Sean Blakey

indeed, Bluesky's inherent overall hostility to AI means that the AI enthusiasts still willing to hang out here are usually far smarter and more thoughtful than the absolute dribbling freakshow AI cultists who dominate Twitter/X

I like how this describes both Daylight Savings Time and also everything about America.

BIG Millionaires Tax updates! #WALeg

- New version of the bill has been released (more details below)
- @governorferguson.bsky.social now says he will sign it!
- Calls to @housedemocrats.wa.gov in support are pouring in as they whip votes

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This stupid illegal war is pushing us towards renewable energy in one of the most harmful ways possible.

EVs are nice, but they don't remove the problem of "everything in this country moves on trucks, trucks burn gas, so spikes in gas prices turn into price surges for everything"

Incredible. They say they don’t need Congress’s approval but they sure need the money. This is a good chance to exert some authority and oversight.

Yeah, these idjits don't deserve to be compared to the high standards of expertise and professionalism we expect of furries

It's not just about propping up the war.

It is bait.

They are inviting folks not connected to military culture to step on some very specific landmines.

Hell, I'd even condemn nuking Palm Beach to take him out

A woodcut of an owl above the text "holy fuck my brain is tired"

I was surprised to learn that this is the all-time most popular Effin' Birds comic over the nine year run (so far).

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

This is going to endanger a lot of people who have used these lists for "gifts", but don't intend their fans to know their home address.

I hope precisely none of them miss this email. If you are on one either side of those parasocial relationships, maybe point this out?

Even if this threat doesn't completely go TACO - being tagged as "The AI company too ethical and well-aligned to work with Pete" might be a useful positioning for Anthropic...

This is why CLEAR+precheck has been most useful in places and times where the precheck line is a huge wait

No, that's out of CLAER's control. They just do line-wrangling and handoff to the agent at the start of the process.

Most airports have CLEAR+precheck lines and CLEAR w/o precheck lines

No, read again.

CLEAR gets you to the front of a line. CLEAR w/o pre-check just gets you to the front of the normal line.

No, you can combine them. Clear+pre-check can be great, but Clear w/o pre-check still gets you to the front of the normal line.

If you hear people complaining, remind them that Dems offered to split out ICE and CPB and fund everything else, including TSA. Republicans said no.

There is only one takeaway, which is the Silicon Valley lot have brains that are completely cooked at this point on the stupidest group chats on earth and the only way to sustain technological development is to start excising them from the industry

Yeah, that tracks

We make fun of elon but this is a clean win for him. Even after rebranding twitter as a goebbels computer with A.I. revenge porn journalists stayed on it frying their brains for retweets from jd vance and faulty sean spicer clones. Now they’re writing “Does AOC’s Brain Smell Different?”

Yeah, I hear you. It's yet another instance that we should distrust arguments rooted in "common knowledge", and look for studied examples

The evidence from states that tried it made those arguments a lot less hypothetical

Not memory-holed. It's a common argument.

However, the increase in voter turnout means that vote-by-mail has a large enough blue shift that the "red head of household" style of voter fraud/intimidation is drowned out.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

this isn't from the black panther party, this is from the new american movement. descendent of students for a democratic society and one half of DSA's parent orgs

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Flip a coin to determine direction before the start of each race