Deborah L Williams

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If AI were in fact embodied it would be this sad skinsack of filled with bile, booze, and bewilderment

But am reminded of Claire Dederer's brilliant series of essays on Monsters, in which she includes Lessing, my intellectual crush through most of college.

She's a champ and I hope she's in politics for the long term because she's only going to get better

Death by DOGE. The latest disease unleashed by an inept government

Angry Joyce is the best Joyce

The resemblance is still uncanny.

Truly, Cordyceps. Unstoppable, highly contagious, toxic, terminal

but to embarrass in the midst of all the other embarrassments is in a way to *not* be embarrassing. It's like "The Incredibles": if *everyone* is special, then *no one* is special.

#Gramsci's prison notebooks: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." We are living in and with the most morbid of symptoms, god helps us. And it is indeed the time of monsters.

Just gonna go over here and arrange the deck chairs on the titanic

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

hey but no big deal right because how good did RFKjr look when he did that cold plunge in his blue jeans while kid rock watched?

This just popped into my timeline and is so apt a simile that I’m jealous that I didn’t think of it.

Donate to Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes, organized by Flavor Flav Flavor Flav, the legendary rapper and Hollywood personality, has long been… Flavor Flav needs your support for Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US

gofund.me/140322128

We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

notdivided.org

That is my idea of hell

Busy days ahead for our new Fraud Czar, JD Vance.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

no one has ever accused JDV of intelligence

Is "suck it" an appropriately profesh response to this utter balderdash?

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is ANYONE surprised?

I'm asking in all seriousness, who has a direct line to Bruce Springsteen to ask if he can donate $100,000?

Could the inhabitants of the United States file a class action suit against the administration to get back their money? Asking for about a zillion people.

Me too. Stranded (in San Francisco, which isn't a bad thing) but I am missing that velvety hush.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

except for the times when SCOTUS has done his bidding and they're great.

A cover-up in broad daylight. Broad daylight.

Who are the people who can actually keep these processes moving?