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@pftompkins.bsky.social I painted your face and it came out like a cross between Pedro Pascal, Albert Einstein, and a bad painting.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"democrats are messageless"- current admin means we lack a coherent backdrop to have a message against. we need people to "just be basically serious adults". how bad do things need to get before electorate is ok moving from "how do we find a sexy candidate" and instead take some wins?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 5 days ago • 766 comments

keeping a reference of this around to quickly dismiss any pretense that the "biden was old" scandal amounts to anything relative to this admin

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

if you want to own that it was an "unauthorized" edit: post the edit! what WAS grok prompted to say, and on what terms? if this was some rogue injection, then it shouldn't be embarrassing when the prompt is shown to have been carefully crafted to get away with racist slime.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

this should be a massive story. the willingness of those that control AI to shape it to their own benefit in not-abstract terms. and the only reason we know about it is because AI isn't good enough _yet_ to be subtle, and musk is so detached from reality as to make such a brazen mistake.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

the threat of [rapid stock devaluation proportional to a company's likelihood of getting ceo-assassinated and the company being forced to act more humanely] getting priced into stock evaluations might be one of the greatest forces for good in our broken late capitalist world

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

this is the first post I've seen that actually communicates "marijuana = m, smile = s, etc...". It's not a _strong_ argument, but there's more there than I previously understood. I want to know the best-faith takes on events like this, so we can be effective at selling how bad-faith the reality is.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

submitted 69 days ago • 217 comments

american wealth distribution. find yourself on the graph!

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

It’s not tech, it’s capitalism. There are plenty of solvable problems out there- but there are NOT plenty of easily monetizeable solutions. So the incentive is to find such a solution first. Otherwise we’d all be out here “doing good”, like building homes for the homeless, ending world hunger, etc

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I’m witnessing D politicians start to become more crude and memey and if that’s what works, then that’s absolutely what they need to be doing right now, but also this discourse race to the bottom is terrifying.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

@booker.senate.gov I don't understand why your 25 hour speech gives me hope, but it does. I feel like we can protest, and it can work. what an odd feeling. thank you.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

what would be a good organization to take on the task of e.g. a "score card" for e.g. DOGE? like I don't want to sift through dated news articles of this finding or this other finding. how can we build sites that are up-to-date go-to references for the track record of an entity like this?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

the wealth distribution graph is a graph I've had in my head for a while, but have wanted to see more (I've thought it'd be rhetorically useful). excited to see it, *but then*: it maxes out at $14M?!?! I N F U R I A T I N G that such a graph would pull its punches by not illustrating the actual max.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 104 days ago • 609 comments

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

submitted 106 days ago • 107 comments