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@lastthird.bsky.social
I'm a single issue voter, and I want you to be too: We should keep democracy. Bad faith argument = block
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It also sets up "history and tradition" as a quasi-official legal premise which a) justices can (and have) fabricate out of whole cloth, and b) there is no truly official historical record or body to counteract what justices declare to be historical.
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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Just heard the first song off the lost Morphine album. It rips. Great for spooky season. youtu.be/UqIfuVG4xUo?...
This entire thread is spot on.
There's a school of thought which suggests that the only way to disable the fascist movement is to stop shielding MAGA voters from the consequences of their actions. Well, now that the GOP administration is disabling disease surveillance, response, and even basic research, there's no shield. 1/ 🧵
Bookmarking this conversation because a) I use agentic coding tools heavily for my work, but b) readily confess that while I've gotten pretty good and getting quality work out of them, I don't have a great understanding of how LLMs work. And that's a vulnerability! Which I should fix (man or not)!
These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE conflates language models with anything and everything else.
Just for this particular book, I'm tempted to order one each of these knockoffs, just to see if they are also attempts to dilute @gilduran.com's position in the real Nerd Reich.
This probably could be predicted by the Gulf of Mexico renaming clown show, but it still feels a little prescient. @mjtoma.bsky.social 'Killing Baby Hitler'
Budos Band Soundgarden Oh Sees Mark Lanegan The Posies Dead Milkmen The National Bon Iver The Head and the Heart Lemolo Helio Sequence The Maldives
Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Nina Simone Ray Charles Leonard Cohen George Harrison Johnny Cash Prince John Lee Hooker Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Eartha Kitt Billy Preston Bowie Lou Reed Grateful Dead Laura Nyro Dr. John Little Richard & Ravi Shankar.
Kirby frame: Republicans oppose mail voting because it makes voting easier, and when more people vote, they tend to lose. They suppress voting to stay in power.
📬 Restricting mail voting is a core component of Trump’s plan to undermine the 2026 midterms. And yet, when it came time to cast his own ballot this month, Trump voted by mail — again. 🤔 Confronted with this hypocrisy, Trump has used a convenient excuse: https://demdock.com/3U4wOwA
"...here, for the first known time in US and world history, you had the president of the United States on a plane that no one outside of the US government knew about..."
The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
@musicologyduck.bsky.social's replies are too locked down for me to reply with this directly, but if I could, I'd point out how instrumental Michael Lewis's 'The Fifth Risk' was in raising my appreciation for what civil servants (used to) do. www.goodreads.com/book/show/46...
Is it still just a hypothesis? www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Did I just hear @nicklutsko.bsky.social singing @thebulwark.com's new 'The Trio' jingle?! pca.st/episode/924a...
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I'll be interested in seeing @iwriteok.bsky.social's take on this: www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...
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I'm stealing this: "You just want to say a word that you’ve given no meaning"
Even if it’s a kinder gentler prison with a reduced population that you’re envisioning after seeing a documentary about a Western European nation’s prison, it’s still a prison. Its reform. Not abolition. You just want to say a word that you’ve given no meaning
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