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The clearest conclusion I’ve come to doing a DOGE podcast for 4 months is that they’re not just incompetent at cutting waste and fraud, but that was never the real goal. And it’s vital to get folks who share that goal to recognize that.

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Sweet episode card!

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Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

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This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

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I fully and unwaveringly believe that the impulse to take a well-stylized design and make it "realistic" is one of the ugliest and most pointless you can indulge.

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And letting their emotions get the better of them as they furiously deny the existence of their own emotions/deride 'the weaker sex' that dares show any.

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#TheTitan has updated! THE TITAN is a post-apocalypse dramedy romance between the world's beefiest trans guy and a scrappy wasteland girl with a plan, Stan. 🦾 Today's update: titancomic.net 🦾 The beginning: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1/ #webcomics #romance #SpecFic #SciFi #SizeDiff #cyborg

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my “not the gestapo” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt and if you don’t stop asking them, i’ll have you disappeared.

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I Know What You Did Last Supper

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We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

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Chief Justice John Roberts: "In recent years, we've been able to move expeditiously [to resolve pressing matters]." Me: STARES IN TRUMP V. UNITED STATES

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Due process and habeas corpus grant us the right to prove we're Americans. If they want to get rid of you, you say "I'm an American." They say prove it. By the time you say "What are you talking about?" you're already on a train for 'undesirables."

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I wrote about how Elon Musk’s Grok AI can’t stop talking about white genocide

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THREE patreon posts in THREE days??? what has come over me? Turns out I have a lot to say this week. Another one's coming tomorrow as well. For Patreon, I wrote about why a little Nebraska mayoral race proves the centrist pundits wrong on trans rights. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...

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I'm a fan of Norman Lindsay's cheerfully shameless art, which led me to watch the 1994 movie Sirens, in which Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a character. An Anglican priest (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) visit Lindsay to try to persuade him to remove a blasphemous painting from an exhibition.

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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

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This has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.

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I sincerely believe we can build a better country than a Dollar Store goon-squad police state.

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Be kind to yourself. Do not indulge people who are unkind to you, even if they mask it under the guise of irony or sarcasm. Think about when & why you change your mind, and reflect on those moments. Don’t let your job get in the way of your career. Jump at new opportunities when you have the chance.

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Unless you discover you have sleep apnea (won’t there be other signs), why do you need to track your sleep? Is there not enough anxiety during your waking hours that you must fret about your sleeping times too?

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without downloading any pics where are you mentally

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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

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It is so darkly funny that the MOMENT unitary executive theory escaped containment from the Federalist Society lab and got exposed to the real world, it was revealed to be a farcical disaster

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unquestionably correct www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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There's, like, a thousand things this could be referring to... but I want to hold onto it as a framing device for so much of everything.

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This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1935. Mine Mill leads zinc miners out on strike in the Missouri/Kansas/Oklahoma tri-state border area. This strike was unusual because of the political conservatism of many of the workers. And the union completely lost the strike because the workers rejected it.

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"America has seldom had a president as enamored of the nation’s storied past as Donald Trump is, and never had a president as starkly ignorant of its actual past as Trump is, either." ~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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The latest episodes of #Andor show how authoritarianism becomes ordinary — how people get crushed by systems pretending to keep order. We break it down in our article on the show as a metaphor for American fascism: www.wired.com/story/star-w...

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Our Andor postmortems continue with Genevieve O'Reilly and producer Sanne Wohlenberg discussing the Ghorman Massacre and Mon Mothma's speech. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/andor/and...

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For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

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Sinners (2025)

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Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts 🔗 www.404media.co/army-will-se...

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