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harris was also wrong about how to beat trump iirc. kinda the most important test of each of their careers. both wrong. worse for harris because she went second and still lost

And also,

That ship did get unstuck.

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In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like

Think hard Pete, doe anyone else pay the price?

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

It’s wrong to vaporize school children even if Congress votes to approve it.

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

He doesn’t see humans as people, he sees them as property.

Hey, just in case anyone is curious, I am not in any way associated with this magazine. I didn’t make this video for them, nor did they contact me at all. They simply reposted my video. I appreciate the share, but I don’t feel great about them asking for donations based on my work.

Anyone who has ever done any actual institutional DEI work knows the external compliance/internal resistance shuffle. We need these programs because they challenge the status quo that got our leaders into positions of power in the first place.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Wow.

pretty stunning chart

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Rich people think they live in a higher tier of society full of better and more brilliant people, but it’s actually just the same society except the people have more money to waste and lose. So much of what they do is just wealth-induced hallucination

On Lincoln's birthday, it's useful to remember he believed the primary goal of the American experiment was to guarantee "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and the best way to achieve that goal was through free and fair elections. It's basically the thesis of the Gettysburg Address. 1/2

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.

Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.

Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

THIS.

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

I think the thing that infuriates me most about the spineless Dem leadershits currently wasting oxygen in this party is that I get why people like Stephen Miller do what they do. They’re just evil assholes.

Schumer and Jeffries were supposed to be the adults in the room, and they’re gobbling paste.