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submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 17 hours ago • 86 comments

The median home buyer is a median Golden Girl.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

I’m tired of people acting like using LLMs is its own skill. Using them requires knowing what to put into them and being able to critically evaluate what comes out. This requires domain knowledge. Traditional education. “Prompt engineer” is not a future career.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

submitted 1 day ago • 530 comments

If they show people that death threats work, they’re only going to get more death threats.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Do not let them shame you for the manly urge to fuck a couch!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Because you need fucking therapy!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Poking the angry people who valorize murdering CEOs while simultaneously ruining thousands of government worker’s lives and mocking them seems really fucking stupid.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments