded" because of what is displayed on your social media profile. Bros can't post brunch pictures on vacation so they don't do it, but you can do a GRWM for dinner on vacation. This has broken our brains.

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

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The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is the problem, He generates clicks and feeds the machine that lets people argue, arguing online is what people want, they are completely insulated from their neighbors and the people the policies affect.

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you know he's going to denaturalize Obama right? thats what this is all about.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

I’ve noticed over the past few years that the need to equalize everything (whataboutism etc) has eliminated prioritization, and now I’m noticing that was the point. Thought it was just bad excuses

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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During the largest protest in U.S. history, a protest against the gravest threat either has faced in their time in politics, Schumer and Jefferies were at the Hamptons wedding of a mega-donor. It's hardly a surprise the base wants better.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

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You would think a guy who loves to visit his golf club in NJ would know better than to insult the Boss. Good luck with radicalizing people that will fist fight over the Taylor Ham/Pork roll debate.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Trump appears to being making a threat against Bruce Springsteen. “This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that's just ‘standard fare.’ Then we'll all see how it goes for him!”

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Tom Suozzi@tomsuozzi.bsky.social

I feel sad for our country. I have never felt it so divided. There is a meanness that permeated the chamber tonight. The punch, counterpunch will never work. If we continue with this “eye for an eye”mentality, we will all end up blind. Our country needs some healing.