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The 'liberalism bad, I want muh real socialism back' mantra so beloved of the internet will always arrive back at Starmerism no matter how many red flags it drapes itself in, because it comes with zero understanding of what either socialism or liberalism are or why anyone was interested in them
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The 'liberalism bad, I want muh real socialism back' mantra so beloved of the internet will always arrive back at Starmerism no matter how many red flags it drapes itself in, because it comes with zero understanding of what either socialism or liberalism are or why anyone was interested in them
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
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Ed is wrong in absolute, hyper-dimensional ways. He misinforms his audience so bad that they live in a reality where models exist in a 2022 state, so they're constantly confused as to why it seems that AI is everywhere, since no one must use it. One of the WORST to ever do it.
April 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ed is wrong in absolute, hyper-dimensional ways. He misinforms his audience so bad that they live in a reality where models exist in a 2022 state, so they're constantly confused as to why it seems that AI is everywhere, since no one must use it. One of the WORST to ever do it.
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I have a name for this phenomenon: differential enshittification.
That is, price discrimination that systematically favors power users/customers who are more discerning in their choices but punishes the median user with higher costs and/or worse service.
That is, price discrimination that systematically favors power users/customers who are more discerning in their choices but punishes the median user with higher costs and/or worse service.
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I have a name for this phenomenon: differential enshittification.
That is, price discrimination that systematically favors power users/customers who are more discerning in their choices but punishes the median user with higher costs and/or worse service.
That is, price discrimination that systematically favors power users/customers who are more discerning in their choices but punishes the median user with higher costs and/or worse service.
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America, at least, has a normalized spam, scams, fraud, child exploitation, and supremacism society. Guess what forms of social participation are going to get automated and scaled?
August 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
America, at least, has a normalized spam, scams, fraud, child exploitation, and supremacism society. Guess what forms of social participation are going to get automated and scaled?
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Porterism is the worst parts of Warrenism, progressivism for the landed gentry that blames Wall Street for all housing issues, opposes public transit in the name of “good government,” and sees the highest aspiration of economic progress as getting Lay’s to put more chips in the bag.
August 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Porterism is the worst parts of Warrenism, progressivism for the landed gentry that blames Wall Street for all housing issues, opposes public transit in the name of “good government,” and sees the highest aspiration of economic progress as getting Lay’s to put more chips in the bag.
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AIR ASSAULT ON PARADOX STUDIOS NOW
July 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
AIR ASSAULT ON PARADOX STUDIOS NOW
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One of my favorite comics is Jesus preaching in Aramaic, then stopping to call out the time-traveller in English
July 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
One of my favorite comics is Jesus preaching in Aramaic, then stopping to call out the time-traveller in English
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for what it’s worth - the public’s descent into insanity, i believe, is because the stagnate legislature has prevented the democratic mechanism’s primary function, which is trial and error, from informing the voters of the consequences of their choices. the solution is still democracy
July 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
for what it’s worth - the public’s descent into insanity, i believe, is because the stagnate legislature has prevented the democratic mechanism’s primary function, which is trial and error, from informing the voters of the consequences of their choices. the solution is still democracy
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the same transparent idiot cranks from when i was a teenager run the country now jesus christ i did not hate them enough
July 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the same transparent idiot cranks from when i was a teenager run the country now jesus christ i did not hate them enough
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The decision to staff up for growth? Brilliant. Worthy of a multi-million dollar bonus.
The decision to fire the new hires after your plan for growth was a failure? Brilliant. Worthy of a muti-million dollar bonus.
The decision to fire the new hires after your plan for growth was a failure? Brilliant. Worthy of a muti-million dollar bonus.
i like how these articles never examine how this reflects a complete failure of the upper managerial class to do the single thing they are actually paid for: planning.
It’s not just Amazon. There’s a growing belief that having too many employees will slow a company down—and that anyone still on the payroll could be working harder.
Read more: https://on.wsj.com/3GvgnD1
Read more: https://on.wsj.com/3GvgnD1
July 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The decision to staff up for growth? Brilliant. Worthy of a multi-million dollar bonus.
The decision to fire the new hires after your plan for growth was a failure? Brilliant. Worthy of a muti-million dollar bonus.
The decision to fire the new hires after your plan for growth was a failure? Brilliant. Worthy of a muti-million dollar bonus.
Just an utterly soulless institution of no redeeming value whatsoever
"Trump is at the top of his game right now," says our Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade.
Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
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Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
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July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just an utterly soulless institution of no redeeming value whatsoever
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Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
The king demands tribute.
buff.ly
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Honestly I hate that saying the provably true "LLMs are a tool that many people find very useful" is treated as being an AI booster because, no, I think they are very bad. I just don't think "Don't worry guys it will all go away forever once the VCs run out of money" will work because of that
Honestly, it’s a shame that BlueSky culture is like this because even a squish lib like me can see there’s interesting work to be done with a comprehensive class based analysis of AI disruption.
