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Land use lawyer. Brooklyn expat to the Bay Area. Legalize it (housing). he/him
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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

submitted 5 hours ago • 178 comments

Imagine breaking the ncaa national football champ trophy in half and killing the pope in the same week.

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

Basically none of my clients believe me when I explain what Whren allows the cops to do.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

The thing that’s been striking to me about Abrego Garcia is that it’s a recapitulation of every disease in policing and natsec BS that civil liberties advocates have been warning portended massive rights abuses (and were largely ignored about), all at once, and has utterly vindicated these warnings.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The problem was he called the FTC and didn’t offer to give $450 mil to Trump personally.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

NYC's centuries long dedication to cartoonish corruption still managing to produce the greatest city in the world vs LA's long parade of good government progressives producing an unaffordable sprawl dystopia is a good "fun hell vs shitty heaven" data point

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

We basically treat driving as a form of sovereignty. The corollary of making cars sovereign and drivers heads of state of their little sovereigns inevitably means giving drivers something like sovereign and diplomatic immunity from accountability.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"in my day the Simpsons was good. you'd go home to the cable station, give me two classic Simpsons episodes, you'd say, and they'd ask you for a dollar, which is what we called the euro in those days."

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Everything about Cuomo is awful, but I feel like we're missing the particularly pathetic comedy of his resorting to ChatGPT to write his HOUSING PLAN when he is not only former governor but also FORMER US SECRETARY OF HOUSING.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

I think we should be looking at the Cuomo endorsements by electeds, unions, and plutocrats in the same way as similar forces are cutting deals or holding their tongues with Trump - it’s anticipatory obedience.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments