Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

Maybe instead of being the actual mayor Harrell could put on VR goggles and live in an AI generated world where he is popular and gets reelected? And is good at it

If AI slop is enough then why does Bruce even want to be the real mayor? Be mayor -- in Minecraft! It's basically the same, apparently

If you want to smash capitalism and have an entirely different system, sign me up. I'm all for it.

But pols like Harrell aren't into that. They claim market capitalism is good actually. If so, then failure is an essential feature of entrepreneurship. Embrace it.

Two thirds are boarded up within 5 years. Only one in three surviving longer is a healthy statistic, not a crisis.

So much of city politics is poisoned by panic that a lot of small businesses are dying before our eyes. Don't panic. We expect the great majority to die.

I wish everyone could face the fact that a high rate of small businesses failure is normal, and healthy. It's kinda the point. Big government and big business are not nimble. They're risk averse. Small businesses fills the gap by trying new ideas, many of which are bad new ideas.

That's OK!

Also my money says the editor is the one who wrote every word of that shit.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Elika isn't a real name, right?

Makes me think Ellyka in BG3 is a Prince of Persia reference.

Today I discovered if you kidnap Ellyka to the goblin camp, she'll turn hostile if you hurt a goblin or touch their stuff.

(She dies later no matter what, if you're wondering. Justice for Ellyka, obv)

This cartoon is from Oct 2022. These two clowns are now begging the president to invade the city they've based their careers on slandering (neither of them actually live here). What a world.

Absolute most funny of all is the guy who gets really angry at a reply to a joke because they didn't seem to realize it was a joke. The more worked up he gets the better.

People not having a sense of humor is funny, but not as funny as not having a sense of humor about not having a sense of humor

Not shocking that a regime run by kleptocrats who want to privatize every corner of government would want the regular military to wither away to nothing.

Contractors will fight, die and get paid in crypto and social media clout. Private arbitration if they complain.

Trump's cronies will get rich

Imagine if Bob Ferguson and Nick Brown considered it their duty to arrest and prosecute people for making death threats to Washington officials.

The know they should but they're afraid of Trump. They think if they don't antagonize him he will go easy. Bullies don't work like that. We all know it

Everyone is afraid to send state and local police to arrest ICE criminals when they break the law because that could be an escalation that gives Trump the excuse he wants

TRUMP ISN'T WAITING FOR AN EXCUSE

Everyone who capitulated has gotten burned. He will come for you regardless. So fight.

wide awake in the middle of the night worried snoopy is not a dog

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

just saw Crumb Catcher and didn't think it amounted to much but now maybe

WSJ was my first guess! I win

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

IF AI existed? If?

This machine shit, no. But an overconfident guy, works cheap, and who will happily give you whatever you ask for? As long as you don't mind it's dogshit? That's not new. You could always hire that guy. Really the hard part was not hiring any of those guys to fuck up your project

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I think I could have lived my whole life without ever laying eyes on uncanny valley Lea Seydoux

Never gonna unsee it, am I?

Normally that's cute but if the PM meets with Hitler I don't want Adolph walking out of the room thinking he's got a green light for anything.

If you bring your cultural quirks into international politics expecting other cultures to just get you, you're in the wrong business

I believe that ICE are scared. I've seen them out there and they look scared as fuck

Afraid is the normal state for cops everywhere but ICE takes it to a whole other level. Those boys are pissing themselves on their way to work in the morning and only get more scared as the day wears on