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"He couldn't get Grok to align with his own personal beliefs so he is going to rewrite history to make it conform to his views." Latest from @garymarcus.bsky.social

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No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences | Simon Tisdall

submitted 10 hours ago • 64 comments

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

submitted 22 hours ago • 211 comments

My heart goes out to all my friends in the middle east. I'm afraid this will start a whole new cycle after I was fortunate enough to live in the region during a time of relative peace. This is abhorrent. I'm sorry Americans failed so badly. Again.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Another illegal war. Our congress is the biggest failure of any democracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

I hear it's hot in a lot of the US? I wore gloves on my bike commute this morning. I ❤️ Seattle.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 3 days ago • 558 comments

MAJOR UPDATE: A government watchdog found that the Trump administration ILLEGALLY blocked library and museum funding. I fought back for institutions across the U.S. that preserve our history and add billions to our economy. There’s power in fighting back. We're not done yet.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

It seems like we are nowhere near great.

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I'm really glad to have left the Middle East when I did, but I'm also wishing all those in the region well. I'm so sorry.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

From America First to war with Iran in a few short months. There is no policy. None.

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"Preliminary data from the first half of 2024 shows that nationwide, the crime rate for all Index crimes likely hit its lowest point since 1961 last year" - @prisonpolicy.org

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Yeah, so this is not supposed to happen.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 10 days ago • 840 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 12 days ago • 424 comments

U.S. economic growth rate projection cut by half to 1.4%. China growth rate little affected at 4.5%, 3X faster. Per new World Bank estimates, change largely due to U.S. import tax (tariff) increase, from @deanbaker13.bsky.social. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I love when people call cyclists "hysterical" or "easily offended" as if they've never seen a driver absolutely lose their shit when they're behind a car going the speed limit or when a pedestrian crosses the street. Drivers are perpetually whiny babies. Cyclists just don't want to get killed.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

submitted 11 days ago • 146 comments

wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery. https://n.pr/4kSmaSh

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

World condemnation mounts as Israel detains all 12 crew of the aid ship Madleen, including Greta Thunberg and Al Jazeera’s Omar Faiad, after seizing it in international waters en route to deliver aid to Gaza. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/dk2dju pic.x.com/V6XRJDdfYP

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

This is 100% accurate, every time:

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

submitted 14 days ago • 228 comments

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

Sunday morning seal. Vashon Island.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 17 days ago • 640 comments

One thing about SpaceX is that in the near and perhaps medium term the USG really can’t cut those contracts. It doesn’t have an alternative, which has always been a very dangerous situation. What’s more viable is some kind of expropriation or nationalization.

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

We really better not hear ever again about women being too emotional to be president or a CEO. 4 year olds are better at regulating their emotions than this.

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Good morning in San Francisco.

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Judge Boasberg rightly held the Govt must “give those it summarily expelled to El Salvador the due process they had been denied.” Absent this relief, it could snatch anyone off the street, hand him to a foreign country “and foreclose any corrective course of action.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Tune out the blah blah. This right here is why the climate crisis continues unabated and why we will cross 2ºC Emissions MUST fall by 5.5% THIS year and EVERY year thereafter until 2030 if we are to stand a remote chance of staying below 2ºC - there is ABSOLUTELY no sign of this level of reduction.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting how often American speakers at conferences start responses with either "yeah, absolutely" or "yeah, no". But, in both cases they are affirming. Curious.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

That where I used to skateboard at the Embarcadero in San Francisco is now a pickleball court fills me with profound sadness. At least some bike messengers are still there hanging around after work...

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When the leader of the Lucas Museum went before the City Council to get the project approved, they talked big about the museum's educational mission. It appears that the talk was just talk. This and other burning issues in this weeks Art Insider for @kcrw.com: email.kcrw.com/the-jar-jar-...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I'm kinda a Pride sandwich. Mom is gay. Eldest kid is gay. I'm either peanut butter or a heck of an aliy.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

submitted 25 days ago • 49 comments