David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
· Jul 12
For what it's worth, if you are a socialist or interested in socialism, it is *my job* to educate you, so ask away.
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Explaining the plot of Scooby-Doo to my daughter and realizing the central irony of the show is that the gang cruises around looking for magic and mysteries that never pan out, while the only truly supernatural element is the talking dog they all ignore.
February 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Explaining the plot of Scooby-Doo to my daughter and realizing the central irony of the show is that the gang cruises around looking for magic and mysteries that never pan out, while the only truly supernatural element is the talking dog they all ignore.
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What's most likely happening is easier to understand if you mentally model LLMs as glorified search engines. They are matching your search query (prompt) with some text they found on the internet. Internally it's a bit more complex than that, but much closer to Google than to a thinking machine. 2/?
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
What's most likely happening is easier to understand if you mentally model LLMs as glorified search engines. They are matching your search query (prompt) with some text they found on the internet. Internally it's a bit more complex than that, but much closer to Google than to a thinking machine. 2/?
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Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.
February 15, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isn’t just limited to ICE.
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They think of “urban” as synonymous with Black and that explains a good deal of the invalidation of urban spaces as “real America”
February 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
They think of “urban” as synonymous with Black and that explains a good deal of the invalidation of urban spaces as “real America”
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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As a coder I can say this just isn’t true at all. Using AI to code is frustrating beyond belief—I have to spend all my effort cleaning up and correcting things I’d have done right the first time. Granted a lot of engineering had been turned into ugly rushed hackwork but it does not have to be so.
A key challenge, and a huge source of the disconnect between Silicon Valley and the other creative industries is that, for coders, AI eliminates the drudgery so they can focus on the creative/expressive part. In every other creative discipline, it has the exact opposite effect.
February 15, 2026 at 1:36 AM
As a coder I can say this just isn’t true at all. Using AI to code is frustrating beyond belief—I have to spend all my effort cleaning up and correcting things I’d have done right the first time. Granted a lot of engineering had been turned into ugly rushed hackwork but it does not have to be so.
70% weak is a dumpster fire.
This poll from CBS News/YouGov contradicts the popular claim that voters think Democrats are as ideologically extreme as Republicans
February 15, 2026 at 1:20 AM
70% weak is a dumpster fire.
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Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
These times are quite trying
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
These times are quite trying
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“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
I think anyone in office should be constantly barraged by the question—what is your plan to get everyone out of the camps?
February 14, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I think anyone in office should be constantly barraged by the question—what is your plan to get everyone out of the camps?
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It's such a preposterous way of defining class, used even by supposed socialists sometimes. Among other absurdities, it would imply that the "working class" has been shrinking every generation as college graduation rates rise.
February 14, 2026 at 8:29 PM
It's such a preposterous way of defining class, used even by supposed socialists sometimes. Among other absurdities, it would imply that the "working class" has been shrinking every generation as college graduation rates rise.
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"Odysseus, stop humping Homer!"
- Actual thing I heard at the off-leash area on the Boston Common
- Actual thing I heard at the off-leash area on the Boston Common
February 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
"Odysseus, stop humping Homer!"
- Actual thing I heard at the off-leash area on the Boston Common
- Actual thing I heard at the off-leash area on the Boston Common
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Because elites practice class solidarity like no others.
How is he not stepping down from the Olympic Games position?
Casey Wasserman, an entertainment executive and chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics whose name surfaced in the Epstein files, said on Friday he has started the process of selling his talent agency. More than two dozen of his clients had denounced him in recent days or sought other representation.
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Because elites practice class solidarity like no others.
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my guy Nate is a sewer maintenance supervisor and he emails his team’s daily route assignments IN ALL CAPS with double exclamation points !! ngl i read it every time like a morning motivational speech.
February 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
my guy Nate is a sewer maintenance supervisor and he emails his team’s daily route assignments IN ALL CAPS with double exclamation points !! ngl i read it every time like a morning motivational speech.
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ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.
February 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.
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Me: (watching Grey’s Anatomy, again)
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
February 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Me: (watching Grey’s Anatomy, again)
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
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The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
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One thing that is evidence for just how much crime is NOT rampant now is all the reporters in the city descending on your neighborhood to report out a specific, localized example of a crime as big news
February 14, 2026 at 5:25 PM
One thing that is evidence for just how much crime is NOT rampant now is all the reporters in the city descending on your neighborhood to report out a specific, localized example of a crime as big news
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I think that a critical mass of Americans doesn’t want to see fifth graders running from their own government
February 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I think that a critical mass of Americans doesn’t want to see fifth graders running from their own government
Sometimes people use the word fraud when they mean ‘we created a bunch of confusing barriers with little guidance that someone failed to follow and what other explanation is there but cheating?’
February 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Sometimes people use the word fraud when they mean ‘we created a bunch of confusing barriers with little guidance that someone failed to follow and what other explanation is there but cheating?’
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James Kilgore: "All these details are really difficult. I know you always say that activists must be nerds, right. So when you're fighting this stuff you have to do research..."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
February 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
James Kilgore: "All these details are really difficult. I know you always say that activists must be nerds, right. So when you're fighting this stuff you have to do research..."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
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Mirror Universe Kira Nerys didn’t pour herself into that silver jumpsuit for a bunch of nerds to get weird about there being some sex scenes in Star Trek.
February 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Mirror Universe Kira Nerys didn’t pour herself into that silver jumpsuit for a bunch of nerds to get weird about there being some sex scenes in Star Trek.
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I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game
February 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game
Chicago Fire dunking on Chat GBT therapy.
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Chicago Fire dunking on Chat GBT therapy.