Trebuchette
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The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
@diyhrt.market I'm getting a 500 Server Error whenever I click on a product on your site, just FYI
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
@diyhrt.market I'm getting a 500 Server Error whenever I click on a product on your site, just FYI
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it
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The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
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"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."
--Dick Cheney probably
--Dick Cheney probably
And if you read the article, by AI they mean normal, decades-old computer simulation. I am so tired of this hype bubble man😭
It's a huge change after just one model year. And engineers at GM explain that AI testing is so good now, it helps them skip entire prototype stages and get cars to market faster:
insideevs.com/news/777935/...
insideevs.com/news/777935/...
Here's Why The Cadillac Optiq Switched To Rear-Wheel-Drive—And Did It Faster With AI
GM’s engineers only needed one model year to transform the Cadillac Optiq into a better car dynamically. Here's their secret.
insideevs.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
And if you read the article, by AI they mean normal, decades-old computer simulation. I am so tired of this hype bubble man😭
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Grist’s new “positive tipping points” story hails renewables and native gardens as proof we’re turning the corner.
But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress.
apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...
But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress.
apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...
Good news! These ‘positive tipping points’ will help save the world. — Grist
Earlier this month, scientists announced that humanity has kicked off the first major “tipping point” — in which an Earth system dramatically transforms, often permanently — as warm-water corals die e...
apple.news
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Grist’s new “positive tipping points” story hails renewables and native gardens as proof we’re turning the corner.
But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress.
apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...
But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress.
apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...
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Textual language, as experienced through both reading and writing, is one of our species' near-magical achievements, so of course now every tech-dipshit landlord wants to build machines and reproduction economies that dissolve it like acid.
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Textual language, as experienced through both reading and writing, is one of our species' near-magical achievements, so of course now every tech-dipshit landlord wants to build machines and reproduction economies that dissolve it like acid.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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This piece plumbs the depths of my cynicism about LLM usage in my industry. The author proposes a future of perpetual mediocre stagnation in our tools and languages, which will be ok because LLMs will be good enough at making things work most of the time
LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology - Eli Bendersky's website
eli.thegreenplace.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This piece plumbs the depths of my cynicism about LLM usage in my industry. The author proposes a future of perpetual mediocre stagnation in our tools and languages, which will be ok because LLMs will be good enough at making things work most of the time
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Immigrants didn’t take anything from you, and believing they did is proof in itself that your stupidity and bad attitude have always been the real problem
October 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Immigrants didn’t take anything from you, and believing they did is proof in itself that your stupidity and bad attitude have always been the real problem
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once in awhile i’m reminded of the sad reality that there’s a lot of progress that still needs to be made in liberal circles. they often don’t oppose ICE or deportations, but just the trump regimes brute-ish way of doing them
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
once in awhile i’m reminded of the sad reality that there’s a lot of progress that still needs to be made in liberal circles. they often don’t oppose ICE or deportations, but just the trump regimes brute-ish way of doing them
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Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
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This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.
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Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard?
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard?
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Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
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one of the most subtly evil things the american education system does is reduce the civil rights movement to a couple of marches and speeches
October 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
one of the most subtly evil things the american education system does is reduce the civil rights movement to a couple of marches and speeches
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I am 100% pro inappropriately sexy, tits-out designs, provided you can make me believe the character got up that morning and put that outfit on
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I am 100% pro inappropriately sexy, tits-out designs, provided you can make me believe the character got up that morning and put that outfit on