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That Meta AI ad during the superbowl - using "5 Years", a song about world so messed up there are only 5 years left, is a choice.

Unlike Flock cameras which record and process continuously, red light cams and speed cams only trigger when violations are detected.

would also add that Joe Lacob is nobody’s idea of a champion of inclusion. he is simply a regular pre-2020 rich piece of shit, who will happily take your money for Pride merch rather than destroy your life to win an argument with his kids

WATCH: Reporter Jake Pearson had an idea: Ask ProPublica editors for $$$, mimic the patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings and see if the app would encourage his recklessness. What he didn’t expect was how little pushback he’d get as he spiraled.

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

Latest data on US light rail transit ridership: —Seattle & San Diego are far above pre-pandemic levels —Seattle's ridership is by far the highest in the nation now —LA's ridership is close to pre-pandemic level —Denver is *really* struggling www.thetransportpolitic.com/databook/us-...

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

Sophie Cunningham is -13 in 12 minutes. Please remember that when she is released at the end of the year and claims it was for her political views.

No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

For @valkyriesbeat.bsky.social, my preview of the Valkyries - Wings first round series. www.valkyriesbeat.com/p/valkyries-...

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.

Robert Kraft is in the Epstein Files.

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

"I support the rights of everyone to live their own lives. Medical decisions should be between a patient, their family, and their doctor. That question is a ridiculous distraction from <insert populist issues>. Voters are too smart to fall for your scare tactics." How hard is that?

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

if a voter hates trans people so much they are basing their vote on it, they are going to vote republican 100% of the time. there is literally nothing you can do or say to change that

If you're trying to propose to people with trans children in their lives that their lives are a worthwhile sacrifice for other Democratic priorities, consider whether you'd be convinced that your children should be sacrificed for the greater good of someone else's family.

Team Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.

I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t.

We are deeply angered to see this deceptive ad being plastered to sign posts around San Francisco. This ad is intended to confuse voters -- and it's because supporters of Measure G can’t win without hiding the fact that they want to take away our city’s coastal park and promenade.

Feminists are not more prone to mistakes and missteps than the leaders of other liberation struggles. Rather, their mistakes and missteps are given disproportionate attention, significance and publicity.

This isn’t sinking a stream of affordable housing, it’s a data center

Yes—it’s been 12 years (!) and this remains one of the most prescient pieces of media criticism ever written. And everything has only gotten worse. deadspin.com/the-future-o...

What do you do when you've launched a moral panic about transgender athletes in the WNBA, but there has never been an active trans player in the league? Simple: you start a conspiracy theory about every single woman on the court.

If players in the W didn’t already disagree with Sophie Cunningham about her comments about trans women in sports, how many of them must despise how she turned the WNBA into a political circus and battleground for conservatives to interrupt their game when the league is hot?

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

[redacted person who does not know whose mentions they wandered into]: In my city, the cyclists are so entitled, they act like they own the roads. Me: LET THE BIKES OWN THE ROADS. THE BIKES ARE FAR LESS DANGEROUS AND POLLUTING BY ABSOLUTELY EVERY MEASURE. MAKE THE CARS PAY TOLLS TO THE CYCLISTS.

How is this fascinating though? These people want the best for themselves, they just want everyone else to suffer. This has been the pattern, not the exception.

Protect trans kids 🏳️‍⚧️

Perhaps the most insulting part of this whole affair was him saying "I'll be criticized for this vote–what's new?" without an ounce of self-reflection about why Cassidy, a doctor, received such harsh criticism for voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.