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I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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just imagine... a whole town of mozarts!! hundreds of mozarts to spare even if an entire shift were to perish in the mine
August 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
just imagine... a whole town of mozarts!! hundreds of mozarts to spare even if an entire shift were to perish in the mine
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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Just a really nice example of explaining things simply
July 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Just a really nice example of explaining things simply
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“Is the text produced by Large Language Models intelligent?” makes a more interesting question than “is a machine that produces text intelligent?”
We would be better off, honestly, asking if *text* is intelligent — as in, redefining intelligence to meet the *transmission* of meaning that text and language can achieve independently of authorship — than asking if a machine that produces text is intelligent, but maybe that’s just me.
June 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Is the text produced by Large Language Models intelligent?” makes a more interesting question than “is a machine that produces text intelligent?”
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The full conversation is 14 minutes. You’ve probably only seen five of them.
Quite literally drop what you are doing right this instant and go watch this
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
Quite literally drop what you are doing right this instant and go watch this
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat
In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump "has created the conditions" surrounding the Los Angeles protests. The governor went...
www.msnbc.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The full conversation is 14 minutes. You’ve probably only seen five of them.
Quite literally drop what you are doing right this instant and go watch this
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
Quite literally drop what you are doing right this instant and go watch this
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
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What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates
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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
April 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
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Reminders:
"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.
Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.
Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.
Never again is now.
"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.
Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.
Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.
Never again is now.
April 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reminders:
"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.
Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.
Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.
Never again is now.
"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.
Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.
Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.
Never again is now.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Ignore the fact that the preview image looks like a skin disease, this is one of the best things I've read recently about how to understand the mess we're in.
Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar
Trump and the law.
newleftreview.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ignore the fact that the preview image looks like a skin disease, this is one of the best things I've read recently about how to understand the mess we're in.
Musk's Pretorian Guard: www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...
March 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Musk's Pretorian Guard: www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...
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You can see, in real time, constantly, Trump spouting some half-formed nub of an idea, and then when it engenders controversy, gradually transforming that idea into an overriding policy directive, because the alternative is to admit error, which is psychologically impossible for him
March 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You can see, in real time, constantly, Trump spouting some half-formed nub of an idea, and then when it engenders controversy, gradually transforming that idea into an overriding policy directive, because the alternative is to admit error, which is psychologically impossible for him
Russia and Saudi Arabia seem awfully eager to welcome the US into the fold. We must have done something to impress Bad Horse. Was it a heinous crime? A show of force? Letting Moist wade through the Treasury?
February 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Russia and Saudi Arabia seem awfully eager to welcome the US into the fold. We must have done something to impress Bad Horse. Was it a heinous crime? A show of force? Letting Moist wade through the Treasury?
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I mean, in fairness, this is a good example of immigrants coming over here and taking American jobs.
Trump and Musk appear together in the Oval Office to defend the work of DOGE
Trump and Musk spoke as the president signed a new executive order calling on the heads of federal agencies to "promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force."
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I mean, in fairness, this is a good example of immigrants coming over here and taking American jobs.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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If you spent your time wisely this year, the daylight savings squid may leave a little ink under your pillow tonight
November 3, 2024 at 3:28 AM
If you spent your time wisely this year, the daylight savings squid may leave a little ink under your pillow tonight
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I respectfully ask you to please take a few minutes to listen. And please share with anyone you know who may be struggling, or threatening not to vote as a protest.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5M...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5M...
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
I respectfully ask you to please take a few minutes to listen. And please share with anyone you know who may be struggling, or threatening not to vote as a protest.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5M...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5M...
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cancelling a "washington post" or "la times" subscription isn't about hurting their billionaire owners financially, it's about not paying for a product you no longer trust. the billionaire isn't the center of the story here, the reader is. if you can't trust the news organization, it's worthless.
October 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
cancelling a "washington post" or "la times" subscription isn't about hurting their billionaire owners financially, it's about not paying for a product you no longer trust. the billionaire isn't the center of the story here, the reader is. if you can't trust the news organization, it's worthless.
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“Trump has got to be defeated.” Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY?...
youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY?...
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
October 29, 2024 at 3:03 AM
“Trump has got to be defeated.” Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY?...
youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY?...