Ev
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Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
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Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house…
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...
June 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house…
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...
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James has been on the ground in LA for a very strange, violent night. Check out his coverage on Bluesky and listen to it later this week on It Could Happen Here.
Lapd are unloading less lethals from the front of their building. They had a small group pinned but the group made a dash for it
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
James has been on the ground in LA for a very strange, violent night. Check out his coverage on Bluesky and listen to it later this week on It Could Happen Here.
Google keeps "fixing" things that weren't broken and I'm so frustrated about it.
Like the auto-translated search results. Please. Stop. Let me opt out somehow. If I search in Swedish, it's because I want Swedish results! From Sweden! That's why I'm SEARCHING IN SWEDISH 😡😤
Like the auto-translated search results. Please. Stop. Let me opt out somehow. If I search in Swedish, it's because I want Swedish results! From Sweden! That's why I'm SEARCHING IN SWEDISH 😡😤
June 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Google keeps "fixing" things that weren't broken and I'm so frustrated about it.
Like the auto-translated search results. Please. Stop. Let me opt out somehow. If I search in Swedish, it's because I want Swedish results! From Sweden! That's why I'm SEARCHING IN SWEDISH 😡😤
Like the auto-translated search results. Please. Stop. Let me opt out somehow. If I search in Swedish, it's because I want Swedish results! From Sweden! That's why I'm SEARCHING IN SWEDISH 😡😤
My downstairs neighbors are driving me insane with how often they vacuum at inappropriately late times. It's 01:20. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
PLEASE.
I'm going to have to do something drastic soon, like leave a note in their mail or something. This cannot continue.
PLEASE.
I'm going to have to do something drastic soon, like leave a note in their mail or something. This cannot continue.
February 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My downstairs neighbors are driving me insane with how often they vacuum at inappropriately late times. It's 01:20. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
PLEASE.
I'm going to have to do something drastic soon, like leave a note in their mail or something. This cannot continue.
PLEASE.
I'm going to have to do something drastic soon, like leave a note in their mail or something. This cannot continue.
I've started the process of downloading and properly sorting my AO3 bookmarks, and I am TERRIFIED.
Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics.
The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain...
But then...
Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics.
The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain...
But then...
February 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I've started the process of downloading and properly sorting my AO3 bookmarks, and I am TERRIFIED.
Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics.
The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain...
But then...
Over 2300 bookmarks, many of which are series, not individual fics.
The downloading process itself is fine. Updating my AO3 tags to mark them as downloaded will be a pain...
But then...
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look if you have a vocal minority in the country who threatens to murder anyone who disagrees with them you have a couple options for moving forward and surviving but none of those options start with give it in just because they're making threats
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
Cassidy was honestly the one that signaled for me these Senators think they are in real fucking danger. Collins and Tillis have jello for spines. Ernst probably got strong armed
February 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
look if you have a vocal minority in the country who threatens to murder anyone who disagrees with them you have a couple options for moving forward and surviving but none of those options start with give it in just because they're making threats
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*cracks knuckles* lemme tell y'all about a little dude named Napoleon III...
Urban studies scholars: Is there a name for the practice of designing cities with "quelling popular uprisings" in mind? I feel like there's probably a mature field of study here already
Wait, what the fuck?? There’s architecture meant for that?? And part of LA is built like that???!?
Holy fuck why
Also possibly a stupid question but. Does that type of architecture have a name??
Holy fuck why
Also possibly a stupid question but. Does that type of architecture have a name??
February 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
*cracks knuckles* lemme tell y'all about a little dude named Napoleon III...
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most coups are at or about this level of lameness, it's just that we quickly forget the lame parts of the ones that work
Can @iwriteok.bsky.social let us know if there’s ever been a lamer coup in world history? They aren’t smart, they aren’t strong, they aren’t stylish, they aren’t charismatic… they’re just rich and racist. Has another power in history lost control to such a lame group of abject losers?
February 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
most coups are at or about this level of lameness, it's just that we quickly forget the lame parts of the ones that work
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someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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The answer to whether Biden's presidency will be considered a failure or if history will pass a kinder judgment is that it absolutely does not matter and you need to get out of the loser mindset of things like being vindicated by "history." Politics is about power and outcomes. It's not a TV show.
January 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The answer to whether Biden's presidency will be considered a failure or if history will pass a kinder judgment is that it absolutely does not matter and you need to get out of the loser mindset of things like being vindicated by "history." Politics is about power and outcomes. It's not a TV show.
Attempting to read historical fiction where people use first names all willy-nilly is... look, I can suspend my disbelief. I will overlook a lot. But unrelated people randomly being on first name basis? Messing up titles (e.g. a Mrs. Last Name who should be a Lady First Name)? There are limits!
January 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Attempting to read historical fiction where people use first names all willy-nilly is... look, I can suspend my disbelief. I will overlook a lot. But unrelated people randomly being on first name basis? Messing up titles (e.g. a Mrs. Last Name who should be a Lady First Name)? There are limits!
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Using a computer program to impersonate the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust and having it tell children not to blame anybody for it is fucking ghoulish.
January 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Using a computer program to impersonate the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust and having it tell children not to blame anybody for it is fucking ghoulish.
This isn't just distasteful in the extreme, it's also extremely dangerous. What the hell were anyone involved thinking??
Part of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.
Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust
A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.
futurism.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This isn't just distasteful in the extreme, it's also extremely dangerous. What the hell were anyone involved thinking??
Opened Instagram for the first time in a while & apparently there's a setting for how much "political content" you want to see now? What does that even mean? Who decides which topics are "political"? What are the criteria?
This is so weird.
This is so weird.
January 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Opened Instagram for the first time in a while & apparently there's a setting for how much "political content" you want to see now? What does that even mean? Who decides which topics are "political"? What are the criteria?
This is so weird.
This is so weird.
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Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:
January 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:
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this is is fascinating. an AI freak buys an AI enabled child toy but his kid keeps turning off the AI and using their imagination, which disturbs and disappoints him
Here's a guy crying about how his daughter keeps turning the AI off on the AI doll he bought her and playing with it like a regular doll and her imagination.
January 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
this is is fascinating. an AI freak buys an AI enabled child toy but his kid keeps turning off the AI and using their imagination, which disturbs and disappoints him
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In the early 1970s the U.S. was averaging almost five bombings a day. I think a lot of us who didn’t live through that era take for granted the relatively low levels of political violence in the 2020s.
It does feel like we’re not that far from a return to anarchists chucking bombs into cars
December 4, 2024 at 10:17 PM
In the early 1970s the U.S. was averaging almost five bombings a day. I think a lot of us who didn’t live through that era take for granted the relatively low levels of political violence in the 2020s.
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I've seen a lot of posts about how shitty the bomb was and folks, if someone makes a bomb that blows up when they want it to blow up they are automatically in the top like, 1% of bomb-guys
Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who detonated a homemade bomb packed into a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.
Soldier’s Bomb in Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Hotel Could Have Been More Lethal
Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who set off the explosion could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I've seen a lot of posts about how shitty the bomb was and folks, if someone makes a bomb that blows up when they want it to blow up they are automatically in the top like, 1% of bomb-guys
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Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
March 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
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We should do this, but only on bluesky. I'll start: Maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has fallen by over 60% since 2017 thanks to investments from the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health and their partners.
December 30, 2024 at 3:34 AM
We should do this, but only on bluesky. I'll start: Maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has fallen by over 60% since 2017 thanks to investments from the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health and their partners.