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Cultural Heritage Data Guy in DC, bar regular, proud public union member. Never construe me speaking on behalf of anything other than myself.
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Big thanks to everyone who came to the W1D convention yesterday. Turnout was fantastic and, as I understand it, over 80 ballots were cast. The results are not public, and the D.C. Dems may overturn the election due to a series of unfortunate evens that require too much explanation for a tweet.

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A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

glad people are realizing the amount of comedy the sherman tank has

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

saw video of how bored everyone is - it rules I was at a bar a mere mile and change away where you'd be hard pressed to know anything was going on outside a normal very humid saturday

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Some of us are attending both the military parade and the protests. It’s called loving democracy

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Wild that Charles Wilson has decided to unilaterally cancel the in progress election for Ward 1 Dem officers.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

this is why you have to support cringe because to a lot of people what you think of cringe isn't, every fiber in my being wants to groan about the ongoing we'd be at brunch bit, but to many many people they think the saying is apt

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The regretful voter to me is a product of a lack of curiosity to not think or try to learn about how a political thing you support will function in reality

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Yeah like I am sorry trump literally walked up to Fox News and said he would do it. In a perverse way he is the most honest president and I think his true power is getting people not not belive what their own ears and eyes show them

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

A new piece in the NYT on ChatGPT god delusions is making the rounds so I'm re-upping this thread. The TL;DR is that this emergent phenomenon is a symptom of a wider ideological delusion stemming from the technofetishist/epochalist fantasies silicon valley has been juicing for 30 years

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If anything at this point median middle aged woman who is liberal has done MORE to help than median bluesky hater

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The chat gpt psychosis thing isn’t overblown per se I think it’s more that people prone to psychosis are always going to have a harder time with many types of new substances, technologies etc and that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be regulated it just means it’s not shocking

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I don’t get the switch 2 there’s not great launch games it seems but also I haven’t touched my switch seriously in well over a year (last was unicorn overlord)

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there's a lot of issues with dem politics but I think one of the broader ones is also a liberal-culture one - the idea you can have it both ways. "I can live in a suburban like street, drive and park my car, while also going to the farmers market and caring about climate change" is a classic version

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between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

No I mean they’re completely prepared to start smashing random buttons like they’re playing HoI 4. Completing the insurrection act focus will provide a 10% stability bonus as long as they have 5 divisions stationed in Central California.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

What’s wild is twice this year menswear guy has convinced people to do real physical acts because of his posts

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Legit one of the most affirming arguments for trans rights I’ve read was on the Bulwark. It made the case that people are complicated and messy, life is hard and confusing, and that there’s no need for perfect understanding or for everyone to be a perfect victim at all times to care for each other.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Personally I think it’s a losing game to try to dictate what people bring or do to protests from an internet platform where you are reaching none of the people doing the thing you think they shouldnt

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am regularly amazed by how Trump acts like a spectator to his own administration. You brought in the troops, mate. That's why things are looking really bad. You did that. You could undo it, or - more foolishly - do it more. You're the president, chief.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

I have oft suspected that a lot of politicians are actually pretty sane and not mealy-mouthed once they themselves are actually targeted as human beings and not in a kayfabe way

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

My nuclear take is people need to stop posting like they are in a meeting of commanders of the entire American protest movement

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly I’ve met my share of veterans in my line of work and now that I think about it I’m sure many were generic republicans but none of them have been rabid about it- the other veterans I’ve met were either anti-war or said maga stuff was basically boomers and dumb young grunts

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When people say AI has bias - fine - everything and everyone does but they say it like it’s not adjustable - it totally is. Also AI just reflects what data is out there. You know what most written data is about and by? Whoever is in hegemony

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