You can't just go out and hire another Michael B. Jordan. There's only one, so you have to hire him. But I can make 100 Tilly Norwoods. That's literally the point of AI: allowing people who can't the ability to imagine they could, resulting in something no one wants to actually pay real money for.
Trump has no strategy to help the Iranian people build a legitimate state—in fact, he’s dismantling tools that could have helped promote civic engagement and build a united opposition in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/k99IcIzV
Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures.
Congress must step up, reassert its power, and represent the American people.
We do not want another forever war.
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
Statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump’s Illegal War on Iran “President Trump is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified war with Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the United States. This is a reckless abuse of power that puts both innocent civilians and American lives on the line for a conflict the American people do not want. “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability. Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions and push the region further into chaos. When we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction.
“We know who will bear the cost of this decision: innocent civilians caught in the crossfire and our young service members sent into harm’s way. This is the devastating human toll of another regime-change war. Already, children and families are paying with their lives. There is no moral or strategic justification for this bloodshed. “The American people are exhausted by endless wars built on false promises and paid for with American and foreign lives. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority. We must vote immediately on the War Powers resolution authored by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. This unlawful operation must end immediately."
Trump and Congressional Republicans gave ICE $75 billion to wage a campaign of terror on American streets.
Meanwhile, Republicans cut funding for child care, health insurance, and hospitals.
i saw a tiktok about how wanging chung in childhood is a sign of outdated gender norms and i can't stop thinking about it
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
Your scientists were so preoccupied with stopping the pass that they never considered stopping the run
With Claude pushing chat and Open AI pushing a code assistant no less.
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
"Gladys Mae West overcame huge barriers to contribute to [GPS] technology. She was one of many women of her generation whose talents helped propel the cold-war tech boom in the US. Programming some of the most powerful computers of the time, West pushed the horizons of computation & communication."
“Great friend”:
“Stanford alumnus and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel ’89 J.D. ’92 frequently met with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who lent financial support and taxation advice to Thiel…”
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Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
"From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.
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Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.
"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
Defund ICE.
Disable the grift.
Disempower the Epstein class.
Defy authoritarianism.
Discredit Trumpism.
Deconstruct MAGA.
Defeat the GOP.
Thank you for your attention to these matters.
The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets.
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Have we hit even 5% of the Epstein files yet? Nope. Have we seen the key docs that the act sponsors asked for on an expedited basis? Nope. Yet we have journalistic nitwits talking about the "end phase of the production." Ridiculous.
