OlympicTorch
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Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
It would be different if they showed some competence in doing things like this – like if it was all part of some master plan.
But it’s clear that they’re all like Lauren Boebert: emotional, impulsive, and incompetent. It’s like having the country run by the pettiest click in a junior high school.
But it’s clear that they’re all like Lauren Boebert: emotional, impulsive, and incompetent. It’s like having the country run by the pettiest click in a junior high school.
“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.”
Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them.
Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them.
Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
September 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It would be different if they showed some competence in doing things like this – like if it was all part of some master plan.
But it’s clear that they’re all like Lauren Boebert: emotional, impulsive, and incompetent. It’s like having the country run by the pettiest click in a junior high school.
But it’s clear that they’re all like Lauren Boebert: emotional, impulsive, and incompetent. It’s like having the country run by the pettiest click in a junior high school.
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The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
He’s obsessed with it because Obama got one.
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
He’s obsessed with it because Obama got one.
Whenever I’m feeling down about my country, I can always rely on Britain to remind me that we don’t have a monopoly on stupid.
They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
August 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Whenever I’m feeling down about my country, I can always rely on Britain to remind me that we don’t have a monopoly on stupid.
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Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
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Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Let me expand on this point. The Constitution is quite clear that you can't distinguish between kinds of persons in running the Census. And that is especially about apportionment for Congress. The original language makes it pretty clear when it talks about "free persons". But the 14th amendment ...
As Wessel states, now bulldozing the Census. It's critical to note that not counting people "in our Country illegally" violates the constitution. It doesn't speak of citizens or legal status, simply "the whole number of free persons".
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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This is obviously bad for trans folks, but it captures a lot of others too. Basically if you aren’t straight and white, information about your history would be suppressed.
This is one of the biggest threats LLM’s pose to society, especially since most people trust them completely.
This is one of the biggest threats LLM’s pose to society, especially since most people trust them completely.
which means at least its enterprise model will comply with the terms of EO-14319—preventing woke AI in the federal government—that will require them to suppress or distort factual information about “transgenderism.”
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
so, “my use case is different & special” openAI users—welcome to the epistemicide.
August 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
This is obviously bad for trans folks, but it captures a lot of others too. Basically if you aren’t straight and white, information about your history would be suppressed.
This is one of the biggest threats LLM’s pose to society, especially since most people trust them completely.
This is one of the biggest threats LLM’s pose to society, especially since most people trust them completely.
I know we’re all tired of the constant moral outrage, but I have to wonder what kind of person attacks a *children’s hospital* and doesn’t stop and think “wait, am I the bad guy?”
"We are here to affirm, uplift, and advocate for transgender and gender diverse youth...and we remain committed to doing all we can to support their care and well-being.”
Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...
Boston Children’s Hospital says it won’t be bullied into abandoning trans youth www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...
Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation
The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.
www.lgbtqnation.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I know we’re all tired of the constant moral outrage, but I have to wonder what kind of person attacks a *children’s hospital* and doesn’t stop and think “wait, am I the bad guy?”
The iron law of bureaucracy.
Bingo.
Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.”
They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.
Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.
They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.
Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.
July 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The iron law of bureaucracy.
*sigh*
Yep.
Yep.
The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too
July 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
*sigh*
Yep.
Yep.
I’m pissed about a lot of things that this government is doing, but this is near the top of the list (I so wish I could say this is number one, but disappearing people into concentration camps beats it).
So we can add blatant sexism to the list. And it’s a long list.
So we can add blatant sexism to the list. And it’s a long list.
This anecdote from @radiofreetom.bsky.social about his mother’s service to our country and how Pete Hegseth is denigrating it is powerful stuff.
July 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I’m pissed about a lot of things that this government is doing, but this is near the top of the list (I so wish I could say this is number one, but disappearing people into concentration camps beats it).
So we can add blatant sexism to the list. And it’s a long list.
So we can add blatant sexism to the list. And it’s a long list.
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I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.
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Nobody has ever learned a lesson by being punished. We know that about our children now. We know that about incarcerated people. But America can't stop trying. Beating people into submission is our favorite solution to every problem. We can't let it go.
June 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nobody has ever learned a lesson by being punished. We know that about our children now. We know that about incarcerated people. But America can't stop trying. Beating people into submission is our favorite solution to every problem. We can't let it go.
I know his thing is to break norms without any pushback – “flood the zone with shit” and all – but even for today’s republicans, really? Nothing?
Democrats? The press? Not a peep?
Democrats? The press? Not a peep?
June 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I know his thing is to break norms without any pushback – “flood the zone with shit” and all – but even for today’s republicans, really? Nothing?
Democrats? The press? Not a peep?
Democrats? The press? Not a peep?
This hits at the core of why I do what I do. I agree completely and it’s hard to put into words how much this affects me.
I entered the tech field because it seemed like tech would hyper-charge that sense of wonder. But instead we got this.
I entered the tech field because it seemed like tech would hyper-charge that sense of wonder. But instead we got this.
Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
May 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This hits at the core of why I do what I do. I agree completely and it’s hard to put into words how much this affects me.
I entered the tech field because it seemed like tech would hyper-charge that sense of wonder. But instead we got this.
I entered the tech field because it seemed like tech would hyper-charge that sense of wonder. But instead we got this.
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May 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Thus the basis for the old joke:
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and the administrators are Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and the administrators Italian.
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and the administrators are Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and the administrators Italian.
May 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thus the basis for the old joke:
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and the administrators are Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and the administrators Italian.
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and the administrators are Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and the administrators Italian.
Honestly never thought I’d see the day when the MAGA crowd would defend the top Star Wars villain. The whole point of the guy was that he’s pure evil.
These guys are full of surprises.
These guys are full of surprises.
May 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Honestly never thought I’d see the day when the MAGA crowd would defend the top Star Wars villain. The whole point of the guy was that he’s pure evil.
These guys are full of surprises.
These guys are full of surprises.
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
For Vendetta
For Vendetta
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Oldfinger
Oldfinger
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Uck Soup.
Uck Soup.
May 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
For Vendetta
For Vendetta
I know there’s a lot going on, most of it serious, but this is… well, read it.
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I know there’s a lot going on, most of it serious, but this is… well, read it.
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
So lately I’ve been thinking of moving to another country. Couldn’t tell you why.
As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill (Gift Article)
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
So lately I’ve been thinking of moving to another country. Couldn’t tell you why.