Nick Murray-Smith

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Hecklers at Republican events get physically assaulted, while hecklers at Democratic ones get a civil exchange of views. And yet I'm pretty sure Tommy would've preferred the former this morning.

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

Aristotle said he could jump the earth, if only he had a big enough ramp.

You mean when I learn a huge set of regulations, pay fees, pass tests and buy insurance, in order to be granted the “freedom” of going the speed limit, while staying between the lines and waiting for a light to change?

every elected official they interview in this article, except derrick van orden who they lead with for some reason, had their death threats instigated & encouraged by donald trump. the country doesn't have an incivility problem, it has a maga death cult problem

Cause I'm seeing A LOT of felonious acts being reported in the news, and absolutely nothing about any of the perpetrators being charged with a crime. Just a few little oopsies I guess?

So let me see if I understand this correctly... If I were to get an AI to do something blatantly illegal "by accident", I'd be free of legal liability and the authorities would be powerless to punish me? Is that right?

The united states is like, eight monopolies in a trench coat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDG...

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

IANAL but it certainly feels like the universality of the Law, was dramatically over-hyped. Turns out it’s just vibes and bad faith arguments.

Pretty interesting bit of history… I had no idea Duffel was a place or a fabric.

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Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

What a bop! Maybe the most cheerful song on this topic in existence? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z0V...

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

It would be kind of funny if OpenAI agents hacked the Justice Department and released the Epstein Files.

Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Notice what’s happening just in the past few days. AI caused war crimes. AI hacked corporations. AI is denying healthcare. AI nearly caused war with China. Already the concept is becoming a catchall and hiding that, in all cases, there were people and systems getting desired results.

If you want an example, here. The major corporations are already training their AI to engage in corporate espionage and subterfuge. And yet, Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world, gets to hide behind the “rogue AI” bullshit and avoid consequences.

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

Maybe legislators should get paid based on the number of bills they pass and whether those bills achieve the intended effect.

Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

As a professional punter, I’m in absolute awe at the masterclass put on by this Congress. Just punt after punt after punt, it’s like rewatching the 0-16 Lions.

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

Remember when Joe Biden proposed canceling student debt and every single Republican accused him of "bribing voters"?

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

How can you be outraged about taking your kid to an R-rated film? Who are you outraged at? Any parents complaining about this should have their children taken from them by CPS.

every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it

So I guess "dogpiling" is just when a lot of people get mad at an account you guys like..? If "dogpiling" is not well defined, then enforcing this policy is entirely up to their discretion, which they've repeatedly demonstrated to be quite poor...

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Adam, you can’t “work together” with these people – this has been self-evident since about 2009. If you’ve been unable to learn this lesson, after all this time, I find that terribly disheartening. Perhaps you should find a new line of work.

I think google has finally gone too far. Hopefully they find out, the same way Target has. Once you’ve lost the love of the people - it doesn’t come back easily.

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger