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Tech, product marketing, programming. Pro trans, pro love, pro equality, pro working class, pro recovery, and pro Ukraine.
@kenjennings.bsky.social second chance is so refreshing. So many good players. I wish regular jeopardy had a path for former players to come back on.
December 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@kenjennings.bsky.social second chance is so refreshing. So many good players. I wish regular jeopardy had a path for former players to come back on.
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Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dear journalists:
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.
Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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Not enough people understand the impact Gamergate has had on our society. We probably don't quite have the politics and administration of today without it.
March 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Not enough people understand the impact Gamergate has had on our society. We probably don't quite have the politics and administration of today without it.
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real
Bunn would make so much bank off my generation if they produced the VPR in colors like plum, lemon yellow, navy blue and mint green.
March 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
real
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YIMBYism is wild because you start to ask questions like “why was single family zoning created?” and “are our regulations for building safety based on any actual safety data?” and soon realize that ~85% of the rules governing our cities are based on nothing but tradition and vibes.
We went through this with zoning, and now we're going through it with building code: trillion dollar industries depend on these things, yet a bunch of precocious bloggers can swoop in and expose these institutions as full of pseudoscience. Does nobody do their job? @aarmlovi.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
YIMBYism is wild because you start to ask questions like “why was single family zoning created?” and “are our regulations for building safety based on any actual safety data?” and soon realize that ~85% of the rules governing our cities are based on nothing but tradition and vibes.
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Instead of doing something simple and effective, why not do a very a complicated form of a nothing that hands a loaded gun to your opposition? That's the Democrat Promise
Hochul is set to announce that she will not invoke her authority to force Adams out at this time, according to sources familiar with the governor’s decision. Instead, she'll unveil new bills that will increase oversight of the mayor’s office (via @gothamist.com).
Gov. Hochul won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office, sources say
Hochul will instead unveil a new plan that would expand Albany’s oversight of the mayor’s office.
gothamist.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Instead of doing something simple and effective, why not do a very a complicated form of a nothing that hands a loaded gun to your opposition? That's the Democrat Promise
As someone who doesn't drink, let me tell you. NO ONE is telling me that people who drink beer with their friends are bad people.
JD Vance: "Our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge ... my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person bc you're a man, bc you like to tell a joke, bc you like to have a beer with your friends."
February 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As someone who doesn't drink, let me tell you. NO ONE is telling me that people who drink beer with their friends are bad people.
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We got to this place because we failed to settle scores and we failed to punish the wicked.
If we ever do get power back, there's going to be a lot of people who're going to urge restraint: no score-settling, no counter-purges, what have you. And that will sound sort of reasonable in a "let's avoid an entrenched tit-for-tat" way. In practice? Everything needs to be on the table
February 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We got to this place because we failed to settle scores and we failed to punish the wicked.
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sam’s thread helps clarify something for me, which is the underlying theory behind trump’s action. trump does not see himself as a president in a system of shared authority, he sees himself as sovereign, with unchecked authority over everything.
I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
January 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
sam’s thread helps clarify something for me, which is the underlying theory behind trump’s action. trump does not see himself as a president in a system of shared authority, he sees himself as sovereign, with unchecked authority over everything.
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People don't hear this enough, but SOF is vastly overemphasized. They're enablers that function to help provide advantageous conditions for line units in the same way intel does.
If people want to talk about the DOD focusing on core warfighting tasks, deemphasizing SOF is something to talk about.
If people want to talk about the DOD focusing on core warfighting tasks, deemphasizing SOF is something to talk about.
January 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
People don't hear this enough, but SOF is vastly overemphasized. They're enablers that function to help provide advantageous conditions for line units in the same way intel does.
If people want to talk about the DOD focusing on core warfighting tasks, deemphasizing SOF is something to talk about.
If people want to talk about the DOD focusing on core warfighting tasks, deemphasizing SOF is something to talk about.
People have very strong opinions on the phrase "revolutions are usually bad things that lead to destabilizations and widespread violence, and maybe we shouldn't glorify it and make sure it only happens when it is absolutely necessary."
January 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
People have very strong opinions on the phrase "revolutions are usually bad things that lead to destabilizations and widespread violence, and maybe we shouldn't glorify it and make sure it only happens when it is absolutely necessary."
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DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2024 at 3:12 AM
DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
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Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Me: Dr. Salk your vaccine will save so many children!
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
Salk: Well thank God
Me: Of course they will grow up
Salk: Well I hope so
Me: And get old
Salk: I guess?
