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the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

Apollo chief economist: AI "has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech" It is based on aggregated revenue/worker, margins, etc. Simpson's paradox: "a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined"

French leftists watching Serbia and Brazil:

Keeps happening

Tonight in 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated toward direct confrontation, a sentry on patrol at Duluth Air Force Base in Minnesota thought he saw someone climbing the perimeter fence. He shot at the intruder and activated the base sabotage alarm, which by design automatically triggered ...

The new Santorum.

boy do i have the charts for you source (me): cameroncorduroy.substack.com/p/fixing-the...

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

“Ken Paxton is counting on you being too busy. Greg Abbott is counting on you being too tired. Dan Patrick is counting on you thinking your vote doesn’t matter in Texas. Prove all three of them wrong. Get your ass to the polls.”

Has Your Donkey Become A Great Terror Upon Your Household?

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Always a sign of a healthy society.

JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.

it’s just great marketing

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

I hate to admit it, but Elon’s X is a huge success. He completely destroyed marginalized communities, fucked over sex-workers and artists, let CSAM material, racism, sexism, transphobia, and bigotry run rampant, and people stuck around to have their consciousness pulled down into the gutter with him

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

The oldest known musical instrument is a flute carved from the radius bone of a gryphon vulture made during the Ice Age 40,000 years ago. If people could do it then, there is nothing stopping anyone now

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

October 16, 1968