Bluesky's near-consensus that AI doesn't work and won't be a technology that has major knock-on effects on society is…not grounded in reality. No mater how loudly and repetitively people say it.
July 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Honestly I hate that saying the provably true "LLMs are a tool that many people find very useful" is treated as being an AI booster because, no, I think they are very bad. I just don't think "Don't worry guys it will all go away forever once the VCs run out of money" will work because of that
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current projections:
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
current projections:
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
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I think this is instructive -- that the problem with Democratic leadership is to a great degree neither ideological nor even a lack of fighting spirit, but a real misunderstanding of where politics happens
it doesn't just happen in the parliament, where they're good at it, but everywhere and always
it doesn't just happen in the parliament, where they're good at it, but everywhere and always
there's very little to celebrate here but it is an objective fact that Senate Democrats and their staffers did a massive amount of work in harm reduction and did it well.
July 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I think this is instructive -- that the problem with Democratic leadership is to a great degree neither ideological nor even a lack of fighting spirit, but a real misunderstanding of where politics happens
it doesn't just happen in the parliament, where they're good at it, but everywhere and always
it doesn't just happen in the parliament, where they're good at it, but everywhere and always
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Wow! The wrap around amendment kills the ban on gender-affirming care for trans people via @cnn.com
- Medicaid funding penalty for states that use their own money to cover undocumented immigrants is OUT
- Gender-affirming care ban for Medicaid IS OUT!!!!
- Gender-affirming care ban for Medicaid IS OUT!!!!
July 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow! The wrap around amendment kills the ban on gender-affirming care for trans people via @cnn.com
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Trump=GWB only works if you think that PEPFAR is negligible and that having immigration reform get torpedoed by GOP hardliners is the same as having Temu Goebbels in charge of the kidnapping squads.
July 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump=GWB only works if you think that PEPFAR is negligible and that having immigration reform get torpedoed by GOP hardliners is the same as having Temu Goebbels in charge of the kidnapping squads.
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You know what's stronger than negative polarization? The answer is also negative polarization. Absolute lion behavior
June 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
You know what's stronger than negative polarization? The answer is also negative polarization. Absolute lion behavior
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To the extent Harris made a serious error, it was not realizing soon enough how implacably hostile the mainstream media would be to her candidacy and treating that situation like an emergency and investing heavily in alternate ways to get their message out instead of dumping money into TV ads
Yes, and many people who believe that Trump won so he ran a Good Campaign and Harris lost so she ran a Bad Campaign.
When asked what Harris did that was "Bad," the typical answers:
1. She didn't endorse my pet policy
2. She made some obscure passing comment that somehow doomed her campaign.
When asked what Harris did that was "Bad," the typical answers:
1. She didn't endorse my pet policy
2. She made some obscure passing comment that somehow doomed her campaign.
As I always remind people, Trump and his actual campaign are largely incompetent and inept (especially now that Trump's brain melted), it was the national media, both conservative and mainstream, that stepped in and competently ran his messaging efforts on his behalf. bsky.app/profile/conv...
June 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
To the extent Harris made a serious error, it was not realizing soon enough how implacably hostile the mainstream media would be to her candidacy and treating that situation like an emergency and investing heavily in alternate ways to get their message out instead of dumping money into TV ads
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there is a perfect hyperdimensional jewel made of every word a human being has ever written, and all the correspondences between those words. people mostly use it to get insane household repair tips or jerk off. i guess it basically runs the government now
April 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
there is a perfect hyperdimensional jewel made of every word a human being has ever written, and all the correspondences between those words. people mostly use it to get insane household repair tips or jerk off. i guess it basically runs the government now
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I think a lot of the pathologies of the Democratic Party that centre around institutional factors fall short for this reason. America’s former allies are not behaving that much differently than the Democrats.
This is a disease which appears to have afflicted the majority of liberal parties and governments in the world.
So many Dem leaders (and voters) would rather crater into autocracy than operate with the beliefs:
1. Your enemies are bad
2. They do objectively bad things on purpose
3. Either they win or you stop them
1. Your enemies are bad
2. They do objectively bad things on purpose
3. Either they win or you stop them
June 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I think a lot of the pathologies of the Democratic Party that centre around institutional factors fall short for this reason. America’s former allies are not behaving that much differently than the Democrats.
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my basic thing is that I do not expect centrists to be progressives but I do expect them to be loyal to the party, but they're not
schumer, unlike reid, has no sense of partisan loyalty -- he attempted to tank JCPOA and then invited Netanyahu to denounce the Democratic Party.
Theory: The perceived quality of a Democratic legislative leader is based on the quality of the farthest right member who is required for a majority
June 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
my basic thing is that I do not expect centrists to be progressives but I do expect them to be loyal to the party, but they're not