Me: And eventually vote for lunatics who will try to stop your vaccine
Salk: what now
Me: And leave NATO
Salk: shit
I'll never understand people who glorify violent revolution. Today, I saw an entire thread glorifying the Reign of Terror. I wish people recognized that far, far more of your neighbors would be hurt in such a scenario than the oligarchs.
This is not wishful or optimistic thinking on my part because I think a U.S. with a lot more violent insurgency is going to be a bloody nightmare that will harm a lot of people who aren’t rich or powerful.
I think MAGAs and their oligarch supporters really haven’t fully reasoned through “we’re going to make Americans as poor and desperate as possible to turn them into peasant vassals, but we’re also going to make sure they can still get lots of guns.”
December 5, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I'll never understand people who glorify violent revolution. Today, I saw an entire thread glorifying the Reign of Terror. I wish people recognized that far, far more of your neighbors would be hurt in such a scenario than the oligarchs.
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a brief reminder that the DOJ's policy to not prosecute sitting Presidents is based only on the OLC memorandum(s) and also it is absolutely bananas to not prosecute a sitting President for crimes done in a previous Presidency
November 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
a brief reminder that the DOJ's policy to not prosecute sitting Presidents is based only on the OLC memorandum(s) and also it is absolutely bananas to not prosecute a sitting President for crimes done in a previous Presidency
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i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
November 6, 2024 at 1:26 PM
i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.
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Agree very much with this from @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-the-f...
November 6, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Agree very much with this from @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-the-f...
Not only chose him but gave him a mandate. There was no discrepancy between the popular vote and electoral college. This was the majority of Americans unequivocally saying they want mass deportations, abortion bans, wide-reaching tariffs, and isolationism.
This is worse than 2016, when the country sort of stumbled into Trump, not fully knowing what he was.
This time around America knew what he was and chose it anyway.
This time around America knew what he was and chose it anyway.
November 6, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Not only chose him but gave him a mandate. There was no discrepancy between the popular vote and electoral college. This was the majority of Americans unequivocally saying they want mass deportations, abortion bans, wide-reaching tariffs, and isolationism.
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Angry rural white dudes think cities are violent crime-ridden hellholes, when crime rates are higher in rural areas -- thanks largely to... angry rural white dudes.
Reminds me of Chomsky's observation that drugs and the "crack epidemic" were at the bottom of most people's concerns in the 80s until Nancy Reagan and the GOP started a propaganda campaign about it. barnraisingmedia.com/migrant-crim...
Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?
In rural America, emphasis on migrant crime, bolstered by right wing propaganda, takes attention away from other, more pressing issues.
barnraisingmedia.com
October 27, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Angry rural white dudes think cities are violent crime-ridden hellholes, when crime rates are higher in rural areas -- thanks largely to... angry rural white dudes.
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The AI transcription tool Whisper hallucinates in a large fraction of its transcripts.
It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports.
Both are among the WORST applications of the tech.
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports.
Both are among the WORST applications of the tech.
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
apnews.com
October 27, 2024 at 8:35 PM
The AI transcription tool Whisper hallucinates in a large fraction of its transcripts.
It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports.
Both are among the WORST applications of the tech.
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports.
Both are among the WORST applications of the tech.
apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Ivermectin and Trump Gold Coffee getting equal play to the speaker during the rally seems really on brand.
October 28, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Ivermectin and Trump Gold Coffee getting equal play to the speaker during the rally seems really on brand.
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Fueled by a very ahistorical can’t-happen-here mentality, a lot of press are missing the point that fascist movements don’t rely on anything resembling consensus. The individual views held by rally goers, even if markedly less extreme than those of their leaders, are totally inconsequential.
October 28, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Fueled by a very ahistorical can’t-happen-here mentality, a lot of press are missing the point that fascist movements don’t rely on anything resembling consensus. The individual views held by rally goers, even if markedly less extreme than those of their leaders, are totally inconsequential.
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AOC: "I do not want to do four more years of resistance nonsense under Donald Trump, OK? Like, good God. Like, do we remember what it was like waking up every day and there was *some shit* going on?" (via Armand Domalewski)
October 28, 2024 at 4:58 AM
AOC: "I do not want to do four more years of resistance nonsense under Donald Trump, OK? Like, good God. Like, do we remember what it was like waking up every day and there was *some shit* going on?" (via Armand Domalewski)
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TRUMP: "Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country."
HARRIS: Trump is increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.
WASHINGTON POST:
HARRIS: Trump is increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.
WASHINGTON POST:
jfc it's real
October 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
TRUMP: "Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country."
HARRIS: Trump is increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.
WASHINGTON POST:
HARRIS: Trump is increasingly unstable and unfit to serve.
WASHINGTON POST: