The podcast Science Vs has good episodes examining (and mostly debunking) all of these.

Some were born to lead. youtu.be/FJRhdPsVqsA

The power that Dems should be negotiating towards is undoing the obscene 2026 ICE funding that the administration will use to undermine the midterm elections.

Because you won't solve the climate crisis without first solving American fascism, and you won't be taken seriously on social media if you hijack other people's threads for your own priorities.

Republicans will be willing to cave on healthcare since they know it will help them electorally to do so, and Democrats are not asking for Republicans to yield at all on power or lawbreaking.

The writeup shoehorns evolution into simulated annealing, then still handwaves over the hard questions with “and the bodies are really different.”

When rightwing media attacks "blue cities", it's 100% about visible homeless people and appearances, and 0% about overall life for the residents and the future of the cities. So this is essential to positioning Newsom for a national run.

Perhaps a more compelling example, say iteratively composing survey questions (can be humorous) or cooperatively completing a loan or housing application.

If compliance is a goal, do I need to trust the Gumnut back end?

♫ Seldom do you see
Honest men like me
A gent of good intent
Who's content to be...
Master of the house ♫

Anxieties are catalyzed by pro-fascist media. You cannot alter human nature, but you can reduce the preponderance of fearmongering and disinformation.

The big, scary thing is the undermining of trust in U.S. debt. Beyond the reckless tariffs, the huge drop in income tax revenue will put in doubt America's ability to pay its obligations. Even the lowest risk savings will lose value. Economic life will grind to a halt.

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It is misleading to say the laptop was authenticated. While it contained actual Hunter Biden emails, there wasn't an attempt to verify the integrity or disprove tampering of the data before it ended up in Giuliani's hands, as @emptywheel.bsky.social points out. www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/24/e...

I don't understand your comment.

Both printouts and screenshots of originals will preserve nearly-invisible spacings and subtle character substitutions that can be used to identify the recipient, downloader, or viewer of a document. That undermines the anonymity of the source.

Leaked documents should be retyped by hand for release. Screenshots and printouts can reveal subtle steganographic details that undermine the anonymity.

No, since machine learning is not making a copy any more than a reader learning from a book is making a copy.

There needs to be new norms and regulations for establishing training sets, but copyright, which has benefited publishers far more than creators, is not the right tool for that.

At this point, it's essential to emphasize that this undermining of American values and capabilities isn't just a Trump effort. It's the goal of the Republican party to make these policies permanent.

Instead of asking for one of the fires to be put out, efforts need to be on stopping the arsonists.

Republicans effectively broadcast their failures as successes, while Democrats effectively broadcast their successes as failures.