malatesting

Regardless of the failings of present LLMs, I find myself increasingly thinking about the proverbial earpiece that offers perfect personal advice and how people use it first on only a few things but increasingly on everything until their brains shrivel away into nothing but relays for the earpiece.

i can never tell if these people know they are creating a corrupt system of influence peddling or they really are unable to think a single step ahead to the obvious outcome of their ideas

We are an image of the future, we are ecology healing itself, we are the fire which consumes prisons police and whiteness itself, we are the seedlings of a better world and we are already beginning to bloom

Theirs is a movement of terror and suicidal despair, projection and self-delusion, and they can only lose since even winning for them is a living death. But our victories will not simply be experiential and affective, we are going to destroy their world and return this planet to itself in liberation

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

the chicago river. holy shit, the chicago river.

“One more lane bro” doesn’t work. NITA is the answer — but only if we dare to make clear commitments to transform Metra into regional rail, build a network of Bus Rapid Transit lines, increase frequency across the board, and make build-ready plans for new L lines. Oh, and #BuildTheTunnel.

a good metaphor for politics is when you have a drill for boring holes in a board, and you find a hard board, and you immediately give up

you know how dumb you'd have to be to be a conservative? well the median voter makes those guys seem like rhodes scholars

you guys, we did it! we invented the machine whose feet are light and nimble. that never sleeps. that says that it will never die. it dances in light and in shadow and it is a great favorite. it never sleeps, the bot swarm. it is dancing, dancing. it says that it will never die. probably fine

if i was a democrat, i'd probably take up routinely calling various republican officals 'oath-breakers'

A thing I think is true: there has always been child sexual assault but various facts about social norms meant that well into the early 21st century it was considered shameful to mention it or bring it up. However, this very silence led to different interpretations of what the status quo ante was...

in the minds of many, the only acceptable protests are ones that they don't have to ever know about...and they like to pretend that the protests of the past that they do know about magically would not have intruded on their precious minds back then

Subtle writing is for cowards

The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.

A woman went to jail because someone used her stolen SSN/personal details to open a Cash App account. That scammer then committed fraud using that account, so she's been blamed for it. The woman can't get details from Cash App bc they say the account isn't hers www.404media.co/amanda-smith...

"Ardea alba (Great Egret) [has] been split from their Old World counterparts, resulting in [a] new American endemic, A. egretta (American Egret)" taxonomic lumpers be like 'make america great again'

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

yeah man, we want less billionaires

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

will they have legs this time? last time they never delivered on legs.

The thing about Jan Crawford’s “diatribe” and CNN’s “heated” is, we all could see the whole exchange with our own eyes, but it suggests they’ve fucked up a lot of coverage of things we couldn’t see.

cutting down trees to spite future generations

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

chuds never realize until it’s too late why their boy kirk only ‘debated’ random college freshmen

the populace of isreal is out of control and it's only a matter of time until this kind of ungovernable behavior points fully inward

a mid-grade senator

i gotta say, at this point we have an obvious revealed preference in much of america for getting scammed into paying more for shittier things. also, complaining about it. people love to do that. but they’ll volunteer for it all the same.

well, that seems like a problem that suggests its own solution

while in principle i believe people have the inherent right to alter their physical appearance, i gotta say, these creepy monsters the republicans keep rolling out are really putting some practical pressure on that

The annoying, do-nothing unemployment of the visible minority, versus the cool, bohemian unemployment of the white supremacist.

As some people observe what they call #ColumbusDay, we fondly recall a protest in Chicago in 2020 during which demonstrators outwitted and outfought police officers, winning an opportunity to try to topple a hated statue of Christopher Columbus. crimethinc.com/GrantPark

if this had been an e-bike, people would be very upset

listen, i'm not sure its a good idea to have everything connected to the internet, secured only by the cheapest software the manufacturers of the shoddiest appliances could get

the honorable charles ‘chuck’ brown presiding: