cassius marcellus clay
@cmclay.bsky.social
Mostly politism, sometimes track and field, sometimes a secret third thing
i play a couple rather small sports management sim games, each pretty old and with 1000 total users or less, and even they were getting hit by these bots - very weird stuff
February 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
i play a couple rather small sports management sim games, each pretty old and with 1000 total users or less, and even they were getting hit by these bots - very weird stuff
cutting away from her body every time, you love to see a safety conscious box cutting queen
February 13, 2026 at 12:31 AM
cutting away from her body every time, you love to see a safety conscious box cutting queen
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i think the most likely scenario for AI in the workplace will be a separation between people who use AI and think it works when it doesn't, and then another group of people who don't use AI who end up picking up the slack for the AI users.
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
i think the most likely scenario for AI in the workplace will be a separation between people who use AI and think it works when it doesn't, and then another group of people who don't use AI who end up picking up the slack for the AI users.
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Obviously I think this is bad and have written about it many times, contemporaneously and since, but this isn't even a value judgement. As a matter of plain fact, Biden didn't fundamentally reverse Trump's approach to the border (separate to interior enforcement/refugees, where he did shift)
February 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Obviously I think this is bad and have written about it many times, contemporaneously and since, but this isn't even a value judgement. As a matter of plain fact, Biden didn't fundamentally reverse Trump's approach to the border (separate to interior enforcement/refugees, where he did shift)
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Biden *went to court* to maintain Title 42 — an insane and, in my view, facially unlawful policy — for a full year after taking office. Then when he wound it down he moved to replace it with an even more stringent policy that was literally designed by Stephen Miller
Title 42 migration restrictions have ended, but Biden’s new policy is tougher
President pledged as a candidate to dismantle Trump’s hardline immigration agenda but new rules are more restrictive
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Biden *went to court* to maintain Title 42 — an insane and, in my view, facially unlawful policy — for a full year after taking office. Then when he wound it down he moved to replace it with an even more stringent policy that was literally designed by Stephen Miller
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The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.
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Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*
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I don't talk to anyone this much
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I don't talk to anyone this much
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Can AI give me the ability to send a pic in a DM or have a group chat or even a locked account please
February 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Can AI give me the ability to send a pic in a DM or have a group chat or even a locked account please
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The reality is that most of you do not need to have your doorbell be a 24 hour surveillance camera. It is lunacy to pretend the mass adoption of an Amazon owned home monitoring system is necessary.
February 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The reality is that most of you do not need to have your doorbell be a 24 hour surveillance camera. It is lunacy to pretend the mass adoption of an Amazon owned home monitoring system is necessary.
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"The highest-earning 10% of households now account for nearly half of all U.S. consumer spending. About 30 years ago, those earners were just over one-third of U.S. consumer spending."
US firms confront widening income gulf as wealthy spend, budget shoppers struggle
America's consumer economy is pulling in opposite directions, a gulf increasingly apparent in C-suite commentary, with premium brands profiting from well-off customers while value-focused firms battle...
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"The highest-earning 10% of households now account for nearly half of all U.S. consumer spending. About 30 years ago, those earners were just over one-third of U.S. consumer spending."
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"what about street photographers? what about people recording their abusers? what about people recording ICE?" i'm sorry but I cannot spoon feed you everything. you are going to have to use your own brain to analyze situations sometimes and decide if they are similar or different
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"what about street photographers? what about people recording their abusers? what about people recording ICE?" i'm sorry but I cannot spoon feed you everything. you are going to have to use your own brain to analyze situations sometimes and decide if they are similar or different
you never have to be nice or civil to predators of children and their protectors
February 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
you never have to be nice or civil to predators of children and their protectors
when my grandma was really into the dementia but not quite at fulltime assisted living yet, sometimes part of sundowning was she would wake up at like 3-4am and be extra unmoored in time and place so thats a fun little slot machine that may have activated
February 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
when my grandma was really into the dementia but not quite at fulltime assisted living yet, sometimes part of sundowning was she would wake up at like 3-4am and be extra unmoored in time and place so thats a fun little slot machine that may have activated
having a congressman who covered up sex crimes chair the hearing where the current AG tries to cover up more sex crimes is one of those things that makes you understand why god did all those plagues and shit
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
having a congressman who covered up sex crimes chair the hearing where the current AG tries to cover up more sex crimes is one of those things that makes you understand why god did all those plagues and shit
im no PR expert but i dont think throwing a pants shitting, unimaginably petulant tantrum in the attempt to do this coverup was the right move big dawg
February 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
im no PR expert but i dont think throwing a pants shitting, unimaginably petulant tantrum in the attempt to do this coverup was the right move big dawg
its not what matters but no matter how hard i try, even when actively reading "McEntarfer" my brain says "McEnfarter" every time
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
its not what matters but no matter how hard i try, even when actively reading "McEntarfer" my brain says "McEnfarter" every time
we must protect mina kimes at all costs
February 11, 2026 at 11:15 PM
we must protect mina kimes at all costs
so who do we think is going to be the first rat jumping ship with receipts to try to be viewed as a hero? its probably only going to work for the first one
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
so who do we think is going to be the first rat jumping ship with receipts to try to be viewed as a hero? its probably only going to work for the first one
bondi really thought she was cooking with the anti semitism thing didnt she
February 11, 2026 at 11:05 PM
bondi really thought she was cooking with the anti semitism thing didnt she
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February 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens
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I choose to believe that she released this and immediately disappeared from public life, never to be heard from again.
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I choose to believe that she released this and immediately disappeared from public life, never to be heard from again.
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.