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I spread sunshine and dispel myths.
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I am absolutely fascinated by what's going on in Sunset right now. The supe representing that district got recalled and Lurie replaced him with a former pet shop store owner no one had ever heard of (???) because she asked him to (??????). www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
Mayor Lurie’s pick for Sunset supervisor ran pet shop that ‘smelled like death,’ new owner says
The woman described Beya Alcaraz as someone who “cannot run a business,” and said the mayor’s office never spoke to her about the new supervisor’s track record as a business owner.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I am absolutely fascinated by what's going on in Sunset right now. The supe representing that district got recalled and Lurie replaced him with a former pet shop store owner no one had ever heard of (???) because she asked him to (??????). www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
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“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.”
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’ | The Tyee
Wonder what US tech titans wish for, Canada? Study their roots, says writer Gil Duran. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“A large part of the venture capital model is serving as a recruitment mechanism into tech fascism.”
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My interview with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social of @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Yeah, really, that’s the thing: don’t assume that OpenAI has a strategy or a masterstroke idea. This is a company that is basically running a 24/7 no IT loads refused multi-billion dollar burn rate hackathon until it runs out of cash and investors to swindle
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Only $15m?
I must be cynical as I expected that number to be much larger. My experience on Tiktok these days and blocking every 3 accounts due to Sora slop invading my feed.
Do you suppose the strategy is to kill Tiktok by flooding it with slop?
Never mind, that assumes they have strategy.
I must be cynical as I expected that number to be much larger. My experience on Tiktok these days and blocking every 3 accounts due to Sora slop invading my feed.
Do you suppose the strategy is to kill Tiktok by flooding it with slop?
Never mind, that assumes they have strategy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Yeah, really, that’s the thing: don’t assume that OpenAI has a strategy or a masterstroke idea. This is a company that is basically running a 24/7 no IT loads refused multi-billion dollar burn rate hackathon until it runs out of cash and investors to swindle
bsky.app/profile/chan...
bsky.app/profile/chan...
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jesus that’s sharp.
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
jesus that’s sharp.
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Tern is a great E-bike for youth:
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tern is a great E-bike for youth:
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
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His response is basically, "I'm a real boy!"
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
His response is basically, "I'm a real boy!"
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This is a highly engaging narrative and I'm emotionally invested in it and the discourse around it. Mostly my emotions range from joy to joy in German.
this is how joyce carol oates executed elon musk on live television
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is a highly engaging narrative and I'm emotionally invested in it and the discourse around it. Mostly my emotions range from joy to joy in German.
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"Vance is welcoming Nazis in all but name into the GOP. Their oft-stated goal is an ethnic cleansing of the United States and the vice president’s family. And Vance has moved to form a coalition with them, while the press cannot even attempt to explain to America what this means." @thefarce.org
Last week, JD Vance became the de facto leader of the Republican Party, a role he could potentially hold through the 2060s.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
The VP wants peace with gutter racists who spew vile hatred at his wife. And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Vance is welcoming Nazis in all but name into the GOP. Their oft-stated goal is an ethnic cleansing of the United States and the vice president’s family. And Vance has moved to form a coalition with them, while the press cannot even attempt to explain to America what this means." @thefarce.org
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Last week, JD Vance became the de facto leader of the Republican Party, a role he could potentially hold through the 2060s.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
JD Vance now leads the GOP. And he wants the party to welcome Hitler lovers.
The VP wants peace with gutter racists who spew vile hatred at his wife. And the press refuses to reckon with what this means.
www.thefarce.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Last week, JD Vance became the de facto leader of the Republican Party, a role he could potentially hold through the 2060s.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
And how did he greet his power? By welcoming gutter racists who love Hitler and spew hatred at his wife into the GOP.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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oops
Democrats have one quick trick they can do to prove axios wrong
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
oops
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slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
slightly demoralizing as a writer to see people reacting to the headline of this piece questioning the premises of the "masculinity crisis" because they think only read the headline and so think it is affirming them
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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It's official - 8 D AYEs
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It's official - 8 D AYEs
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
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More Senate Dems than will vote yes tonight actually want to vote yes.
They’re letting colleagues who aren’t under threat of being primaried serve in the role of rotating villain and take the heat—and they’ll make statements claiming they’re against caving.
LOTS of disingenuous political theater.
They’re letting colleagues who aren’t under threat of being primaried serve in the role of rotating villain and take the heat—and they’ll make statements claiming they’re against caving.
LOTS of disingenuous political theater.
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
More Senate Dems than will vote yes tonight actually want to vote yes.
They’re letting colleagues who aren’t under threat of being primaried serve in the role of rotating villain and take the heat—and they’ll make statements claiming they’re against caving.
LOTS of disingenuous political theater.
They’re letting colleagues who aren’t under threat of being primaried serve in the role of rotating villain and take the heat—and they’ll make statements claiming they’re against caving.
LOTS of disingenuous political theater.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I doubt it was decisive, but we should be realistic about what worked in 2024.
When the wealthiest man alive spends half a billion dollars (plus $44 billion for a campaign website) to use Nazi-like propaganda to smear a small out-group, it can be very "effective" in ways that can't even be measured
When the wealthiest man alive spends half a billion dollars (plus $44 billion for a campaign website) to use Nazi-like propaganda to smear a small out-group, it can be very "effective" in ways that can't even be measured
Candidates who ran on anti-trans messaging in 2025 lost badly.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I doubt it was decisive, but we should be realistic about what worked in 2024.
When the wealthiest man alive spends half a billion dollars (plus $44 billion for a campaign website) to use Nazi-like propaganda to smear a small out-group, it can be very "effective" in ways that can't even be measured
When the wealthiest man alive spends half a billion dollars (plus $44 billion for a campaign website) to use Nazi-like propaganda to smear a small out-group, it can be very "effective" in ways that can't even be measured
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