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Denver. Cloud architect and engineer by trade. Let's just take care of each other and explore the universe. Solidarity forever.
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Memo to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer: You can't separate the issue of combating ICE terrorism from "kitchen table issues."

it would be darkly fucking hysterical if tech billionaires get a quick and painful lesson in "You're only as rich as we say you can be" but it is only happening because the worst fucking person in the world is having a very messy breakup with the second fucking worst person in the world.

Really looking forward to whatever the hacking community decides to do with these things after the firmware is cracked.

I'm just saying, Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the greatest games ever made

‪”We cannot have a system where the average American feels like they have no control over their data, over their agency, over their future economic opportunity” @karenhao.bsky.social breaks down why the rise of unregulated AI companies “amassing economic and political leverage” is so dangerous.

The reason certain people are pushing Dems to get more anti-trans/anti-immigrant/anti-abortion etc. is not because they believe most Dem voters hold those views, it’s because they themselves hold those views and think they are good and right, so no amount of poll data is going to make them shut up

We can build a Democratic Party based in firm principles and led with empathy, but we'll probably have to dismantle the political consultant class to really eradicate the notion that you can feed a few people into the woodchipper if it might be popular and the fascists say that's all they want.

you don't have to acknowledge the legit use cases for AI when you hate on AI. you can just hate. the legit use cases will be fine

They're literally doing the meme

BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

It feels like we must be living in the stupidest period in history if a guy like Curtis Yarvin is considered “an intellectual”

Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

Super weird how this guy based his hedge fund outside of New York City and not, say, Jacksonville.

its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state

Sounds like AI slop.

Shadi Hamid, not exactly a radical leftist, is calling it "genocide" in the Bezos-owned Washington Post. If you haven't started using the term, which at this point is considered factual by mainstream human rights orgs and scholars, it's probably not for a great reason.

it's a coup against the Constitution. A way you can tell that it's that is that the first things they seized were GSA, the treasury's payments system and the US Marshalls service (the door keys, paychecks and building security, respectively, for federal facilities)

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Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

The best time to get rid of your doorbell camera was as soon as you bought it, the second best time is right now.

the U.S. press position is that user LeninGood1921 stands for the Democratic Party, but the words and actions of the Republican President cannot be taken as representing the Republican Party.

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

Being loudly empathetic in your professional life is not going to fix everything in the world, but it is something that you can feel good about doing while working to pay bills during constant societal trauma.

We went to the USA pavilion at the Osaka World's Fair. I was initially skeptical, but it turned out to be very well done, and even moving at times. But it was clearly designed before Trump's reelection. 1/

It doesn't matter that you don't want to feed yourself into the fascism accelerator. Other people will do it for you just like they shared your contact card with Facebook without even thinking about it.

Los Angeles's Deputy Mayor for Public Safety called in a bomb threat to City Hall last year in an attempt to frame pro-Palestine organizers.

Casey Newton, in his latest newsletter: “Every time I feel like progress in artificial intelligence is beginning to slow, a week like this one hits — and suddenly, it's all I can do to keep up.” Me, a stratcomm professor: YES EXACTLY THAT’S A COMMS CAMPAIGN. www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

bc i'm tired of hearing about this and elon musk's hair plugs, let's get this out of the way: every single ban on trans healthcare includes carveouts for the exact same medications but for cisgender people

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

When you start to doubt yourself, just remember that a random jagoff is in charge of the entire Library of Congress, so it's likely you can be whatever you want. Want to fly a plane? Manage a hedge fund? Be a golden retriever? Just believe in yourself and you can do it