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those quotes were from people in her camp who presumably want to stay there. national figures in the party have not been as kind, to put it mildly.

Why Jasmine Crockett lost the Dem primary to James Talarico Crockett embarked on her primary bid with a makeshift operation that lacked a campaign manager, a developed fundraising strategy and comprehensive infrastructure for a ground game.

that's not what it says at all.

This isn't conspiracy, Republican suppression, racism, or sexism. (Texas Dems went absolutely nuts for Wendy Davis a few years back, remember.) This is someone who just ran a complete mess of a campaign.

Where Crockett did win counties (the more heavily Black counties in East Texas, mainly), she won by 3 or 4% margins. Houston by 6%, for example. Except Talarico then turned around and won San Antonio by 16% and Laredo by 33%. Crockett just didn't show up.

Talarico won Austin (Travis County) by a mindblowing 50% margin - not getting 50% of the vote, getting 50% more than Crockett did. You do not post those numbers normally! And Austin is not full of anti-Black racists!

Bluesky likes to call Talarico a "white evangelical" and worse (I evern saw one poster call him an "incel" which, what?) but it's hard to escape the fact that he didn't win because of racism, he ran because Crockett basically decided to make her entire campaign posting Instagram reels

also repeat after me: Polymarket is no more of a news source than the shifty guy you place off track bets with

Please stop reposting a story that started from someone called "Kekius Maximus" on X.

Anthropic had highlighted "the possibility of the model displaying signs of anxiety" in its model card for Opus 4.6 when it was introduced a few weeks ago.

It's OK to be anti-AI but stick with facts please

Combining the British people’s love and respect for Kemi Badenoch with their enthusiasm about Donald Trump and his Iran war: no party is doing it like them right now

The most salient quote I’ve read on the topic: “we’re not going to just forget computers can write code”

Holy fucking shit. 'If Trump says we won then we won' is even further down the hole than the Orwell quote people always dig up about eyes and ears. He attacked Iran so he could win another fake award. That's it. That's the whole thing. That's wild

How it started / how it's going

if this is accurate and we continue to bankrupt the Pentagon by fighting Iran for the next 6 months, either Trump cancels the midterms or next year Thomas Massie and Rand Paul will be the only Republicans in Congress

working on combat. so of course we need dice.

macs are SoC so ram is baked in as the design

no, the ram shortage is new, this was in production for weeks if not months

yeah, the agency i worked at had a corner set up with those books as a shooting stage because it just screamed "authority figure"

I'd still recommend the baseline Macbook Air for $1100 over this, but if $500 is more important to you than RAM and fast USB ports, by all means! It's a perfectly cromulent machine to run ghostty and vs code on.

Say hello to MacBook Neo Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.

Apple's introduced a new entry-level Macbook.

I'd recommend it with a grimace - 8 GB RAM is really pushing it for running macOS. It's possible, but you'll swap to disk constantly. Which macOS is better at, but still, not ideal.

However, it's leagues better than a typical $600 Windows laptop.

i also did some traffic (buying ad space) and learned how to buy it so cheaply that i offered to make tv commercials for people to find dates.

"Are you lonely? Do you NEED companionship? Here at the Jennings School of Romance, we give you the skills YOU need to attract a better tomorrow... today."

i spent 3 years working on video editing and copy writing for ad agencies and can to this day recite a pitch for applying to an unaccredited "technical college" from memory

also grim keeps referring to it as "skull and bones", no, you dipshit masquerading as a journalist, it's a fucking totenkopf worn by SS concentration camp guards and your continuing to minimize it just illustrates how little you care about genocidal history if it gets in the way of "your guys"

ryan grim's complete inability not to double down aside, how could you wear a tattoo taking up 1/4 of your chest and not, at any point in a decade, been even idly curious as to what it was or meant, or had anyone point this out

like, nazi death's heads aren't exactly uncommon! they're in memes!

GOOD HEAVENS, LUCY!

seems legit