Emil Steiner 🗳🟦🇺🇦🇵🇸

Also, just apropos of our correspondent talking about shitting in a toilet, I’m just going to once again note the continued, shall we say, scatological interest

Good.

This is appropriate. The reason those are licensed professions is that we recognize the danger of letting an untrained human dispense legal or medical advice.

That danger does not disappear when the advice is dispensed by an LLM. In fact, the danger multiplies

I’m a popularist who follows the evidence. Democrats must nominate Jerome Powell.

the problem with Janet Mills is that she is too stubborn to quit and is physically incapable of stepping up, but as long as she's in the race, no one will enter against her *and* the other guy

Arapahoe County assembly results in US Senate preference poll. Julie Gonzales won 59.1% of the cotes (243), John Hickenlooper 20.9% (86), Karen Breslin won 13.9% (57), Jessica Williams won .7% (3 delegates), and Uncommitted won 22 (5.4%). Only candidates getting over 15% are allotted delegates to the state assembly.

Arapahoe County Democratic Assembly. John Hickenlooper should be shaking in his boots. These are the party faithful. These are the people who knock doors, the people who raise money, the people who influence others.

@senadorajulie.bsky.social

A big cause of pundit decay is not being able to calibrate yourself to be humble enough in fields you know very little about.

literally why would you advocate for a policy which 1) is objectively bad 2) helps your opponents and 3) is something they would gladly implement

Darkly ironic that 70 years on, Ayn Rand's archetypal "proof that capitalism works" in *Atlas Shrugged* (a high speed rail line) is the province of self-described socialists, while the right has wholly embraced cronyism and become the home of looters, snake-oil salesmen, and scammers.

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.

If Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran, Democrats and the media would be cheering and half the right would be denouncing it. That’s the problem: in America today, everything gets filtered through partisan tribalism.

I think if Obama were prosecuting this war against Iran his approvals would be at 5%

I keep having to remind myself the Yanks consider this a high price for NEARLY FOUR LITERS OF GASOLINE

a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

Something I noodle on occasionally is the kind of long tail of American con artistry. Many of our most powerful cons (Trump, Elon) embrace other sort of cons like The Power of Positive Thinking or The Secret. Saying something makes it so!

It’s honestly wild that American media has “are liberals trapped in a bluesky bubble???” debates every two weeks while a 22 year old groyper White House staffer known as BasedBoss1488 remixes scenes from 300 in a propaganda video for a toxically unpopular lame duck president’s war of choice

Okay it's scary because this has the potential to end really dangerously, but at least some of the memes in the group chats about the whole Tucker/Candace/Chabad situation are pretty good....

To say that Iran’s leaders are in a bind is obviously an understatement, but they face a particular strategic dilemma: Given military superiority of 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱, their only real deterrent is to impose costs on weaker U.S. partners, but doing so makes Iran even more isolated & vulnerable.

..... I know we basically knew this, but this is political malpractice

lmao she was a pro se candidate

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

even my wife's hybrid truck is enough to reap hundreds of dollars of comparative savings in normal use if this persists through the end of the year

otoh this is basically Trump issuing a new EV subsidy the hard way

Walter Sobchak voice: say what you want about Vladimir Putin, Dude, but at least he had a plan to install successors after decapitating the previous leadership.

A similar line, relevant to Trump’s new love of militarism: “America has always been imperialist” and “America has always been pro-war crime.”

All you are doing is normalizing Trump and Hegseth’s abuse of military power.

I worked in restaurants for 10 years and knew a dozen charismatic dirtbag bartenders with severe personality issues and the state of Maine is acting like this guy is a unicorn

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

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За нами уже выехали ⚡️Казахстанских журналистов Лукпана Ахмедьярова и Рауля Упорова задержали в аэропорту Астаны после поездки в Украину Журналист Динара Егеубаева сообщила о задержании в аэропорту Астаны журналистов Лу...

Lukpan Akhmediyarov, a popular independent Kazakh journalist, was briefly detained and questioned, along with his crew, in Astana after returning from a reporting trip to Ukraine.
Fits into a pattern of increasing pressure within Kazakhstan on anybody openly supporting Ukraine

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Darkly hilarious that they sincerely believe both this and that gender identity is a fixed biological construct completely divorced from its social-political context.

nice that the unanimous message from dems re: noem is "good riddance but that's not gonna change anything, the problem is still there"