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also: I've written extensively about how Starlink sucks in cities and will inevitably slow down in dense areas. that hasn't stopped the trump admin from redirecting billions in infrastructure bill subsidies away from faster, better fiber and toward inferior, congested Starlink:

The past was different. It did not suck (I was there). It was better in some ways (e.g., better education — at least in CA). It was worse in some ways (e.g., smog in SoCal). Both narratives (past sucked; past was better) are simply wrong.

the past is a different country, and sucked

The demonstrators are not trying to change minds of MAGA voters. The demonstrators are telling their like minded people that they are not alone. They are telling the non-voters that the choice matters enough that it is worth marching in the streets, so the non-voters should vote.

yike

Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberals to allow Trump’s sentencing. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would have granted a stay 😬

remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?

NEWS Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI. I have confirmed its authenticity directly with her publicist.

The unstoppable force of my rule to finish every book I start pitted against the unmovable object of a crap book I hate reading is now colliding

Garland could have appointed special counsel earlier but I doubt Smith could have conducted the investigation significantly faster.

I'm sorry but it is deranged to propose solving the housing crisis *entirely* through public housing and rent control. newrepublic.com/article/1791...

Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled The Don Lemon show partnership with X, hours after Lemon conducted an interview with Musk (Don Lemon/@donlemon) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Still zero coverage of this by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, or CNN.

"Happy International Housewife's Day" concluded Tuberville, before hanging up

A Fox News guest seemed baffled at the idea that Trump had dinner with a Nazi. Makes sense, since — as with most stories that are bad for Trump — the channel barely mentioned it.

The only reason people on the right oppose no-strings cash government assistance is because it works.

Exclusive: Trendy soda brand Olipop is looking to raise fresh capital as it targets $400 million in sales this year.

www.cdc.gov/media/releas... CDC recommends adults ages 65 years and over receive an additional updated 2023-2024 #COVID19 vaccine dose, which can provide more protection to older adults, who are at highest risk of severe illness due to COVID-19. Medsky EMedsky

Imagine if Biden, Harris, Pelosi and other prominent Democrats spoke at a left-wing convention where prominent communists or violent anarchists were in attendance. Fox News would be on it 24/7

Exactly right. His whole Senate career he moved wherever the middle went

⚠️ Via Aaron Rupar: the loud part is getting louder Republican Accountability: Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

Gift link: how to get free Paxlovid in the US as many times as you need: wapo.st/49z3ocf

10 out of 10, no notes

Anyone who is calling for Biden to step aside without seriously engaging with the obvious and manifold problems that attend all the alternate scenarios is just posturing and adding nothing constructive to the public debate.

If you haven't been panicked by the situation for a while you've not been paying attention. The only thing standing between a legitimately elected dictatorship run by a narcissistic sadist & murica is an 80+ year old professional politician & his relatively unpopular running mate.

Whenever something like this happens, we like to respond by saying "Oh gosh this has only worked 100% of the time, let's test it again to make sure" But the fact is, the reason we don't make it official policy isn't because we don't know if it works. It's because no one in power wants to do it.

okay i'm waiting for oral arguments to begin but cspan callers are unbearable holy crap is it always like this?

At this point, we have to recognize that people's problem with basic income or checks of any kind is that they obviously work.

In a 1995 profile of now-retiring NPR journo Linda Wertheimer, her prescient answer to "Hot topic you couldn't care less about" was "anything Trump." In 1978, she voiced commentary from the gallery of the U.S. Senate for the first-ever live broadcast of a Senate debate. www.npr.org/sections/npr...

McCormick seems at times downright offended by how bad Tesla's governance is in her decision.

I look forward to that shareholder vote.

Part of what's extra funny about Musk's moaning about Delaware is that, not only was his compensation package 250x the norm and 33x his prior package, but he and Tesla's board made zero effort to avoid a challenge exactly like this. Literally no effort at a fair negotiation. They walked into this.

It’s one of the reasons we always take a job candidate’s meeting with the grad students so seriously — it’s the best chance to find out if someone’s a diva

"Alaska Airlines COO sits next to door plug"

Elon Musk is no longer the second richest man in the world. Rescission remedy.

Please tell me this prompts a margin call from his lenders. (He lives off loans secured by Tesla). And then that he violates Tesla's policies about amount you can leverage your stock.