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Few tech critiques have aged as well as Phil Agre saying "Oh come on. Face recognition will work well enough to be dangerous, and poorly enough to be dangerous as well." Obviously lands well beyond face rec.

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The inevitable terminus of Silicon Valley libertarianism

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I know Musk is not a serious person, and I know the admin he serves is not serious also. But, for the thousandth time, places with HIGH levels of violence DO NOT LIKE PUNITIVE POLICIES. Those who speak "for the victims" rarely if ever really are. Are here are just a handful of the receipts:

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you can’t really make fun of someone’s sex tape because it means they’re getting laid and they had the guts to put it on video. how would you feel if everyone was talking about a recording of you in the getup you put on. how many zoomers would even know who the california raisins were

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Me (crying): Please...I just need to message my coworkers Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason

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You’d think crypto guys would be used to pump and dump schemes by now

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responses to yglesias, ranked broke: how dare you throw trans ppl under the bus woke: popularists are selective by issue bespoke: popularists make specific predictions (eg, dems talking abrego will backfire bc trump "owns" immigration) that are wrong; agenda optimization comes off insincere

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CHC Roundup: Rep. Rob Menendez (NJ-08) - Stepping Out of the Shadow www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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I can't decide if "young Chinese women have small fingers" is exactly what it looks like, or if it's an attempt to avoid coming out and saying "China's great because you can use child labor!"

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@tromano.bsky.social I worked the night shift circa 2003. I used to listen to the Village Voice radio station. It was so, so much better than an app.

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From: A Deer of Nine Colors (1981), dir. Qian Jiajun and Dai Tielang, Shanghai Animation Film Studio

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I think he pretty clearly misread the prompter here. Larger point: it’s irritating how MAGA-land makes believe that democracy promotion was the main goal and motive of invading Afghanistan and Iraq when this was only a minor driver of either war

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Little bit of Vermont...

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A lot of people love threats to their security, as long as the threats are minimal or fake

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My statement on the charges filed against me:

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Just try to process this.

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I keep having to restate to comrades that Tru*p is broadly unpopular and that this is an ACTUAL opportunity. Even some organizers seem to be convinced that this guy is more popular than he is. His fans are not THE COUNTRY. Stop being propagandized by the terrible US mainstream media.

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Despite the genocidal damage Biden eagerly facilitated in Gaza, the ex-President will always be smaller than life. The vanity and egomania of a true American nobody

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“It’s like if video games were money” —me trying to explain crypto to the tween.

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one effect of the cartoonish supervillains running the country that I didn't anticipate: now when I watch anime I am much more sympathetic and forgiving to the writers' decisions about the dialogue and story arcs of actual cartoon villains

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In case you all wanted to hear me do more yapping about the Afrikaner “refugees” and how and why the Trump admin is pursuing this, you can listen to my interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social : www.npr.org/podcasts/452...

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The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie. I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)

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During his hearing RFKJ 🧠🪱claimed that no "working scientists” were fired 🧐 The amazing local branch of our AFGE union just published a list of CDC employees by job series who were fired in April. 59% did scientific work. See link for full list of affected jobs www.afge2883ga.org/afge-2883-on...

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Nothin' but thyme

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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

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SETBACK. The GOP's big sweeping bill just failed in the Budget Committee, 16-21. Five Republicans voted NO. "The NOs have it. The committee stands in recess, subject to the call of the chair," Jodey Arrington says.

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Wrote about how Ansar Allah (the houthis) defeated the Americans: jacobin.com/2025/05/yeme...

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