sumpnsmelz
@boznova.bsky.social
Deep State swamp rat (retired)
OG NAFO
Marine Corps POG nerd
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Marine Corps POG nerd
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I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.
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Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, redefined architecture with buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Here are 12 of his essential, stunning projects.
Here are 12 of his essential, stunning projects.
Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects
A singular genius, Gehry redefined architecture with joyful buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, redefined architecture with buildings like the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Here are 12 of his essential, stunning projects.
Here are 12 of his essential, stunning projects.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Just a fundamentally decent, normal person, and I miss that so much right now
The Trump White House is full of cretins and ghouls who are constitutionally incapable of sincerity or humility
The Trump White House is full of cretins and ghouls who are constitutionally incapable of sincerity or humility
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Just a fundamentally decent, normal person, and I miss that so much right now
The Trump White House is full of cretins and ghouls who are constitutionally incapable of sincerity or humility
The Trump White House is full of cretins and ghouls who are constitutionally incapable of sincerity or humility
Good boy helping me pack
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Good boy helping me pack
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/7 Klein’s other theme seems to be that even if people are advocating terrible things, things that dehumanize others, we should find a way to act as if they are not, in order to find common ground. But is that really right? And what if it’s not reciprocal?
September 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
/7 Klein’s other theme seems to be that even if people are advocating terrible things, things that dehumanize others, we should find a way to act as if they are not, in order to find common ground. But is that really right? And what if it’s not reciprocal?
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“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...
September 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...
"okay, hooman, can we talk about respecting my space while I'm doing my yoga?"
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"okay, hooman, can we talk about respecting my space while I'm doing my yoga?"
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September 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Gov. Wes Moore: “I’m not a simp. I’m a soldier, and I’m not just going to kowtow…And if you are deliberately coming after our folks…my job is to make sure that our people are going to be okay…I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.”
August 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Gov. Wes Moore: “I’m not a simp. I’m a soldier, and I’m not just going to kowtow…And if you are deliberately coming after our folks…my job is to make sure that our people are going to be okay…I will work with anyone, but I will bow down to no one.”
Taylor and Kelce are engaged. Time for tRump to do something incredibly stupid to snatch the attention back in 3, 2, 1...
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Taylor and Kelce are engaged. Time for tRump to do something incredibly stupid to snatch the attention back in 3, 2, 1...
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It's also a reminder of what the Times can get its powerful hackles up about—a woman using home email at work, a thirty-year old footnote, an 81-year-old man being 81. But not a vividly antisemitic wannabe dictator building a system of concentration camps.
The NYT story about Zohran Mamdani is transparently a favour to the Trump administration, an attempt to prime a distributed witchhunt to uncover any detail of his life - through legal, extralegal, or criminal means - that can be used as a pretext to strip him of his citizenship & deport him
July 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It's also a reminder of what the Times can get its powerful hackles up about—a woman using home email at work, a thirty-year old footnote, an 81-year-old man being 81. But not a vividly antisemitic wannabe dictator building a system of concentration camps.
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In a notional past when journalism worked, it surely would've realized that not only is Trump an abuser but he trains his workers to be abusers, none of which has anything to do with a "comms strategy"
By abusing journalists, fascists convince the worst sort of person that journalism doesn't matter
By abusing journalists, fascists convince the worst sort of person that journalism doesn't matter
June 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In a notional past when journalism worked, it surely would've realized that not only is Trump an abuser but he trains his workers to be abusers, none of which has anything to do with a "comms strategy"
By abusing journalists, fascists convince the worst sort of person that journalism doesn't matter
By abusing journalists, fascists convince the worst sort of person that journalism doesn't matter
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AI does not "recognize" student behaviors. It cannot "confer" with anybody. It cannot "observe" anything. Anyone who so blithely and uncritically anthropomorphize these tools--as Khan does--simply cannot be taken seriously as an authority on education. He's a huckster chasing a buck, nothing more.
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
AI does not "recognize" student behaviors. It cannot "confer" with anybody. It cannot "observe" anything. Anyone who so blithely and uncritically anthropomorphize these tools--as Khan does--simply cannot be taken seriously as an authority on education. He's a huckster chasing a buck, nothing more.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I would take of it that three of the people bylined are fairly comfortable in their role of getting scoops by whitewashing fascism.
April 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I would take of it that three of the people bylined are fairly comfortable in their role of getting scoops by whitewashing fascism.
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1. Pick some guy you don't like
2. Sell him like a slave to El Salvador
3. Court tells you you have been a very naughty boy and undo your fuckup
4. "oof, ahhh, sorry, he's a prisoner of another sovereign nation now, we can't make them do anything. what do you think we are, imperialists?"
2. Sell him like a slave to El Salvador
3. Court tells you you have been a very naughty boy and undo your fuckup
4. "oof, ahhh, sorry, he's a prisoner of another sovereign nation now, we can't make them do anything. what do you think we are, imperialists?"
April 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
1. Pick some guy you don't like
2. Sell him like a slave to El Salvador
3. Court tells you you have been a very naughty boy and undo your fuckup
4. "oof, ahhh, sorry, he's a prisoner of another sovereign nation now, we can't make them do anything. what do you think we are, imperialists?"
2. Sell him like a slave to El Salvador
3. Court tells you you have been a very naughty boy and undo your fuckup
4. "oof, ahhh, sorry, he's a prisoner of another sovereign nation now, we can't make them do anything. what do you think we are, imperialists?"
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As many of the replies note, Making America Great Again never seems to include taxation at the rates we had back then. I ascribe all this fake nostalgia to people who think The Wonder Years was a documentary.
if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
www.msnbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As many of the replies note, Making America Great Again never seems to include taxation at the rates we had back then. I ascribe all this fake nostalgia to people who think The Wonder Years was a documentary.
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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
March 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.
I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
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I finally talked to the author of one of my favorite columns of 2016—a casino executive who worked with Trump in the 1980s. The company decided "terminating" the partnership was the best course. Will today's GOP ever see the light? My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-compan...
“Our Company Could Not Coexist” with Trump as a Partner
Will the Republican party ever learn the lesson that people in the business world learned long ago?
www.thebulwark.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I finally talked to the author of one of my favorite columns of 2016—a casino executive who worked with Trump in the 1980s. The company decided "terminating" the partnership was the best course. Will today's GOP ever see the light? My latest @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-compan...
Hey! Share the sunbeams!
March 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hey! Share the sunbeams!