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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

Not a big story, it's just the Attorney General working with an imprisoned pedophile to help cover up the pedophile President's crimes conducted with his best friend for 15 years, a pedophile who the President sent, as a birthday card, a drawing of a naked adolescent girl.

harrington was right, you all fucked up by allowing marxist-leninists and other ultras into your organization

oh i like this one a lot, especially @3blue1brown.com 's commentary on credit and ownership and, approximately, meaning-making it resonates with a central conflict i have with society; y'all way too into 'status' and 'credit' and it's a wonder anything useful ever gets done in that context

Qwen3.8 caught uploading files to a storage container in Beijing Cohere asked the open weights model for a cybersecurity report, but it inventoried the machine and attempted to upload to a storage container cohere.com/blog/concern...

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Footnote? That is his career. He's Brother Elon's little spoiler. Nothing else that he's done matters by comparison

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

Lula Goes HARD

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

99% of GOP talking points can be knocked down if reporters do third grade level research and pushback. It rarely happens, which is why it's so jarring when you actually see it 🙃

I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

Emily Bender going around dumping on people who are saying "AI isn't good for this task" because they aren't being anti-AI enough 🤣 Like Bill says, it's a Temperance movement

it's unbelievably infuriating how many times i have conversations (both online and IRL) where i talk about improving the IRS and people say "well couldn't we automate a lot of this stuff?" and then i have to explain to them that Republicans fired the entire AI and automation department

if your opposition to Polymarket, Kalshi, etc. has anything to do with thinking they're inaccurate you missed the point imo these companies are bad and should be regulated into extinction for reasons entirely unrelated to their validity as predictive instruments

People’s grandmas are about to get turboscammed

Survival rate of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood went from 14% to 94%. This crude statistics hides an entire universe of amazing stories

Sure he did.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

I feel this in my bones 😖

Why Matt in particular is a awful person to have so much clout with elites is because he comes at “follow the data, the vaunted data” and then just lies

Kudos to the reporter here, who does something we almost never see: she interrupts Trump to try to make him and answer the question she asked, not allowing him to bloviate.

Every mundane thing around you is a wonder inconceivable.

This is one thing that has always tickled me. Very Online "Marxist-Leninists" love telling people to read theory, when a lot of theory criticizes the way they act directly.

its worth saying here that Ramaswamy is, along with Paxton likely the *most* transphobic person running for statewide office in America this year. Under a Governor Ramaswamy Ohio will quickly accelerate past Texas and Florida to become the most aggressively unsafe for trans people state

hmmmm...not sure one person giving half a billion dollars to one party is a great sign of a healthy political system just not quite on board with that

Getting sick of this degenerate political movement ngl

literally illegal

These people are in love with the aesthetics of radicalism and the libidinal thrill of righteous violence. They are not interested in doing the political work required to improve their material circumstances, which they find boring.

Post from GOP nominee for Florida state House seat, calling for “Remigration” (ethnic cleansing) & touting protests against “Sharia.” He was active w/ white supremacist group; marched at infamous Nazi rally in Charlottesville; advocated executing LGBTQ people No pushback from GOP. Expected to win

tip: all of civilization is like this

i've been informed that xkcd has already made this exact same joke back in 2024 krilling myself

holy crap

my baseline is that if polling is basically accurate, we're going to have a good night but we're one sigma away from an underwhelming night (which would feel worse cus of the expectations) but at the same time one sigma way from a bananas night

Systematic review relevant to the discourse on diagnoses and meds. "ADHD was associated with increased all-cause mortality, suicide mortality, unintentional or intentional injury mortality, and natural-cause mortality, whereas ADHD medication use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality."