@realcaseyrollins most of them now identify as ex-GOP i think.
in the most amusing timeline, it turns out he was radicalized by ex-Bush-Administration Never Trumpers.
you can love the human without admiring the candidate.
is it fair to define a subgenre of pop music that includes only Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond?
yesterday wasn’t a bad day to die of natural causes at age 96.
“Russian Government Forces Apple to Remove Dozens of VPN Apps From the App Store” @nickheer https://pxlnv.com/linklog/russia-vpn-app-store/
pokemon go is a psychotomimetic.
might Congress actually rouse itself to put the rogue Supreme Court in its place? via @ddayen https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5354
it is in both of our interests that we make common cause, but i am so very angry at you.
@scott Biden’s 100 day speech in 2021 was very admirably economically populist, but I don’t remember specifics. But his turn towards economic populism in 2021 came after his election. It strikes me as new and important that he’s making it a center of his campaign.
Brandolini’s Law is why the business-efficiency case for LLMs doesn’t really make all that much sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
“In Detroit, Biden pitches his 100-day plan for 2025: Restore Roe v. Wade. Pass the John Lewis voting rights bill and Freedom To Vote Act. Eliminate medical debt. Raise minimum wage. Pass the PRO Act. Ban assault weapons. ‘Keep leading the world’ on climate change & clean energy.” #SahilKapur https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1811912368944799946
"Belief in accuracy thus undermines accuracy, which I have referred to previously as the prediction market paradox." @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/strategic-projections-of-confidence
"it’s wrong of me, but I take a certain wicked glee in seeing Democratic-aligned elites being treated by Biden the same way they themselves treat the left wing of the Democratic Party." @mikethemadbiologist https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/07/09/some-thoughts-on-the-biden-debate-fiasco/
“elite” media (particularly the New York Times) vs Biden aides: “you say we’re a conspiracy? no, *you’re* the conspiracy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/opinion/biden-democrats-nomination.html
“The word ‘slop’ seems like a good catch-all term finding purchase in the online vocabulary, but I think the popularization of ‘content’ — in the way it is most commonly used — foreshadowed this shift.” @nickheer https://pxlnv.com/blog/slop-and-content/
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org Probably not! But it’s still nice of you, however contentious you may be, to be so encouraging.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org That is very kind of a stranger on the internet to say.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org i think there’s a lot of truth to it, which is why i think the way contemporary arrangements (in the US) try to discipline people with poverty and desperation to be sure they devote themselves to market work, however valuable or useless the job, is a hindrance to arts and progress.