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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 8d

I was constitutionally required* to write about Ezra Klein and misconceptions about strategy so now you are constitutionally required to read it.

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(*the remaining functional constitution, my own)

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 4m

Like how do you lose independents on “looking out for people like me” to the people who want you to be killed by hurricanes…

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12m

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 55m

good news everyone: due to some rain, all work is canceled. sorry to the bosses, you must become cozy.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 57m

The problem is not talking about healthcare, the problem is talking about healthcare independent of any larger discernible ideology and story that makes sense to people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 58m

-12 with independents on cost of living while Trump manufactured a cost of living crisis!!!!

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1h

The fact that independents trust Democrats in the shutdown on health care but not “looking out for people like me” or “inflation and the cost of living” tells you a lot about how flimsy this party’s narrative strategy is.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 10h

Incredibly, it appears that before shooting the priest, the ICE agent misses and shoots the roof he’s standing on.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 20h

Ok this is my LAST post as part of this bit, so now worth un-sarcastically saying that the asymmetry of expectations is astounding. Had Zohran not said anything this morning, it would have launched a thousand takes.

Instead, democratic leadership can *still* just sit around and no one cares!

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

The silence from Schumer and Jeffries on the anniversary of October 7th is deafening.

The fact that they have not said anything yet today must be because they are Hamas supporters and antisemites.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 21h

That’s that “vibes-based order” baby!!!!

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Time’s Up on America’s Vibes-Based Order

A bunch of monkeys in a room of typewriters, given infinite time, eventually write Shakespeare: a bunch of humans in a bad democracy, given a few hundred years, eventually get rid of democracy.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 21h

It’s now 11:07 and Hakeem Jeffries is tweeting about California but NOT the anniversary of October 7th.

There is no room for this kind of extremist ideology in the Democratic Party.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 22h

It’s 10:15 and our Democratic leaders still haven’t said anything recognizing Jewish pain and trauma — when will there be accountability!!????????

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 22h

I hear this is strategy is pretty clearly being messaged in circles there and seems to be holding — which is very impressive discipline!!!!

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

I’m just so disgusted that it is now 9:47am and Chuck Schumer refuses to acknowledge the reality of Jewish pain and trauma

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

The silence from Schumer and Jeffries on the anniversary of October 7th is deafening.

The fact that they have not said anything yet today must be because they are Hamas supporters and antisemites.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

Sorry — I don’t make the rules!!!

Or maybe I’m confused and only Muslims are required to express the exact sentiment about Israel that I want when I want it.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23h

The silence from Schumer and Jeffries on the anniversary of October 7th is deafening.

The fact that they have not said anything yet today must be because they are Hamas supporters and antisemites.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI this morning: this ad for AI broke my brain but also just came out and said what they want for the world!

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

oh also: thanks to @maxread.info’s coverage on AI for good thinking (such as this) on what it’s all about open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...

A.I. as normal technology (derogatory)

The future of A.I. is more Facebook, not jobs in space

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Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social · 1d

ok whoa whoa whoa. my vizier has ideas, sure. he has strategems. I just — like i feel like "scheming" has a really negative connotation to it, dude. he's working really hard

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Wherein listening to the same Malcolm Gladwell AI propaganda ad 47 times forced me to blog hard:

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

AI may have uses, but it is not “helping” you.

It is trying to kill help.

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AI is the enemy of help

What if asking for help means you’re a worthless loser? Take it away, Malcolm: Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell here. I recently recorded the first episode of Smart Talks with IBM, where I learned how AI a...

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

Lastly, and VERY ironically, this whole blog was forced into being because I heard this ad 16x listening to @heavyweight.bsky.social, a wonderful show about the very human exchange of help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s rare that the AI people just come out and say it, but this is what they mean:

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a dark conclusion to this, as @josie.zone smartly observed:

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 1d

It is the antithesis of what help is in human society!