Sam Leibowitz

🧵 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...

That thing at fiddle camp where everyone is checking out the stickers on each others’ cases.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Homemade marinara on Sunday -> shakshuka for breakfast on Monday.

Inside you there are two brains. Which one wins? The one that you feed. ( they eat short form video AB and memes )

Palm my wets.

Counterpoint: the ability to fire a powerful energy beam from your hands would also enable you to replace many problems with entirely different, potentially worse problems.

My dad used to travel sometimes on business and would come back with the occasional Chick tract. I specifically remember the volume, “Are Catholics Christians?” which asserted that veneration of the Virgin Mary was actually Isis worship.

A tale in two emails.

tidal.com/track/911419... I had to go listen to this.

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Have a little joy this morning:

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

what on EAAAAAAARTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Had a few (more) unkind words for the professional strategists who regurgitate the lazy, often self-serving advice that voters don’t care about democracy. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-iran...

The subtext of this comment by Murphy isn't really that trans women deserve abuse in prison for breaking the law, because cis women who break the law are deemed worthy of protection, no matter their crime. The subtext is trans women deserve rape, abuse, even death as a punishment for being trans.

been thinking a lot about James Baldwin recently - from a 1970 documentary

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Patreon-only episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social in 3… 2…

There’s an incredible new mural in Germantown by Ernel Martinez and Keir Johnston (co-founders of Amber Art and Design) with Mural Arts that honors The Sun Ra Arkestra! Location: October Gallery Museum at 6353 Greene Street.

Justice for ROD STUART LOOKING GUY LAST NAME O’CONNOR AND HIS WIFE DENSEL O’CONNOR.

Give it up for the American healthcare system!

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

(fall 2026) - I'm James O'Keefe - I'm the overweight guy from those Washington Post opinion podcasts with 35 views - And I'm Bari Weiss's little sister. These stories, and Chris D'Elia, tonight on 60 Minutes

BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them? HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.

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IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Fucking pigs did this.

DO YOU SING?

One of my co-phillyists must explain this to me immediately.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

People always make fun of middle management and analytics but it is absolutely no coincidence that AI corporations are getting rid of the people who can tell you when the numbers don't add up.

TIL that RFK Jr wrote a book about St. Francis of Assisi, and I’m wondering if he thinks Francis preached to the animals and then cut off their penises.

For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.