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I am PRAYING a huge purge is coming. we need people ready for this moment

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. The remedy is going to be a total breakdown in the constitutional order that hopefully results in a color revolution putting sane-ish government back in charge. But short of that kind of mass mobilization, there is no "stop the madness" button. Not in any branch of government. Nowhere.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I have been stuck-in-bed-for-multiple-days sick twice this year. Neither has been covid. I got my flu shot. I have never been sick twice in the same season in my adult life. What gives

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

the extent to which elon musk has simply bought dictatorial control of the united states government is incredible

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Pretty clear this is where we were headed. They’re going to weaponize audits and private data to go after political enemies.

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

still way too busy with school, just gonna share this here

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

We can’t even get them to condemn Eric Adams. This group of people is so comfortable they are manifestly incapable of doing the right thing when they’re back power.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

letterboxd guy voice what’s joe swanberg doing these days? been a minute since he released an improv heavy comedy that somehow always features dave franco or jake johnson

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

this is the same basic dynamic as the way the media refuses to call him fascist or say Musk gave a Nazi salute: the thing that is being done has implications that cannot be faced, so it cannot be said to be happening

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

THIS FRIDAY is the deadline to register as a Democrat (which you need to be to vote in June’s mayoral primary) gothamist.com/news/if-you-...

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

first Super Bowl the bsky TL might be more active than twitter

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

elbow got really swollen and painful yesterday seemingly from an infected cut I didn’t realize I had. thought for sure I was on a collision course for urgent care today but I slept on it and the swelling went down. sometimes negligence pays off

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

he got that shit on

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Are linguists paying a lot of attention to LLMs? Because this seems like a fascinating finding with large implications: LLMs share highly abstract grammatical concept representations, even across unrelated languages, so even models trained mostly on English do well in other languages.

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Democrats are waiting until they can get back in power and then pass a law saying "you must obey the law"

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

yes. this is the story & this is why it matters. Everyone from Dave Axelrod to Ken Klippenstein bloviating about “I would be more strategic and pick a fight when he tries expands the autogolpe to a more sympathetic agency”has lost the fucking plot. this has to be the line.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 27 days ago • 143 comments

18f was driving accessibility and ease of use across government services. career technologists who put aside the high pay of SV to make forms and processes easier for every day americans.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

CALIFORNIA- Write to @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov and tell them to get off their asses and scream about Elon Musk illegally talking over our treasury: www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/cont... www.schiff.senate.gov/contact/ Do this every day. More important than doom posting here.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

I got really good ear plugs for sleeping and I fear I have made an enormous mistake not doing this many years ago

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

if we don’t get obama 2008 margins out of all this in 2028, it’s a wrap

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A reality star playing at caudillo and a tech mogul trying to make the US government IT his own personal "everything app"? I guess you could describe this regime as Latin/X

submitted 30 days ago • 21 comments

Catching up on the news!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I simultaneously think that AI (as in LLMs) is probably a net negative socially, and that many, many high profile professional critics of it don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

i'm followed by a lot of academics, so let me just get this one PSA out there: there is no tool which detects AI-generated text, and it is plausible that no such tool is possible. revision history, however, is more or less adequate proof of human generation.

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Being a YIMBY means getting regularly accused of trying to complete the Bay Area’s transformation into a tech bro playground, but tbh a big part of the reason why I want more housing here is to RESIST creeping homogenization. I need rent to get cheaper so I can hang out with more weird artists.

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

15 bot followers today. This shit is out of control.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

t is probably worth thinking about what is happening in Silicon Valley as a revolt of the bosses against their workers. none of this is rational. it is simply causing misery for the purpose of causing it.

submitted 52 days ago • 50 comments

double OT on a school night???

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

significantly cut down social media time this week by getting addicted to Balatro instead

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Had to disable notifications on here because the bot followers are so bad

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

NBA Christmas has been phenomenal, NFL was a huge dud

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

excited to see nosferatu later

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

merry christmas bsky

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

my favorite thing to say about Berkeley is how much it punches above its weight on everything related to food. Comal, Kiraku, Ippuku, Casa Latina, Acme, Boichik (though I like Hella Bagels more now), Berkeley bowl, Tokyo fish market, and like 10 pizza places I won’t list but are all so good

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

god I wish that were us

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

the bottom rung of society is inhabited by people responding to a free item you’ve posted on facebook marketplace

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

kings and niners

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments