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friends. romans. countrymen
the bar needs filling
it's close! fill the bar. or RT if you already filled bar
fill bar here: teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
the bar needs filling
it's close! fill the bar. or RT if you already filled bar
fill bar here: teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
friends. romans. countrymen
the bar needs filling
it's close! fill the bar. or RT if you already filled bar
fill bar here: teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
the bar needs filling
it's close! fill the bar. or RT if you already filled bar
fill bar here: teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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obviously there's some raging antisemitism going on in here but i'm hung up on willis' "question my interest in participating in american politics"
i've been on about how liberals need to rediscover liberalism as a fighting creed... the same goes for bros like willis
bsky.app/profile/joel...
i've been on about how liberals need to rediscover liberalism as a fighting creed... the same goes for bros like willis
bsky.app/profile/joel...
The other day when I said that people sometimes use “Zionist” not to critique an actual ideology but as a code word for “Jew,” a lot of people on here got mad at me.
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
obviously there's some raging antisemitism going on in here but i'm hung up on willis' "question my interest in participating in american politics"
i've been on about how liberals need to rediscover liberalism as a fighting creed... the same goes for bros like willis
bsky.app/profile/joel...
i've been on about how liberals need to rediscover liberalism as a fighting creed... the same goes for bros like willis
bsky.app/profile/joel...
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"AI 2027" argues that AI will reach roughly human level in roughly 2027. This just happens to be right about when OpenAI would expect to start to run out of money.
I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong.
www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...
I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong.
www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...
AGI: Probably Not 2027
AI 2027 is a web site that might be described as a paper, manifesto or thesis.
www.verysane.ai
August 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"AI 2027" argues that AI will reach roughly human level in roughly 2027. This just happens to be right about when OpenAI would expect to start to run out of money.
I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong.
www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...
I argue that this is not a coincidence at all, and its predictions are all wrong.
www.verysane.ai/p/agi-probab...
Help a brother's need for a hilarious anecdote out
I have a date with a woman from Hinge tomorrow. We’ve been getting to know each other over text the last few days. I made the grievous mistake of telling her about my account on Bluesky and now she’s on a mission to find me.
Pray for me.
Pray for me.
July 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Help a brother's need for a hilarious anecdote out
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I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
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Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.
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new video
youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
CONSPIRACY | contrapoints
YouTube video by ContraPoints
youtu.be
March 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
new video
youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...
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1/ Here's the thing with Slotkin mentioning Reagan: if you want Dems to be an internationalist party that defends liberal values/democracy against autocratic imperialism, you need to articulate an actual *vision* for that. And we can do better than "80s-00s neoconservatism spray painted blue."
March 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
1/ Here's the thing with Slotkin mentioning Reagan: if you want Dems to be an internationalist party that defends liberal values/democracy against autocratic imperialism, you need to articulate an actual *vision* for that. And we can do better than "80s-00s neoconservatism spray painted blue."
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If you have 45 minutes, watch this short, deeply moving documentary. It somehow manages to be both affirming and utterly devastating.
Heather Shaner embodies what every far-right "constitutionalist" claims to believe. Which is why they loathe her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1D...
Heather Shaner embodies what every far-right "constitutionalist" claims to believe. Which is why they loathe her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1D...
A Public Defender's Radical Approach to Representing The January 6th Rioters | The New Yorker
YouTube video by The New Yorker
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If you have 45 minutes, watch this short, deeply moving documentary. It somehow manages to be both affirming and utterly devastating.
Heather Shaner embodies what every far-right "constitutionalist" claims to believe. Which is why they loathe her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1D...
Heather Shaner embodies what every far-right "constitutionalist" claims to believe. Which is why they loathe her.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1D...
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the only election needle I respect www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT6...
November 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
the only election needle I respect www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsT6...
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Which campaign would you rather be right now?
November 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Which campaign would you rather be right now?
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This, from Tim Alberta's inauspiciously timed (it's dated July 10) piece on how "Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win," needs to be on replay on every news outlet.
Back when Trump thought he'd beat Joe Biden easily, he fired the field experts.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Back when Trump thought he'd beat Joe Biden easily, he fired the field experts.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 31, 2024 at 5:23 PM
This, from Tim Alberta's inauspiciously timed (it's dated July 10) piece on how "Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win," needs to be on replay on every news outlet.
Back when Trump thought he'd beat Joe Biden easily, he fired the field experts.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Back when Trump thought he'd beat Joe Biden easily, he fired the field experts.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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This is an excellent piece about what the assumptions behind weighting can do to a poll’s results. My feeling is that it’s more likely than not that pollsters have been predominantly making similar assumptions that are going to be biased in the wrong direction.
Polling paradox: what actually shapes the numbers?
Likely voters, past voters, demographics and more – how pollsters weight 2024 election poll data matters a great deal.
goodauthority.org
October 30, 2024 at 7:46 PM
This is an excellent piece about what the assumptions behind weighting can do to a poll’s results. My feeling is that it’s more likely than not that pollsters have been predominantly making similar assumptions that are going to be biased in the wrong direction.
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a free press is essential to democracy but these specific institutions are not www.npr.org/2024/10/25/n...
'Washingon Post' won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s
The Washington Post declined to make an endorsement in this year's presidential race. Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office.
www.npr.org
October 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
a free press is essential to democracy but these specific institutions are not www.npr.org/2024/10/25/n...
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it's me, the bitch who's writing about copyright again www.theverge.com/c/24239057/m...
The year of the music licensing legal wars
When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster in 2004, it changed the internet forever.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2024 at 3:52 PM
it's me, the bitch who's writing about copyright again www.theverge.com/c/24239057/m...