fka Big Dog
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fka Big Dog
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this isn’t just about making ads; part of the right-wing fantasy here is that enough of the work of government can be “automated” that the consent of the governed and the need to find willing administrators become irrelevant
At the risk of suggesting that an image says a lot about society today, when a political campaign uses AI-generated material it broadcasts minority rule. It says too few people believe in us for us to rely on their talents. Conservatives get off on that message; why would a Democrat broadcast it?
andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”
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This is blueanon/bluemaga territory but I do believe the stuff about Trump 1) having Alzheimer's/dementia and/or a stroke and 2) having less than 9 months (or a similar amount of time). He is in a very bad state and they're covering it up. Some of his recent videos are obviously AI
fwiw i think one reason why Trump is avoiding negotiating with Dems or really meeting with Dems is that they're hiding his condition.
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At the risk of suggesting that an image says a lot about society today, when a political campaign uses AI-generated material it broadcasts minority rule. It says too few people believe in us for us to rely on their talents. Conservatives get off on that message; why would a Democrat broadcast it?
andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”
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The plague that’s obviously afflicting society is the drive to automate, check out, let the machines take over, and, if you can, collect returns from whatever they produce, all while sidelining anyone dumb enough to spend the time and effort necessary to cultivate arts and skills for themselves
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Dems are still too anxious to be the party of Also Prosperity and the American Dream to antagonize the very wealthy (mentally unwell) people who have been selling that vision. But that’s going to change because more people recognize every day that it’s suicidal
the unusual emphasis on “Truth” suggests to me that it’s Grokslop
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"Hey, man, what message should we push today as we deliberately deny millions of Americans their food benefits?"
Dr Oz: "Americans will lose 135 million pounds by the midterms"
we’re going to live in a world where this is true, and a country where it isn’t
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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I have an uncomfortable feeling that a lot of the dynamic politics coverage we've been seeing from WIRED isn't too much longer for this world.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
the purpose of a pundit is what she does.
even the engagement with those books has to be carefully channeled.

“After Virtue” is an expressly anticapitalist book, but the young republicans are just told it’s the One Weird Trick to refute Rawlsians.
unlike most of his admirers I don’t think we should let him off the hook for this completely. the role of a teacher is not just to say correct things but to make himself understood to students.
I was a few years behind her in school and knew some of the personalities involved in this sordid business; I can’t confirm every detail of what Seavey said but the story is substantially true
most people don’t understand what they read, and most people who encounter MacIntyre encounter him on a syllabus of “conservative and Catholic thinkers”
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"I now hear sometimes, 'Moods change, it cannot last much longer. The money will be gone in 8-9 months time. Industry will breakdown because it has been squeezed dry.'"
— the private diary of Victor Klemperer, October 30th, 1933.
Conservative German philologist Victor Klemperer noted in his 1933 July diary that life was already unrecognizable and that “the political situation is bleak, the only comfort or hope is when the tyranny manifests itself ever more wildly, that is to say, ever more uncertain of itself”
I’m sure the feds will be happy to bail out OpenAI, once the models have been trained to suppress unpatriotic or treasonous outputs.
*OpenAI Would Like Federal Backstop For Data Center Investments, CFO Says -- WSJ
sounds like a guy who will meekly submit to constitutional norms and comply with a court order
if a far-right Republican were elected in Alabama over the screaming objections of the Alabama state GOP, it would absolutely be a story
in fairness Trump is trying to privatize the commissaries
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remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.
Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.
Between 2020 and 2024, no New Jersey county moved further right than Passaic County (11pts). At 43% it's also the most the most-Latino county in the state, and is among the least-white overall.

Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
that was true for a long time though
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He's not wrong, it's just hilarious that the GOP has already gone all in on identity-based harassment as policy while the President rants that groceries have never been cheaper.
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
New sign outside the Oval Office..
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we all know who this is going to, right?
To be awarded by Infantino in Washington, DC … 🤔 🙄