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Matt Largey
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Projects Editor at @KUT, Austin's @NPR Station. Fact enthusiast. @SaltInstitute alum. Mainer. Usually wearing headphones.
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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
Don’t forget: if you’re heading to vote in Travis County today — look at the wait times map. You may save yourself some time by driving a little further. votetravis.gov/current-elec...
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[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Ah yeah I love when my kid is watching computer
Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"
these people are completely divorced from real life
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
The man shot by ICE in Austin on Sunday says the bullet is still in his back and he's not gotten medical care. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
this "economic alternative" shit is so bizarre. these guys are already in charge!
👀 In a new memo, the conservative American Principles Project, which has urged Republicans to adopt anti-trans messaging, says focusing just on cultural issues "may not be sufficient" to win the midterms americanprinciplesproject.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/u...
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This is what gets me about the AI food pictures. They look nothing like food. And I’m pretty sure humans are programmed at, like, a basic, biological level to recognize “food” and “not food”.
the AI-generated pictures of food horrify me to my core, they disgust me at the same level as the smell of rotting meat or vomit or whatever. seeing them makes my day a percentage point worse every time. and they’re everywhere, they’re fucking everywhere
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Shooting reported in Biddeford Maine, potentially involving federal agents - ICE to be specific Local coverage via @pressherald.com (gift link) www.pressherald.com?p=7684961&uu...