cassius marcellus clay
@cmclay.bsky.social
Mostly politism, sometimes track and field, sometimes a secret third thing
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it’s above 40 degrees in february and so I am unfortunately spring-pilled. I’ve got the windows open and I’m thinking about clearing off the grill. I am confident this heatwave will continue forever and I will not have my heart broken by another 48 inches of snow in march
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 PM
it’s above 40 degrees in february and so I am unfortunately spring-pilled. I’ve got the windows open and I’m thinking about clearing off the grill. I am confident this heatwave will continue forever and I will not have my heart broken by another 48 inches of snow in march
Scrubs reboot plz save us
February 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Scrubs reboot plz save us
I think what has been extra annoying about AI discourse is everyone who says things like this also believes that chatgpt has achieved consciousness and the ability to think and feel
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I think what has been extra annoying about AI discourse is everyone who says things like this also believes that chatgpt has achieved consciousness and the ability to think and feel
All of news media now is just babies having keys jangled in front of them
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
All of news media now is just babies having keys jangled in front of them
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amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
I bet this hits so hard if youre stupid
I think most (not all) of the "I will never vote for Gavin Newsom" people are communists who are mad that Americans don't like communism and want to destroy the Democratic party out of revenge. They don't care how many elections Republicans win or how many trans people die as long as the Dems fall.
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I bet this hits so hard if youre stupid
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Bit of a flaw in demanding students have workplace ready skills like communication, analysis, creativity, and then telling them gen-AI use for planning, research, written expression, are all permissible.
Like how the fuck will they learn to do these things themselves if they don’t have to???
Like how the fuck will they learn to do these things themselves if they don’t have to???
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Bit of a flaw in demanding students have workplace ready skills like communication, analysis, creativity, and then telling them gen-AI use for planning, research, written expression, are all permissible.
Like how the fuck will they learn to do these things themselves if they don’t have to???
Like how the fuck will they learn to do these things themselves if they don’t have to???
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I don't see anything
By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!"
(sorry, you cant have February.)
Not all heroes wear blue jeans
(sorry, you cant have February.)
Not all heroes wear blue jeans
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I don't see anything
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Glinner is so odious 👀
(How odious is he)
He's so odious that even Alan Dershowitz thinks he fuckin sucks
(How odious is he)
He's so odious that even Alan Dershowitz thinks he fuckin sucks
February 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Glinner is so odious 👀
(How odious is he)
He's so odious that even Alan Dershowitz thinks he fuckin sucks
(How odious is he)
He's so odious that even Alan Dershowitz thinks he fuckin sucks
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I actually think it’s a good thing to not preemptively swear you’ll vote for Gavin Newsome before he’s the candidate
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I actually think it’s a good thing to not preemptively swear you’ll vote for Gavin Newsome before he’s the candidate
I asked my internal ICE sources about this and they said "nah bro we would never, trust"
🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One
Feds could be in your group chat
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I asked my internal ICE sources about this and they said "nah bro we would never, trust"
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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
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